Digital Bites

15th October 2026

Digital Bites is Connective3’s digital marketing event in Manchester with tips, hacks, and actionable insight. It’s free to attend with drinks and food provided by us.

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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 bite size talks jam-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.

We’re big believers of in person events and think it’s important to host events outside of London. There’s an amazing digital community in the north and we want to make sure there are plenty of opportunities for us to get together, share knowledge and network.

Digital Bites provides the platform to do this.

Meet our speakers

The Creator Cupid (ex-Gymshark)

Chloe Perkins

My Expert Midwife

Clare Anderton

Travelpack

Joely Garland

THG

Elliott Speed-Smith

PLUSH

Georgina Williams

TalkTalk

Kacee Fennelly

Connective3

Iolanda Bastos

Connective3

Elle Pollicott

Connective3

Charlotte Sharpe

Connective3

Natalia Baran

Represent

Lewis Allen

Full speaker & talk info

🗓️ Thursday 15th October
⏰ 13.00-17.00
📍Everyman Manchester: 27 Quay St, Manchester, M3 4PR
🎉 Lunch & drinks included

The agenda

1:00 — 2:00

Registration & lunch

Join us from 1pm, we’ll be serving complimentary lunch and refreshments. Make sure you get to the event in good time to secure a good spot!

2:00 — 2:05

Introduction

Connective3’s, Brittany Deller, will kick things off with a short introduction.

Brittany Deller

Senior Marketing Analytics Manager, Connective3

2:05 — 2:15

You’re missing a trick if you’re not internationalising your PR campaigns

Iolanda Bastos

PR Strategist, Connective3

2:15 — 2:25

Trust issues: Growing an ecommerce brand people believe in

Clare Anderton

CMO, My Expert Midwife

2:25 — 2:35

Where the creator economy is actually heading

Chloe Perkins

Founder, The Creator Cupid

2:35 — 2:45

Are SERPs disappearing or is real estate just moving to AI?

Charlotte Sharpe,

Head of PPC, Connective3

Elle Pollicott

Organic Search Director, Connective3

2:45 — 3:00

Fireside chat with THG

Elliott Speed-Smith

Head of Social, PR & Activations, THG

2:45 — 3:15

Refreshment break

3.30 — 3.40

Talk title tbc

Joely Garland

Head of Marketing, Travel Pack

3:40 — 3:50

Hype doesn’t rank itself: How Represent wins search around every drop

Lewis Allen

SEO Manager, Represent

3:50 — 4:00

Beyond the corporate ladder: Taking the leap to build something of my own, and redefining success on my own terms

Georgina Williams

Founder, PLUSH

4:00 — 4:10

What’s more important when building a personal brand: skills, qualifications or visibility?

Kacee Fennelly

Senior Social & PR Manager, TalkTalk

4:10 — 4:20

Talk title tbc

Natalia Baran

Head of Planning, Connective3

4:20 — 5:20

Post-event networking drinks

Join us after the speaker sessions for complimentary drinks!

Digital Bites tickets are sold out

Our next Digital Bites, taking place on October 15th at one of our favourite venues, Everyman Manchester, is now sold out.

The Everyman provides the perfect space to get together IRL, make new marketing friends, and keep up to date with the latest insights in the industry. With comfy seats and a huge screen, you can kick back and relax while soaking up top tips from our speakers.

As champions for events and networking in the north Digital Bites is still free to attend and all are welcome with pizza and drinks on us!

Join our waitlist

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.

Read the March 2026 wrap-up blog March 2026 event photos