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SUMMARY:Award for Independent Consultants 2023: Finalists Share Their Submissions
DESCRIPTION:This webinar has been sponsored by Yonder Data Solutions\, who are a trusted fieldwork and data collection company offering numerous services such as UK/International online data collection\, advanced analytics\, CATI\, dashboards and visualisation\, AI technology and omnibus services\n\n\nCome and hear from our 5 Award Finalists from last year about their submissions. Hear more about how they approached their work\, the hurdles they overcame\, what worked well and less well\, and why they chose to enter the Award. \nA great opportunity to learn from other consultants and ask them questions. Also an opportunity to find out more about the Award for 2024. \nOur Finalists \n\nAWARD WINNER:  Untapped Innovation: How research-led innovation helped BookTrust reach disadvantaged children\n\n\nHIGHLY COMMENDED: PS Research: How PS Research helped Cumbria’s third sector tell the story of their multi-million-pound participant-led employment programme\n\n\nMoorcroft Market Research:  Evolving a charity to meet future needs of people with learning disabilities (for Hft)\n\n\nHush Research and Strategy: Codifying connection for a better night’s sleep (for the Mayborn Group)\n\n\nWhite Rabbit Research: Helping children play their way (for the Children’s Coaching Collaborative).\n\n  \n\n				\n					\n				\n			\nREGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE (Zoom will then send you your login)
URL:https://theicg.co.uk/event/award-for-independent-consultants-2023-finalists-share-their-submissions/
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SUMMARY:Knowledge Share: Getting Mini-Consumers with Maximum Opinions: Best Practices in Moderating with Kids & Teens
DESCRIPTION:This Knowledge Share has been generously sponsored by Qualzy\, helping you leverage your purpose-built platform to win clients and conduct projects more efficiently through the power of AI. \n \nAny one who knows a child knows that they are all unique with their own opinions. Not just mini consumers\, kids and teens offer a great deal of opportunity for so many to learn about everything from toys and medicine to food and transportation. \nSeasoned kid/teen research experts: Nicki Karet of UK’s Sherbert Research and Pam Goldfarb Liss of USA’s LitBrains-Igniting Ideas! will present some tricks of the trade in moderating with kids and teens for either online or IRL (in real life/in person)\, as well as offer their hard-earned ideals on creating age-appropriate approaches to ensure productive sessions where one can both have fun and uncover important learning objectives. \nPam Goldfarb Liss \n \nPam is president/Big Brain at LitBrains – Igniting Ideas!\, Inc. in the USA. With more than 25 years of experience in moderating with kids\, teens and families on everything from inclusion\, depression\, allergies and diabetes to soda pop and macaroni and cheese; Pam loves their never-know-what’s-coming-next insights that come from this amazingly frank demographic. Pam works with many global giant consumer brands including Philips Avent\, Bayer\, Burger King\, Coca Cola\, General Mills\, Nickelodeon/Paramount\, Samsung and so many others. Pam is an avid presenter and teacher who loves to provide the industry with kid-ified know how. After having written the text book and taught ‘Moderating with Kids and Teens’ at RIVA Market Research Institute in Washington DC for more than a decade\, Pam has recently started an online learning center called Mission Kid Possible powered by litbrains.com with live and on-demand courses on tools and techniques for moderating with kids and teens— it can be found at www.litbrains.com. She currently lives with her husband and Gen Z/Alpha cusper teen daughter in Minneapolis\, Minnesota — a Midwestern city in the United States that is very cold. \n Nicki Karet  \n \nNicki is the founder and managing director of Sherbert Research in the UK. With more than 25 years of experience working with kids\, teens and families; Nicki is passionate about working with kids\, tweens\, teens\, mums and dads\, mums-to-be\, mums and toddlers\, grandparents\, teachers\, special needs coo-ordinators\, youth workers\, kids experts\, the list goes on. Nicki has been a part of many big brand marketing campaigns all around the world. She has a keen knowledge of kids and their unique views with a wonderful talent of getting them to not just answer but connect with the research. Nicki presents on moderating with kids\, teens and families at many global events. Nicki currently lives in London\, UK with her husband and two Gen Z children. \n https://theicg.co.uk/member/pamlitbrains-com/ \nwww.litbrains.com    \nhttps://www.sherbertresearch.com/ \nhttps://theicg.co.uk/member/nicki-karet/ \n  \n  \n  \nLOGIN FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE SHARE\nNo need to pre-register for it. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://theicg.co.uk/event/knowledge-share-getting-mini-consumers-with-maximum-opinions-best-practices-in-moderating-with-kids-teens/
CATEGORIES:Knowledge Share
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SUMMARY:Lunch&Learn: Field Notes on AI: questions\, intricacies and potential solutions
DESCRIPTION:We welcome back Field Notes for this Lunch&Learn. \n \nAI is the new Covid of the market research industry. \nIt revolutionised the way we work overnight. Everyone’s talking about it. And (almost) everyone is freaking out about it. \n\nWhat questions do clients ask and what worries them\, when you mention AI?\nWhat questions should you ask your tech partners\, when evaluating their AI products?\nAnd what questions should you ask yourself\, when choosing to use AI?\n\nIn this Lunch & Learn session we’ll go through all those questions to better navigate the AI world and its intricacies\, and we’ll present how at Field Notes we have decided to approach the challenges and opportunities AI brings. \nRegister here: Zoom will then send you your login details.
