2007

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MANAGING DIRECTORIES  An interactive event providing valuable insight and inspiration 24-25 May 2007 – Hotel Arts – Barcelona  This year’s theme:
DIRECTORIES 2.0

COME AND TAKE PART  Listening to the speakers, networking with colleagues and competitors, and taking part in the interactive programme will provide you with fresh ideas on how to tackle the daily challenges back home in your business.   Yell Publicidad will be treating us to a welcome buffet and the well appreciated coffee breaks will be once again kindly offered by YELL
SPONSORS

Exhibition

The following companies have already reserved their exhibition space :

	3L System Group There are always 3L in the Ye lllow Page s 3L System Group is a supplier of solutions for companies in the Directory and Search Services industry and for Yellow Pages Publishing. Our main product, the Core Business System, supports a complete set of processes for a publishers' online and printed directory business. It also establishes the foundation for developing and offering other advertising products that use the various media for their dissemination as they become economically viable. 3L System Group is the preferred solutions provider for the major Yellow Pages publishers in Sweden, Finland, Holland, Poland, Germany, the Baltic states, and Russia. Our systems have been proven to yield substantial efficiency gains to our customers in terms of fast and efficient implementation, substantial cost reductions, and improved sales organization. One supplier. One solution. In addition to distributing Core Business System, 3L System Group also provides a wide area of services such as customization, installation, training and support. The advantages are obvious: One supplier who takes overall responsibility for the entire installation and makes sure the solution integrates smoothly and efficiently. Join 3L and we will be dedicated to make your business even more successful. 3L System Group  Solna Strandväg 4 SE-17104 Solna   +46 8 705 38 00 +46 8 705 38 10 3L Media Inc 150 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1950 Chicago IL 60601 USA +312 781 6275 +312 276 6275 E-Mail: info@3lsystem.se  URL: www.3lsystem.se Contact persons: Joakim Richter, CEO Hans Ekman, Business Processes and System Engineering Fredrik Palmaeus, Project Management Anna Balksjö, Project Management
	AgendiZe AgendiZe provides a suite of innovative social networking tools for online publishers that improve conversion and user experience, creating more value for advertisers. With AgendiZe Click to Call, Save for Later, and Share with Others, consumers can call advertisers directly, or they can store or share web content to over a dozen different devices and technologies, including: instant messaging, email, mobile phones, address books, calendars, GPS, word/PDF and social bookmarks. The AgendiZe suite of Social Networking and Conversion Tools also includes Ratings and Comments functionalities as well as MyDirectory, a publisher-branded personal webspace for users to save, share and enhance listing information and personal contacts. Founded in 2002, AgendiZe currently has deployed more than 26 million communication buttons worldwide. Key Directory customers include YellowPages Group (Canada), KellySearch (USA, UK), Infoserve (UK), 118218 LeNuméro (France), Svaret (Sweden) and QDQ Media, Spanish subsidiary of Pages Jaunes France Group. The company has offices in the U.S. and Europe and is a member of the Yellow Pages Association (YPA), Association of Directory Publishers (ADP), Newspaper Association of America (NAA) and EADP. AgendiZe 26 rue du 4 Septembre FR 75002 Paris - France Tel :+33142661592 Contact: Jean-Roch Bertoncini VP Sales E-mail: jrbertoncini@agendize.com
	Amdocs Amdocs combines innovative software products and services with deep business knowledge to deliver true integrated customer management to the world's leading directory publishers and communication services providers. Our best-in-class products seamlessly link all business processes - content management, marketing, sales, production, billing, customer service, and analytics - resulting in stronger, more profitable customer relationships. Our expertise in managed services results in cost savings and process efficiencies. We also combine deep knowledge of the European directory publishing market, commitment to service and best-in-class solutions. The Amdocs Digital Advertising Solution framework leverages the industry-leading Amdocs integrated customer management platform, which has been developed for managing customers and enabling service providers to develop long-term, profitable relationships, and provides a superior customer experience. Amdocs 1390 Timberlake Manor Parkway US 63017-6041 CHESTERFIELD, MO Tel: +1 314 212 7000 Europe: +45 8939 8939 Fax: +1 314 212 7000 Europe: +45 8939 8939 www.amdocs.com/admedia info@amdocs.com Contacts: USA: Eitan Gelbaum, EMEA: Morten Hyldgaard
