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Information about the event in Leicester, UK, on 13 October 2010 including programme and speaker bios.
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Information Pack Programme
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09.00 Registration and Coffee Screen Lounge & Foyer (Ground Floor)
09.30 Welcome by The Lord Mayor of Leicester Introduction by Sue Thomas
Screen 1 (Ground Floor)
09.45 Keynote: John Thackara, How to make less, more. Introduced by Sue Thomas
Screen 1 (Ground Floor)
10.45 Coffee Screen Lounge (Ground Floor) & ETC Suite (1st Floor)
11.15 Parallel Presentations A (choose one) Hugo Spowers The future of personal transport
Chair: Sue Tilley Wrk 4 (1st Floor)
Martin Rieser The future of mobile media Chair: Katherine O'Sullivan
Screen 2 (Ground Floor)
Thilo Boeck The Amplified Resilient Community Chair: Sue Thomas
Wrk 1 (1st Floor)
Michael Fern The future of retail Chair: Tracy Harwood
Wrk 2 (1st Floor)
Bernd Carsten-Stahl Ethical issues of emerging technologies Chair: Pankaj Mistry
Wrk 3 (1st Floor)
Lunch Screen Lounge (Ground Floor) & ETC Suite (1st Floor)
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N 13.00 Keynote: Warren Buckley, Managing Director, BT Retail Customer
Service Connecting the New Communities Screen 1 (Ground Floor)
14.00 Parallel Presentations B (see below) John Stobart What will the future of the law firm look like?
Chair: Sue Tilley Wrk 4 (1st Floor)
Aidan Lane The sky's the limit Chair: Pankaj Mistry
Wrk 2 (1st Floor)
Nicholas Ebbs Placemaking Chair: Tracy Harwood
Wrk 1 (1st Floor)
Fiona Bennie Sustainable innovation through future scenarios Chair: Katherine O’Sullivan
Wrk 3 (1st Floor)
Satish Visavadia The future of production and broadcast media Chair: Sue Thomas
Screen 2 (Ground Floor)
14.45 Tea Screen Lounge (Ground Floor) & ETC Suite (1st Floor)
15.00 Unconference hosted by Amplified Leicester See page 13 for details
16.15 Plenary Session with John Thackara Screen 1 (Ground Floor)
17.00 Wine Reception and Networking Screen lounge (Ground Floor)
18.30 Close
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Get involved
At Vision2020 you can login to the wireless network with the following
Username: Phoenixsquare Password: Vision2020
Vision2020 has a number of ways in which you can share your experiences and 2020 visions with us. Why not visit one of
our social networks at:
• Ning (http://ampleic.ning.com/group/vision2020)
• Facebook (search Vision2020 Leicester)
• Twitter (www.twitter.com/vis20leic)
• Linkedin (search for Vision2020 Leicester in groups)
Tweet about us throughout the day using #vis20leic – don’t forget to upload any pictures you take.
Following today the presentations will be available to download from www.vision2020.org.uk
Amplification
The conversations will be live-tweeted and blogged, including interviews with presenters and participants, by Amplified10, a
not-for-profit organization that uses social media to enable and encourage community participation around events,
conferences and public conversations. The Amplified team facilitates and documents the sharing of ideas, opinions and
resources, and aggregates this content online to enable the conversations from all parties to continue and spread. For our
event, Amplified will be posting content to our website and social networking groups throughout the event and shortly
afterwards.
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Presenters
Keynote speakers and presenters
Vision2020 features inspirational presenters from international, regional and local perspectives.
Keynotes John Thackara - How to make less, more
A green, restorative and steady-state economy is not a future vision - it already exists, at least in embryo. Social innovation
is all around us in a million grassroots projects. Connected citizens, and new kinds of business, are taking practical steps to
re-make our cities places, and tools. By innovating services for daily life that use far fewer resources, they help to rebuild
natural and social assets. Many of these projects use new technologies in creative ways - but their positive energy derives
most from the skills and imagination of the people involved. What is the opportunity here for Leicester?
