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Meet and engage with the professional interior design industry

The SBID Meet the Buyer is a premium, trade-only networking event for the interior design industry, carefully curated to bring together high profile Interior Designers, Architects and Specifiers with the most creative, advanced and design-led product suppliers. Showcase your brand and exhibit products & solutions directly to esteemed industry buyers and decision-makers. The exclusive one day event provides an dynamic and lucrative business environment with 20 face-to-face meetings scheduled to create, encourage and facilitate introductions that build key relationships within the interior design profession.

Meet and engage with the professional interior design industry

Step into the new year with Modern Woman’s renowned Property and Construction event – an action packed afternoon with informative and captivating panel discussions, addressing the upcoming topics of property and construction in 2023.

They’ll also be hosting a delicious supper club with inspiring special guest speakers, alongside valuable networking opportunities to meet like-minded professionals (including SBID CEO, Vanessa Brady OBE) and create relationships to grow personally and professionally.

Agenda for the event:

– 4pm – 4:30pm Guests arrive / networking

4:30pm – 6:15pm: Panel Discussions as follows:

– 4:30pm – 5:15pm: Panel 1: Commercial real estate: What is the future of the high street & the hospitality sector? Office Design for 2023, how diversity and inclusion can be taught within our education system.

– 5:30pm – 6:15pm: Panel 2: Residential property & sustainability: Reaching Carbon net zero (challenges around this and how the market can overcome them), outlook on the resi market and what leadership looks like in the C-suite for 2023.

6:30pm – 9pm Dinner, Guest Speaker & Networking as follows:

– 6:30pm – 7pm: Supper guests arrive, networking & drink on arrival

– 7:15pm – 8pm: Delicious sit down supper alongside networking

– 8pm – 8:45pm: Inspiring special guest speaker

– 8:45pm – 9pm: networking & close

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Cruise Ship Interiors Expo Europe (CSIE) has released the itinerary for the cruise ship interiors industry’s best opportunity for in-person learning, Cruise Conversations Live. Cruise lines, interior designers and outfitters can learn from their peers at topical conference sessions, while intimate workshops explore the challenges specific to cruise ship interior design with pinpoint precision. From blue sky thinking for leaders and buyers to practical takeaways for suppliers, every participant in the cruise ship interiors supply chain can learn from this free conference programme.

Cruise brands leading the conference and workshop programme include Holland America Line, Royal Caribbean Group, Damen Shipyard, Meyer Turku, Disney Cruise Line, Princess Cruises and MSC Cruises.

The Modern Shipyard

Shipyards are the heart of the European cruise ship interiors industry and CSIE will be welcoming Vesa Uuttu, Director, Head of Architectural Design & Outfitting Turku site, Newbuild and Innovation, Royal Caribbean Group to moderate the keynote conference, The Modern Shipyard. Project managers and owners alike know that a strong relationship with their shipyard is one of their biggest assets. In this session, essential for project managers and owners alike, Bas Loohuis, Commercial Director Maintenance & Upgrade Services Cruise, Damen Shipyard and Petteri Heimo, Head of Hotel Outfitting, Meyer Turku will share their perspective, exploring: how shipyards can add value to newbuild and refurbishment projects, top tips for ensuring both quality and efficiency and how to combine reference ship requirements with innovation.

Marine Design 101: How to Break into the Marine Market

Anyone hoping to launch their business into the cruise ship interiors industry must attend the workshop Marine Design 101: How to Break into the Marine Market. Led by Beatrice Siri, AVP Architectural Outfitting Europe, Royal Caribbean Cruises, this intimate session decodes the language of marine design and will guide attendees through the seemingly labyrinthine specification process. Practical takeaways will include the top ten questions to ask cruise lines when pitching your product, the different routes to market and, crucially, how to become an authorised supplier.

The Futurist: Cruise Design in 2030 and Young Designers: Designing for Gen Z and Beyond

Designers with an eye for the future will be found at the day one keynote The Futurist: Cruise Design in 2030 and the day two conference session Young Designers: Designing for Gen Z and Beyond. From those who track trends to those who are currently shaping the trends, the CSIE conference presents two insights into trapping lightning in a bottle and getting it right before its even happened.

