Business media conference
The main conference on the business media day will cover a variety of topics from new models and routes to market to how the city values business media companies and how the key players in the industry have evolved to operate their businesses in print, online and face-to-face.
| 09.00 | Welcome from Helen Alexander CBE, CEO The Economist Group and PPA Chairman, and Jonathan Shephard, PPA Chief executive |
| 09.10 | Economic overview - Ross Walker, UK Economist, RBS Financial Markets Ross Walker will open the day with an overview of the current economic situation and his predications for the future and how the economy might affect the media landscape. |
| 09.30 | Stephen Grabiner, Apax Partners and Carolyn McCall Guardian Media Group After ending 2007 with one of the biggest business media deals of the year when they jointly bought Emap Communications, Apax and GMG have become major players in the business media space. This session will provide and insight into why private equity firms like Apax are so interested in this sector and why GMG, a company whose heritage is in newspapers and consumer media has chosen to invest in business media. |
| 09.50 | Paul Richards Director Numis Securities, questions Stephen and Carolyn |
10.15-10.45 Coffee
| 10.45 | Business media - a £23bn industry and its importance to the economy The BBC's Torin Douglas will be joined by representatives from DCMS and CBI to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the industry and how we can ensure regulation doesn’t constrict this burgeoning sector. |
| 11.30 | Vertical search Panel debate about this new area of business media.
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| 12.15 | ACAP update - spiders, crawlers and protecting your content Dominic Young, News International, will elaborate on what has happened since the launch of ACAP in November in New York and the plans for the next year. |
12.45-14.00 Lunch
| 14.00 | The Power of 3 by DMG As a company best known for the Daily Mail Ideal Home show this will be an opportunity to understand more about their highly profitable business information interests and how they fit in to the bigger picture of DMG. |
| 14.45 | Commercial opportunities and the portfolio approach to selling Space or content? Sales force integration? And the impact of the credit crunch will all be under the spotlight as the commercial realities of business media are considered. |
| 15.30 | Print and production update Andrew Watley, Group production director at Progressive Media Markets and co-chair of PPA's production committee, will update on changes in the production arena and how publishers can gain real benefits from them. |
16.00-16.30 Tea
| 16.30 | View from the top A panel discussion with the heads of the major business media companies. |
| 17.30 | Conference closes |