John Thackara is a writer, speaker, and event producer. Described by Business Week as "one of the great voices on
sustainability", he is the author of In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World (MIT Press) among thirteen books, and of a
widely-read blog about design for resilience, doorsofperception.com. As director of Doors of Perception, John organizes
festivals and encounters around the world in which communities imagine sustainable futures – and take practical steps to
realize them. John Thackara lives in France.
Useful Links:
doorsofperception.com
sustainable-everyday.net
energybulletin.net/node/16859
transitionnetwork.org/about
openfarmtech.org/weblog/
steadystate.org/discover/organizations-that-support-steady-state-principles/
artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk
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Warren Buckley – Connecting the New Communities
Managing Director, Customer Service, BT Retail
Warren Buckley is the Managing Director, Customer Service, for BT Retail. He graduated in Politics from the University of
Leicester. He has worked in the Telecoms Industry for the last 20 years across both mobile and fixed and during that time
has led teams in many disciplines from revenue assurance, fraud, logistics, mergers and acquisitions, technical support, call
centres, operations, product management and customer service. In his previous role as Director Strategy, Complaints and
eServices, Customer Service, he was responsible for implementing and embedding the effective use of social media tools
such as Twitter to help turn dissatisfied customers into advocates of BT. In his current role he is responsible for the delivery
of all aspects of service for BT’s Consumer Customers across telephone, broadband and TV.
• www.bt.com
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Presenters Fiona Bennie - Sustainable innovation through future scenarios
Senior Sustainability Advisor – Innovation, Forum for the Future
How can the UK's creative industries apply their expertise and experience to the big sustainability challenges facing society?
This session will share the findings from an exciting project which tackled this question, and facilitate a discussion around
the sustainability implications for the CIs and some suggestions for how they can lead on sustainable innovation.
Fiona works on sustainable innovation and design strategy for product and service development, focusing on creative
thinking and problem solving for future challenges. Most recently she led the i-team project, in collaboration with IDEO
London, and co-authored Fashion Futures 2025, in collaboration with Levi Strauss & Co. She is currently leading the
Sustainability ‘Beacons for Innovation’ project for the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network, which looks ahead to
2030 to uncover the challenges and opportunities that sustainability issues pose to the industries.
Prior to joining Forum, Fiona has worked as a design strategist for Pearson Matthews innovation consultancy and the UK
Design Council, and as a marketing manager/designer for L’Oreal in Italy. Fiona studied at the Milan Politecnico and has an
MA in Strategic Design and a BA in Italian and Industrial Design. She also holds a PGCert in Sustainable Development from
Imperial College.
Twitter: @fiona_bee
www.forumforthefuture.org
Thilo Boeck - The Amplified Resilient Community
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Action, De Montfort University
The Amplified Resilient Community (ARC) aims to unlock community resilience as a way to navigate around global
challenges and toward new solutions for wealth creation and life improvement. ARC is a framework which helps to reweave
civic, economic and political life from the bottom up. The vision is for communities to develop capacities to become adaptive
and flexible under the constraints and uncertainties of globalization.
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Thilo Boeck is a senior research fellow based in the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University. He worked in Youth
and Community Development in Peru, Germany and the UK which has influenced his commitment to participative research
and training. He worked in several research projects exploring social capital and community cohesion. He was the social
researcher on the Amplified Leicester project.
Twitter: @tgboeck
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/hls/research/applied-social-sciences/csa/
Bernd Carsten-Stahl - Ethical issues of emerging technologies
Professor of Critical Research in Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Bernd's presentation will outline which emerging information and communication technologies will be relevant by 2020.
Building on the work of the European research project ETICA (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications), Bernd will
describe some of these core technologies, discuss the expected consequences of the technologies and address the
question of how they can be subject to democratic control.
Bernd Carsten Stahl is Professor of Critical Research in Technology at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His interests
cover philosophical issues arising from the intersections of business, technology, and information. This includes the ethics of
computing and critical approaches to information systems.
