Events Calendar

Stay up to date with everything happening across the South West marketing community. Here you’ll find all of our official Building Brands events—alongside other exciting community gatherings, meetups, and opportunities to connect.

Upcoming Events

From headline conferences to specialist masterclasses and local meet-ups, there’s always something happening in the Building Brands community. Explore what’s coming up next and find the events that will inspire, connect, and support your marketing journey.

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Signature Event
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Analytics - GA4 & GTM

Learn how navigate GA4 to find and interpret the website data that’s important to your business and set up custom measurements with Google Tag Manager. Led by Samantha Smith - Senior Digital Marketing Manager - Data Lead, Optix Solutions.

Training
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Building Brands Webinar: AI visibility: How to future proof your content, strategy and SEO  

Search is changing fast, with more people using ChatGPT and Gemini instead of traditional search. In this practical webinar, Andy Mollison from Varn explores how marketers can improve visibility in AI search and prepare for what’s next.

Training
Signature Event
Friday, July 3, 2026

How to use psychology to improve marketing effectiveness

In a crowded media landscape, marketing campaigns need to stand out. Marketers need to understand how their customers think, how to create creative content that appeals, and how to present a product or service that customers want to buy.

Training
Signature Event
Friday, July 3, 2026

Running a business without a script by Hanna Mepstead

Marketing, mistakes and the messy reality of building something of your own. Running a business rarely follows the neat plan you imagine at the start, or what we’re told “should” happen.

Networking
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

The Murder of CRO: Moving Your Testing Strategy Beyond the Website

Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) isn't dead, but the way most teams approach it is. If you’re still limiting your testing to the website, you’re missing the biggest levers for growth. You’re optimising in a vacuum.

Training
Signature Event
Thursday, July 9, 2026

Saltworks Sessions - Getting More Done with AI

Join us for our first ever Saltworks sessions event where Ian Dunstan, MD of Exeter based Cobalt Business IT & Comms will share first-hand experience and insights on 'Getting more done with AI'.

Networking
Signature Event
Friday, July 10, 2026

Notworking Networking - Torquay

Notworking Networking returns to the Bay for our Summer Social. Bigger, bolder and even better after February’s sell-out event, expect sunshine, great people and networking that feels nothing like normal networking.

Signature Event
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Social Media Strategy and Paid Social Media

Social Media isn't always about selling. Discover how to engage your followers, grow your audience, and advertise effectively with a targeted social media strategy and best practice. Led by Barnaby St Anton - Optix Solutions

Training
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Building Brands Webinar: Navigating Q4: A Month-by-Month SEO, PPC and AI Search Guide for eCom

A practical month-by-month guide to SEO, PPC and AI search for ecommerce brands in Q4. Ben Barnes, founder of Neural Edge, explains what marketing managers should be doing in October, November and December.

Training
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Building Brands Exeter

Building Brands Exeter 2026

Building Brands Exeter 2026 — Building Brands Marketing Community

Conference