The growth festival will take place online and aims to help businesses survive and thrive in 2021.
IRP Commerce based in Catalyst is collaborating with leading UK digital agency, Digital Ethos on its upcoming Growth Festival, which is aimed at helping businesses, mainly digital, thrive this year.
Taking place on Friday 1 October, the online event, which includes speakers from Facebook, Google and LinkedIn and will also see Philip Macartney from IRP Commerce deliver a webinar on the future of e-commerce, is set to replicate the success of the first Growth Festival, which ran in January of this year and saw businesses create new growth strategies and make contacts through online networking.
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The one-day event will see a mix of speakers and stages to support companies grow their tech, their reach, their imagination and their overall well-being.
IRP Commerce, whose e-commerce platform has transacted more than £1.2 billion for a host of leading independent retailers in the UK, and along with digital agency, Digital Ethos, will be combining their e-commerce knowledge and speaking to merchants who need support and advice to grow their e-commerce operation.
This is the first of many planned joint ventures with IRP and Digital Ethos who started collaborating earlier this year.
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Speaking about the event, Philip Macartney, chief commercial officer at IRP Commerce said: "We see a real appetite for this type of event that puts e-commerce business recovery front and centre. We know Covid has been a game changer for many merchants in the e-commerce space. I am looking forward to sharing the insights from our IRP trading data and from other sources and our hope is that this will support merchants in taking their own e-commerce operation to a new level.”
General admission tickets for the Growth Festival are free with VIP tickets priced at £45. Register here
Source: Written from press release.
