{"id":85036,"date":"2021-10-19T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.phdmedia.com_\/united-kingdom\/?p=85036"},"modified":"2021-11-12T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:49:00","slug":"phd-uk-launches-3-day-festival-to-bring-media-industry-back-together-post-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/phd-uk-launches-3-day-festival-to-bring-media-industry-back-together-post-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"PHD UK launches 3-day festival to bring media industry back together post-pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As media businesses across the UK begin to return to their offices in greater numbers, on Tues 19<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 Thurs 21<sup>st<\/sup> October, PHD UK has created Reconnect, a three-day festival designed to give its staff, clients and media owner partners the chance to come together face-to-face in a way that\u2019s been impossible across the past 18 months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hosted in PHD\u2019s offices at Bankside, the festival content will offer a mix of inspiration, education and fun with key headline speakers including best-selling workplace culture author Bruce Daisley, ITV Group Director of D&amp;I Ade Rawcliffe, Amazon IMDbTV head, Lisa Rousseau and Tim Ellerton, Commercial Director of the British Olympic Association.<\/p>\n<p>Media brands will also be at the heart of Reconnect\u2019s line-up, with sessions lined up from The Guardian, Twitter, News UK, Pinterest, Haymarket, Facebook, Clear Channel, Mail Metro Media, Taboola, TikTok, Teads, Azerion, Yahoo!, Blis, InSkin, Mobstar, JCDecaux, \u00a0Bidstack, Spotify, LinkedIn, Astus, and The Ozone Project.\u00a0 Industry charity NABS also form part of the line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Each day of Reconnect will end with entertainment, which will include a Channel 4 stand-up comedy gig, Spotify Music Quiz and Global radio DJ.<\/p>\n<p>PHD UK CEO, Ali Reed said \u201c<em>While working remotely certainly didn\u2019t stop our people achieving amazing things, the opportunity to enjoy and experience the face-to-face benefits of working in media have been somewhat lacking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reconnect is an opportunity for the agency and the clients and media owners who we\u2019ve missed to come together for the first time for a long time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re overwhelmed by the number of media brand partners who have joined us to take part and we can\u2019t thank them enough for their support and enthusiasm.\u00a0 We can\u2019t wait for this event to remind us all why we enjoy working in what I believe, is still the best industry.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As media businesses across the UK begin to return to their offices in greater numbers, on Tues 19th \u2013 Thurs 21st October, PHD UK has created Reconnect, a three-day festival designed to give its staff, clients and media owner partners the chance to come together face-to-face in a way that\u2019s been impossible across the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivals-events-global"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/united-kingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}