	Artificial Solutions  Artificial Solutions helps larger organisations and companies to drastically reduce their customer service costs while at the same time increasing customer satisfaction. These results are achieved by implementing our Customer Service Optimization, CSO™ concept that enables efficient optimization between the various service channels such as Chat, E-mail and telephone as well as optimization between automated, semi-automated and manual service in all these service channels. The applications used in the CSO™ concept are based on advanced natural language processing and include the Interactive Web Assistant, the Agent Based Chat, the E-mail Processor and the Interactive Phone Assistant. The knowledge used by these applications is managed in the Web based knowledge management tool CSO™ Knowledge and the statistics and log files generated from the applications can be viewed and analyzed in the web based tool CSO™ Analysis. Founded in 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden, the company now also has offices in Hamburg, Copenhagen, Paris, Barcelona and Amsterdam. New openings are expected in Tokyo, Ljubljana, Milan, London and Madrid in 2007. Artificial Solutions large portfolio includes both clients from the private as the business sector, some of which are: IKEA, Telenor, SAS Airlines, E-On, Yellow, DKV Seguros and the Swedish Tax Authorities. For more information on how Artificial Solutions can help your company to drastically reduce your customer service costs and improve customer satisfaction, please contact us at: Artificial Solutions Calle Casp 118 – 120, 5º 08013 Barcelona – Spain Phone: +34- 93 345 13 01 Fax:    +34- 93 246 94 99 Contact Marketing: Tamara Biemans E-mail: tamara.biemans@artificial-solutions.com Web:   http://www.artificial-solutions.com/
	Call Genie Call Genie, Inc. is the leading provider of enhanced Voice-enabled category search products and services to Carriers, Directory Assistance Providers, Yellow Page Publishers and Media companies.  Offered as a turnkey or ASP solution, Call Genie’s Enhanced Voice Directory (EVD™) platform enables companies to offer a comprehensive, voice-enabled business category search service to consumer and business customers.  EVD™ is network, handset and location independent, and can be incorporated into any existing DQ service or deployed as a stand-alone offering.  Call Genie won the 2006 Yellow Page Association Industry Excellence Award for Marketing Innovation in North America, the 2006 Whitaker Innovation Award in Europe, and the 2006 118 Tracker Award for Technology Innovation in the UK.  For more information, please visit our website at www.callgenie.com. Call Genie, Inc. 2710 - 17th Avenue S.E. Suite 200 Calgary, Alberta, T2A 0P6Canada Tel: + 44 7769 643026 Contact: Mark Temple mark.temple@callgenie.com
	Comperio Comperio delivers innovative search solutions based on the market leading technology platform from FAST Search & Transfer. We create value for our customers by matching our domain expertise on search with the real life business challenges faced by our customers. Comperio is a "Preferred FAST Partner" and delivers a complete end-to-end offering from solution, project, training, and support to application management. The key to effective search and retrieval solutions is Comperio [Latin: to open up, discover, to know with certainty]. For more information, please visit http://www.comperio.no/.  Comperio. Customer-driven Search Innovations. When Search Matters. Comperio AS Øvre Slotts gate 27 0157 Oslo, Norway Tel.: +47 22 33 71 00 Fax: +47 22 33 71 01 http://www.comperio.no/
	eStara eStara Click Suite for Local Search demonstrates the value of your online directory by connecting online search results with offline sales and includes Click to Call, Call Tracking, Save & Send, Call Recording and Dynamic Call Routing. Businesses now have the ability to prove ROI and maximize the effectiveness of online and offline advertising by adding live, interactive voice contact and multimedia content to their website, email, ad banner or online directory.  Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs) and online directories such as Pages Jaunes France, Europages, Findexa, QDQ, Herold, or Seat Pagine Gialle utilize eStara to drive new revenue by connecting online buyers and sellers with the power of voice. eStara is a wholly owned subsidiary of ATG (Art Technology Group). For more information, visit http://www.estara.com/ eStara 13 Rue Saint Denis FR 92100 Boulogne Tel :+33 147121067 E-mail: thibaut@estara.com Contact: Thibaut BEHAGHEL, Regional Director
	Exalead  Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of software that is designed to simplify all aspects of information search and retrieval for organizations of all sizes. Based on the first and only unified technology platform for desktop, internal sources or Web search, Exalead offers easier deployment, administration and use than any other enterprise-type search software. This is true whether for one or thousands of desktops, huge directories databases, a small business or global enterprise, and conforms to any technology environment. It also adapts to user habits for a uniquely satisfying search experience.Exalead software is used by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing sports entertainment and telecommunications companies around the world. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company with principal offices in Paris. Exalead has headquarters in several countries (USA, Germany, UK, Italy and France) and has signed several partnerships worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.exalead.com/.  Exalead S.A. 10 place de la Madeleine 75008 Paris, France Tel.: +33 1 55 35 26 26 Fax: +33 1 55 35 26 27 Contact: Morgan Zimmerman http://www.exalead.com/
