Social Media & Sport Events
Below are the events hosted in 2010 and 2011. Another is being planned for either late 2011 or early 2012. More details will be announced on the site nearer the time.
Feb 2011 – London
THE best Social Media & Sport event in the UK so far this year and possibly any year! An amazing line up of speakers included;
BBC F1 Presenter Jake Humphrey
Olympian Karen Pickering MBE and sprint queen Jeanette Kwakye
BBC Director of London 2012 Roger Mosey
Chelsea, Arsenal, RFU and BBC all represented on the night
It kicked Off at 6pm on Wednesday 9th February. Over 100 people turned up to this free event and another 150 joined in to watch it live via Livestream. Some brilliant content fromn a group of amazing speakers, you can catch what they said below….
July 2010 – London & Nottingham
July 2010 saw the first 2 ‘Social Media & Sport Summit’ events held in Nottingham and London. Both were massive successes with a high level of interaction, networking as well as top speakers brought to them both.
We had great speakers over the two events including;
- Matt Owen (Liverpool FC)
- Mike Dunphy (MD Media Consulting)
- Tom Webb (Lotus Racing)
- Andy Barber (England Athletics)
- Adam Vincenzini (Paratus Communications)
- Ben Thompson (Macesport)
- Bill Boorman (TruEvents)
- Nick Howard (UK Athletics)
- Ed Hartigan (Spearfish Labs)
- Daan Jansonius (SocialMedia8)
- David Naylor, Lewis Cohen & Rebecca Swindells (FFW)
- Phil Jeffs & Ben Taylor (Fudge)
- Roger Ahn (WeWin Games)
The events have also brought together a fantastic list of attending companies with some of the top sports clubs, businesses and associations coming a long to hear from others in the industry and learn from the days. These companies have included;
Walt Disney Company, Speedo, Chelsea FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC, NBA, Notts CCC, Football League, The Cricket Foundation, RFU, Football United, BBC, Ipswich Town FC, Slipstream, IMG, The FA, Revolution Sports Marketing, LTA, Octagon, Synergy, Trufflenet, EMDA, Notts City Council, Huddersfield Town FC, English Table Tennis, Press Association and many more.
Special thanks must go out to 3 attendees who flew over from Germany specially for the London event who came from RESULT Consulting GmbH and Neuland & Herzer. We have already had requests for event dates from people in Spain and Australia, a real international flavour is in store for the end of year event!
Social Media & Sport Summit delegate comments;
“I attend at least a couple of events a week, many of them Social Media orientated, and I have to say yesterday was one of the best I have been to so far. The speakers were excellent.”
“Really enjoyed today, thanks for organising a great event, really useful”
“Great event this morning, well done. Good speakers, good interaction, good networking. Spot on.”
“The session was extremely useful, insightful and informative have definitely benefitted from attending.”
“Ryan and Andy have come back enthused by what was discussed. So well done, and I think you’ve just made my job even harder now!!”
“Great to meet you yesterday and thank you so much for inviting me to such a fantastic event. So much useful information, my head is still buzzing! ”
“Attended the cracking Social Media & Sport Summit. Made some great contacts and picked up some good tips”.
“V interesting day on social media at #smsslondon yesterday – recommended for anyone looking to get the most out of Twitter, Facebook etc”
“fantastic day at #smsslondon – some great insights and contacts made – speak soon all! and Many thanks to @uksportsnetwork”
“Thanks @UKSportsNetwork for great event #smsslondon – superb new contacts and info. Knowledge is power, but its all in the implementation 
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