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Case study · Web design & SEO

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How a simple event website grew into the central hub for a week-long life sciences programme — handling events, bookings, payments and check-ins at scale.

Client

Life Sciences Week

Launched

June 2025

Location

West Midlands

Status

Ongoing partnership

Web design & SEO

Year two in progress

Overview

Life Sciences Week is an industry-led programme in the West Midlands, bringing businesses, researchers, investors and professionals together across a week of events.

What started as a simple promotional website quickly became the engine behind the whole week. As the programme grew, so did the job the site had to do — from introducing the event to listing, selling and checking in every session.

After a successful first year, Life Sciences Week chose to keep building with Turtle Media as the platform moves into future events.

What we built

One site running the whole week.

Every stage of the attendee journey — finding a session, booking a ticket and arriving on the day — runs through the platform, alongside the hosts who put events on.

01 · Programme

A programme you can browse by day.

Every session across the week sits in one events hub, filterable by day, with dates, times, prices and categories at a glance — so attendees can plan their week in a few clicks.

02 · Bookings

Tickets, payments and check-ins.

Each event has its own page and ticketing, with secure payments and ticket-based check-in on the day — one place for the team to manage attendees from registration to arrival.

03 · Hosts

A self-serve platform for hosts.

Organisations register to host, log in, submit events for approval and manage and check in their own attendees — without LSW staff in the loop, and with every attendee feeding into the CRM.

Services delivered

Website design

Booking system

Payment system

Host logins & portal

CRM integration

Ongoing support

Mobile

Built for the conference floor.

Attendees check schedules, book sessions and pull up tickets on their phones between talks, so the events hub and ticket pages were designed for small screens first.

The project

A partner that grew with the event.

After a successful first year, Life Sciences Week chose to keep working with Turtle Media as the platform moves into future events.

Phase 1

Promotional website

A clear, credible online presence to introduce and promote the event week.

Phase 2

Events & bookings

An events section, individual listings and a full booking system to handle registrations across a growing number of sessions.

Launch week

Live at scale

Live event bookings, secure payments and ticket-based check-ins, giving the team an efficient way to manage events and attendees a seamless experience from registration to arrival.

Year two

Self-serve platform

User logins to submit events for approval, manage their own attendees and check them in without LSW staff, with every attendee feeding into a CRM.

Client view

“Turtle Media keep our platform reliable and secure, offer smart, proactive improvements rather than just ticking boxes, and always communicate clearly.”

Amy Deakin

Event Managing Director, Birmingham Life Sciences Week

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