	i411 i411, Inc. is a next-generation search technology company with the mission of changing the way the world looks for and discovers information - i411 is a leading provider of search software and related services that enable organizations to maximize the value of information assets. By providing a front-end search and browse solution that can "bolt-on" to existing databases, i411 provides a highly effective, interactive search experience for end-users. i411 is particularly focused in the area of local search, where the objective is to help yellow page publishers exploit the full value of print-related assets and to help these companies provide a world-class experience for consumer online, while increasing the ROI to advertisers through better, faster search.  i411 professional have significant talent and experience for the entire end-to-end implementation and operation of large scale high performance local search sites. Sites deployed using Discovery Engine™ are mature and stable having and have serviced hundreds of millions of local search queries. Expertise ranges from hardware and network architecture, custom software design, development, integration, quality assurance and load testing, project management, monitoring and operations, ongoing maintenance and service, reporting and management. Beyond technology excellence and proficiency, our clients measure success by the support, commitment and thought contribution provided by i411. We are very proud of the relationships we have developed with our clients and it is our philosophy to work in a way that ensures that we deliver unprecedented value to our customers. Our substantial practical and operational experience with large-scale implementations for directory publishers throughout the world coupled with years of thought leadership surrounding a holistic vision for local search allows i411 to bring a unique perspective that will assist publishers in achieving its strategic objectives. i411 13755 Sunrise Valley Dr, Suite 325 Herndon VA 20171 USA Tel: +1 703 793 3270 www.i411.com Contact:  Altaz Bhanji
	IT2media IT Solutions for Tomorrow’s Business. Improved customer retention, optimized processes on an ongoing basis and an IT infrastructure that is perfectly matched to your business: these are just a few of the challenges set by communications directory publishing houses in Germany and throughout the world. Heterogeneous systems must be brought together that map different publication media to an integrated solution. To put it briefly: the workflow in the production of directories will be completely digital. To cope with these challenges, the IT2media company was founded in March 2003. As an affiliate of Müller Verlag in Nuremberg and, since January 2005, of Josef Keller Verlag in Starnberg, we operate and develop as a certified SAP partner the IT infrastructures of two of the most successful directory publishers in Germany. Our solutions are based on thirty years of experience in this business. We use market standards like SAP and Adobe and develop on this basis specific IT solutions for tomorrow's business. We propose software solutions like MediaBusinessSuite 2.0 - which is already an SAP-Certified Integration solution - and specialist systems like TelNet++ as well as ad design tools for media consultants. All this has yielded a software and services package for directory publishers that is based on standard software components and offers a global solution for manufacturing communications directories. The software solution supports the production processes, the handling of the entire life-cycle of both electronic and print products and also the administration of an extensive amount of asset data. Together with its Leipzig and Munich sites, IT2media employs a total of approximately 135 staff members in the following business areas: - Publishing systems for directory publishers and catalogue publishing - Online directory and information solutions - mySAP ERP®/mySAP Media - Cross MediaPublishing - Mobile systems for the field sales force - IT services focussing on media - Print Services - digital print centre We optimize your processes on a favourably priced and efficient basis, regardless of whether the activity in question is digitizing the marketing process, automatically creating Web pages and ads, a pagination manager or media server - you can deploy our products with a minimum amount of time and effort and they'll bring a breath of fresh air to your organization. IT2media GmbH & CO.KG Pretzfelder Strasse 15 D-90425 Nürnberg Tel. +49 911 30730-0 Fax +49 911 30730-625 info@it2media.de www.it2media.de  Geschäftsstelle München Fürstenriederstr. 265 D-81377 München Tel. +49 89 74126-200 Fax +49 89 74126-201 muenchen@it2media.de www.it2media.de