URL:https://theicg.co.uk/event/lunchlearn-field-notes-on-ai-questions-intricacies-and-potential-solutions/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Financial Planning: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:We welcome IFA Victor Sacks\, VS Associates\,  to talk about some key areas of financial planning relevant to micro-business owners\, and answer your questions about this. \n \nSpecific areas to be covered include: \n\nretirement planning\nfinancial investments\nemployee responsibilities.\n\nThis webinar is designed to give you some food for thought\, rather than individual advice\, and will give you a chance to share thoughts with other attendees. \nREGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE: Zoom will then generate your login.
URL:https://theicg.co.uk/event/webinar-financial-planning-a-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Nowhere Be Like Africa - A Guide To Research
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is generously sponsored by Babble viewing facility\, West Midlands\, winner of the MRS Operations Awards Best Viewing Facility – Experience & Impact \n \nAs part of our international research webinar series\, we are now proud to introduce three ICG members who’ll give us some cultural insight\, do’s and don’ts of doing research\, and some great anecdotes\, about doing research in Africa. \nOur Speakers \nEmil Brune\, African Grey \n30+ years’ experience of growing brands \n \nI’ve been immersed in the world of brands and consumers for 30+ years now. My experience is multifaceted having worked for advertising agencies\, brand companies and consultancies. I have extensive global research experience and am equally confident with quant and qual methodologies. \nMy primary interest has always been to use research as a tool to enable better decision-making\, selecting the best methodologies to achieve project objectives. My guiding philosophy is to ‘Get thinking straight before moving to action’. Often\, this involves protecting shareholder value by culling poor ideas. Clients compliment me on my ability to get teams to grasp the practical implications from research. \nIn my previous corporate life at Diageo\, I led global thinking on consumer segmentation\, portfolio planning\, opportunity identification and consumer / shopper trends. I also led their African research teams\, which enabled me to build connections and friendships across the continent. I spent the majority of 2015 in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia after Diageo asked me to go back to Africa to help build capability across their marketing\, insights and innovation teams. \nI founded African Grey in 2016\, having long been frustrated by agencies who charged exorbitant prices\, delivered poor quality research and had a lack of empathy for African consumers. The aim was that African Grey would help teams get closer to their target consumers in Africa and hence make better decisions. \nEmil’s sector experience includes: APPAREL Sporting and Outdoor AUTOMATIVE Cars\, Fuel\, Tyres BEAUTY Cosmetics\, Skincare DRINKS Beer\, Bitters\, Cocoa\, Malt\, CSDs\, Energy\, RTDs\, Spirits ENERGY Solar FINANCIAL Banking\, Insurance\, Pensions\, Investments\, Neobanking\, Cryptocurrency\, Buy Now Pay Later FMCG Dairy Products\, Lab-grown meat\, Oral Care\, Pilchards\, Plant-based Products\, Tobacco ONLINE Social Media\, Search PROPERTY Commercial Retail Ikea\, John Lewis SOCIAL Clean Cooking TECH Mobile Networks\, SIM Cards\, SAAS. \nEmil holds an MBA degree from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business and a Sloan Masters degree in Leadership and Strategy from London Business School. \nAndrew Onyeagbaku\, Mojo Africa \n \n  \nAndrew has 2 decades of experience working in brand consultancy having started his career in Japan and then moved to London where he worked at Flamingo and then Clear before dedicating his focus to the African continent. He is multilingual speaking\, French\, German\, Japanese\, Dutch\, English and Igbo\, which helps when clients from that region look to enter African markets. He runs two companies\, Mojo Africa and Kimoyo Insights. \nMojo was founded in 2015 and is a strategic African