• www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk
Nicholas Ebbs - Placemaking
Director Igloo Regeneration and CEO of Blueprint
Placemaking is the art of arranging spaces to enrich the urban experience. Continuities and changes will impact that
experience. Changes might include more sustainable ways of living and new social networks but greater polarisation. Expect
more of the same from globalisation, information technologies and demographic change. Cities could become more gated
and ghettoized or more compact, integrated and cohesive.
Nick is a director of Igloo Regeneration and CEO of Blueprint, a partnership between Igloo, the Homes and Communities
Agency and East Midlands Development Agency. Igloo are specialists in the development of sustainable places including
Phoenix Square Leicester. Nick was previously a Special Professor of Sustainable Development at Nottingham University
and has a degree in Philosophy and Theology.
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Twitter: @nebbsey
www.igloo.uk.net/
www.blueprintregeneration.com
Michael Fern - The future of retail
Creative Head of the Environments Team, Portland
This presentation offers an insight into how consumer trends and new technology will impact on the way we shop.
Michael joined Portland in 2005 and is currently Creative Head of The Environments team. With a degree in interior and
Industrial design he possesses a very unique understanding and awareness of delivering solutions that are both creative as
well as informed by consumer insights and their relationships with products and brands. He is currently working on a wide
range of projects for global clients such as Diageo, and Inter Ikea Center Group, exploring new strategies for the future of
their businesses.
www.portland-design.com
Aidan Lane - The sky's the limit
Director Commercial Landscapes, Frosts Landscape Construction
This presentation will enlighten you to the advantages of Green Roofs & Living walls and the benefits they add in terms of
Biodiversity, water attenuation, and helping to combat climate change. An array of Green Roofs and Living Walls will also be
presented from the sublime, the amazing, to what could be implemented in Leicester’s green future.
Aidan has studied and worked in horticulture all his adult life. He has worked as Foreman, an Estimator, and has worked
with a number of leading companies in the industry. He started at Frosts Landscape Construction as an Assistant
Landscape Manager, and in 1997 became Director Commercial Landscapes.
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During his 18 years at Frosts he has spent several years researching and designing the green roof and the living wall
business. Aidan has a great passion for the industry and has delivered many CDP presentations to Architects covering a
number of subjects where he feels the industry needs to change in order to move forward.
www.frostslandscapes.com
Martin Rieser - The future of mobile media
Joint Research Professor, Institute of Creative Technologies & Faculty of Art and Design, De
Montfort University
This talk looks at the potential for business services in new developments in mobile and pervasive media, particularly in the
cultural industries and communication. It looks at the ways in which our working lives and behaviours will be transformed
and raises questions about the social use and adaptation of these technologies.
Professor Martin Rieser has always been fascinated by the possibility of creating fragmentary narrative structures and
interactive stories using new technology. This has led him into his current explorations using mobile and locative
technologies and large-scale interactive video experiences. Professor Rieser has worked in the field of interactive arts for
many years. He is Joint research Professor between the Institute of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Art and Design
at De Montfort University. His art practice in internet art and interactive narrative installations has been seen around the
world including Cannes; Holland, Paris; Vienna, Thessaloniki, London, Germany, Milan and Melbourne, Australia. He has
published numerous essays and books on digital art including New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative (BFI/ZKM, 2002),
and has recently edited The Mobile Audience, a book on locative technology and art due out this year from Rodopi.
www.martinrieser.com
www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk
Hugo Spowers - The future of personal transport
Founder and Project Leader of Riversimple
Riversimple is a revolutionary company committed to producing highly energy-efficient vehicles for personal transport. In
2012 the first pilot of Riversimple's two-seat hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is going to take place in the city of Leicester. At
Vision2020 Hugo Spowers will discuss his vision for the future of personal transport and explain the radical new business
model that his company is adopting.
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Hugo is the founder of Riversimple. An Oxford University trained engineer and entrepreneur, he made his name in
motorsport in the 1980s. He left the racing industry due to concerns about its environmental impact and went on to study for
his MBA at Cranfield. Here he investigated the feasibility of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and embraced the idea of Whole
System Design, a concept that is integral to Rivesimple’s vehicle design and business model.
www.riversimple.com
John Stobart - What will the future of the law firm look like?