	NOVASYS  NOVASYS is a leading company specialized in Geocentric Information Services. It offers solutions in the areas of Location Based Services, mapping for Internet and for mobile users as well as innovative services for Directory Assistance and Yellow Page companies. The company has its headquarters in Lausanne Switzerland and subsidiaries in Bern, Zurich and Paris. Novasys offers the following solutions in the area of DA/DQ based on its Geo-centric platform Maponair®:Maponair® MapConfirmation: Enhanced SMS including a map, by using SMS WAP Push or MMS. This is a fully configurable and ready to use application with the highest quality maps adapted to all available Mobile handsets.Maponair®on the Move: Concierge type service for Enhanced Directory Assistance. The application designed for the call centre operators includes a rich collection of Points of Interest (POI) with information such as the restaurant types and prices of the menus or the number of hotel stars. Maponair© on the Move is fully convergent with the Mobile world, allowing for sending out the information to the user via SMS or MMS.Maponair® Internet Mapping and Routing specifically designed for Yellow and White pages operators. The solution includes dynamic maps and door-to-door cross country driving directions. It also includes monetising applications such as convergence with the Mobile phones, advertising space for the operator and support for local advertising campaigns.For more information on how Novasys can help your company to introduce high quality geographic services service and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty, please contact us at:Novasys SA Le Trési 6D CH – 1028 Préverenges Phone:  +41 21 651 30 30 Fax:      +41 21 651 30 35 Christian Hugonnet CEO Email : contactform@novasys.com Website : www.novasys.com
	Sentor MSS AB  Sentor MSS AB  The online business need no longer worry about having their intellectual property stolen from their websites by malicious scrapers. Sentor’s managed anti scraping network service – ASSASSIN – blocks the most persistent scrapers 24/7, in real time. And it is completely invisible to legitimate users. With headquarters in Stockholm and offices in Malmo , Uppsala and London , Sentor provides a total security solution to clients.  Using sophisticated data mining and correlation tools, supplemented by in-house developed software and methodology, Sentor's security analysts monitor and provide client solutions in real time for client's 24x7. Sentor supports clients through the entire security process with an integrated security service comprised of penetration tests, network security audits and design and implementation of IT security solutions. For more information see www.sentor.se Sentor MSS AB Visit:Lästmakargatan 3 111 44 Stockholm Sweden Phone:  +46 - (0)8 54 53 33 02 Fax:      +46 - (0)8 54 53 33 99 Web:     www.sentor.se Contact: Mr Mathias Elväng
	Volt Delta International Volt Delta International provides a range of integrated solutions to Directory Publishers offering innovative services across print, online and other media. Our Directory Publishing System (DPS) offers a complete workflow oriented, user-friendly system for a publisher including a fully automated Pagination system. In addition our data management system allows Directory Publishers to quickly and efficiently manage and merge multiple data sets for use in a variety of downstream products. We also offer a voice-based service for Talking Yellow Pages extending the reach of traditional Yellow Pages services and opening up new advertising revenues. Our other integrated solutions include support for location-based services and a wide range of automated services. Volt Delta International Munich Reiner Jakubietz Tel:     +49 89 455 66 126 Email: reiner.jakubietz@voltdelta.de London James Glasspool Tel:     +44 1932 755 550 Email: james.glasspool@vde.co.uk  Web: www.voltdelta.net
	X- Media    Since 1992, X‑Media is a major player in the print industry providing solutions to 350 press editors, catalog, guides, dictionary and directory publishers, across 25 countries. Since 2006, X-Media has widen its offer on the media market, and has integrated an extremely professional team to support X‑Media’s expansion worldwide. Today, X‑Media supplies the international market with a complete suite of systems dedicated to the media industry ranging from pagination to editorial, and from ad-production to cross media advertising systems: - Calligram Directory is the solution to paginate your Yellow and White pages better and faster. Like QDQ (Spain), Kompass, Les PagesJaunes, Europages (France), Pagine Utili (Italy), Editus (Luxembourg), Edicom (Morocco), etc… Let Calligram Directory spare you time and money while increasing the quality of your publications!  - Calligram Studio is the solution to optimize and control the full process of your display ad production. Like Secondamano (Italy), Ouest-France (France), Vlan (Belgium), Friday Ad (UK) etc…Eliminate errors and increase the productivity of your publication Department!   - AdPress is the integrated commercial entries advertising system. Leave the handling of orders to the sales rep, integrate sales, invoicing, bill collections, and production: It’s all possible with AdPress!  Matthieu Laverne International Director Tel: +33 1 46 43 90 06 Email : international@x-media.fr Website : www.x-media.fr

