20:20 Meet the Buyer

SBID 20:20 Meet the Buyer

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

The SBID 20:20 is a one day 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 one day annual 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 complements the already esteemed SBID Awards program, making the three days of SBID events the ultimate design excellence package.

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

This intimate 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 – with a host of key buyers throughout the day.
Save time and money – build new supply chains in a single day with face to face meetings providing opportunities to follow up with interested new leads.
Request 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.

Save wasted time on cold-calling.
Receive a profile of your chosen buyer prior to the meeting along with their contact details allowing you to come prepared with your targeted product offering.
Learn about future projects in the pipeline before they go to tender and secure your position as a potential supplier.
Learn how to enhance business conduct in a global digital marketplace.

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.

The SBID 20-20- an enjoyable and well managed event, bringing products and designers together under the most elegant roof, The Dorchester!
Guy Stanton, Managing Director - nora flooring

Date:

Wednesday 24th October 2018

Venue:

The Dorchester – Park Lane, London

For more information of how to get involved with the SBID 20:20, email admin@sbid.org.