Cultural Insights Consultancy. Using a plethora of innovative & proprietary investigative means we help clients better understand African markets so they can successfully create better products\, services\, and marketing strategies attuned to those markets. \nWe are a diverse group of African aficionados living in and engaging exclusively with the continent and its diaspora 24/7 to offer unparalleled cultural insights and innovation inspiration to help clients take advantage of the opportunities in Africa\, one of the fastest growing regions in the world. \nWe work with multidisciplinary teams\, and with people from various African backgrounds to help crack each challenge. Our approach is collaborative  with our clients but we are not afraid to challenge and lead where we feel this will lead to stronger and more enduring project outcomes. \nWe conduct market research qualitatively and quantitatively. We conduct cultural and semiotic analysis of African markets to give clients a culturally informed competitive edge when engaging with local consumers. We guide clients through innovation processes to help them create new products\, brands and services. \nSome of the industries we have worked in include: automotive\, education\, non-profit organisations\, agritech\, bigtech\,  fintech\, edtech\, healthtech (social) media\, gaming\, FMCG\, Alcohol\, oil & gas\, alternative energy\, etc \nWe’ve worked on projects  looking at the semiotics of the dairy category in Nigeria\, helping clients understand the meaning and relevance of magic in order to inform advertisement. We’ve created video consumer personas for consumers in East\, West\, NOrth and South Africa for a leading alcohol brand and we’ve helped the Migration Policy institute understand challenges for African economic migrants following the correct proceeds to being able to effectively make remittance to and from Africa. \nKimoyo\, was founded in 2020 and also focussed on the African continent. Kimoyo leverages its huge consumer database and AI analytics platform to deliver rapid ‘autopilot’ insights to clients across the globe helping R&D\, Innovation and strategy teams make informed decisions about pricing\, purchasing and new innovations. \nSharon Matike\, Afrique Monitor \n \nAn astute Africa business consultant and market researcher with a keen commitment to helping clients navigate complex business environments by providing strategic insights\, inputs\, and recommendations. \nSharon works to provide on the ground information\, comprehensive data\,reports\, insights and analysis\, contact and client tracing for organisations interested in doing business in Africa. \nHer company Afrique Monitor based in Cameroon with footprints in over 35 unique African markets provides services such as market entry research\,  data collection\, quality and quantitatively product research\, corporate investigations and africa business consulting. \nSharon works with a number of multinational businesses on their Africa strategy and is an associate of Anteris management consultancy based in the UK. \n  \nREGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE \nLOGIN FOR THE WEBINAR IS HERE  \n 
URL:https://theicg.co.uk/event/webinar-nowhere-be-like-africa-a-guide-to-research/
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SUMMARY:The ICG's Annual Quiz Night
DESCRIPTION:   \nBack by popular demand is our annual face-to-face legendary Quiz Night \n \nQuiz masters Deanne and Marc Gold of iPoint Research (also ICG members)\, will be hosting a brilliant\, amusing\, neither-too-difficult\, nor too-easy quiz\, designed to get you working as a team and testing those grey cells. \nIn true ICG style\, we want to encourage everyone to get to know each other. So we’ll allocate you a team on arrival. So….no excuse not to book your ticket\, even if you don’t know a soul going. \n  \nBOOK YOUR TICKET(S) TODAY.\nCost is £20 + VAT + Eventbrite fee. This covers a good buffet and plenty of drinks. \nWe couldn’t put on such a brilliant event without the support of our wonderful sponsors: \nMain co-sponsors: Qualzy and iPoint Research \n 
URL:https://theicg.co.uk/event/the-icgs-annual-quiz-night/
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