RISE2025: Marketing for good and for growth

RISE2025: Marketing for good and for growth

Good evening Catherine!
Where + When:
Thursday 15 May 9.15am - 5.30pm
The Royal Horticultural Halls, Lindley Hall

Are you building a brand, or a legacy?

At RISE2025: Marketing for Good and for Growth, John Amaechi OBE will be

joining a remarkable lineup of leaders committed to building trusted, inclusive, and

sustainable brands.

Hosted by the team at @CreativeEquals, RISE brings together industry

trailblazers—from Unilever, Haleon, Financial Times, Diageo, Simply Health,

Primark, and more—to explore the future of marketing that drives both business

impact and societal change.

Throughout the day, sessions will dive deep into:

• Inclusive AI deployment
  
• The sustainability long game (with IPSOS)
  
• Creative effectiveness (with Effie UK)
  
• Creative excellence (led by Cannes Lion)

John will also be speaking alongside powerful voices such as Vanessa KingoriOBE (Google), Riyadh Khalaf (BBC Studios), and comedy legend Sir Lenny Henry.

Building a brand is important but building a legacy matters more.

To supercharge your approach to marketing excllence, we bring together a stand-out lineup of game-changing speakers, experts and CMOs.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Headliner: Sir Lenny Henry, comedian, author, broadcaster
• Ruben Schreurs, Group CEO, Ebiquity, PLC
• Gráinne Wafer, Global Category Director, Beer, Vodka, Liqueurs, Convenience, Diageo
• Jon Evans, Uncensored, CMO
• Vanessa Kingori OBE, Managing Director, Technology, Media, Telecoms, Google
• Riyadh Khalaf, broadcaster, author, podcast host, and LGBTQ+ advocate
• Tati Lindenberg, VP, Marketing at Unilever, Dirt is Good [OMO, Persil, Surf Excel, Breeze]
• Fiona Spooner, Managing Director, Consumer Revenue, Financial Times
• Eleanor Thorton-Firkin, Head of Creative Excellence, IPSOS
• Megan Crabbe, author Body Positive Power, broadcaster
• Gemma Greaves, co-founder Nurture, Cabal
• Louise Cohen, Global Marketing and Communications Lead, Haleon

• Richard Robinson, Executive Director, Ingenuity+
  And more to come.
  
  Themes include:
• How to lead inclusion-first strategies for social impact and growth
• Building smarter, safer more responsible media ecosystems
• How to diffuse backlash in a divided world
• Inclusion as a springboard for creativity, not a straightjacket
• Sustainability, the long game
• Emerging dimensions of inclusion in extraordinary times: accessibility, women's health and economic equity
• AI, bias and the big digital inclusion debate
• Growing sustainably, the long-term strategy

Thank you to our sponsors, industry partners, community partners and media/event partners: