The Pros Collective Presents:

How to Get In & Ahead in PR & Comms

Time & Date: 9:00-17:00; Thursday 15 October 2026
Place: NCVO, Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints St, London N1 9RL

08:30:

Registration & Coffee

09:00:

Opening & Housekeeping

Elizabeth Bananuka, The Pros Collective

09:05:

Welcome

Chair: Claire Quansah, Quansah Consulting

09:15:

The Things I Wish I’d Known About A Career In Comms Before I started

Jo Ogunleye, Google

09:45:

Googlers On Their Careers

Chair: Delia Williams-Falokun, Google
Panel TBC

10:30:

Morning Break

10:45:

Routes into PR

Alex Wiltshire, CIPR

11:00:

Early Careers Panel: Starting Out In PR & Comms

Panel: Tapiwa Nyirenda (Blurred) Son Pham (Manifest), Alex Wiltshire (CIPR), Rayo Yusuf (Hope&Glory PR) and TfL (TBC)

Chair: Elizabeth Bananuka, The Pros Collective

11:45:

Introducing The Taylor Bennett Foundation

Koray Camgöz, Taylor Bennett Foundation

12:00:

Lunch

13:00:

The Word on the Curb Success Story

Ndu Uchea & Hayel Wartemberg, Word on the Curb

Chair: Claire Quansah, Quansah Consulting

13:45:

Working In Agencies

Kate Clover, Untapped Recruitment

14:15:

The Agency Leaders Panel: How to Build An Agency Career

Panel: Rachel Allison (Axe + Saw), Jo Carr (Hope&Glory), Paul Joseph (Full Fat), Vishal Rana (Mischief) and Simon Redfern (Burson)

Chair: Claire Quansah, Quansah Consulting

15:00:

Afternoon break

15:15:

Working In-house

Yasu Pola-Samuels & Luna Woodcock, Dr Martens

16:00:

In-house Leaders Panel: How to Build An In-house Career

Panel: Armand David (BT Group), Jen Jamie (Google), Doyel Maitra (NatWest), Harriet Otoo (Paramount) and Mary Whenman (British Business Bank)

Chair: Jon Gerlis, CIPR

16:45-17:00:

Thank you and close

Elizabeth Bananuka & Claire Quansah

18:00:

Exit

[Please note: all our speakers are booked in but occasionally life stuff just happens so speakers are subject to change]