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Where next for Great Britain economically and politically?
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| Opening Address |
| Daniel Hannan, MEP for South East England & Justin Urquhart Stewart, Seven Investment Management |
By June 2010 we will have a newly elected Government but what will be the state of the economy and the environment for British Business?
Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven Investment Management will set the economic scene on this issue before introducing Daniel Hannan MEP who will put the economic future into the context of both UK and European Political reality.
Questions Daniel will tackle are; what options the new Government has, what the British public will find acceptable, just how much power Europe really possess over us and what can, and might be done to rebalance this issue.
Daniel will also talk about the role of the digital arena (so successful in Barack Obama’s campaign) in the British Election, and the new digital communications environment that we live in, both for Business and for Politics.
Daniel Hannan, during an address to the European Parliament, advised Gordon Brown to stop talking nonsense and wasting the country’s money, attracting over 2 million hits on YouTube. Dan understands the EU and tells it as he sees it.
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The rise & fall and rise again of Gerald Ratner
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| Keynote Address |
| Gerald Ratner |
Gerald Ratner was the millionaire chief executive of the British jewellery chain Ratners Jewellery, which he built into the world’s largest jewellery retailer business consisting of 2500 shops, making £125m, with a turnover £2billion. After some uncomplimentary remarks Gerald made at the Institute of Directors regarding product quality, the company suffered financial losses, and was renamed Signet Group in 1993.
Gerald has now gone on to re-launch his career in the jewellery sector with an online company. Come and hear his story about how he rose and fell and has now managed to rise again, a true tale of succeeding against the odds. |
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Seminars and Workshops
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| Topics under the spotlight |
| Various |
- Everything you wanted to know about social media but were afraid to ask
- Disaster Recovery: A discussion
- Social Computing and the IT department
- Five benefits of Cloud Computing and their impact on IT
- Information Security roundtable
- “Cloud sprawl”: The Dark side of the Cloud
- Selling IT internally
- The Future of IT
- Information Governance in today’s age
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Professional Development
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| Topics under the spotlight |
| Various |
- The Hamish Taylor Master Class Seminars
- Risk-Taking and Decision-Making in Poker, Business and Life
- Built for Greatness
- All aboard the revolution: four steps every company can take now to reduce costs, increase sales and connect to a new generation of consumers
- Presentation skills – learning from the rules of magic
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