How decision makers can support businesses

Cost: Free

Session overview

This session will be an opportunity to learn from an experienced shopping centre manager, who will take real life lessons from their extensive portfolio to demonstrate how businesses can harness data to make strategic business decisions.

Introducing the speaker

Medi Parry-Williams is the founder of MPW Making Places Work and has 15 years’ experience in shopping centre and town centre regeneration. Medi has worked as Operations Director for 7 shopping centres across the UK, effectively working with and supporting over 300 national and independent businesses, as well as being a non-Executive Director with two separate companies. Alongside her international experience Medi has also worked with Anglesey County Council Economic Development Department and has a passion for supporting Welsh businesses.

What will the event cover?

• Maximising efficiencies to reduce full operating costs.
• Effective marketing and events strategies to drive footfall and increase dwell time.
• Introducing a placemaking strategy to create immediate impact.
• Driving commercialisation to increase centre profits.
• Community engagement and stakeholder collaboration for long term growth.
• Sharing results and impact.
• Questions and answers

Following this case study success, we will also discuss similar processes and procedures that Medi used for another six development schemes in the UK.

Who is this workshop for?

This session is part of the ‘SMART Towns for Smarter Business’ series but will also be valuable as a standalone session. The session is aimed at shopping centre or town centre managers looking to support their businesses by harnessing data, but will also be useful to independent businesses. The session will assume no prior technical knowledge and steer clear of tech jargon, focusing on the positive outcomes for businesses.

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