20th October 2023, London
CopyCon
Your ticket includes breakfast pastries, refreshments throughout the day and lunch – as well as the video recording package. The pre-conference meet-up is free to all and there is an optional (ticketed) after-party.
Sam Knowles
Chief Data Storyteller, Insight Agents
Lorraine Forrest-Turner
Freelance Writer and Teacher
Honor Clement-Hayes
Creative Director
Nick Shackleton-Jones
Author and Consultant
Dave Harland
The Word Man
Asad Shaykh
Head of Strategy, Grey London
Jackie Kingsley and Carla Dobson-Elliott
Heads of Editorial, Sticky
Conference schedule
We’re making space for conversations in between the talks.
08:30 – 09:15
09:15 – 09:25
Welcome and introduction
David McGuire welcomes you to the tenth annual Copywriting Conference.
09:30
How Neurodiversity Can Play Nicely With Creativity
Honor Clement-Hayes on how our differences can pay dividends.
10:05
Thinking is Feeling
Nick Shackleton-Jones asks: “How can you move people?”
10:30
11:00
Shelina Janmohamed
Talk details TBC
11:35
What do your clients really mean?
Jackie Kingsley and Carla Dobson-Elliott translate for your stakeholders and clients.
12:00
Lunch is served in the Osler Room
13:40
In Praise of Mediocrity
Lorraine Forrest-Turner on the futile resistance of acceptance.
14:35
Analytics + Storytelling = Influence
Sam Knowles on data-driven narratives.
15:00
Coffee Break
15:35
How Trauma Triumphs
Asad Shaykh on how to “embrace the trauma of being different”…
16:10
Where to Find the Funny in Anything
Dave Harland has the answers, even if your project is proper boring.
17:00 – 22:00
Afterparty at the Albany
At the Royal College of Physicians
CopyCon is held in the Wolfson Theatre at the Royal College of Physicians.
Address: 11 St Andrews Place, London, NW1 4LE



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