Events

You will get deep insights, fresh ideas and for sure get to know amazing people. Join epda activities in 2020.

epda LIVE FLASH

The epda LIVE FLASH is a new event format, which invites you to meet us online. There will be 3 different webinars offered exclusively to epda members and epda partners in spring 2020. Every time we will have a guest speaker giving a lively 30-minute presentation followed by an open, moderated online discussion with you all.

PREVIOUS SESSIONS:

“How to collaborate effectively as a remote team”, 15 April 2020, 12 am to 1 pm CET
After we all took a huge effort to organise remote work places, we are now facing the challenge to work effectively together as a remote team. There are certainly more needs & opportunities than to just share presentations online. How to optimise work processes, team work, digital workshops and how to avoid misleading communication or lack of information. Franziska Palmberger and Karel Golta introduced us to tools that might help organise remote work more effectively. For more information: Tools of Innovators

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“Global retail trends throughout Europe”, 7 May 2020, 12 am to 1 pm CET
The current pandemic is affecting retail in far more ways than simply temporarily closing stores. Trends that have been building for years are now becoming established norms, and retailers are having to innovate and re-invent at a pace never seen before. In his presentation Jack examined some of the biggest trends in retail before the pandemic, and explained how those trends are playing out and changing course because of COVID-19. For more information: Jack Stratten, Insider Trends
Jack is an experienced retail trends speaker, writer and researcher who has worked with Insider Trends since its inception.

UPCOMING SESSIONS:

The series of 3 three sessions will focus the topic of Sustainability and it will tackle different aspects. Our guest speaker, Chris Sherwin, the founder and director of Reboot Innovation, a specialist sustainable innovation and design consultancy. Chris has worked in sustainability and design for over two decades, in corporate, non-profit and creative consulting roles and helped develop several world-first sustainable products and services like the multi-award winning Fairphone 2 and Winnow Vision.

Sustainability 1(3): How clients and brand leaders tackle sustainability, 16 June 2020, 12 am to 1 pm CET
Sustainability has emerged as a new driver for growth and innovation, but one-size of sustainability does not fit all and clients and brands are tackling this in different ways. How do designers and creative consultants navigate through this? This presentation will unpack the different business cases and client segments on sustainability and show how practical case studies of how leading clients and brands – both big and small – are doing well by doing good.

Sustainability 2(3): It’s time for humanity-centred design – how to design sustainably, 7 July, 12 am to 1pm CET
The world has declared a climate and ecological emergency, but is design really fit for this new sustainable future? This asks some fundamental questions about design and design thinking today: about how our recognised tools and methods – like Human-Centred Design, Empathic Design and research, Customer Journeys mapping – are really fit-for-purpose? This presentation will question some of the everyday tools and approaches for good design, showing how these must change to design more sustainably.

Sustainability 3(3): Sustainability, a game-changing agenda for breakthrough innovation, 28 July, 12 am to 1pm CET
The 20’s are being described as the #DecadetoDeliver on sustainability. This is urgent. The days for incrementalism and continuous improvement are over; sustainability is a radical agenda requiring disruptive, radical, breakthrough innovation. This final presentation will issue a call to arms to designers and creatives for a step change on sustainability, showing examples of brands and innovators doing this today.

epda CONGRESS
17 -19 September 2020

We originally planned to hold our autumn event in Moscow. Given the current circumstances, however, we decided to postpone an event in Russia. Please keep the date booked in your calendars though as – if ever possible – we will invite to a next analogue event on the scheduled date somewhere else in Europe. We hope to see you personally still this year! Decisions will be made in summer; we will keep you informed.

epda TRENDSPOTTING
16 October 2020, London

The retail tour safari has been postponed and will take place in autumn – just as planned!

We have partnered with INSIDER TRENDS, a London-based trend research consultancy with deep knowledge and insights into online and offline retail developments, and invite you to join us for a 1-day event to discover what’s next in retail: Our tour guide Jack Stratten, Senior Trend Consultant, will take us through the capital’s retail hotspots. We will discover concepts and innovations that give clues to the future of retail, with high-tech and low-tech stores experimenting with branding, design, product displays, storytelling, service, omnichannel retail and more. And we will leave with new ideas, and a new understanding of where retail is headed next. A tour on foot for 4 hours with a little break to grab some food on the fly ..

11.15 h – Tour starts at Oxford Circus
15.30 h – Tour ends at Holborn, Covent Garden

Digest and socialise … To recap the day’s experience, to discuss and to network we would love to see you join us for a drink at TURNER DUCKWORTH agency right after the tour. For sure we will also get a glimpse of the agency’s latest success stories .. be curious ))

15.45 h – 40 Chancery Ln, Holborn, London WC2A 1JA
17.30h – Our joint venture officially ends at this point.