Digital Bites November 2026
Digital Bites
Coming to London 12 November
Digital Bites is Connective3’s digital marketing event in Manchester and London with tips, hacks, and actionable insight. It’s free to attend with drinks and food provided by us.
📅 Thursday 12th November
⏰ 13.00 – Arrival, pizza & networking
🎤 14.00–16.30 – Talks & fireside chats
🥂 16.30 onwards – Networking drinks
📍 Everyman Broadgate: 1 Finsbury Ave, London EC2M 2PF
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Digital Bites is a digital marketing event designed to be a little bit different to your average event.
We’ve ditched long presentations in favour of short (8-minute) bite size talks packed with the best digital marketing insight. The event will help make you better at your job, get that promotion or find some new campaign inspiration.
Digital Bites provides the platform to do this.
After 5 years of success across Leeds and Manchester, we’re officially bringing the event to London. While our roots are up north, we’ve always believed in the power of in-person events. Now, we’re excited to expand into the capital, creating even more opportunities for the digital marketing community to gather, share knowledge and network face-to-face.
Meet our speakers
Lloyds Banking Group
Jay Safdar
TUI
Molly Cookson
Connective3
Rosa Mitchell
Connective3
Marina Marañón
DASH Water
Phil Collins
CLIQ
Ella Thompson
Connective3
Nick Handley
OpenAI
Michelle McKelvey
Tuckshop
Mia Skelson
Bridebook
Zoe Burke
The agenda
We’ve got a jam-packed agenda lined up, with ten short and snappy sessions covering everything from AI and the changing search landscape to digital PR, social, brand building and community engagement.
Want to know more? Meet our speakers and explore their bios and session synopses to find out what’s in store.
1:00
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2:00
Registration, food & networking
Join us from 1pm for complimentary pizza, refreshments and a chance to network with fellow marketers before the talks begin. Make sure you arrive in good time to grab some food and secure a good spot!
2:00
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2:05
Introduction
Connective3’s, Brittany Deller, will kick things off with a short introduction.
Brittany Deller
Senior Marketing Analytics Manager, Connective3
2:05
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2:15
The new search journey: Why influence is the new SEO metric
Rosa Mitchell
Director of Manchester, Connective3
2:15
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2:30
Fireside chat: Behind the scenes of PR, social and influencer marketing
Molly Cookson
Senior PR & Social Media Manager, TUI
2:30
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2:40
Less admin, more imagination: AI in the workflow, not instead of it
Zoe Burke
Head of Brand, Bridebook
2:40
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2:50
Your digital campaign is only half the story: How to influence shoppers at the shelf
Phil Collins
Senior Shopper Marketing Manager, DASH Water
2:50
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3:00
Beyond attention: Building the future of intelligent advertising
Michelle McKelvey
EMEA and UK Agency Lead, OpenAI
3:00
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3:30
Refreshment break
3.30
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3.40
Rethinking ecommerce discovery across search, onsite experiences and AI
Marina Marañón
Head of SEO Performance, Connective3
3:40
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3:50
One series rule them all: How to get famous on socials
Mia Skelson
Brand & Community Manager, Tuckshop
3:50
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4:05
Fireside chat: AI in practice: What’s working, what’s not?
Jay Safdar
Growth Marketing Lead, Lloyds Banking Group
4:05
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4:15
Not every brand needs a community – how to figure out if yours does
Ella Thompson,
Community Manager, CLIQ
4:15
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4:25
Your sale didn’t make money, it just moved it
Nick Handley
Performance Director, Connective3
4:25
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5:30
Post-event networking drinks
Join us after the speaker sessions for complimentary beer and prosecco 🍾.
We’ll see you at the bar!
Why attend
If you’re a digital marketer looking for quick tips and hacks to help you improve your day-to-day output, then this is the event for you. Actionable insights only, so you can walk away from the event with ideas ready to take and implement the next day.
Event content
Digital Bites features talks from leading brands and agencies focussing on all things digital marketing including digital PR, SEO, paid media, analytics, content marketing, business strategy, online performance and more. All talks are short and informative with our speakers sharing their industry secrets and top tips with you.
Pitch to speak
We’re on a mission to help marketers get into public speaking and want Digital Bites to provide a safe and welcoming space to do so. So, if you’ve always fancied taking to the stage, but haven’t known where to start, we welcome you to pitch to speak.
Previous Digital bites events
We hosted the first ever Digital Bites event back in 2021 to an audience of 60 marketers in Manchester. Since then, the event has grown in size, with over 100 attendees joining us for the event last March. The Digital Bites community is now 500+ strong and we’re proud to be a community of friendly marketers who get together a few times a year to network, share insight and promote the incredible northern marketing scene.
We’ve been joined by speakers from a range of brands and agencies in the north including ao.com, Northern Trains, DUSK, I Saw It First, Lottie, Absolute, Aira Digital, and of course, Connective3.
Speakers from the best brands…
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