CPO Breakfast — Thrivea's People Thinkers Club at Caravan

Brief

Thrivea builds people-management software for HR and people teams, and its People Thinkers Club brings Chief People Officers and senior HR leaders together to talk candidly about the work. For this edition, Thrivea hosted a CPO breakfast at Caravan in Covent Garden — a morning of short talks, open discussion and networking over coffee and pastries, wrapped in the club's "Prompt less. Think more." identity.

Vivid Squad was asked to cover the morning in both photography and video. The brief was to capture the energy of the room and the key moments of the programme, so Thrivea could show its community — and the people leaders it wants to reach — what a People Thinkers Club breakfast actually feels like. Everything needed to work on LinkedIn first, where Thrivea's audience spends its professional time.

A breakfast event moves quickly. Guests arrive, the room fills, speakers take the floor and conversations pick up again within minutes. That meant a two-camera approach: a photographer and a videographer working the room together for the full three hours, so no moment had to be traded off between stills and motion.

What We Delivered

• Three hours of photo and video coverage
• Edited photography gallery
• 45-second LinkedIn highlight reel
• Speaker session coverage

About the Project

We covered the speaker sessions from several angles — the presenter against the People Thinkers Club branding and the "Less chaos. More people." slides, and the audience leaning in around the breakfast tables. Shooting the listeners as well as the speaker matters at an event like this: it shows the talks landed with a room of senior HR leaders, which is the story Thrivea wants prospective members to see.

Between sessions we worked the networking. The most useful images from a community event are the candid ones — guests greeting each other, laughing over coffee, deep in conversation in their "Same team. Different species." T-shirts — so we kept a low profile and shot long, letting the interactions happen naturally rather than staging groups. Those frames give Thrivea proof of a warm, engaged community, not just a well-attended room.

We also gave the brand its own coverage. The tote bags, "For unprompted thoughts" notebooks and printed signage were designed with care, and detail shots of them — alongside Caravan's breakfast spread and interiors — give Thrivea a library of branded stills for social posts, event recaps and future invitations.

The edited gallery covers speakers, guest engagement and the setting at Caravan in Covent Garden. The 45-second highlight reel is cut for LinkedIn: it opens on movement, carries the pace of the morning and works with the sound off, so it holds attention in a professional feed. Together they give Thrivea assets to promote the next People Thinkers Club breakfast and show London's people leaders why it is worth getting up early for.