Grill The Marketer 2024

Grill The Marketer 

We've got a new home - but it's the same event vibes and awesome community that you've come to expect from Clayton and Carma over the last 5 years. We get the greatest guests for you to grill. 

Who's up for a grilling this time?

We're grilling Josh Edge, Head of Creative at Marketforce.

Josh Edge is an internationally award-winning Creative Director, creative strategist and writer, who has spent the past 21 years working on some of Australia's largest (and smallest!) clients, brands and NFPs. 

He has gathered a few white hairs under the ginger as President of the Perth Advertising and Design Club over half a decade, which he now credits for giving him the appropriate gravitas to occasionally tutor and judge the next generation of creative talent at universities, TAFE and the Advertising Council’s AWARD School program. 

He is currently co-Head of Creative at Marketforce with his partner in crime, Rikki Burns, while partnering on projects with creative, digital and innovation agencies and brands both locally and internationally. 

In his 5 minutes of free time, he runs @thewaback on Instagram and @thebigmoodmusic on TikTok and YouTube. 

He also likes to make himself a nuisance in the halls of State and Local Government with representation for creative industries, independent creative businesses, regional development and better opportunities for creative change.

The Event Background

Grill The Marketer, in partnership with the Australian Marketing Institute welcomes all marketers, business owners and managers, and marketing students - if you have marketing questions, come and ask them.

Don't have a specific question - but you want to chat marketing with people who LOVE to talk about marketing? Great! Come along.

Are you looking for a marketing role? Maybe we can introduce you to your new boss. It's happened before.

Our community is generous with their time and skills and believe that when it comes to marketing, the better you do, the better we all do. That's why so many awesome projects and collabs have been born from this event. We LOVE connecting our networks.

We don't enjoy events with pitches, boring PowerPoint pressos, and upsells. So Grill The Marketer is simply our marketing brains directed at your challenge or topic. What would go for a bundle in consulting fees or training dollars, comes to you in this fun package for less than an order of Uber Eats.

Clay Smith & Carma Levene (AKA The Marketer) will let you grill them on their areas of expertise, and those of our guest panellist, and our MC will keep us all on track.

Some of our previous guests include; Kate Kirwin from She Codes & Young Australian of the Year, Hannah Muirhead of The Brand Agency, Amber Martin of Hypnosis Creative Agency, Alison Balch, CMO at Penanet, David "DG" Gardiner from DGPR, Personr's Charlie Westerman, Crown Perth's Kelly Townson, Hayley Boneham, TikTok sensation Seva Mozhaev (@sevspics), Michael Haluwana from Aeroture, Gabe Mach from Mach Marketing, Cory Gale from Tourism WA, So Perth Founder Adam Barrell, Facebook Ads powerhouse Paul Ramondo, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Rare Callum Mackenzie, Brand Strategist Carolyn Hall, Kimberley Lim, Head of Regional Marketing, APAC for Hexagon’s Mining division, LinkedIn Trainer Jo Saunders, and Pretzel founder, Brittany Garbutt.

So you KNOW no matter the guest or topic, we bring you the most interesting people, willing to put themselves out there to answer whatever you throw at them.

You'll love the informal format and awesome community vibe while we help you explore your marketing curiosity with passion and the odd tangent.

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Cost: $48+bf (includes snacks) 

Date: Multiple (Sept 19, November 14)

Where: The Court | Verdict Bar (upstairs)

Time: 5.30pm - 8.30pm

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How does this all work anyway?

Come along, grab yourself a drink at the bar and mingle. Clay and I try to get around and meet everyone beforehand, but our crew's super welcoming and friendly af anyway so you'll be totally fine to rock up by yourself.

Our MC, the incorrigible Jacqueline Baril, will let you know when it's time to start. We'll introduce ourselves, outline the event, and intro your marketing question answer-ers.

If you're called on to ask your question, please say your name and the business/industry your question relates to and we'll do our best to tailor our answers to you specifically.

Once we’re done feel free to hang around for drinks and to chat more about marketing 🙂

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Grill The Marketer came about from talking to marketing event attendees who really just wanted their questions answered without the fluff and sales agenda.

Grill The Marketer is presented in partnership with the Australian Marketing Institute, and affords those who hold the Certified Practising Marketer (CPM) certification to collect points towards maintaining your CPM status. 

Want to make sure we answer your specific question? Send them in advance to hey@themarketer.news