 

Interested in exhibiting?

Are directory and database publishers potential customers of yours?

If so, we offer you a unique possibility of establishing contact with them by exhibiting at conference on Managing Directories in which decision-makers from the leading directory publishing houses in Europe will be taking part.

A limited number of suppliers of products and services to our industry will have the opportunity to exhibit and to sponsor during the conference.  All coffee breaks are served in the exhibition area to give plenty of time to the participants to visit the exhibition and make contacts with the exhibitors.

The price of a space is 995 euros for EADP members and  1395 euros for non members. 

Map of the exhibition and remaining available spaces.

The exhibition in now "sold out".

But, we also propose you sponsorship opportunities
and, for any other information you may require, please contact us: mailto:karenchevalier@eadp.org

List of Participants

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Practical information

Please note that all bookings have to be made through EADP. 

The conference hotel :

Hotel Arts ***** Marina 19-21 Barcelona 8005 Spain     Phone:  34 93 221 10 00    Fax:  34 93 221 10 70 Superbly refined and sophisticated this avant-arge, hich tech, hich luxury designer hotel is probably one of the best in Barcelona.  All rooms have a breathtaking view over either the Mediterranean and the Olympic pleasure port or the town itself.  Please also note that the hotel is offering you the same reduced rate throughout the week-end, which is the long Whitsun week-end (Pentecost).

NH Calderon Hotel 

C/Rambla Catalunya, 26
08007 Barcelona (Barcelona)
Spain

Tel: 34 933010000
Fax: 34 933173157

 
Ideal for those looking for a bit of local colour, this comfortable hotel on the Rambla de Catalunya is well located for the bustle of the Ramblas downtown and the elegant avenues of the upper part of the city.  A special coach will take you to the conference hotel in the morning and back in the evening. 

 

 

Programme

Programme 

Directories 2.0

Transforming the marketplace for directories

 

