20:20 Meet the Buyer

Bringing together Interior Designers, Architects and Specifiers with the most creative, advanced and design led products from around the world.

The SBID 20:20 is an one day annual networking event that brings together the most important designers, architects and specifiers of the international design industry, to meet face to face with the best manufacturers and suppliers of solutions.

The event provides a dynamic and lucrative business environment carefully tailored to create, encourage and facilitate synergies that build key relationships. It also provides a chance to meet the industry’s most celebrated experts and international designers who have travelled from around the world for the announcement of the International Design Awards winners.

Complete with networking opportunities, face to face contact with decision makers and a series of business seminars and talks from industry experts, the event compliments the already esteemed SBID Awards programme, making the three days of SBID events the ultimate design excellence package.

New for 2019: SBID 20:20 Meet The Buyer event will be expanding across the UK to Edinburgh and Leeds alongside our annual event in London, more information coming soon.

Date & Time:

Wednesday 24th October 2018 9.00am – 5.00pm

Venue:

The Dorchester, Park Lane, London

About the Event

This unique product introduction presents industry suppliers with the opportunity to:

Showcase products – each supplier will have a meeting table and company branding with a dedicated hostess to facilitate additional ad-hoc meetings allowing you to demonstrate the quality of your products.
Network – meet a host of key buyers throughout the day.
Build key relationships – create new supply chains in a single day with face to face meetings providing opportunities to follow up with interested new leads.
Pre-book meetings – arrange six pre-qualified meetings with targeted buyers one week ahead of the day.
Hold ad-hoc meetings throughout the day with attendees who have shown interest in your product.

As well as key networking opportunities, the event will host a series of business seminars and talks from industry experts complementing the highly esteemed SBID Awards and CPD programme.

2018 Speakers

Carlo Camillo

Christian Laboutan Beauté

Suzi Sendama

Mischcon De Reya

Mark Engelman

Hardwicke Chambers

Helen Law

Vectorworks

The SBID 20:20 event was a surprisingly exceptional experience for me as a first time attendee. The event showcased a great mix of A&D products and services that encompassed a wide range of budgets and applications from corporate to hospitality to residential. As I tend to not see silos in these areas of design thinking, I look for cross application opportunities in our specifications with my design teams whenever possible and appropriate, to help target our solutions and ultimately our projects success. I found 20:20 to also be an extremely beneficial immersion experience that quickly exposes the designer to a multitude of some of the latest in products and inspiration out there in just one day. These opportunities keep all of us learning which is important regardless of our positions and level of experience in the industry. I look forward to this event expanding both in participating companies and with that, design practitioners in the coming years.
Tom Marquardt, Director of Interiors - HOK

SBID host the most important design events in the creative industry calendar. They have established a global network of design professionals across a broad range of sectors which culminate in specialised design events to forge longstanding business partnerships, which John Lewis for Business are honoured and proud to be partnered with.
John Lewis Management