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Previous Events and Speakers

 

Tuesday 16th June 2009

CYBER-CRIME AND SECURITY PLANNING FOR THE NETWORKED ECONOMY

Ed Gibson, Head of Cyber Crime and Security Microsoft

Keith Foggon, Head Digital Evidence Unit, Financial Services Authority

Mark Davis, Detective Inspector, Police Central e-Crime Unit

Paul Salzedo, Chief Executive Officer, FaberBrent Ltd

Stewart Room, Partner, Privacy and Information Law Group, FFW

 

Tuesday 28th April 2009

M&A IN THE TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS SECTORS – LESSONS LEARNED AND NEW IMPERATIVES

Andres Pieczanski, Managing Director, Technology – Investment Banking, Jefferies International Ltd

Christopher Nicholson, Founder & Board Director, Lead Equity Analyst, ORACA Independent Equity Research

Claudio Siniscalco, Vice President, Direct Investments, HarbourVest Partners (UK) Ltd

Patrick Ugeaux, Vice President, Corporate Development, Chellomedia

 

Tuesday 18th November 2008

WORTH SAVING? THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING

Magnus Brooke, Director of Regulatory Affairs, ITV plc

Charles Constable, Director of Strategy, Five

Sophie Jones, Head of Public Affairs, Channel 4

David Wheeldon, Director of Public Affairs, BSkyB

Andrew Chitty, Managing Director, Illumina Digital

John Tate, Director of Policy & Strategy, BBC

 Moderated by Jon Watts, Director and Co-Founder MTM London

 

Tuesday 23rd September 2008

MUSIC, VIDEO AND THE INTERNET- IS THE MODEL TOTALLY BROKEN?

Matteo Berlucchi, Co-Founder of Skinkers and  CEO, Livestation

Stephen Navin, Chief Executive, Music Publishers Association

Matt Phillips, Director of Communications, BPI

Ellie Browne, Vice President Legal Affairs, Turner Broadcasting System Europe Limited

 

Tuesday 1st July 2008

WHAT TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES GET WRONG – HOW TO AVOID THE PITFALLS

Terry Bergin, Barrister, 4 Pump Court
Tony Kypreos, Non-Executive Director Wecomm Ltd and Former Group EVP Business Development & Innovation, T-Mobile International

Ian Craig, Partner, IP & IT Dispute Resolution, Field Fisher Waterhouse

 

Wednesday 16th April 2008

THE MEDIA ACCUSED in association with LEWIS PR

Nick Davies, Author, ‘Flat Earth News’
Elisabeth Lewis-Jones, President, CIPR
Jon Bernstein, Multimedia Editor, Channel 4 News

Danny Rogers, Editor, PR Week

 

Tuesday 5th June 2007

DIVERSITY IN THE MEDIA: CAN COMPETITION ALONE DELIVER?

Cento Veljanovski, Managing Partner, Case Associates
Jeremy Miles, Media Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse
Chaired by
Tim Cowen, General Counsel & Commercial Director, BT Global Services, Commercial, Legal & Regulatory

 

Tuesday 20th March 2007

BUILDING GREAT BRANDS ONLINE….. AND PROTECTING THEM

Andrew Skates, Director of Bloom Design and Founder of Fleetwell Analytics

Daljit Bhurji, Head of Digital Media Practice, Hot Wire PR

Christopher Nicholson, European Telecoms Analyst, Oraca

Rob Noss, CEO Europe, Middle East & Africa, MindShare Interaction

 

Tuesday 27th February 2007

REGULATION AND COMPETITION IN THE COMMUNICATIONS SECTORS: IS OFCOM  GETTING IT RIGHT?

Tim Cowen, General Counsel and Commercial Director, BT Global Services 

Andrew Heaney, Director of Competition Policy, OfCom

Miriam Gonzalez, Head of Trade, Regulatory & Government Affairs, DLA Piper

Jeremy Robinson, Senior Competition Lawyer, Bird & Bird

Moderated by Tim Cowen, General Counsel and Commercial Director, BT Global Services

 

Tuesday 16th January 2007

NET CRIME:  WHAT ARE THE THREATS, WHAT’S AT STAKE AND WHO’S AT RISK?

