In the penultimate game of the Guinness 6 Nations, France travelled to Twickenham. Ben and Mark were booked again to glad hand guests in the hospitality suites at HQ and share their insight, memories and thoughts pre and post game.

Ben returned toe the Twickenham hospitality suites to mix with guests pre and post game. He shared his memories from the mixture as well as previewing/reviewing the game.

Travelling in from her home in Austin, Texas, Liv headed to Nashville, to speak on the behalf of Dassault Systèmes.

She delivered a very well received keynote at the 3DEXPERIENCE conference, which had the theme, Imagine All We Can Achieve Together

3DEXPERIENCE World brings a vibrant community of designers, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders together to learn, engage, share knowledge and drive innovation.

The audience was made up of designers and engineers who make physical products. They are big fans of STEM and anything related to outer space, so Liv’s keynote was crafted to be inspirational and challenge people’s thinking. She covered counter-intuitive speech, AI topics as well as sharing some of the lessons she learned from professional poker that can be applied in the business/personal worlds.

In recognition of Black History Month (USA), Booking Holdings, parent company of the likes of OpenTable, Kayak and CheapFlights booked Dr Mandela for a virtual event, this was part of their See It. Be It Speaker Series. 17,000 colleagues were invited to attend.

Debbie Soo, CEO of OpenTable led the discussion.

A Message from Booking’s CEO “The idea that diversity and inclusion is an imperative for both society, as well as individual companies, is no longer up for debate. Building a better, more sustainable world requires contributions and perspectives from all.” – Glenn Fogle 

Once again working with event business Legends7, GamePlan contracted a star name for An Evening With…event. This time, Ole Gunnar Solskjær

On the 12^th May he will be at the Mercure Hotel, Manchester, for an exclusive event.

Buy tickets – An Evening with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – Mercure Hotel Portland Street Manchester, Fri 12 May 2023 6:15 PM – 10:45 PM (tickettailor.com)

In Celebration of Black History Month (USA), Netapp were seeking a speaker with a compelling message about allyship, advocacy, diversity, resilience which resonates with colleague. Dr Mandela was booked.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is a business imperative at NetApp and foundational to success.  They strive to build a culture of belonging as this is part of our culture and values.

They promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging and strive to make it part of their DNA and embedded in our policies and practices.

They also promote inclusive leadership at all levels.  Anyone can lead inclusively, despite your title or role.

Yolanda DuCille; VP of Communications hosted expertly led the fireside chat with Dr Mandela.

Post event Netapp ran a feedback survey:

• 84% rated their overall experience with this event as very satisfied
• 100% satisfied with the speaker and content
• 95% thought the session was relevant to their work or life  and agreed the session strengthened their understanding of DEI&B

Comments included:

• It was great to hear about her personal experience and how her father’s beliefs shaped her life’s work. I appreciated her honesty and transparency as well. I also really enjoyed the host as she talked about her own experience and made it very conversational.

• Superb – very clear lessons and values

• Fabulous content and the facilitation by Yolanda was fantastic. Really appreciated this session and want to keep seeing sessions devoted to how we can walk the talk at the system level within NetApp so that all of the individual efforts continue to drive impact.

• Well done, this was a great fireside chat. Tremendous event for black history month but these types of conversations should happen every month

• Dr Mandela is an inspiring and honest voice – excellent contribution to Black History Month events – if there are books/links/etc that she promotes it would be great to share on the BHM wrap up for those of us that want to learn more

• Loved every minute of the presentation

• Fantastic speaker in Dr. Mandela and wonderful job by Yolanda hosting!

Seaman Says, the weekly podcast from England & Arsenal legend David Seaman, is doing its first live recording in front of an audience at London’s Clapham Grand on Monday 24th April.

The show will include an interview with Seaman who’ll discuss his illustrious career in football, from his days as an apprentice in Leeds, through to lifting the FA Cup as Arsenal captain and becoming one of the most capped players in England history having represented his country at iconic tournaments including Euro ’96.

In addition to the Q&A, there’ll also be a live recording of that week’s podcast episode with audience participation & prize giveaways featuring throughout. There’ll also be a special guest appearance from one of David’s former teammates, Ray Parlour.

Talking about Seaman Says Live, David said “I can’t wait to record Seaman Says in front of a live audience for the very first time! We have a laugh in every recording so it’ll be fun to share that experience with hundreds of our listeners. I just hope Arsenal & Leeds win that weekend!”

Tickets for Seaman Says Live are available now from www.seamansays.co.uk/live 

David was back at the West London Studios of Premier League Productions on the 15^th February. He was the special guest on their popular ‘Fanzone’ show. With Anita Jones in the presenter’s chair, David interacted with the fans dialling in from around the world, as they discussed the Arsenal/Manchester City fixture