23 May 2007 20.00 Welcome buffet in the Hotel Arts offered by Yell Publicidad

24 May 2007

10.00	The future of print in directories: the view of the paper producer  Henrik Sjölund, Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, Holmen Paper, Sweden
10.45	Print and online: complementary, not adversary media  Cornel Riklin, CEO, European Directories
11.15	Coffee break offered by
11.45	Innovation in print and online - challenges in return and revenue  Marc Tellier, CEO, YPG, Canada
12.15	Print, online and beyond: bring directory information where the searchers are  Ana Garcia Fau, CEO, Yell Publicidad, Spain
12.45	Q&A with keynote speakers
13.00	Lunch on the Hotel Arts garden terrace
Advertising trends
14.30	Video for advertising and content: local and social  Rabin Yaghoubi, Google
15.00	Classifieds in combination with directories  Dorian Selz, local.ch, Switzerland
15.30	Tags in advertising: mobile, printed, wireless RFID...  Domenico Surace, Mobiletag.com, France
16.00	Coffee break offered by
16.30	Interactive session with content generation and community building  with the kind support of einsa print international
25 May 2007
Products for the new local reality
09.00	User generated content: the Eniro case study  Christer Pettersson, Eniro, Sweden
09.30	Blogging and local search  Sébastien Provencher, Co-Founder, Praized Media Inc., Canada
10.00	Next wave of product search  Ramin Ziai, Portal United Ltd, DE
10.30	Coffee break offered by
Adapting to the user reality
11.00	Social search; how to combine directories with professional communities  Dan Serfaty, Viadeo, France
11.30	Advanced search and data enrichment for local market places  Michael Mokhberi, Apptus, Sweden
12.00	New creativity and business models in Directory Assistance  Eric Fredine, Call Genie, Canada
12.30	Lunch on the Hotel Arts garden terrace
Sales & Marketing session
14.00	Click fraud vs. the pay per performance wave  Bill Barnes,  Enquiro Search Solutions Inc
14.30	Sales organisation: How to deal with the confusion of rates, bundling and pay per performance  John Kelsey, The Kelsey Group, US
15.00	Reseller strategies for SME's  Steven Chuck, Yahoo, US
15.30	Turning the Threat into Opportunity: How the World Wide Web Will Benefit Directory Publishers.  Kirsten Mangers, Webvisible, USA
16.00	End of the conference





 

 

Registration

At this late stage we can only accept registrations without hotel accommodation.
Both the Hotel Arts and NH are fully booked.

Registration fee includes : 

- the participation in the business sessions on 24 & 25 May 2007 
- Lunches and coffee breaks on 24 & 25 May 2007
- The welcome evening buffet in the Arts Hotel on 23 May 2007

Price for members : 1400 euros
        for non-members : 1800 euros

Speakers

 