Lord Broers,  Chairman Lords Select Committee Personal Internet Security

Graeme Pinkney,  Manager of Threat Intelligence and Analysis EMEA, Symantec

Paul King,  Senior Security Advisor, Cisco’s Corporate Security Programs Organization (CSPO)

Peter Martin,   Managing Director, ACSN (Advanced Computer Systems and Networks) Ltd

Moderated by Graeme Pinkney, Manager of Threat Intelligence and Analysis EMEA, Symantec

 

Tuesday 28th November  2006

WEB 2.0 WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES? WHAT ARE THE RISKS?

Azeem Azhar, Entrepreneur and Head of Innovation, Reuters

Nic Brisbourne, Partner, Esprit Capital Partners LLP

Chris Seth,  UK Managing Director of social networking site Piczo Inc.

Ajit Jaokar,  Author ‘Mobile web 2.0’ and member of web 2.0 workgroup

Moderated by David Naylor, Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

 

Tuesday 3rd July 2006

DIGITAL BROADCASTING AND THE FUTURE OF TV IN THE UK:BROADBAND OR BUST?

Simon Pitts, Controller of Platforms, ITV Consume,Managing Director, SDN

Julia Jordan, Executive Director, Business Stategy, Flextech

Dean Hawkins, COO of Video Networks Ltd., provider of the Homechoise broadband digital TV service

Moderated by Jon Watts, Partner at MTM London

 

Tuesday 23rd May 2006

FINANCING EARLY STAGE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESSES – WHAT ENTREPRENEURS, FINANCE PROVIDERS AND ADVISERS NEED TO GET RIGHT

Uday Phadke, Chief Executive, Cartezia

John Yeomans, Director, FirstCapital

Andrew Blankfield, Head of Technology Corporate Finance, Field Fisher Waterhouse

Nigel Grierson, Managing Director, Technology Fund, Doughty Hanson

John Thompson, CEO, Commerce Decisions

 

Wednesday 18th January 2006

FROM NOW TO 2010 - DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL RESHAPE BUSINESSES, INDUSTRIES AND MARKETS.  LOOKING AT EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, MARKET IMPACTS AND PICKING THE WINNERS AND LOSERS. 

Professor Peter Cochrane, Co-Founder, Concept Labs

Dr Chris Winter, Partner, New Venture Partners

 

Monday 14th November 2005

WHO'S WINNING THE COPYRIGHT FIGHT? THE DIGITAL CONTENT WARS AND THEIR IMPACT ON INNOVATION IN THE MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES

Cory Doctorow, European Affairs, Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tim Smith, Senior Legal Adviser & Litigation Manager, IFPI

Nayeem Syed, VP Business and Legal Affairs, MTV Networks Europe

 

Tuesday 28th June 2005

THE STATE OF THE UNION: LOOKING AT THE FUTURE OF THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES

Ben Hammersley, Writer, Explorer & Journalist

Sheila Sang, Media Editorial Consultant

Simon Hind, BT Yahoo Editor

David Docherty, Consultant

Hugh Griffiths, Head of Portals, Content and Interactive Services, O2

 

Tuesday 31st May 2005

WHEN IS YOUR IP NOT YOUR IP? WHY AND WHEN DO IP OWNERS HAVE TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THEIR KEY IP ASSETS?

Chris Parker, Director of Law and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Limited

 

Thursday 26th April 2005

OFCOM’S AGENDA - THE KEY CHALLENGES FROM NOW TO 2010

Kip Meek, Senior Partner, Content and Competition, OfCom

 

Tuesday 7th April 2005

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION IN THE UK – IS IT WORKING?

