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Inspiring Eastbourne’s growth in the world of digital and tech.

19/10/2026

Seeing your photos and kind words from Eastbourne DigiFest has made us so proud of Eastbourne and what we’re able to achieve when we come together. 🩷

300+ of you joined us on the day, and we’re so grateful to everyone who came along to make the day a success.

Eastbourne DigiFest is a year-long project which comes together in one day for our local community, and it wouldn’t happen without some very special people.

Thank you to our speakers for sharing their expertise and making the day what it is. Likewise to our exhibitors, for bringing engaging and exciting stands to our exhibition and creating a real buzz.

And a huge thank you to our sponsors, Switchplane, East Sussex Growth Hub, Lightning Fibre, East Sussex College, Sussex Innovation, Global WealthMAP, Agency53, University of Brighton, and Sussex Business Times, for your support.

Behind the scenes: our tech team at Kyle Partnership worked tirelessly to make the event a success - we’re very grateful to them for keeping things running smoothly; Online Ticket Seller helped with easy check-in; Agency53 caught every moment on camera; and our room hosts Veronica Heaven, Rob Reaks, and Lewis Hobden hosted our rooms with aplomb.

We were thrilled to roll out the new Eastbourne DigiFest companion app this year (thanks Team Switchplane) - and we’ll keep adding more features for next year!

In case you missed any sessions on the day, keep an eye out for the recordings over the coming weeks. We’ll be hosting these on the app and website, and our official photos and videos from the day will be going up on the website too. 📸

One last thing: please fill out our feedback form. It helps us to learn and improve for the next Eastbourne DigiFest event! This should have been sent to your email, but please reach out if you'd like the link.

Thank you for coming!

14/10/2026

A message from our local MP Josh Babarinde OBE, welcoming guests to the fourth edition of our annual tech conference!

We hope everyone has a fantastic day today at Eastbourne DigiFest🩷

13/10/2026

Emma Pearce, Head of Marketing at Lightning Fibre will be speaking at Eastbourne DigiFest!

Emma will be sharing how to unify your digital marketing and finally see what really works.

In this workshop, you'll learn:

⚡What's possible - you may be surprised! You can identify your ideal audience and then only show content to them in the right location, at the right time - whether they are browsing online, using one of their favourite apps, games console or digital TV.

⚡How you can bring together fragmented digital activities into a unified full-funnel view with cross-channel retargeting.

⚡That it’s possible to have a consolidated dashboard of results you'll love! With data about when and where a person visited you (on or off line), and/or made a purchase, submitted a lead form submission or other hard conversion metric.

⚡See practical examples of how this has worked for Lightning Fibre, and how it is achievable for SME businesses in Sussex to stay at the forefront of digital marketing.

Emma's session is at 12:15 in The Lightning Fibre Room. Don't miss this session and more TOMORROW, Wednesday 14th October at the Kings Centre, Eastbourne.

Tickets are still available - grab them now: https://eastbournedigifest.onlineticketseller.com/events/157666

09/10/2026

We are thrilled to be welcoming Sussex Innovation Centre on board as a Sponsor and Pioneer Partner!

The team from Sussex Innovation will be showcasing some of the cutting edge ideas and projects happening locally, so head to the Main Hall’s exhibition stage to chat, learn more, and get hands on with their offerings.

Sussex Innovation is the business support community helping early-stage businesses grow into serious ventures. Based at the University of Sussex and working across the region, Sussex Innovation supports ambitious founders, start-ups and scale-ups with the advice, networks and expertise that turn potential into progress.

For more information about Sussex Innovation and some of their exciting projects such as their Tech Talent Champions programme, and what's drawn them to back Eastbourne DigiFest this year, read back our conversation with the team: https://www.eastbournedigifest.com/news-articles/2026/bringing-technology-out-of-the-tech-bubble-a-chat-with-our-pioneer-partner-sussex-innovation

07/10/2026

We’re delighted to have Sussex Business Times as Eastbourne DigiFest’s Media Partner for 2026🎉

Sussex Business Times are proud to keep celebrating the people and businesses that make Sussex such an exceptional place to live, work and do business.

Check out SBT’s latest issue here - Eastbourne DigiFest has a double page spread on pages 50-51 about what you can expect at the event: https://thebusinessgroup.co.uk/magazines/sbt-issue-505/

SBT will be exhibiting at stand M26!

06/10/2026

Come and meet Scott and Chris on stand M29!

WPA Health Insurance provides private health insurance for individuals and businesses.

WPA Health Insurance is the only Which? recommended Health Insurer in the UK with local support.

Welcome to the exhibition, WPA Health Insurance!

🌐 wpa.org.uk

05/10/2026

We're proud to have Eastbourne Foodbank as our Eastbourne DigiFest 2026 Charity of the Year, and their 2025 Impact Report shows exactly why.

Last year, a team of just four advice experts worked with around 900 people in financial crisis and secured £837,000 in welfare benefits, grants and managed debt.

That's alongside 125 tonnes of donated food and emergency essentials provided on 18,551 occasions, all powered by local volunteers, donors and businesses 💚

Come and meet their team at Eastbourne DigiFest, and read the full report here:https://eastbourne.foodbank.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2026/06/Imapct-Report-2025.pdf

01/10/2026

We couldn't do this without you! 🙌

Eastbourne DigiFest 2026 is just around the corner, and none of it happens without the brilliant businesses backing us. From headline sponsors to exhibitors, every one of you is helping shape a day of real conversations about working and leading in the age of AI.

📅 14th October | Kings Centre, Eastbourne

Thank you for believing in Eastbourne DigiFest - see you all there!

🎟️ Tickets: eastbournedigifest.com

30/09/2026

Rhianna Stacey is a media marketing specialist and founder of Roo Media Marketing, where she helps businesses generate sales through paid media. She's also the founder of Foundher Social, a women's networking community supporting and connecting female entrepreneurs.

At Eastbourne DigiFest, Rhianna will share how her experiments with AI evolved from simple productivity tweaks into a customised hub that now manages her clients, streamlines her workflows and saves her hours every week - despite having no technical background. What started as an internal system has since grown into the early stages of a potential SaaS product.

Attendees will leave this session with practical ideas, useful tools to explore, and a new perspective on what's possible when you combine a real business problem with the right AI tools.

Book your conference tickets for Eastbourne DigiFest - at eastbournedigifest.com

29/09/2026

We’re pleased to have Sussex Footcare joining the exhibition once again!

Sussex Footcare is a local family-run podiatry business dedicated to providing exceptional, patient-centred foot and lower limb care across Sussex.

Their experienced team combines compassionate, personalised treatment with the latest technology, including gait analysis, swift verruca therapy and custom 3D orthotics, to deliver the highest standard of care.

Say hi to Andrew on stand M47👋

Address

Kings Centre 27 Edison Road
Eastbourne
BN23 6PT

Website

http://www.eastbournedigifest.com/

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