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9.30 Registration and coffee
10:00 Forces That Drive Retail Tech Chaired by Nick Gale, Realisation
Full line-up of panel moderators
We’ve now completed an impressive array of moderators for the different vertical industry panels at our September event
We’re pleased to announce that we have a full roster of panel session moderators for the InstallMarket conference – which is part of our InstallMarket event on 4 September in London. “We’ve recruited a very
strong line-up of panel session moderators for InstallMarket,” commented Installation editor Paddy Baker. “Delegates can be assured of a set of highly informative sessions, led by speakers with in-depth knowledge of their verticals.” In addition to the panel sessions – on education, hospitality, broadcast and streaming, retail and transportation – there will also be a keynote presentation from internationally renowned projection artist Ross Ashton. The conference takes place alongside the InstallMarket expo, where leading manufacturers will be displaying their solutions for the installation market, and holding break-out demo and training sessions. Here is our line-up of moderators for the conference panels.
EDUCATION – COLIN
MESSENGER, SENIOR ANALYST,
FUTURESOURCE
Colin Messenger has been with Futuresource Consulting for over 18 years, he has been involved with the Interactive and schools markets on a day-to-day basis for over 12 years, and runs the worldwide interactivity displays research programmes. Much of his work has
involved providing strategic input for companies planning their future direction within the education sector, drawing on his in-depth understanding of the industry. Colin has worked
extensively with many major 16 June 2014
international companies and organisations, British Airways, 3M, Dell, Epson, HP, Nokia, NTT Japan, Hitachi, ICO, Samsung, Sony, COLT Telecom, NEC, and IBM.
ENTERTAINMENT AND HOSPITALITY – JOHN GREW, MD/PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, SPARTAN COMMS
John Grew has worked within the telecommunications industry for over 25 years and has specialised in providing solutions to the hospitality channel for the last 18 years. He now offers his experience as the principal hospitality technology consultant with Spartan Comms, around the world, to a wide variety of hotel owners and operators. In March 1995 (having learned his trade with a voice and data cabling company) John founded Spartan Comms, initially offering project management services for PBX installations. As his expertise within the hospitality channel increased, he expanded the services the company could offer to include cable design and in-room technology applications, audiovisual and security systems.
Spartan Comms is currently
working on an exciting range of projects with several prestigious large 5* hotel, resort and retail mixed use projects across the globe.
BROADCAST AND STREAMING – JAMES RABY, VENTURE CAPITALIST AND SAINSBURY MANAGEMENT FELLOW
James Raby is a commercially astute technologist/engineer with significant experience in the broadcast and communications industries in marketing, investment, and
mergers and acquisitions. He focuses on venture capital and transforming companies making the transition into the telecom/media converged market.
In the past he has worked
as director of television at NTL Broadcast, project manager for the Independent Broadcast Authority, and head of broadcast development at VT Merlin Communications (where he was in charge of corporate development and mergers & acquisitions for broadcast services and infrastructures in a global perspective). Most recently Raby was
a venture executive at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and served as director at ZinWave (which develops in-building cellular and wireless technology solutions) and as a director at Nomad Digital (which provides mobile wireless local area network services on trains and transport, and network-independent data communications services).
RETAIL – NICK GALE, FOUNDER, REALISATION Nick Gale founded Realisation in
2003 and has been involved in the digital signage industry from its inception. A veteran of the advertising and marketing services industries, Nick is considered an expert on all aspects of digital signage and is frequently asked to speak at industry events. For more than 10 years,
Realisation has tackled some of the most complex digital signage projects in the industry, in the UK’s busiest retail spaces. Its portfolio boasts an impressive client list including Nationwide, Dyson, TUI and Argos. It offers a thorough understanding of complex digital signage projects in-store through
first-hand experience, and develops visual content to suit the brand, objective and medium.
TRANSPORTATION – CHARLIE HENDERSON, PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT CONSULTANT, PA CONSULTING
Charlie Henderson is an accomplished performance improvement consultant with over 20 years’ experience, primarily in the transport sector. He has successfully supported organisations in exploiting new technologies and processes that deliver real business benefit. This includes supporting the Highways Agency to design a future service blueprint and then procure its National Traffic Information Service, including control room. Most recently he has been supporting the Highways Agency and the Rijkswaterstaat specify requirements for their regional control centres. Charlie’s work has been critically acclaimed – he led the assignment that won the Management Consultancy Association award for best operational performance project in the public sector (2006), was a consultant on the assignment that won best public sector project (2007) and led the assignment that was shortlisted for best public sector procurement project (2012).
AV/IT NETWORKING – KEITH
HUMPHREYS, MANAGING PARTNER, EUROLAN RESEARCH
Keith Humphreys has been active in distribution channels for local area networks since their inception in Europe, after initial experience
11:00 Keynote: Ross Ashton, The Projection Studio
12:00 AV & Broadcast Convergence: A Marriage in IP Chaired by James Raby, venture capitalist and Sainsbury Management Fellow
14:00 Not Your Father’s Classroom; Not Your Mother’s Campus Chaired by Colin Messenger, Futuresource
15:00 What Hospitality and Entertainment Venues Really Want Chaired by John Grew, Spartan Comms
16:00 What Moves Transport Technology Chaired by Charlie Henderson, PA Consulting
17:00 Whose Network is IT, Anyway? Chaired by Keith Humphreys, euroLAN Research
gained in South Africa. Other experience in mid-range computing and connectivity issues comes from sales channel management roles in Europe and for US-based companies.
As a consultant with
euroLAN Research he has worked with several major networking vendors in streamlining their European channels and in analysing their markets and competitors. He holds a degree in engineering from the University of Westminster.
The InstallMarket conference is free to attend – as is the expo running alongside. The event takes place at the Business Design Centre in Islington, north London, on Thursday 4 September. To register, go to
www.install-
market.com/registration.
www.install-market.com www.installation-international.com
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