The theme for this year’s Brighton Summit has a particular resonance for me as it coincides with coming back to work after some time away, with a new brand, a fresh outlook and a different approach to my career. ‘Look Up’ is a great opportunity to reset and relaunch, full of energy and optimism for…
Our Brighton Summit headline sponsor Cardens Accountants share how they embrace this year’s theme of “Look Up”. It’s important to look up from our daily tasks and take in the bigger picture. The Summit gives us all a chance to do that, to step away from our day to day work, to meet new people and to…
We caught up with Brighton Summit sponsors EMW Law to find out who they are, what they do, and why they’ve chosen to get involved with this year’s Brighton Summit. Tell us a bit about EMW Law We’re a team with expertise in our business field, and we’re genuinely interested in yours. We offer all…
Last year’s Summit was the best event of the year, without a doubt, and I can’t wait for this year! I was so inspired and energised after the ‘Embrace the Unknown’ Summit in 2017, I woke up and blogged, immediately wanting to share my thoughts. Blogging before 9am – that might have been a first.…
Amy Lishman, Brighton Chamber membership manager, paints a scene ahead of her second Summit. Picture this. It’s 8.30 on Friday 12 October. You arrive at the Clarendon Centre, welcomed by smiling and friendly Chamber volunteers at the sign in desk. They hand you your lanyard and programme and helpfully point you in the direction of…
World of Books is Europe’s biggest online retailer of used books, and one of the biggest employers in Worthing. CEO Stephen Boobyer is telling the World of Books story at this year’s Brighton Summit, revealing how the company has grown from a start-up to 600 people in just ten years, scooping a Queen’s Award for…
By Sam Knowles, Founder of Insight Agents, and Brighton Summit workshop leader. How we use numbers to tell stories – to convey meaning and to persuade others to hear and understand our point of view – has come into sharp focus in the age of Big Data. The sheer volume of information that surrounds all…
Susi Doherty, of Vervate, is a seasoned Chamber member and Summit attender. In this blog she gives us her insider knowledge to help you get the most from your day. Whether or not you have been to a Summit before, you really should check out the videos and photography from the 5 previous events. It…
Brighton Cakes founder, Fay Millar, chose to embrace the unknown instead of playing it safe and hasn’t looked back since… Christmas last year was completely mental, hard, stressful, backbreaking work, there’s no two ways around it. In the run-up to the festive period, we were flat out with gingerbread, cake and marshmallow orders and working…
I got my first graduate job in 1993 and since then I’ve worked all over the world; London, New York and good old Lanarkshire. I’ve spent huge parts of my life commuting to work via plane, train and automobile and, whilst I can’t claim that all my travelling time was put to productive use, the…
This year’s Brighton Summit promises, as always, to have something for everyone. From high growth companies and entrepreneurs to those considering starting up a business, and every possible category in between. One of the keynote speakers at the Summit will be Ciro Romano, owner of Neapolitan Music. Ciro spent many years as legal adviser for…
Felicity Beckett interviews Summit speaker and co-founder of the award-winning social media company Liberty842, Daisy Cresswell. I meet with the fabulous and affable Daisy Cresswell in the bar at the Duke of York’s and ask what the film of her life would look like. I immediately offer (as I have thought about it) that it…
