Marketing jobs in Bristol

A 25-minute talk from Hey! What? on what brands can take from subcultures, festivals and scenes. The argument: culture does not move because something is sensible, it moves because something is different enough to notice, specific enough to believe in and interesting enough to pass on - so weird is not the opposite of strategy, it is often where strategy starts working. Amy Gettings, Managing Director, and Hamish McWhirter, Creative Director, are both speaking. At The Station on Silver Street, in the Brazen Community Track.

Four ten-minute talks from Bristol Creative Industries on getting people to care about complex products, with an open Q&A at the end. John Lanyon, Creative Partner at Studio Lanyon, opens on the psychology of why people decide emotionally rather than logically, using well-known tech campaigns to show it working, and finishes on something to try the next day. A second talk tackles the brand-building catch-22: a weak brand means low demand, low demand means every pound goes on squeezing sales out of that demand, which leaves nothing to invest in brand. Two further talks complete the session. At The Station, 15:00 to 15:50, part of Brazen.

Festival of Economics brings FT work columnist Sarah O'Connor to Cinema 1 at the Watershed with a sharper version of the automation question: not that people are losing jobs to machines, but that work is becoming lonelier, less creative and less human. The session is built around her book We Are Not Machines, which reports from the front lines of technological change and also finds jobs made safer and better where workers took control of the new tools. She is in conversation with Heather Stewart, economics editor of the Guardian, and Sue Turner OBE, Professor in Practice in AI and Digital Technologies at the University of Bristol Business School and one of the Top 100 Women in AI Ethics. One hour. Paid ticket, with group (10+) and school discounts and no refunds.

The Marketing Meetup's Bristol edition at Temple Studios, Temple Gate (BS1 6QA). Short talks from marketers, then open conversation. The organiser's line is no selling and no networking bingo. Doors and snacks at 5:30pm, speakers from 6:30pm, talks end around 7:15pm, finish at 8:00pm. Speakers are still to be confirmed. Tickets are pay-what-you-like from £5 to £50 (average paid so far about £11). Refunds up to 5 days before. Supported by TCNUK, The Keynote Club and HighLevel.