AUCKLAND, Today: The Marketing Club (TMC) is shaking up the usual conference scene with the launch of Marketers Day, a vibrant, grassroots festival made by marketers, for marketers, to celebrate the ideas and people shaping Aotearoa’s marketing industry.
Happening Monday 20 October at ASB Bank’s Wynyard Quarter HQ, the event will unite more than 100 marketers, founders and creatives for a day full of big ideas, bold chats, standout speakers, hands-on sessions and the community energy TMC is known for.
Forget stiff conferences — Marketers Day brings a festival vibe with speakers who’ve built brands from scratch, led culture-shifting moments and tackled the real-life chaos of marketing. Covering creativity, tech, leadership and strategy, it’s packed with ideas you can use tomorrow and inspiration you can actually feel.
The line-up
Highlights include:
- Creativity & Brand Building – Simon Pound (Previously Unavailable), Shyr Godfrey (Forty Thieves), Fiona Cortis (BLUNT), Hamish Russell (ASB), Tom Horton (Phantom Billstickers)
- The Future of Marketing – Dan Xu PhD (ElementX), Gau Kurman (SupaHuman AI), Michaela Egbers (Ideally), Chanel Clark (The Marketing Club) and Sam Brough (Tracksuit)
- Real-World Strategy & Execution – Clive Antony (Antony & Mates), Julian Thompson (Mosh), Kamran Kazalbash (One New Zealand), Susie Thomson-Evans (Clear Hayes), Maria Skatova (InternetNZ)
- Career, Connection & Leadership – Cassie Roma (First Movers Media), Chris Asahara (The Postmasters), Lisa Young (HRHQ), Diana Sharma (Mission Ready), Sindy Ward (Hunter Campbell)
“Marketers Day isn’t another conference, it’s a celebration. We built this to feel different: accessible, energising and useful.” – Chanel Clark, Founder of TMC
Chanel Clark, Founder of TMC says, “Marketers Day isn’t another conference, it’s a celebration. We built this to feel different: accessible, energising and useful. It’s not about suits and slides, it’s about real people sharing what they’ve learned, sparking ideas and lifting each other up.
“Attendees will get to hear from some of the most exciting brands and consultancies in Aotearoa and beyond, and absorb insights they can put into practice straight away. That’s what our community has always been about, and now it finally has a day of its own.”
Fiona Cortis, Head of Marketing – BLUNT Umbrella’s says of the event, “I’m a creative and a brand builder through and through, it’s what I’m passionate about and I’m excited to share my experience and journey and connect with the up and coming marketeers in NZ.”
Kamran Kazalbash, Brand Lead at OneNZ says, “I’m really excited to see everyone at the first Marketers Day and to share the story and the strategy behind our Finding Jade campaign. I’ll share how we got to where we are now and how we ensure that our brand strategy comes to life in everything we do.”
In just three years, TMC has grown to a 13,000-strong community across New Zealand and Australia. Marketers Day marks its biggest leap yet — proof that a grassroots, bootstrapped movement can create a must-attend event built on openness, energy and connection.
With tickets priced at half the cost of other major industry events, Marketers Day stays accessible to the wider community, backed by supporters including Flight Coffee, No Ugly, Human Digital, Forty Thieves, Anew, Petes Natural, Infinity Sleep, Apparel Merch Co, Clear Hayes, Entegy, Notion, Phantom Billstickers, Swisse, Brandspec, Mosh, Raglan Food Co, Barkers, Yum NZ, GreenAir, Paneton, Digital Refinery, Rocketspark, InternetNZ, Hunter Campbell, Keerti Siag Photography, MC Media and Backkr.
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