About us​

B2B events

​We create and deliver compelling profitable events  in collaboration with the industry you serve.  
​Over 25 years experience across multiple sectors and several markets ensure that global best practice and proven methodologies are applied to everything we do. 

Conferences and meetings

Events can be complex and costly to organise, and can take up a lot of your team’s time.
We can help maximise your budget and resources by offering project management, expertise and practical support with your events. Whole event planning, specific production aspects, or just ad-hoc support on the day - we are flexible.

Trade stand support

Perhaps you need to exhibit at an event and need some ad-hoc resource to make it happen. Or you need to present the same stand at multiple exhibitions. We can provide support for: stand concepts and planning - liaison with venues, stand designers and contractors - on-stand management and support - marketing support - costs, budgeting and reporting - visitor surveys and feedback - and more.

The team

While Graham or Sophie will always lead a project, it's not all about us. We have an enviable network of creative and technical professionals at our disposal who can help us support your event.​

Graham Lock, founder and director

​Graham has over 25 years’ experience in the commercial events industry starting out with Haymarket Media and their ground-breaking joint-venture with the BBC.

As one of the first employees of BBC Haymarket Exhibitions, Graham contributed to the success of Clothes Show Live, BBC Gardener’s World Live and several other major launch consumer events. 
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Moving to Dubai, Graham broadened his event experience as Sales Director and then Exhibitions Director across a high-profile portfolio of international B2B events in sectors including health, IT, power and fashion.  Further international experience was gained in Amsterdam where Graham helped set up and run a new joint-venture events business with de Telegraaf Media Group, the Netherlands’ largest media owner.

Back in the UK, Graham assumed senior business development roles with major events business Clarion and Reed/Montgomery before setting up his own business in 2009.  Graham now works with media owners to help them create profitable events delivered to world-class standards, as well as developing in-house projects.

From 2014-17 he was commissioned to create the UK's largest trade show for the heating and plumbing industry - the Installer show at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry - www.installershow.com
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In 2015 he co-founded and (in 2017) sold his shareholding in FOCUS – an international event serving the TV & Film production community - www.tlgfocus.com

In 2017 Graham successfully completed Aston Business School's Programme for Small Business Growth and launched Low Carbon Homes, a series of niche regional events - www.lowcarbonhomes.uk

Sophie Lock, event manager

​Sophie has 20 years of planning, producing and managing B2B conferences, seminars and trade stands in the UK and overseas, in commercial and not-for-profit sectors.

With extensive event marketing experience especially in the agricultural and technical sectors, she manages and delivers a wide variety of events. From farm walks and seminars to international congresses - no event is too small, too large or too complex! 

Sophie earned her event 'stripes' at worldwide events specialists Informa (Middle East), where she produced and delivered events on diverse topics, from finance to the energy industry. Time spent in waste management, minerals mining, agriculture, TV & Film location communities, low carbon and - latterly - self-build housing, ensures Sophie can tackle pretty much any event and any topic, no matter which sector you work in - commercial, public or not-for-profit.

​Sophie is a first-class colleague to work with. She is highly competent and knowledgeable, in addition to delivering top class results for the events she organises.
She is a real team player with a human touch that makes it always a great pleasure to work with her." Heather B, journalist and PR

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