Evolving Our Events – Enhanced Networking and Increased Engagement in 2025
After a successful year characterised by growth and impact, we are excited to enhance our offerings in 2025. Feedback from our audience has been invaluable in shaping our plans, and we’re committed to delivering even greater value to our community.
Next year, we will refresh our conference structure with shorter days to optimise engagement, thematic segmentation to allow for deeper exploration of key topics, and a new ticketing structure offering more choice for delegates including season tickets for our most loyal attendees.
To expand on our thinking for our new ticketing structure in 2025, we are introducing a new ticketing structure designed to provide increased choice and flexibility for our attendees. We recognise that our flagship conferences, while packed with valuable content, can be a long day, and not everyone is able to commit to attending the full day. Some attendees may only have limited time available or wish to participate in sessions most relevant to their interests and needs. Inspired by the success of our Northern Summit ticketing model, which allowed participants to attend individual days based on their preferred themes at a reduced rate, we aim to offer a similar approach to our flagship events. Although these conferences will remain one day in length, we will now provide the option to attend half-day sessions, each organised around distinct themes. This thematic focus ensures that attendees can tailor their experience to what matters most to them while enjoying greater flexibility and accessibility.
We are also extending networking opportunities by introducing more social events, including evening gatherings after conferences, similarly to our Northern Summit, and an annual sponsor dinner to foster connections among industry leaders and celebrate the importance of their support in impacting the Northern FinTech ecosystem and beyond.
In 2025, we will introduce an even more diverse range of content formats, introducing short form content, podcasts, and masterclasses, offering skills development opportunities open to all, that will aim to impact individual and business growth.
Finally, we’re excited for Whitecap Consulting’s pan-Northern ecosystem report, which is poised to shape the strategies of many Northern fintechs and play a prominent role in our upcoming events.
Reflecting community feedback, we’re looking forward to delivering a lower number of high-impact, higher quality events. An increased focus on webinars and socials, some of our most popular events, will maintain community engagement between flagship events.
Our community’s ongoing feedback is of great importance to us, and our Community Survey 2024 will be live in January, providing an opportunity for our community to shape our activities for the next 12 months.
