The Creative Leadership Conference
• Meet other creative directors and share how you’re balancing creativity with commerciality
• Get first hand knowledge on how to find your unique agency footprint on a well walked road.
• Discover ways to educate clients on the importance of creative teams
Thursday 27th February 2025 – 1.30pm to 5pm
The Shoreditch Treehouse
Creative directors have a difficult job. Balancing the passion to create boundary pushing work, with the need to make sure core services are being delivered – they are the glitter glue that holds an agency together.
Clients are looking for quantity over quality, freelancers or AI solutions are being favoured over agencies, and creatives can be harder to manage than other teams.
This is all while burnout is on the rise as creatives juggle personal projects with agency demands and designers are increasingly expected, and need, to master the art of commercial thinking.
This is where Dopamine comes in.
This event isn’t about the most trendy tools to play around with; it’s about the craft of running a successful creative agency.
Whether it’s building versatile teams, or finding space to experiment but still hit KPIs, Dopamine will give you the confidence to make bold choices.
Meet other people improving how their agency runs
Dopamine is an afternoon that will help you get inspired, and meet other agency creative leaders that you can learn from.
We blend interactive talks and group discussion.
- We dot you around the venue so you can interact – and we mix up the groups so you meet different people.
- We poll you before the event to see what you want to talk about.
- We make sure all the talks are original and interesting. We facilitate questions and reflections throughout.
It’s aimed at agency creative directors leaders – but any creative leader can come.
Who you’ll hear from…
🚧 We’re working on the line-up. We typically post this two months before the event, so check back 27th December 2024.
Q: What actually happens on the day?
We start the event at 1.30pm so try to arrive by 1.15pm.
The day’s format is pretty simple: you will spend some time hearing from guests with interesting stories that you can learn from, and you will also spend some time in small groups discussing your journey with like-minded agency leaders.
The event is hosted by an Agency Hackers facilitator who makes sure that everybody with something interesting to say gets heard. (We poll attendees before the event, so we know who to ‘pick on’ on the day.)
Q: Who will I hear from? Who are the speakers?
The people you’ll hear from are all creative agency leaders with interesting stories to tell about leading creative teams.
We also decide who to spotlight based on the information we capture in the weeks before. (Look out for our emails!)
We will publish the line-up a few weeks before, but mostly we hope that you will trust us to select interesting folk from our audience. We find that the people who choose to attend our events are overwhelmingly on fascinating journeys that will resonate with you.
Also, the ‘talks’ aren’t really linear presentations. They’re more like structured case studies, with lots of questions and reflections from the audience.
You could potentially call them ‘fireside chats’, but these are not rambling cosy conversations. They are planned and structured . We put a lot of work into researching our guests, out of respect for your time.
Q: Who can attend?
This event is mainly for people who run the creative teams in agencies – but it’s potentially of interest to anybody interested in making their agency run better.
Basically, anybody can attend if you think it looks up your street.