Sue Markey, Compliance Officer, Information Commissioner's Office

Rob Evans, The Guardian

Bob Sherwood, The Financial Times

Jonathan Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London

 

Tuesday 30th November 2004

BUILDING A GLOBAL BRAND IN A MULTI-MEDIA, MULTI-CHANNEL WORLD

Bob Boad, Head of Trademarks at BP and member of the Editorial Board of Managing Intellectual Property

Christopher Nicholson, Lead Equity Analyst at independent research house Oraca

Richard Calvert, Head of Experience Design at new media direct marketing specialists, Digital TMW

Will Lever, Head of Consumer Marketing Communications at MM02

 

Thursday 19 February 2004
NAPSTER IS DEAD, LONG LIVE NAPSTER: P2P AND THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
Jon Watts, Partner at fathom

Paul Myers, CEO and Founder of Wippit, the world's first legitimate file sharing service

Paul Hitchman, Co-founder and Director of online music service Playlouder and the new broadband music ISP PlaylouderMSP

Sarah Simon, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and European Media Analyst covering the music industry

Anthony Lilley, Managing Director of Magic Lantern and Chair of the Digital Content Forum

David Naylor, Partner in the Technology Transactions Group at Morrison & Foerster

 

Thursday 13th November 2003
DATA PROTECTION ISSUES IN THE IT & COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES
Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner


Wednesday 22nd October 2003
PROMOTING COMPETITION AND INNOVATION IN THE MEDIA AND BROADCASTING SECTORS
Lord Puttnam, Chairman of NESTA
    

Tuesday 8th July 2003

DEALING WITH ANTI-COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOUR IN THE COMMUNICATIONS SECTORS
Becket McGrath, Director of Media, Sport & Information Industries, Office of Fair Trading

Alan Bell, Director, Strategy & Forecasting, Oftel


Tuesday 20th May 2003

TECHNOLOGIES THAT LEAVE NEW MEDIA & TELECOMMUNICATIONS BEHIND
Tim Harper, CEO, CMP-Cientifica
Stephen Parker, Managing Director, SP2
Chris Winter, Managing Partner, NVP Brightstar
David Porter, Head of Private Equity, Nomura International plc

Thursday 1st May 2003
3G OR NOT 3G: IS THAT THE QUESTION?
THE FUTURE OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS

Mike Short, Vice President of Technology, O2 / Chairman, Mobile Data Association
Jeremy Wright, Co-founder, Enpocket
Helen McCarthy, Researcher, Demos
Stephen O'Hara, Business Development Manager, Intel


Wednesday 12th March 2003
BUILDING WORLD-CLASS TECHNOLOGIES & IP BUSINESSES
Jonathan Pearl, Company Secretary & General Manager, Legal Department , Sony
Andrew White, UK General Manager, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
David Naylor, Partner, Morrison & Foerster

Henry Ward, Barrister, 8 New Square
    

 

 

Tuesday 14th January 2003            

TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL SHAPE OUR FUTURE
Peter Cochrane, Co-Founder, ConceptLab
Jim Wadsworth, Senior Product Manager, Vodafone

Dave Birch, Director, Consult Hyperion

 

Wednesday 27th November 2002

THE ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN PROMOTING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
Stephen Timms, Minister of State for e-Commerce & Competitiveness


Wednesday 13th November 2002
REVIVING MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS IN THE TMT SECTOR

Michael Phair, Bear Stearns
Van Wishard, London Technology Partners
Chris Elliss, Bear Stearns
Neil Foster, Morrison & Foerster

Wednesday 9th October 2002
MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

Prof. Kevin Warwick, Reading University
(Author of 'I, Cyborg')
 
Tuesday 30th July 2002
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERING: SURVIVING TO 2010
Julian Harris, CEO, Smart421
David Docherty, Managing Director, Broadband, Flextech/Telewest
Tony Hallett, silicon.com
Kit Gould, IDG Ventures Europe

 

Tuesday 2nd July 2002
MEDIA WARS
Alan Newman, Partner, Media Industry, KPMG Consulting

