The region's most senior gathering of agency executives. Bar none.
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
48
Hours in the Hunter Valley
Where the leaders go.
Join the who’s who of adland as we celebrate our 10th anniversary at the Agency Leaders Symposium, the region’s only conference dedicated to the business of running a modern agency.
Over the past 10 years, the Symposium has forged an outstanding reputation for providing agency leaders the space and time to have unfiltered discussions with peers under Chatham House rules while being inspired and informed by content designed to stretch your thinking.
Quite simply: there is nothing like it in the region.
Over 1.5 days you will learn, discuss, debate, and collaborate, on how agencies can best position their people and businesses for the competitive and volatile road ahead, including actions you can take right now to set you up for success.
Hear from the most influential minds in the industry on topics including;
– The hidden cost of pitching
– Attention metrics and measurement. Do clients want attention metrics yet? Is the methodology robust enough to establish an industry currency yet?
– How to win without pitching and avoid competitive, low margin RFPs
– How behavioural science can be applied to effective ad creative and customer experience challenges
– Leadership during times of turbulence and change
– Changing priorities for entry and mid-level staff, and how to motivate and retain staff in a rising wage market
– How we can market the ‘why’ of working in adland
– A look at mentorship in industry vs early promotion vs burnout
– The CMO perspective: deep diving into agency models and what clients really need and want from their agencies. Is it a one-stop-shop agency solution, many agencies, a hybrid of in-house and outsourced or something else entirely?
– Purpose driven marketing, diversity & inclusion, and driving action on critical social issues
– Scaling and diversifying your agency, case studies from rapid growth independent agencies
The conference program has been crafted with help from a highly influential advisory board of agency leaders. Click the ‘Apply for your place’ button to join the most senior delegation of agency executives to gather in ANZ. We look forward to welcoming you to the Agency Leaders Symposium 2022.
Details
Agency Leaders Symposium 2022
WHERE
Crowne Plaza
Hunter Valley
NSW Australia
WHEN
Tuesday 6 September – Wednesday 7 September 2022
FOR:
C-Level Executives
Managing Directors
General Manager
Heads of Investment
Heads of Strategy
Heads of Creative
Heads of Digital
Head of Trading / Programmatic
ATTEND:
International Keynote:
Nicole Taylor
Senior Vice President and Head of LEGO Agency
The LEGO Group (DEN)
Fireside: How Agencies and Clients Can Better Collaborate
In this fireside chat the VP of marketing from a major brand will share her key leadership learnings, based on her 14 years’ experience as a CEO/ Managing Partner of major agencies, and how her company and her agencies collaborate to drive results.
This discussion will cover the brand’s global approach to media and creative, with a focus on integration, innovation, transparency and speed to react to changing trends or campaigns that aren’t working.
This global brand leader helps to drive innovation, which is, in turn, improving transparency, agility and productivity.
International Keynote:
Tim Williams
Founding Partner
Ignition Consulting Group (US)
Why Your Revenue Streams Drive Your Talent Streams. How to Build a Revenue Model That Allows the Agency to Scale Its Talent, Expertise, and Intellectual Capital
The agencies winning the battle for talent aren’t necessarily the ones with the best reputations but rather those with the most innovative business (revenue) models. The high-profile defectors haven’t jumped from one traditional agency to another, but from agency to technology company; agency to media company; agency to consultancy. The most talented people in the business aren’t just leaving your agency, many are leaving the agency business.
Resignations have been fuelled by factors that are now very familiar to most agency leaders – the pandemic, the economy, and the need for flexibility. But these are largely temporary dynamics that will eventually turn themselves around. The central cause of the problem – the key driver — is the agency business model itself.
More specifically, agencies are lacking a revenue model. Whereas most other modern businesses have a dynamic, multi-faceted pricing structure, many agencies simply have a schedule of hourly rates. They have a self-limiting inventory of hours they sell to their clients, which places a self-imposed ceiling on both income and profits.
In this compelling presentation, Tim Williams of Ignition Consulting Group shows how agencies can replace their current cost-driven compensation approach with an actual revenue model; a variety of ways they can price their services based on the value they create rather than the costs they incur.
Tim is the highest rated speaker we have ever hosted at the symposium. So, we thought as a little gift to help you celebrate our tenth anniversary with us, we would bring him back.
You love him, we love him, and he’s got a bunch of new pragmatic advice to share with you.
Here’s what you can expect
OPEN AND COLLABORATE Fantastic to connect with all the leaders of our industry. They may be competitors but at the agency symposium it feels like an opportunity to be open, share stories and even collaborate.
Nick Behr - Founding Partner, Kaimera
CONNECT WITH SMARTEST MINDS IN THE INDUSTRY The Agency Leaders Symposium is a great opportunity for the industry’s leaders to get together and discuss the big issues and opportunities in our industry. It's wonderful spending a couple of days connecting with the smartest and most inspiring minds in our industry.
Nickie Scriven - CEO, Zenith
LEARN, DISCUSS, AND NETWORK Ashton Media knows how to produce great events where the industry can come together to learn, discuss and network. Agency Leaders Symposium is great for senior people in the industry to come together to discuss topics in an honest and open ways, despite they are competitors outside the event.
Minsun Collier - National Head of Digital, MediaCom
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2022 Agency Leaders Symposium Advisory Board…Driving the agency agenda…
Nick Behr
Kaimera
Founding Partner
Peter Vogel
Wavemaker
CEO ANZ
Virginia Hyland
Havas Media Group Australia
CEO
Sue Squillace
Dentsu Media
CEO, ANZ
Yatu Widders Hunt
Cox Inall Ridgeway
General Manager
Chris Walton
Nunn Media
Managing Director Sydney
Jack Watts
Bastion
Global CEO
Phil McDonald
BCM Group
Partner and Managing Director
Joe Frazer
Half Dome
Managing Partner
Simone Waugh
Publicis
Managing Director QLD
Nickie Scriven
Zenith Media
CEO Australia
Kirsty Muddle
dentsu Creative, Australia and New Zealand
Chief Executive Officer
Dan Beaumont
The Royals
Managing Partner
Luke Brown
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CEO & Founder
GATHERING
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The power of the symposium will be enhanced by the quality, energy and diversity of the people you meet, who will bring their ideas to the gathering while enriching our many conversations. Our way to ensure the quality of the experience is to handpick the most exciting and imaginative group of people and bring them together.
