Digi-Cluster Summer Party

Despite the past month’s unpredictable heatwaves, floods and thunderstorms, August 1st was perfect for our Digi-Cluster summer party. We met at Clock gardens in Hertfordshire to celebrate a year of tech-driven events and the evening was fantastic. Today we’re here to update you on everything that went down in case you missed it!

Clock’s CEO and Digi-Cluster co-host Syd Nadim kicked off proceedings by introducing Tom Kingham and Nimbus Hosting, our fabulous sponsors! We’re forever thankful for the support Nimbus provide to our events which provide a great opportunity for people to network with others in their industry.

‘Nimbus Hosting – a dedicated team providing high-quality web hosting. Their in-house built Hosting Platform STORM, has been specifically designed for agencies and freelancers to streamline their workflow and manage their client’s hosting needs. Conceived and developed from the frustration of our clients, who were struggling with the standard offering of control panels, STORM provides the core functions required to manage your web hosting via a simple interface.’

Take a look at them here.

90-second expert pitches

Our very own CEO Josh (Bolland, Bolland & Co) introduced our four fantastic pitchers …

Dominic Moriarty, Fantail Digital
Dominic is an award-winning, creative and dynamic digital marketing consultant as recommended by The Drum. He has worked forJaguar Land Rover, KPMG, Bwin, Carluccio’s, Coats, BEE Midtown, The Drum, and many other SMEs.

Paula Allibone, Thewayforward
Paula has many years of experience in brand identity design, from Logo & identity element design to event branding.

Amanda Blacklock, Blacklock Consulting
Amanda has over 30 years’ experience in healthcare sales, marketing and sales & marketing capability building across a diverse range of geographies, therapeutic areas and audiences. In addition she is an experienced and passionate sales & sales leader performance coach, trained in NLP to Practitioner Level.

Attached here is a file Amanda has sent over covering what she spoke about in her 90 second pitch.

Carly Ward, TEEG Digital
Carly is an ambitious entrepreneur and truly passionate about her two businesses. Perfect Pawtions is an up and coming natural dog food brand putting animal welfare before profit.

TEEG Digital is an apprenticeship training provider working in partnership with the Buckinghamshire College Group delivering Digital Marketing Apprenticeships, creating new jobs for young people.

BBQ, bright(ish) skies and plenty of Pimms…

After the pitches, the BBQ was lit and the drinks started flowing.

We had lots of delicious food on offer this year, a selection ranging from stuffed peppers and burgers to strawberries and cream. A highlight, of course, was the salmon, freshly caught by Syd on his recent trip to Scotland- the perfect addition to a great array of treats.

The evening was fantastic and it was great to see so many faces, both new and familiar. Thanks to everyone who took part in the event and for attending our events all year round, they wouldn’t be the same without you!

Save the date

Exciting announcement! Digi-Cluster has an all-day extravaganza planned for 6th November so make sure you book it into your diary well in advance. We can’t wait to share more details in the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled!

Special thanks to:

Our fantastic sponsors – Nimbus Hosting for helping us supply the tasty food and drinks
Our fabulous 90-second pitchers
Rod Wynne Powell for capturing the evening for us- check out rest of his fabulous photographs out here…
Clock for allowing us to use their beautiful grounds for the second year running
Everyone who came along and made yet another successful Digi-Cluster event

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