	Bill Barnes Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Enquiro Search Solutions Inc. Canada   Bill Barnes is a Marketing veteran who has been in the marketing, advertising and promotion industry for over 20 years, the last 8 of which have been focused on Search Marketing.  He co-founded Enquiro along with Gord Hotchkiss in 1999.  At Enquiro Bill Barnes has overseen explosive sales growth. He has extensive experience in setting up and implementing Search Marketing campaigns for such companies as AIG, AT&T, Lexis/Nexis, Siemens and Orkin, striving to always help companies Succeed in Search. Enquiro is one of the world’s foremost search-engine marketing companies, and leaders in on-line search behavior research.  Enquiro combines the knowledge gained from cutting edge research into Search Engine and website user behavior with marketing expertise to create, implement and measure extensive search marketing campaigns.
	Steven Chuck Director, Emerging Markets, Yahoo, USA Steven Chuck joined Yahoo! Search Marketing in July 2004. He is currently responsible for leading Yahoo’s advertiser business development initiatives that focus on the introduction of sponsored search advertising programs to small and medium-sized businesses.   Prior to Yahoo!, Steven Chuck held key roles at AOL and Kelly Blue Book, where he gained extensive experience helping companies successfully migrate their advertising and marketing efforts from traditional media into performance-based online marketing opportunities. His online media experience includes developing integrated media offerings and devising ‘Brand to Retail’ campaigns that support advertiser goals at all stages in the buying cycle. He was involved in media buying, software development and product marketing.   Steven Chuck received his degree in Economics from Occidental College in Los Angeles.
	Ana Garcia Fau, CEO, Yell Publicidad, ES Ana Garcia Fau was appointed CEO of Yell Publicidad shortly after the business had been acquired by the Yell Group from TPI, where she had been Chief Financial Officer.  She began her career at TPI ten years ago, first as Director of Planning and later as Managing Director of Corporate Development. In this latter role Ana Garcia Fau led the company's acquisition of companies in Chile, Peru and Argentina and became Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development in 2005. Ana Garcia Fau, who is a graduate in Law and Business Administration from ICADE and also has an MBA from the Massachussets Institute of Technology, previously held positions at McKinsey & Company and at Goldman Sachs.
	Eric Fredine Senior Vice-President, R & D, Call Genie, Canada Eric Fredine is responsible for product development at Call Genie, a leading provider of voice local search solutions. He has twenty years of experience in the telecommunications industry.  Eric Fredine held previous executive positions with BCE Emergis, ADC Telecommunications and Saville Systems, having started his career with Nortel Networks.
	John F. Kelsey, III Founder and Chief Executive Officer The Kelsey Group, USA After working for three big companies for 13 years, John Kelsey teamed up with his wife Pam in 1986 to start their own business focused on how new technologies would impact traditional media. Over the past 20 years, John Kelsey has managed and facilitated the growth of The Kelsey Group from a small consultancy to a full-service business intelligence firm specializing in local media. Today, The Kelsey Group offers continuous advisory services built on the foundation of experienced analysts with firsthand knowledge of the marketplace and access to every major decision maker. The company’s single-minded focus on Yellow Pages, online and mobile directories, and interactive local media assures clients that they will get the mission-critical analysis they need to make decisions. TKG also conducts consulting, sponsors proprietary research, develops reports and other published materials and holds conferences.
	Kirsten Mangers, CEO, Webvisible, USA  Kirsten Mangers is CEO and Co-founder of WebVisible, a leading U.S. software provider that powers local interactive advertising products sold private-label by directory publishers around the world, including British Telecom, R.H. Donnelley, BellSouth, and Yellow Pages Group of Canada. WebVisible provides directory publishers the platform and the high-performance products, and the directory publishers drive substantial top-line advertising revenue by offering interactive advertising products to their local merchant advertisers. WebVisible’s service suite includes local search marketing, locally-targeted banner advertising, fixed placement ads, profile and landing page technologies, and call-related services packages.   Previous to WebVisible, Kirsten Mangers accumulated 20 years of experience in the local interactive, wireless and directory industries as Vice President of Sales for SBC. Additionally, Kirsten Mangers held positions in sales, strategic panning, marketing and business development for GTE, Pacific Bell, Go2 Systems and Engage Technologies (a CMGi Company).
	Michael Mokhberi, Co-founder, Apptus, SE Michael Mokhberi is one of Scandinavia's foremost authorities on search technology and has been working with high-performance database systems and search solutions for the past twelve years. He is one of the founders of Apptus and works as strategic adviser to several leading directory services in Europe. Michael Mokhberi has a masters degree in Computer Science from Lund University and he won the prestigious SMIL Award as the innovator of the year, 2004.
