2020 saw us run 18 virtual events using a variety of technology solutions to connect audiences and communities for shared experiences. As the next few months at least promise no return to in-person events, at Forgather we’re reflecting at the start of 2021 on a few things we’ve learnt along the way.

In October 2020, Good Growth: Unlocking the Power of Digital for Women Entrepreneurs brought together 500 entrepreneurs, business leaders and students to help women-led businesses thrive in today’s testing economic climate. Watch the recordings here.

The Net Zero Sessions, organised by Forgather, are a series of gatherings and curated conversations for business leaders to discuss the role we can play in tackling the climate emergency.  Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO, of Octopus Energy along with MC and co-host Oli Barrett, got the first of these off to a sizzling start via Hopin recently.

How can businesses come together to take action?

We’re proud to have launched our latest passion project, the Net Zero Sessions. This series of gatherings and curated conversations for business leaders will bring people together to discuss the role we can play in tackling the climate emergency.

Here’s our ode to the loo doors that have caught our attention.

We heard from Sara Vaughan a ‘change maker’ whose latest project A Plastic Planet seeks to eliminate plastic from food and drink packaging in supermarkets. Sara had some pretty eye opening stats about the scale of the world’s plastic problem.

Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Ever since the floating Good Hotel arrived in London in autumn 2016, we’ve been waiting for the right brief to come along which would lead us there. When Yext asked us to help them organise an internal summer event, we jumped at the chance...