SO, WHAT’S IN STORE
IN Sep 2025?

📣 Please note, these events are for Agency Hackers’ members only.

If your agency isn’t a member yet, get in touch with Anne or sign up here.

Event key:

🟥 Interview
🩵 Presentation
🟣 Demo/workshop

ALL our sessions are interactive, so cameras on and get your questions ready to ask!

Keep your eyes peeled … more September sessions coming very soon 👀

Intelligent Ops: Is it Time to Simplify Your Tech Stack?

⏰ 2pm, Wednesday 3rd September 2025

“We’ve got so many tools, but no clear way of working.”
Sound familiar? In this practical session, Harv Nagra from Scoro and host of The Handbook: The Ops Podcast, explores how to move from a chaotic tech stack to a connected, intelligent system.
You’ll learn what smart operations look like in 2025, where most agencies go wrong, and how a PSA & intelligent insights can simplify planning and delivery. If your team is buried in spreadsheets and software, this session will help you cut through the noise – and finally regain control.

⏰ 11am, Thursday 4th September 2025

As AI tools flood the market and agency offerings blur even more, the pressure to differentiate is growing. But are agencies focusing on the right things? Over the last decade, Robin Bonn, founder of Co:definery, has repositioned over 140 agencies. And right now, he’s seeing the same tired tactics resurface – with AI being the latest buzzword added to the pile.
“You’ve got agencies large and small calling themselves ‘AI-powered’ or ‘human-centred’ – how is that creating any real stand out?” asks Robin. “It’s all just peacocking. The real differentiator isn’t your positioning – it’s your proposition.”
In this session, Robin will unpack the smoke and mirrors of differentiation in the age of AI and share how the world’s best independent agencies create a genuine competitive advantage.

⏰ 11am, Wednesday 10th September 2025

A strong pipeline can be just as dangerous as a weak one. It’s something Steve Parks, CEO of Convivio, is seeing play out in real time: “Agencies are finally seeing momentum – but they’re in headless chicken mode. Years of crisis have left them without the structure to handle demand, so founders are scrambling instead of leading.”
Instead of enjoying the rewards of growth, many leaders are stuck firefighting – they’re being pulled into the weeds and unable to step back. This can leave them feeling overwhelmed with no time to think, no space to lead and no clear structure for growth.
In this session Steve will explore how to structure your agency for stability, take advantage of global trends, and stop running your business in panic mode. A must-attend for any founder who wants to finish 2025 strong.

⏰ 11am, Thursday 11th September 2025

There’s a big difference between delivering a pitch and actually connecting with your target audience. This interactive session with Alex Wright, Maddy Allen and Max “Hoppy” Hopkinson is designed to help you bring public speaking tools into your pitching process – so your ideas don’t just land, they resonate.
Alex, Maddy and Max are all speaker coaches, presenters, and board members of The Keynote Club, a community and course platform that helps people become better speakers. “Public speaking is so critical to pitching,” says Alex, “and so it’s critical to the personal professional development journey of the people in agencies, too.”
In this high-energy, interactive workshop, Alex, Maddy and Max will take you through real exercises, not just advice. They will be sharing breathing drills, and confidence-boosting techniques you can start using right away to improve your pitching.

⏰ 11am, Tuesday 16th September 2025

What happens when you stop treating LinkedIn like a tick-box task, and start using it as a serious growth channel?
“We literally had the best Q1 we’ve ever had this year,” says Dan Knowlton, co-founder of creative agency Knowlton. “We hit 388% of our profit goals – and most of our business came, and still comes, through LinkedIn.”
In this online session, Dan will pull back the curtain on how his team transformed their approach to LinkedIn – turning it from a spammy, low-impact channel into a high-performing client magnet.

⏰ 9:30am, Thursday 18th September 2025

LinkedIn is a great place for new business leads, but weeding out the time-wasters and really making an impact on people is tough. But it never used to be this hard, did it?
“Automation has gotten a lot more sophisticated,” says Laura Hannan, founder of Pitch121. “They’ve got good variables, they’ve got sequencing, and it’s all focused on the messaging inbox – that’s what you’re competing against.”
In this session, Laura will share how cold LinkedIn approaches can work, and fresh insight from the research she and her team have been doing this year – specifically around what gets your connection requests accepted, and how recent LinkedIn changes have made this even more relevant.

⏰ 11am, Tuesday 30th September 2025

We’re three-quarters through 2025, and agencies are still feeling the strain. Pipelines exist, but they’re slow. Sales cycles drag. Clients are cautious, demanding more value while taking longer to commit.
It’s not the disaster many feared earlier in the year — but it isn’t smooth sailing either. Stability is creeping in, but competition remains fierce.
So how’s it looking for you? Is your pipeline moving? Is your team holding up? And how confident are you for the final sprint to December?