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Bevan Bloemendaal

Founder | CEO, BB Creative Consultancy
Bevan Bloemendaal is a globally recognized brand strategist and experience leader with decades of impact across retail, design, and brand transformation. As Founder of BB Creative Consultancy, he partners with businesses to unlock human connection at scale, inspiring creative cultures and shaping experiences that disrupt, inspire, and endure. Previously, Bevan held senior leadership roles with Foot Locker, Timberland, and as Chief Brand & Creative Officer at Nelson Worldwide, where he redefined consumer engagement through immersive storytelling and design. A sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator, he challenges organizations to rethink how they create relevance, belonging, and growth in a rapidly changing world.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Thursday October 8

CLOSING KEYNOTE: HANGING BY A THREAD

In this deeply personal and emotionally resonant keynote, attendees will explore resilience, uncertainty, transition, identity, and the reality that our personal and professional lives are but a single interconnected thread. Drawing from Bevan’s own journey through leadership, change, pressure, reinvention and moments of vulnerability, the keynote examines what happens when life stretches us beyond certainty and how support, trust and human connection can help hold us up during those moments. At a time when so many individuals and industries are navigating pressure, disruption, burnout and change, the keynote challenges audiences to consider how we show up for one another and why lifting each other up matters now more than ever. Through powerful participatory experiences, including moments where audiences physically and emotionally lift others up together, this closing keynote will transform the idea of support and connection into lived experience.

Takeaways:

• Discover how our personal and professional lives are interconnected

• Learn how support, trust and connection can help during moments of uncertainty

• Understand how to physically and emotionally lift one another, creating connection