Conference Sponsors
Many thanks to our sponsors for their support of this year’s event.
There are a number of sponsorship opportunities still available. For further information please contact Claire Turnbull on 0161 817 3482 or claire.turnbull@pro-manchester.co.uk
Weber Shandwick
Weber Shandwick is a leading global communications and engagement firm in 79 cities across 34 countries with a network extending to 127 cities in 81 countries. The company’s diverse team of strategists, analysts, producers, designers, developers and campaign activators has won the most prestigious awards in the world for innovative, creative approaches and impactful work, including being honoured as PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Weber Shandwick Manchester is a fast-growing and future-focused arm of the firm, with a vibrant, creative, entrepreneurial and supportive culture. From disruptive start-ups to big brand multinationals, Weber Shandwick Manchester’s clients have access to world-class expertise and talent across a wide-range of sectors and specialty areas.
My Accountancy Place
My Accountancy Place specialise in helping digital creative agencies to grow more profitably, by giving them total visibility and understanding of their finances, so they can make better and more timely decisions as they grow. They combine Xero and other world leading accounting tools, with industry specific expertise and their own in-house innovations such as monthly Video Impact Reports and their Agency Profit Maximiser System.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Develop the skills your business needs with Degree Apprenticeships and professional programmes at Manchester Metropolitan University. Manchester Met are a pioneer of business education, with hundreds of apprentice students studying for a degree in Digital & Technology Solutions and Business Management.
In 2017, we will also be launching the Digital Marketer Degree Apprenticeship a programme that will combine creative and strategic marketing skills, so you can develop your next generation of marketing professionals.
The University also offers a full suite of postgraduate and professional qualifications, such as the MSc in Digital Marketing and MSc in Marketing (Creative Advertising).
90degrees
Design, digital and marketing agency
90degrees’ friendly team is made up of individuals with endless enthusiasm for producing work that works. We are designers, developers, tech-heads, photographers, writers, planners and strategists; thinkers, doers and wooers.
A genuine fascination with what makes folk tick helps us to uncover the kind of insights that lead to powerful communication. In our book, a great idea can come from anywhere. When people speak, we listen. It keeps us agile so that we can continue to deliver coherent and compelling customer experiences.
Ultimately, our job is to help your brand make positive emotional connections with your target audience. Otherwise, how can they – and why should they – tell others just how brilliant you are?
Engage Hub
We are Manchester’s freshest social media and influencer marketing agency. A team of creatives with over 25+ years experience in the industry; with backgrounds in marketing, design and media. Not to mention an enormous amount of experience in service and sales, so we know exactly what we’re doing.
We specialise in social media management, audience engagement, video production, influencer marketing, and disruptive campaigns. We use our intuitive in-house social media management software to publish captivating content and drive engagement through the roof. To influence, we’ve got the UK’s top influencers, with a collective following of 50 million at the last count, waiting to talk about your brand. Our video skills are second to none, a picture maybe worth a thousand words, but a video tells a story. Shooting always in 4K, always delivering cinematic results. Finally, we cause chaos in the city with our disruptive events; the city will know who you are when we’re finished, we give you exposure through disruptive PR.
We engage. We influence. We video. We disrupt. We are Engage Hub.
Impact. Psychology for Business
We apply the principles of occupational psychology to the world of work, helping clients to grow their organisations and release the full potential of their people.
Working with businesses, the public sector and not for profit organisations we deliver world class psychology for business that creates lasting results.
We specialise in helping businesses to discover and accelerate their talent, develop leaders who achieve results beyond the ordinary, enhance performance and inspire positive change for success.
Impact was established over 20 years ago by Shelly Rubinstein, a leading business psychologist. Shelly had a passionate aim, to help organisations to grow through releasing the potential of their people, and to bring business psychology into organisational best practice. Since then Impact has grown and is run by a diverse and talented team of highly trained, experienced and knowledgeable people who share the same values of honesty, integrity and an unrivalled dedication for delivering the very best for your business, every time.