Your essential 2026 comms survival kit

This event provides invaluable tools to help you through the year ahead, with expert insight to guide skill development and preparedness.

The comms function has just faced a tough year, doing even more with even less, managing crises as grievance reached fever-pitch, navigating the AI slop and misinformation bombarding inboxes and brand reputations, and striving to influence amid heightened polarisation.

So far, 2026 has only escalated these challenges and dragged in new ones.

This event provides comms leaders and practitioners – across corporate and public affairs, government relations, advocacy and policy, media relations, and internal comms – with invaluable tools for the year ahead – a comms survival kit.

Attendees will:

• Understand the comms job market and hirers’ skills wishlist.
• Learn steps to navigate polarisation through public and political turmoil. 
• Hear ways to manage reputational and other risks associated with AI while using tools to boost productivity. 
• Find out how to protect brands and campaigns from the impact of misinformation and disinformation.