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The Year Ahead in Communications 2010
(The Early Bird price is $690. Price will increase to $860 per person after 16 April 2010).
The purpose is to give all our extended family of sponsors and advisers the chance to get across the key issues facing them all, in less than two days. People from media, telecoms and IT share knowledge and experience. This cuts across industry boundaries and sectors, in a safe, neutral, private, academic environment.
Our experts in each panel raise the issues for a few minutes each, then take part in the discussion with all participants. There will be plenty of candid discussion. In many years of these annual workshops, there has scarcely ever been a lull in any session. If you don’t feel like joining the discussion you can just listen if you want.
This workshop is certified free of the following: opening address by Minister; ring-binder full of useless papers; formal introductions of speakers; gala dinner with speaker. The workshop is also free of posturing to impress the press or regulators, because they won’t be there. We respect the important role of government officials and politicians, but we don’t have them at the workshop, to ensure that you are not intimidated by regulatory scrutiny. All sessions are confidential.
Discussion openers are chosen for their ability to help us see where media and communications trends are heading. Although most are on the boards of major enterprises, they have been chosen for expertise, not rank. Nobody is just a corporate representative. And they will be sharing their personal insights, not delivering speeches.
Who is invited?
Anyone who works for one of our sponsors, namely: Telstra, Network Ten, Seven Network, Allens Arthur Robinson, Broadcast Australia, FOXTEL, Clayton Utz, AUSTAR, KPMG, Macquarie Bank (and for this event the ABC and SBS). We have 50 advisers from around the country who help us with ideas and information. Those advisers are equally welcome, but unfortunately they can’t bring work colleagues from non-sponsor firms.
Speakers for the 2010 workshop include:
Martin Dalgleish, background: CMH; PBL; NineMSN; iSelect; Optus
Ian Davis, background: Telstra TV (current); Nine Network Australia; A T Kearney; Delta Education
Clem Doherty, background: Like-Minded Individuals (current), NBN Co (current); McKinsey
Patrick Fair, background: Baker & McKenzie (current); IIA; Law Soc NSW
David Gibbs, background: Jumbuck Entertainment (current); eChoice; McKinsey
Robert Leach, background: MCn Connect (current); BSkyB; Sky Media
Malcolm Long, background: ACMA (p/t, current); Macquarie Comms Inf Grp; NIDA; SBS; ABC
Peter Lovelock, background: TRP (current); Foresight Consulting; MFC Insight; ITU
Jack Matthews, background: Fairfax Digital (current); Premium Movie Partnership; TelstraSaturn
Ian McGarrity, background: IMW Media Services (current); Digital Broadcasting Australia; ABC; SBS
Ian Martin, background: RBS (current); ABN Amro; Macquarie Bank; BZW; Oftel; DCITA
Bob Peters, background: Global Media Analysis (current); ANZ Investment Bank; Network Ten
Debra Richards, background: ASTRA; Adviser to Comms Minister; ABA; ABT
Workshop program
Six sessions over 1.5 days, focusing this year on the NBN. All speakers have been invited to offer views on how to accelerate, finance, and use the NBN.
FRIDAY, 14 May 2010
09:00 to 09:30 registration, tea and coffee
Session 1 (09:30 to 11:00) Trends in media and telecoms
• Insights from two experts who spend all their time studying the trends
• What kinds of players and services might win or lose over the next 2 years?
• Numbers and charts addressing media, telecoms and online
11:00 to 11:30 Tea break
Session 2 (11:30 to 13:00) Online services: growth and investment
• What progress on the major services like education, health and social services?
• Where are the next opportunities in lifestyle and social networking?
• The flight of business services to the cloud: is this change forever?
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch
Session 3 (14:00 to 15:30) Can we overcome the bickering and bureaucracy?
• Powerful concepts like the NBN and the digital dividend: what about some execution?
• Will the big ideas be smothered by lobbyists, bureaucrats, economists and lawyers?
• How can communications players escape being divided and ruled?
15:30 to 16:00 Tea break
Session 4 (16:00 to 17:30) Extending media on the new platforms
• What are the consumer trends in areas like social networking, UGC, search and music?
• How to offer a natural, intuitive presence in the midst of platform chaos?
• How are online players changing their marketing?
17:30 to 19:00 Drinks and canapés
SATURDAY, 15 May 2010
Session 5 (09:00 to 10:30) Users, audiences, and devices
• Progress on digital conversion and spectrum changes
• What can practically be connected to a TV, as a real consumer proposition?
• The online world via TV for entertainment services: does it work for people?
10:30 to 11:00 tea break
Session 6 (11:00 to 12:30) The NBN: how, when, and at what price?
• Contracting, sequencing and build-or-buy decisions
• How will retailers deal with the NBN, with what terms and access?
• Balancing the financial/technical issues, from household adoption to ultimate investors
12:30 to 13:30 lunch and end of workshop
Note 1: Bullet points for sessions are indicative, and not binding on discussion-openers.
Note 2: Discussion-openers views are purely personal, unless they say otherwise on the day.
Cost: Early Bird rate is $690 per participant for the two days except accommodation. Price will increase to $860 per person after 16 April 2010. To stay at the Novotel Manly Pacific phone their reservations deptartment 02 9977 7666 or book online www.novotelmanlypacific.com.au. Other accommodation options at Manly can be found at www.wotif.com.
Cancellations & refunds: If you are unable to attend a substitute will be welcomed at no extra charge. Full refund if notified in writing before COB 16 April 2010. A 50% refund will be sent for cancellations received in writing before 30 April 2010. No refunds will be made for later cancellations.
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