2010 brings you the National Outdoor’s Event Association’s annual conference. Taking place over three days, Wednesday 24th February to Friday 26th, it is designed to bring together the best names in the Events Industry and celebrate their contributions to events held all over the UK.

What are the current industry trends?
Where do you see your organisation in a decade’s time?
How will changing external factors impact your business?

Join NOEA to discuss how you can keep on top of the changes taking place within the Events Industry and hear from experts Rohit Talwar and John Probyn on what you can aim to expect in the future.

Rohit Talwar

Rohit is an award winning futurist speaker, entrepreneur, specialist advisor and strategic change agent. He studied electronics and computer science at University and did an MBA at London Business School. Rohit is the founder of the consultancy Fast Future and the think tank - Global Futures and Foresight; he was listed by the Independent newspaper as one of the top 10 global future thinkers.

Rohit has a particular interest in Global economies like China and India, global markets such as travel and tourism and global trends and issues such as climate change and the rise of online virtual worlds. He likes to travel the world and study the ideas that will shape the future; Rohit has spoken and consulted major businesses, advising on the best way to tackle the future. He has spoken on 5 continents and in over 35 countries.

Rohit’s clientele include Alliance and Leicester, the BBC, BT, DeutscheBank, Electrolux, Marks and Spencer, Nokia, Orange, Samsung and Shell. Rohit will be speaking at the Convention on Thursday 24th February at the Derby Conference Centre.

Eddy Grant

A multi-skilled and commercially-astute specialist on Event Operations & Safety and Senior Lecturer in events management. Qualified as a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner and as a Fellow of then Higher Education Academy. Extensive work experience, notable achievements and success earned in diverse roles and sectors as the Major Events Manager for the European Capital of Culture, specialist consultant for the City of Rotterdam festival programme.

Designs and delivers table top exercises for diverse activity ranging from Art Installations to large football parades.

Philip Day

Philip is a solicitor and partner with Bournemouth law firm Horsey Lightly Fynn. He has been a NOEA council member for 6 years and is one of the association’s vice presidents.

He describes his professional practice as “being mostly about sleaze - drinking, gambling and dancing the night away, not necessarily fully dressed.” Having trained with HM Customs and Excise as it then was ("that was mainly sleaze too – drug smuggling, illicit stills, illegal betting and pornography") he spent the next 18 years in Reading. Accidents of fate dictated that he graduated from being a criminal lawyer to become a licensing specialist ("it was better than spending my nights in the police cells") before being persuaded to move to sunny Bournemouth ("it was nothing to do with the money").

Over the last 9 years, Philip has developed a particular expertise in the licensing of outside events and all that goes with it from a legal perspective. He has lectured nationally on the Licensing Act and clients include the Badger Brewery, the Great Dorset Steam Fair, Coral (the bookmakers), various Local authorities and increasingly, groups of local residents who have been kept awake once too often by the antics of those leaving a local hostelry.

Philip intends to use his participation in the table top exercise to highlight recent changes to the law, particularly in the context of responsibility for when things go wrong ("not that they ever do of course").

Ben Courtnell, Redbull

Ben has worked in the event industry for the last 8 years, starting off at Pen Productions, where he worked on a range of events from Royal engagements to product launches and parties with brands such as BSkyB, Sainsburys, and Arcadia Group. He then moved to Hyperactive events, working on amongst others the Vodafone event account including The Vodafone Summer Ball. He also became part of the Formula One Vodafone Hospitality & Event team responsible for activation across the full F1 season.

This was followed by work at Jack Morton Worldwide as a Project Manager on a wide range of events nationally and internationally, clients including Nokia, Lexus, Philips and HP.

He has spent the last three years working as Event Marketing Manager for Red Bull in the UK, helping shape and produce their ground breaking events programme. During this time he has delivered a range of consumer facing events from Red Bull Air Race and Red Bull Manny Mania to managing their regional events in sports and motorsports. He is currently working on the upcoming Red Bull 2010 events.

Dr David McGillivray

Dr David McGillivray is a Senior Lecturer in Events Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is currently writing a book titled Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy for Routledge (publication date in early 2011) and his other research interests lie in the field of event experiences and sports event tourism. David has undertaken a number of evaluation studies of events and festivals for public and private agencies in Scotland and takes a keen interest in bridging the gap between academia and industry in his professional life.

Tickets are available now! Get your 2020 Vision and don’t get left behind.