Mike Darcey, Director of Strategy, Sky

David Docherty, Managing Director, Broadband, Flextech/Telewest

Nick Markham, Director of Strategy, Carlton

Ben Tolley, Vice-President, Long Acre Partners

Anne Alexander, Vice President, Editorial Programming, AOL

 

Tuesday 28th May 2002
GOING MOBILE
David Naylor, Morrison & Foerster

Chris Barton, Shazam Entertainment

Ian Brooks, HP Compaq
Anthony Philips, Microsoft

Paul Nerger, Argo Group

Dominic Cameron, lastminute.com

Tuesday 30th April 2002

FINANCE IN THE DIGITAL INDUSTRIES: WEATHERING THE STORM
Stuart Watson, Ernst & Young

Richard Wilson, Apax Partners

Roberto Italia, EM Warburg Pincus

Jeff Orenstein, ShipServ

Jim Reynolds, End2End


Tuesday 26th February 2002

CONTENT - CONTENTMENT AND CONTENTION:
CENSORSHIP AND REGULATION

Chairperson:Jon
Watts, Spectrum Strategy Consultants

David Kerr, Chief Executive, Internet Watch Foundation

Martin Hart, Advertising Standards, ITC

James Welch, Legal Director, Liberty

Nick Reynolds, Adviser, Editorial Policy, BBC

 

 

Tuesday 22nd January 2002
COMING DOWN TO EARTH: DOES SATELLITE HAVE A FUTURE?
Mike Darcey, Director of Strategy, Sky

Wednesday 12th December 2001
MUSIC FOR THE MANY; MONEY FOR THE FEW?: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
Chairperson: Jon Watts, Spectrum Strategy Consultants

Mark Isherwood, Director, Rightscom

Andrew Yeates, Chairman, BPI
Rebecca Lancashire, Managing Director, ClickMusic

Simon Hopkins, Head of Music Online, BBC

 

Tuesday 13th November 2001
PRIVACY, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
Elizabeth France, Information Commissioner
 
Tuesday 9th October 2001
THE FUTURE OF COMMUNICATIONS REGULATION IN THE UK

David Edmonds, Director General of Telecommunications

 

Tuesday 2nd October 2001
BROADBAND REVOLUTION VS. A NARROWBAND GOVERNMENT

Chairperson: Jon Watts, Spectrum Strategy Consultants

Michael Potter, US Telecom and Internet entrepreneur

Glenn Manoff, Ebone

Ian Scales, Advanstar

Stephen Murphy, Earthlease

 

Wednesday 11th July 2001
THE FUTURE OF OUR TELEVISION

Jon Watts, Manager, Spectrum Strategy Consultant

Maggie Brown, Media Correspondent, The Guardian
Ian Mecklenburgh, Head of Digital Media and Broadband Solutions, BBC Technology
Penny Horner-Long, Global Manager, Adcore Strategy


Wednesday 30th May 2001

CYBER CRIME AND CYBER TERRORISM

John Harrison, Business Manager, Smart421

 

Wednesday 25th April 2001
MOBILE - WHAT NOW?

Robin Saphra, Executive Director, T-mobile International

 

November 15th 2000

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - CONVERGENCE 2000

Chaired by Bundeep Singh-Rangar, Contributing Columnist of the Industry Standard Europe

 

CREATING A WIRED SOCIETY

Allan Ferries, Head, Department of Culture, Media, and Sport

DELIVERING A WIRED SOCIETY
David Edmonds, Director General of Telecommunications, Oftel

CONVERGENCE: A SCENARIO FOR 2015

David Cleevely, Founder and Managing Director, Analysys Group

FINANCING THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION

Michael Phair, Global Co-head of Telecoms, Bear Stearns

John Allen, Chairman, ARC Associates

M- AND E-COMMERCE: GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS

Samuel Sweet, Director of Business Development, EHPT

 

MOBILE: WHAT COMES AFTER CONNECTION
Erik Bovee, Business Development Manager, Digital Mobility

Patrick O'Callaghan, Founder of Network 365

 

BROADBAND AND NEW VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES

Simon Hochhauser, Founder, Video Networks

Nick Hawkins, Director of Technical Marketing, ezenia!