Cruise Conversations Live takes place over the two days of Cruise Ship Interiors, 30 November – 1 December. It’s completely free to visit and one of only two opportunities in the year to attend a live conference and workshop programme dedicated to exploring the cruise ship interiors industry.

Register to receive your free pass here.

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Meet and engage with the professional interior design industry

The SBID Meet the Buyer is an interior design networking event curated to bring together world class Interior Designers, Architects and Specifiers with the most creative, advanced and design-led products from around the world. Inivting SBID’s extensive network of industry professionals, the esclusive one day annual event provides a dynamic and lucrative business environment carefully tailored to create, encourage and facilitate synergies that build key relationships within the interior design profession. Alongside dedicated, face-to-face meetings with interior designers and decision-makers, the event also features a series of topical industry-specific seminars to attend throughout the day.

SBID Members earn 10 x CPD Points for attending.

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Networking Brunch for Interior Designers at Focus/22, in partnership with SBID, at the House of Rohl showroom

This networking event in partnership with the Society of British & International Interior Design presents an opportunity to meet peers and exchange ideas during Focus/22 at the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.

Hosted by the House of Rohl at their stunning showroom, with brunch and refreshments provided, the event takes place during one of London’s leading design festivals. With over 600 global brands taking part and more than 100 events, Focus/22 is not to be missed!

The House of Rohl showroom brings together a collection of luxury kitchen and bathroom brands that are recognised for their artistry and heritage. Discover the finest products from Perrin & Rowe, Victoria + Albert, Shaws of Darwen and Riobel in a stylish and contemporary space on the third floor of the North Dome.

Middle East Design & Build Week is a new networking and sourcing platform for the construction and design industries. The event is co-located with Middle East Manufacturing & Technology Expo, providing opportunities for the construction and design professionals to explore solutions in the manufacturing and technology sector. The event is expected to attract over 200 exhibiting companies and 3000 visitors from the UAE and across the world in the first edition and around 10 international pavilions. It covers a number of key areas in a region which continues to invest heavily in new infrastructure development offering huge potential to key UK creative supply chain sub-sectors.

Middle East Design & Build Week will be an event offering opportunities for companies across the construction (architecture), interior design, hospitality, and commercial industries to showcase their expertise and products to influencers, key decision-makers and buyers from across the region. The show is organised in partnership with Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Key themes include: building envelope & specialist construction; building interiors & finishes; interior design & interior furnishings and fittings.

The UK Tradeshow Programme offers the industry support towards costs of affiliated events, available for both exhibitors and attendees.

Luxury furniture and elegant interiors designer Chiodelli is pleased to invite the A&D community to the Chiodelli Fuori Salone Event Happy Hour!

Request an invitation by emailing [email protected]

Exclusive trade event for architects and interior designers

[email protected] reaches higher than ever before with lofty ambitions to explore air and architecture when it returns to its physical format at London’s Truman Brewery for its 2022 edition.

Visitors are invited to attend and meet industry experts showing their innovations to the architecture and specifier markets, as well as partaking in the stellar line-up of talks for which the show is known. This unique two-day trade event focuses on architectural innovation. It includes free admission for trade visitors and complimentary catering throughout.

The event presents over 200 product innovations, selected by a judging panel of architects and interior designers, showcased in a unique lay-out. Some of the interesting features include a top-notch seminar programme, inspiring materials curation and a RIBA pop-up bookshop.

Register for free

Celebrate the opening of Perennials Sutherland Studio’s new rug showroom. Increasing the studio’s footprint by 1,500 square feet, the new space showcases custom rug design capabilities as well as existing Perennials rug designs.

Join Perennials founders David and Ann Sutherland to celebrate with cocktails, canapés, and entertainment. Guests are also welcome to enter Perennials’ 25^th Anniversary Rug Design Contest onsite during the event for a chance to win $25,000. Let’s celebrate fearlessly!