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2025

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Welcome to UnBoxed 2025, our round up of what's been booked by our HeadBox for Business. It's been an incredible year with more events than ever, across more countries. Oh, and the industry agree too.
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Welcome to UnBoxed 2025. No assembly required, batteries are included, no app to download and unlike that fitness tracker you got last Christmas, you'll actually want to engage with this one. Ready to see what's inside?
Let's UnBox 2025 together.
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And if Spotify's lawyers are reading any resemblance to a yearly wrap up you do are purely coincidental.

You booked, we counted

It was a record year for the number of events we helped with, along with our highest-ever time and money savings.
Meaning you did more and spent less.

5,451
Number of events globally
18% increase on 2024
333k
Attendees globally
20% increase on 2024
35.6k
hours saved venue finding
24% increase on 2024
17%
Average negotiated savings
15% increase on 2024
$5.7m
Global savings in USD
33% increase on 2024

Whilst it's not a competition...

Here are the people, places and spaces that came out on top.
Top cities
1
London
2
Sydney
3
New York
4
Brisbane
5
Birmingham
Top venues
1
Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London
2
The Glasshouse, New York City
3
Cardea, Sydney
4
Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire
5
Watersedge, Venues Collection, Sydney
Top bookers
1
Sheridan Roberts
2
Joanna Dibley
3
Stacey Campbell
4
Nicole Veiga
5
Faye Sellick
112
Cities booked
1,927
Venues booked
1,226
bookers helped

It's been an eventful year

Full of events.
Here are a few of our faves...

Global Strategy Kick-off

Tobacco Dock

We helped with a crucial Strategy Kick-Off, successfully aligning the global team with the company's 2025 mission and goals. Planned over three months and executed with an intensive build day, the event featured an innovative Eurovision-style multi-city broadcast, streaming live across London, Budapest, and Tallinn, with access extended to global offices like New York and Tokyo.

"I work with agencies worldwide, but I've never collaborated with an Event Management team that mirrors my exact attention to detail. HeadBox felt like an extension of not just our events team, but of myself, making my job significantly easier."

CIPS ANZ Procurement Futures 2025 Conference and Awards

Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane

For the second consecutive year, CIPS trusted HeadBox to deliver their annual ANZ Procurement Futures 2025 Conference and Awards. Held over two days, the event comprised of a full-day conference and a gala dinner for 200 attendees, providing an opportunity for teams across the ANZ region to connect, learn and celebrate their achievements. HeadBox brought the conference and gala dinner to life at the iconic Howard Smith Wharves, with sessions filled with natural light and views over Brisbane’s Story Bridge and River. CIPS logo and brand colours informed unique lighting design and backdrops for the conference and gala dinner, alongside our Event Management team taking care of all the logistics pre and during the event, allowing the CIPS team to deliver another well-received Futures 2025 Conference and Awards.

Summer Ball

Kent House

The inaugural Summer Ball was delivered with the goal of surprising and delighted 300 guests after an all-day company conference. The vision for the event was an international festival, which required a two-day build of stretch tents, festival furniture, pop-up bars, decor and world-class live music.

Our Event Management team thought outside of the box with immersive energetic entertainment from The Rovers, Beats Deluxe and local musicians. Our co-ordination of the dry-hire venue, multiple suppliers (security, staffing, medical staffing) took care of the logistical planning and admin, on behalf of our clients. The feedback from attendees was overwhelmingly positive, and the Summer Ball will return for 2026!

Senior Leadership Retreat

Barossa Valley, South Australia

Set in the stunning backdrop of the Barossa Valley, HeadBox helped bring to life a two-day off-site for a consultancy firm. Conferencing was balanced with an array of activities designed to sample the beauty of the Valley, from yoga, hiking and golf to winery tours. A picturesque lunch for attendees to both unwind and connect was followed by a festoon-lit dinner, offering a chance to discover the Barossa’s renowned produce.

"Adding to the praise, Claire was amazing! She was so over every single detail, it still blows my mind. I think we all felt that we could completely trust and rely on her not to miss a single thing."

2025's Greatest Hits

And plot twists.

Highlight #1
We turned 10!

To mark 10 years of HeadBox, we took over London’s Iconic Sky Garden to celebrate our past, present and future with valued customers and partners.

Highlight #2
Straight FACTS

The Australia team exhibited at their first procurement conference, FACTS.

Highlight #3
We won the double!

There were absolute scenes at the Business Travel Awards Europe at JW Marriott Grosvenor House in October. The HeadBox for Business team scooped not one, but two awards. 
Beating industry giants.

Highlight #5
Team meetup

The HeadBox Australia team headed to Hobart, Tasmania for their annual UnBoxed trip.

Highlight #4
We launched in NYC!

We have gone stateside launching in the big apple and securing our first global customer.

Wall of love ❤️

Some kind words from our wonderful community of event planners.

"Such great feedback - all really appreciated and photos too! What would we have done without you?! Thank you for stepping in so ably! Really grateful for you and your professionalism."
Cleone Barton
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF
"Your team and their support was really well received and made the event planning more seamless."
Noelle Behan
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF
"Such great feedback - all really appreciated and photos too! What would we have done without you?! Thank you for stepping in so ably! Really grateful for you and your professionalism."
Cleone Barton
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF
"“HeadBox has made managing our events so much easier. From sourcing venues, tracking budgets, streamlining comms with suppliers and being on the ground on the event day - everything is handled in one place. Plus the team are absolutely wonderful to work with! Highly recommend for any busy events team!"
Alex
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF
"I just wanted to say again how much we've appreciated your efforts & support with our collaboration event - I know that you've put in a lot of work for the past 6 months, and it was really good to have you, Jessmi, and Aleksandra on site, it gave us full confidence that we'd be able to cope with whatever happened! I think everything went really smoothly, we've had loads of positive feedback from attendees, and everyone seems to have enjoyed the event."
Barnaby Beere
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF
"I’m really grateful for you and the wider HeadBox team’s contribution to the Accenture Winter Event in London. It was a fantastic event with positive feedback. I’m really pleased with the collaboration between you, colleagues and suppliers, especially given that the Accenture team has a day job on top of everything else. Thank you!"
Alex Jonas
"Everyone was so helpful and an absolute joy to work with, nothing was ever too much trouble. If I’d been able to take my ‘planner hat’ off and just enjoy the night as a guest, I’d have zero doubt that everything would run perfectly, and it really did! I’m so grateful we’ve partnered with HeadBox and can’t wait to plan more EOY events together."
Nicole Veiga
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF
"I just wanted to drop you an official note to say how absolutely fabulous Jessmi is – even though I am sure you already know this!! She recently delivered our 3rd Sky Media event working together, and as ever she was the complete epitome of professional excellence; always on top of it, staying calm, unbelievably organised, helpful and in control, but most of all a complete joy to work with throughout the process. She is an asset to Headbox and a superstar for us, already looking forward to working with her for our next event!"
Shivani Duckels
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF
"I have been so impressed with the quality and care HeadBox takes in all aspects of supporting us with our events. All events, regardless of size are given the utmost attention and consideration. The team is brilliant and so easy to work with, it has been a seamless onboarding and extension of our events and marketing teams."
Emma Hansen
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF
"HeadBox is super responsive and knowledgeable, and we know we can rely on their tried and tested venue recommendations and industry experience to create events with impact, time and time again."
James Bright
Rosie Haynes
Snr Marketing Executive, EDF

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