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What to expect
2024's Summit was an opportunity for leaders to be in the same room, confidentially sharing their experiences and plans while hearing from inspirational and visionary speakers.
Save the date now to ensure you and your company are represented at Leadership Summit 2025, helping shape the future, sharing expertise and knowledge and building your senior network across the industry.
For a taste of what to expect check out the highlights from last year's event and watch our short film below.
Who you'll meet
Leadership Summit brings together senior leaders from some of the UK's biggest companies, including social media platforms, news publishers, tech companies, media agencies and brands.
The invite-only audience is majority C-suite, and formed entirely of influential decision-makers leading substantial teams.
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Rewind Leadership Summit 2024
Prices frozen on all packages until January 2025
Our packages all offer full access to speakers, townhalls and networking, while ensuring you have the flexibility to enjoy Leadership Summit in the way that works best for you, whether that's attending during the day, or having the full VIP experience.
Day Ticket
A day ticket includes access to both days of the conference as well as the Thursday evening dinner, plus food and drink while at the venue. No accommodation is provided with this option. The price for this package is £1,395 until 1 January 2025
Overnight Package
With the overnight package, you’ll get full access to the conference – including the Thursday evening dinner - plus an overnight stay in one of Sopwell House’s luxurious rooms, including breakfast. The price for this package is £1,695 until 1 January 2025
Premium Package
Enjoy the full Leadership Summit experience in luxury with a spacious mews apartment, a car to and from the event, plus a reserved seat and guaranteed access to the townhalls of your choice. The price for this package is £3,000 until 1 January 2025
Leadership Summit 2024 speakers
We’ll be announcing speakers for our 2025 Summit nearer the time, but here are just some of the speakers who made this year’s event so incredible
Sophy Ridge
As Political Correspondent at Sky News, Sophy Ridge spent her time reporting and interviewing in Westminster and Whitehall. She then went on to front the Sunday morning political show before moving to the weekday political show, The Politics Hub.
Dr. Dale Whelehan
Considered an expert in the field of wellbeing, Dale is passionate about the intrinsic role work plays in fatigue and performance - and how shorter working hours can bring about radical transformation for people's health and happiness.
Ravleen Beeston
Ravleen has worked across both Agency and Media Partner side in her 20+ year career in Digital Advertising. Currently, Ravleen is the Regional Vice President of Microsoft Advertising Sales in the UK. In 2021 she was recognised as the UK’s Asian Woman of Achievement in Business.
Joanna Yarrow
With over 25 years’ experience in applying sustainability principles to projects ranging from household makeovers to multinational business strategies, Joanna brings confidence, humour, vision and clarity to the challenges of net zero, ESG and healthy, sustainable living.
Kelly Beaver
Kelly is Chief Executive of Ipsos in the UK and Ireland, one of the largest and most innovative research organisations in the UK. With over 2,000 specialist research, operational, and advisory employees across 12 offices, Ipsos delivers reliable information and a true understanding of Society, Markets and People.
Dr. Daniel Knapp
Dr. Daniel Knapp is Strategic Consultant for IAB UK with an advertising and media analyst career spanning more than 15 years of international experience. Daniel recoeved his PhD from the Lodnon School of Economics (LSE) on the sociology of algorithms and the datafication of media.
Dr. Grace Kite
Grace is a business economist who’s worked on hundreds of marketing analysis projects. In every one, she’s learnt what works to get growth, and coached marketing people on using their numbers to see the needed change. In 2023, she founded Magic Works, which offers practical, no-nonsense, training on what works in marketing and how to convince stakeholders to do the right thing.
Dyana Najdi
As Managing Director of UKI Partners and Specialists, Dyana is responsible for leading specialist teams across product, measurement and agency partners, defining product priorities and sales strategy to drive growth across our customers in the UK and Ireland.
Maggie Alphonsi
Maggie Alphonsi is the face of international women’s rugby and arguably one of the most well-known names in women’s team sports on the planet. Before announcing her international retirement in 2014, she represented her country an impressive 74 times, scored 28 tries, and helped England win a record-breaking seven consecutive Six Nations crown.
Karen Eccles
Karen Eccles is responsible for the commercial team at The Telegraph overseeing advertising, editorially integrated partnerships (EIPs), content syndication and e-commerce. She joined The Telegraph in 2017 and has previously held positions as the Managing Director Digital, Partnerships and Innovation, plus the Digital Sales and Innovation Director.
Asad Dhunna
Asad is the Founder Chief Executive Officer of The Unmistakables, an award winning consultancy that partners with organisations to embed equity, diversity and inclusion through a combination of senior leadership coaching, strategy development, skills building and systems rewiring.
Joni Morriss
As UK Head of Agency Partnerships at TikTok, Joni leads the entertainment brand's agency team who partner with the UK's leading media and creative agencies to deliver best in class solutions on the platform. Prior to TikTok, Joni has held senior commercial positions at Hearst, AOL, Microsoft and Digital Cinema Media.
Cath Waller
As MD of Advertising, Cath Waller oversees all advertising revenue streams at Immediate Media, across digital, social, video, audio, events, partnerships and print platforms. Cath has been at Immediate since its inception in 2011, when she was as an Ad Director of the Specialist portfolio. She subsequently launched and ran Immediate’s award winning Imagine content studio, before becoming MD in January 2023.
Katie Grosvenor
After 20+ years in advertising, Katie has worked with global brands, start-ups, scale-ups and agencies - helping to grow businesses, develop communities, transform technology and operational practices, as well as advocate advertising’s positive role in societal change.
Ashley Samuels-McKenzie
As the co-host of the podcast 'How I Became', Charles unveils the dramatic and emotionally charged life stories of inspirational leaders. In each episode, he meticulously constructs a comprehensive biography of their guest's life, spanning from childhood to the present day.
Charles Parkinson
As the co-host of the podcast 'How I Became', Charles unveils the dramatic and emotionally charged life stories of inspirational leaders. In each episode, he meticulously constructs a comprehensive biography of their guest's life, spanning from childhood to the present day.
Toby Benjamin
Toby Benjamin has over 10 years of experience at the intersection of media and technology and leads a team of 750+ digital media specialists at dentsu media UK. In addition, Toby leads Merkle's media practice in the UK which comprises over 150 fantastic clients, focused on delivering relevant & impactful customer experiences in paid media that deliver meaningful business impact.
Tom Nash
Tom worked in both client-side and agency-side roles before joining OMD EMEA and establishing, leading, and growing their digital team. Tom joined MG OMD in 2022 as Chief Digital Officer and works with the MG OMD digital leadership team, client teams and centres of excellence across OMG to deliver excellence in digital execution, data strategy, measurement and effectiveness across our clients' campaigns.
