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Confex Knowledge Timetable Day 3: Thursday 8 March
Business & Corporate Theatre
10:30 – PA Day: Resolving Confl ict in the Work Place • Identifi cation of the problem • Arguments and responses • Develop and evaluation of options • Resolution and agreement
Speaker: Susie Barron-Stubley, Managing Director, Castalia Coaching & Training
11:30 – Olympic WOW: How Can I Bring the Unique Atmosphere of the Games to my Events?
This session will be split into two parts. The fi rst will consider the benefi ts of becoming an offi cial partner of Team GB while the second will look at how you bring past and present athletes to your event and how best to use them.
Chair: Mike Kershaw, Concerto Group Speakers: Stephen Vaughn, Thomas Cook, Andrew Owen, Team 2012, James Douglass, Gold Challenge and Zanine Adams, London & Partners
12:30 – Keynote: Terry Waite Terry Waite has led a remarkable life as a diplomat and a humanitarian. Long devoted to humanitarian causes, inter-cultural relations, and confl ict resolution, Waite garnered international recognition in the 1980s when, serving as a special envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury, he successfully negotiated the release of hostages in Iran and Libya. Terry will give an honest and unfl inching account of his experiences.
Speaker: Terry Waite, Former envoy, held hostage in the Lebanon for four years
14:30 – Olympic WOW: Going Offi cial or Unoffi cial for your Olympic Hospitality
• Discuss what options are still available for you and your clients • What are the costs and benefi ts?
Chair: Mike Kershaw, Concerto Group Speakers: Stephen Vaughn, Thomas Cook, Andrew Owen, Team 2012, James Douglass, Gold Challenge and Zanine Adams, London & Partners
Organising & Production Theatre
11:30 – PA Day: Negotiating with Venues - the Opportunities and the Pitfalls!! • Explore how to get the best deal when negotiating with venues • Understanding how venues price and then how to use that information to negotiate with them
Speaker: Jacqui Kavanagh, Managing Director, Trinity Event Solutions
12:30 – PA Day: The Bribery Act 2010 – the Practical Application • How the Bribery Act might impact upon you and your Executives? • What is a bribe? • Corporate Hospitality and Promotional Expenditure – what are reasonable expenses? • Case studies which could arise in real life – what should a Personal Assistant do when faced with potential bribery issues?
Speaker: Richard Burger, Partner, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
14:30 – PA Day: Technology Masterclass • Planning and booking AV • What is new in the world of AV and event staging? • New technologies and utilising them to get more out of your event budget • Making your event more cost effective, sustainable, interactive and innovative
Speaker: Graham Pope, Sales Director, Blitz Communications Ltd
15:30 – How to provide your venue with reliable leading edge WiFi • What’s driving the need for reliable WiFi • What the inherent problems are with WiFi • What challenges venues face • How to plan and survey WiFi coverage in your venue • An example of how a venue fi xed its WiFi problems • How the Olympics may affect your WiFi
Speaker: Richard Hughes, Director, Max Wifi Best of British
Watch mini showcases of the very best events from conferences to exhibitions to music festivals that have been delivered by UK organisers.
10:30 – Smirnoff Paintfest Speaker: Tim Jones, Senior Strategist, RPM
11:00 – Samsung Galaxy S2 Launch: the UK’s fi rst Twitter Tour Samsung wanted to launch their best smartphone yet; the Galaxy S2. A premium handset, it would appeal to people with an active interest in technology, and who are active social users of the web. So how did a social challenge get an experiential solution, and what happened when we hit the streets?
Speaker: Rob Seller, Strategy Director, Slice and Paul Stanway, Creative Director, Slice
11:30 – Top Gear Live & Festivals Speaker: James Cooke-Priest, Chief Operating Offi cer, Top Gear Live
14:00 – DSEi
Discover how one of the UK’s largest exhibitions was built on time and on budget and totally refreshed and revamped in the process. This 4 day event at ExCeL uses 100sqm of gross fl oor space plus all the Dock space around ExCeL for ship and boat displays and was 33% bigger than the previous edition.
Speakers: Duncan Reid, Exhibition Director, Clarion Events; Louise Kiwanuka, Operations Director, EventShare
Marketing & Agency Theatre
11:30 – PA Day: Relationship Management at Executive Level • Effectively managing upwards, sideways and downwards • Understand dominant personality types • Create, cultivate and sustain valuable working relationships • Identifying your own style and how you focus on others
Speaker: Susie Barron-Stubley, Managing Director, Castalia Coaching & Training
12:30 – PA Day: Effective Decision Making
in a Fast-Paced Business Environment • The context of your decisions • The rules of analysis • Identifying options • The evaluation of consequences • Reviewing your decisions and taking action
Speaker: Susie Barron-Stubley, Managing Director, Castalia Coaching & Training
14:30 – PA Day Keynote: Jo Malone Personal, inspirational story, sharing the secrets of how she: • Launched her fi rst international fragrance brand • Inspires other entrepreneurs to achieve success • Found the drive and determination to launch a new brand in the digital age
Speaker: Jo Malone, Founder of the Jo Malone fragrance brand and Jo Loves Programme Partner
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