Partner, Harvey Ingram LLP
Commoditisation and IT will shape and characterise 21st century legal services. Successful legal business may be a by-
product of law in society, but it is not the purpose of law. And, just as numerous other industries and sectors are having to
adapt to broader change, so too should lawyers. John Stobart will look at what the future holds for law firms.
John Stobart is a Partner in the Corporate team at Leicester law firm Harvey Ingram. During his career, he has worked in the
City of London as the senior in-house lawyer for a FTSE 250 company. His specialist areas include corporate finance,
acquisitions and joint ventures, university start ups and spin-outs and all related matters from licensing to agency
agreements.
www.harveyingram.com
Facebook: Harvey Ingram LLP
Twitter: @HarveyIngram
Satish Visavadia - The future of production and broadcast media
Director, Ice Academy & Ice Media Corporation
We are entering the 'media economy' which permeates our daily lives in many ways. The traditional boundaries of media
industries have become meaningless. Today, almost every business, community and social activity is a form of media. An
increasing proportion of our social interactions and communications happen across media channels and networks. Every
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organisation, however big or small, is a media entity, engaged in creating and disseminating messages amongst its
stakeholders and associates. The challenge will be to understand and apply approaches in a competitive global context as
content proliferates, audience behaviour changes, advertising revenues are eroded, new technology becomes mainstream
and competitors emerge. Whilst the media economy grows and develops globally, the next decade will provide all of us with
a formidable challenge. The key questions will be to ask ourselves: what markets will we have, how can we integrate skills
and talent, and how can we monetize the opportunities so that our institutions and economy benefits? This presentation will
discuss these issues and reflect upon access, how amateur content creation is leveraged, the role of social networks, scale
of production costs and potential of new media. It will also review the growing influence of the Indian film production base.
Satish is a successful businessman and educator with over 20 years of experience in media, teaching, training and leading
business globally. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, member of Institute for Learning and an Associate
Fellow with the Australian Management Institute. Satish qualified as an engineer and later achieved a master's degree in
education from the University of Warwick, also a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Northampton.
He is currently a Director at the Ice Academy leading and teaching on numerous academic programmes and also a Director
of Ice Media Corporation, a leading media production facility house with local and global networks.
www.icemediauk.com
www.iceacademy.org
Also on the team:
Amplifiers: Brian Condon & Steve Lawson
Unconference Facilitators: Ian Davies, Ross Grant, Ishi Khan-Jackson, Bill Knopp, Joy Marsden, Kathy O'Driscoll, Simon
Parker & Farhana Shaikh, coordinated by Ravinder Kaur
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Exhibitors
Phoenix Square
Phoenix Square is a unique multi-purpose building with plenty to offer businesses. We are home to a state-of-the art film and
digital media centre with production, editing and gaming facilities and a popular cafe/bar. Regular networking events are
held and the Phoenix Square Business Club provides an opportunity for members to meet and exchange views whilst
obtaining benefits for their company, such as hosting their own events in our meeting and conferencing facilities or making
the most of the building's entertainment facilities through a bespoke hospitality package. On site there are also managed
work spaces available to lease ranging in size from 20m2 to 90m2 and self-contained two story offices available to lease or
buy. Come and find us at Vision2020 and see what we can do for you.
You can find out more about Phoenix Square facilities and business offer at www.phoenixsquare.co.uk.
Riversimple
Riversimple will showcase its technology demonstrator vehicle, which was unveiled in June 2009. The car is a development
platform for Riversimple's powertrain technology, designed to show what is possible with today's technology. Riversimple, a
small Shropshire company, aims to launch a fleet of 50-60 prototypes in 2012, with a number having been bought by
Leicester City Council for local testing. The car is a two seat local Network Electric car, powered by hydrogen fuel cells and
with a body made from composite materials, a top speed of 50 mph (80kmh), can accelerate from 0-30mph in 5.5 seconds,
has a range of 240 miles (380 km) and has an energy consumption equivalent to 300 miles per gallon on petrol. A member
of the Riversimple team will be on hand to show you the car which will be on display in Phoenix Square during Vision2020.