 

19th October 2000

MAKING BUSINESS TO BUSINESS E-COMMERCE WORK

Jeff Orenstein, president of eZoka

 

12th September 2000

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES

David Molony, Executive Editor, Communications Week International
Paul Cuatrecasas, Managing Director of ARC Associates

Ray Dutton, Chairman of Alpha Telecom

Murray Hancock, Founder and CEO of Fourleaf.com

 

27th June 2000

MOBILE: IS THE HONEYMOON OVER?

Robin Saphra, Head of Public Policy, one2one

 

10th May 2000
FORGET THE INFRASTRUCTURE, CONTENT IS KING

Karen Mason, Demon Internet
Robert Bratby, COLT Telecommunications

 

30th March 2000
MAINTAINING AND FORTIFYING AN ONLINE PRESENCE
Tomi Davies, leading international consultant
Chris Birch, Head of Ecommerce, Virgin Atlantic
Robin Furber, Head of the Cyber Practice, Willis Group

9th February 2000
FROM ZERO TO HERO: BUILDING INTERNET BUSINESSES IN THE NEW MILLENIUM

Julia Groves, Launch Director and interim CEO for eVentures Business to Consumer portfolio
Jeremy Crowe, Managing Director, Dow Carter


12th January 2000
STRATEGIC FRAUD & SECURITY DEFENCE PLANNING IN A DYNAMIC TELECOMS MARKET PLACE
Nick Mann, Stork Limited

3rd December 1999
THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM

Kip Meek, Managing Director, Spectrum Strategy Consultants

Sir David Puttnam, well known film Producer

Lord St. John, Consultant to Merrill Lynch, Director of Bell Technology Group

 

13th October 1999
BROADCASTING, CONVERGENCE AND REGULATION

Tim Lord, Legal Advisor, Cable & Wireless
Fod Barnes, Director, Fod Barnes & Associates

 

14th September 1999
THE 1999 REVIEW - IMPLICATIONS FOR OPERATORS

Jean Eric de Cockborne, head of the Policy and Regulatory Framework unit, DGXIII

 

22nd June 1999
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE NEW UK COMPETITION ACT

Edward Pitt, partner, Theodore Goddard

 

12th May 1999
UMTS AND THE COMPETITION IN BROADBAND MOBILE

Jane Humphreys, Radiocommunications Authority, Spectrum AuctionTeam   

 

21st April 1999
VENTURE CAPITAL IN THE DIGITAL INDUSTRIES

Roberto Italia, Vice-President, EM Warburg Pincus
John McMonigall, Director, Apax Partners
          

 9th March 1999
DELIVERING COMPETITION IN THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES

David Edmonds, Director General of Telecommunications

 

4th February 1999
DATA  PROTECTION ISSUES IN THE CONVERGENCE INDUSTRIES

Elizabeth France, Data Protection Registrar 

     
10th November 1998
THE NEW DIGITAL AGE

Alan Boyd, Former Development Director, Microsoft

Fod Barnes, Director General's Policy Adviser, Oftel

Michael Potter, President, Esprit Telecom, Richard Tahta, Strategic Development Director, Amazon

21st October 1998
DO REGULATORS LET GO: HOW AND WHEN?

Ian Morfett, Director, Strategy and Business Development, BT

16th September 1998
EUROPEAN TELECOM HARMONISATION - THE CASE FOR A EURO-REGULATOR

Don Jayasuriya, Director, European Regulatory Affairs, ICO Global Communications

13th August 1998
THE FULL LIBERALISATION OF THE EUROPEAN
TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKET PLACE
- MYTH OR REALITY?

Michael Potter, President, Esprit Telecom

8th July 1998
THE EFFECTS OF COMMODITISATION IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
Richard Elliot, Managing Director, Band-X

 

 

 

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