18 November 2026 | The Londoner Hotel, Leicester Square

18 November 2026, The Londoner

shots Out of the Box, is a single day event for the advertising community exploring the craft of creativity.

Featuring interviews, panels and opinion from inside and outside the advertising industry, which seek to deliberate, unpick and discuss some of the most salient topics around craft and the creative state of the nation.

What a ticket offers you

The promise of a fantastic lineup of speakers, delivering invaluable insight and inspiration in a single day.

Breakfast and lunch, courtesy of the The Londoner’s kitchen.

Networking opportunities, in a setting perfectly geared towards encouraging dialogue.

A chance to make new contacts, catch-up with old ones and discuss topics covered during the day.

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Beyond the incredible speaker line-up, the networking opportunities were exceptional. I left with some fresh ideas and new connections. The event challenges your thinking and brings together some inspiring people in the industry.

Attendee 2025

I attended for the first time this year. It felt like a valuable industry event. The sessions were refreshingly honest especially the head of production, the day was thought-provoking with plenty of practical insights from respected voices in advertising and production.

Attendee 2025

shots Out of the Box was a great day and it felt like there were some genuine conversations about where our industry is heading.

Attendee 2025

Past speakers

Dexter Fletcher

Director and actor

Dexter Fletcher is a British film director and actor. He has appeared in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, as well as in television shows such as the comedy drama Hotel Babylon and the HBO series Band of Brothers and, earlier in his career, starred as Spike Thomson in the comedy drama Press Gang. His earliest acting role was playing Baby Face in the 1976 film Bugsy Malone.

Fletcher made his directorial debut with Wild Bill (2011), and also directed Sunshine on Leith (2013) and Eddie the Eagle (2015). He replaced Bryan Singer as director of Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about the band Queen, released in October 2018; due to DGA rules, he received executive producer credit. In 2019, he directed Rocketman, a biographical film based on the life and music of performer Elton John.

Chaka Sobhani

Global CCO, TBWAWorldwide

Before joining the ad industry, Chaka spent over a decade as an award winning film-maker and in television.
She set up ITV’s first in-house creative agency, during which time the network regained the no.1 position in the UK, created its most successful global formats and content in shows like the X Factor and Downton Abbey, and won the prestigious Channel of the Year for the first time as well as numerous BAFTA’s, Golden Globes and the prestigious Rose D’Or.
Chaka then spent a number of years at leading independent agency Mother, running a number of key accounts and building their content ability, before joining Leo Burnett.
She has worked on countless brands including McDonalds, Google, Coca Cola, Kelloggs, Samsung, Boots, Skoda, AXA, Co-op, Tui, Premier Inn, Sky, P&G, General Motors, Stella Artois, Agent Provocateur, The Design Museum and Adidas.
Highly awarded amongst all the major honours, she has been privileged to serve as jury member and President numerous times at the world’s greatest awards shows including Cannes, D&AD, One Show, the Andy’s, Art Directors Club, Eurobest, Clios, LIA’s, the IPA and the British Arrows.
She has featured in Campaigns Top 10 Creative Leaders consistently for the past 5 years, as well as Adweeks Creative 100 and the Creative Pools Top 100 Influencer list. She is also a regular speaker at Cannes, AdWeek, the One Show Exec Summit, D&AD, The Big TV Festival, Google Rare, the IPA, Creative Equals and Facebook’s Internationals Women’s Day.
She also mentor’s for WACL and the Dots as well as being exec sponsor for Publicis Embrace and Viva La Women, as well as being a founding supporter of D&AD’s New Blood Shift, The One Club Boot Camp, Creative Equals and Free the Work.
Chaka sits on the External Affairs Committee for the Design Museum as well as on the board of the British Arrows, Creative Circle, Facebook EMEA Creative Council, Snapchat Global Creative Council and the One Club International Board.

Yannis Konstantinidis

Co-Founder, NOMINT

Yannis Konstantinidis is the Co-Founder of NOMINT and an occasional director of award-winning animated commercials, most notably for the global charity WWF. Yannis’s creative journey began with studies in architecture and theatre before a twist of fate led him to animation, where his passion for craft found its true home.

In recent years, NOMINT has gained international acclaim for its innovative approach to animation, representing some of the world's most unique animation directors. NOMINT crafts impactful narratives, such as the multi-award-winning COP campaigns for WWF, spotlighting urgent environmental issues. Recently, NOMINT was ranked #1 Production Company in Film Craft at the ADC Awards 2024. Passionate about blending storytelling with social advocacy, NOMINT has led significant projects like the ongoing animated campaign for YouTube, 'Hit Pause,' aimed at combating online misinformation.

Yannis's work is characterized by innovative, emotive storytelling that resonates globally, inspiring audiences and driving change.

Melody Sylvester

Chief Production Officer, TBWA London

Anna Murray

Chief Production Officer, Mother London

Anna Murray is Chief Production Officer at Mother London, working across all the agency’s integrated projects delivering multi-channel campaigns. She is incredibly passionate about the craft and quality of the creative work.

During her 13 years at the agency, she has spearheaded production of some of Mother’s most famous and awarded work.

Charlie Gatsky

Chief Production Officer, Uncommon Creative Studio

Charlie Gatsky-Sinclair is the President of Brand & Entertainment at the award winning Uncommon Creative Studio. Charlie has built a team of experts across every discipline to support and execute some of the studio’s most ambitious work of late. Projects include the award-winning B&Q Flip celebrated at D&AD, Cannes Lions and British Arrows for film craft and production design. As well as notable global campaigns for brands such as EA Games, Beats by Dre, JD Sports, Google, Formula E, Jordan, British Airways & ITV.

Charlie’s vision of blending line production, design, talent, art and motion has created a unique production model for Uncommon. Spearheading projects such as WWF’s Future of Nature — which used AI to imagine the bleak future of UK nature if it continues to be destroyed, and what is possible if we act now. As well as partnering with the UN and YouTube to create the moving documentary series We Were Here bringing together refugees with top YouTube Creators to tell their powerful stories to millions around the world – which recently won Best Documentary at the 2024 Webby Awards.

Charlie has also grown the studio’s presence in the world of entertainment — exec producing Uncommon’s first feature production for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis —- This Much I Know to Be True directed by Andrew Dominik (director of Netflix’s Blonde and The Assassination of Jesse James) which premiered in Berlin and SXSW.

The second feature In Camera was a first feature from director Naqqash Khalid starring Nabhaan Rizwan (shortlisted at BAFTA for Best Newcomer), Amir Al-Masry and Rory Fleck Byrne and was produced alongside partners PRETTYBIRD, BBC Films, BFI, Public Dreams Ltd and was shortlisted at London Film Festival and British Independent Film Awards.

The third feature The Thing With Feathers premiered at Sundance and Berlinale this year and is to be released this autumn starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The film directed by Dylan Southern is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Max Porter and was produced alongside Sunny March, Lobo Films and Film4.

Prior to Uncommon, Charlie’s career spanned music, entertainment, film and broadcast with stints at Warner music and Driift as well as achieving an award winning career across advertising working with the likes of Mother, Fallon and most notably as Head of Production at BBH. She has sat on multiple juries globally including CICLOPE, British Arrows, AICP, YDA, shots and APA. She is also a British Arrows board member.

Poppy Manning

Chief Production Officer, Omnicom Production

Edgar Wright

Filmmaker

Edgar Howard Wright is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive use of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes.[1] He first made independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

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