"...these tiny cars represent the future. Because instead of running on electricity from the mains, it’s produced by a chemical
reaction within the car itself. A reaction that produces nothing but heat and water" - Jeremy Clarkson.
You can find out more about Riversimple at www.riversimple.com
DMU
Experts from De Montfort University will be on hand to discuss knowledge transfer opportunities. We will also have
information available about the Institute of Creative Technologies, Institute of Energy & Sustainable Development, the new
Retail Lab as well as the Design & New Product Development Centre.
You can find out more about DMU at www.dmu.ac.uk
Frosts Landscapes
Frosts Landscape Construction Ltd is family run business with over 60 years horticultural experience, and specialise in a
number of markets. The company has played a major part in installing some of the largest and most technical projects in the
UK, and has installed many green roofs, our first being some 25 years ago. Last year Frosts were commissioned to design,
supply and erect 1100m2 of green wall extending up to the 11th floor of the new City Inn hotel, in Pepys Street, London. A
total of 188,000 plants will be required to complete the project, and we believe this is the tallest area of live green wall on a
building in Europe. It has caused great excitement to see the green wall erected, and Frosts look forward to growing the
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Green Roof and Living Wall business to new heights… At the Frosts stand, examples of the living wall plant modules will be
displayed, and a member of the Frosts’ team will be pleased to discuss the living wall and green/brown/biodiversity roofs
Vision with you.
You can find out more about Frosts Landscapes at www.frostslandscapes.co.uk
Prospect Leicestershire
Prospect Leicestershire is the economic development company charged with delivering physical regeneration, inward
investment and sustainable business growth across Leicester and Leicestershire, committed to successful collaboration with
key partners and the business community.
Vision2020 provides a platform to raise the profile of Leicester and Leicestershire and in particular the exciting and ongoing
regeneration and developments that have taken place in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. With Leicestershire's well earned
reputation for creativity, the event will provide an excellent opportunity to demonstrate creative thinking at work by involving
Leicestershire’s creative businesses, and in tapping into the collective knowledge of the business community in general to
support its future development.
You can find out more about Prospect Leicestershire at www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
BT Infinity Bus
The distinctive BT Infinity double-decker is visiting Vision2020 and will be outside Phoenix Square during the wine reception.
It is a great way to find out all the benefits of super-fast broadband. With download speeds of up to an eyewatering 40Mb,
BT Infinity gives you a more powerful internet connection, so you can have multiple people using the same super fast
internet connection – all at the same time.
You can find out more about BT Infinity Broadband at www.bt.com/infinity
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Unconference
You’ve heard about unconferences – now try one for yourself!
Our Unconference is hosted by Amplified Leicester.
The purpose of the unconference hour
Each unconference group has an Amplified Leicester facilitator to help you produce Blue Sky Wish Lists of things you would like to see in Leicester in 2020 e.g. a Transport group might wish for free city bikes, or perhaps helicopter landing pads. You should also create a To-do List of practical actions to help move towards it e.g. to produce a proposal for free city bikes.
Keynote Speaker John Thakara will provide us with feedback and advice on our lists in the plenary session.
After the event all the lists will go onto the website as a record and reminder.
How to unconference
During the unconference hour, choose a topic and join other delegates in that room to discuss it and generate some wish lists.
If you decide that the conversation is not for you after all, you can apply the famous unconference “Law of Two Feet” which reads:
If at any time you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing: use your two feet and go to a different room.
Just switch conversations. It’s that simple!
We suggest you get involved in at least two different topics during the hour.
GROUP
A B C D E F G H
ROOM Screen 1
Screen 2 Screen Room
Wrk 1 Wrk 2 Wrk 3 Wrk 4 Wrk 5
TOPIC Mobile Media
Broadcast Media
Transport Ethics Sustainable Innovation
Customer Retail &
Commerce
Placemaking Amplified Community
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