	Christer Pettersson Online Manager Search, Eniro, SE As Online Manager, Christer Pettersson is responsible for the business development of Eniro’s search services, including new areas as SEM and SEO. Christer Pettersson has been with Eniro since the beginning of 2001, joining the company as Product Manager for the Swedish IYP site gulasidorna.se. In 2002, Christer Pettersson took up the position as Online Manager.   Before joining Eniro, Christer Pettersson worked six years for the American publishing house IDG (International Data Group), publishing titles such as Computer Sweden and MacWorld in Sweden. The last position Christer Pettersson held at IDG, before joining Eniro, was Marketing Manager for the magazine Internetworld.  Christer Pettersson holds a BSc in Business Administration and Economics, with advanced studies in Advanced Economics and Statistics, from Stockholm University, Sweden.
	Sebastien Provencher, Co-founder of Praized Media, Canada Sebastien Provencher is a consultant and the co-founder of Praized Media, a local & social media industry blog. He still works part-time as Senior Manager for strategy and business development at Yellow Pages Group, Canada's leading directory publisher. Over the last seven years he played a key role developing the company's online strategy, notably building its most successful online ad product, DirectoryPlus, and forging a strategic partnership with Google. Sebastien Provencher has his own distinct point of view on local search, online directories, search engines and social media, fields to which he brings ten years experience and expertise.
	Cornel Riklin, CEO, European Directories SA, GB Cornel Riklin is the Chief Executive Officer of European Directories, one of the leading directory and online search companies in Europe.  The business was acquired in 2005 by Macquarie Bank and other private equity investors for 2.5 billion euros and has operations in eight European countries. Mr Riklin, a Swiss national, was earlier the CEO of Findexa, Norway's largest directory business and before that Managing Director of the Texas Pacific Group in London. His experience has been very wide.  In the nineties he was Group Managing Director in charge of Regional Newspapers, New Media and Group Operations at Trinity Mirror Plc in the U.K.  Prior to that he was CEO in a UK food manufacturing company.  After obtaining his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1982 he has in fact held posts in the U.S.A, U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Continental Europe.
	Dan Serfaty CEO, Viadeo.com, FR  Dan Serfaty, a ‘serial entrepreneur’, is the co-founder and CEO of Viadeo.com, a leading online business social network.  After graduating from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales - Paris) in France in 1987 specialisation in entrepreneurship, Dan Serfaty began his career as an entrepreneur aged only 21 by managing the turnaround of Dimo, a French company in the tourism sector. After returning Dimo to profitability within two years, he then sold the company to a German Group in the same sector. At the same time he founded a company in 1991 that distributed textile products manufactured in Asia. Having grown the company turnover to over €15m in less than ten years, Dan exited by selling his shares. After a short break, Dan Serfaty launched Agregator in 2000 a business club for entrepreneurs and an innovative Private Equity concept.   As part of the activities of this business club and with the same business partners, Dan Serfaty launched Viadeo.com (ex-Viaduc.com) in June 2004, an online business networking site. After successfully internationalizing the business at the end of 2006, Viadeo now has almost two million members, with around one third in Asia.
	Dr. Dorian Selz Co-founder and CEO of local.ch, CH  Local.ch, of which Doria Selz was a co-founder and is currently its CEO, is a new local search platform in Switzerland. It is a search engine which gives fast and highly effective access to products, services and a range of other useful information in given local markets.  It combines on a single platform information from the telephone directories of LTV Yellow Pages Ltd. (which publishes 97 local directories as well as seven regional "Yellow Pages") with information from other PubliGroupe companies' websites, such as www.fundgrueb.ch and www.autoboerse.ch.   Previously, Dorian Selz was a partner with namics, a leading Swiss Internet agency, and he is also the co-author of "Digital erfolgreich", a book about achieving digital success.
	Henrik Sjölund, Senior Vice-President, Holmen Paper, SE Henrik Sjölund was appointed Senior Vice-President, Sales & Marketing, at Holmen Paper in 2001.  He joined Holmen Paper, Sales & Marketing, in June 1993 as Project Manager, becoming Product Group Manager two years later. In December 1998, Henrik Sjölund was appointed Sales Director of Holmen Paper's Nordic Sales division. Henrik Sjölund holds an MBA in international business administration from the University of Linköping.
	Domenico Surace,CEO, Mobiletag, FR  Domenico Surace has been the CEO of www.mobiletag.com since May 2006, where he has been responsible for the European launch of the Codebarre2D technology, the development of operating platforms and the design of new business models.  Prior to that he was the Vice-President of www.mobitween.com for which, among other things, he developed 100 Flash games for mobile phones.  From June 1999, Domenico Surace was the Chairman and Managing Director of www.internet-fr.net, where he steered the customer base towards large accounts such as the Crédit Lyonnais and the RTL Group, succeeded in increasing turnover by 20% a year and returned the business to profitability.  He had, in fact, been a General Manager at Internet.FR. for four years before that, being reponsible above all for technology and the creation of new technical services.  After obtaining his qualifications in information technology,   Domenico Surace began his professional career at Bull in 1994, where he was responsible for rolling out large-scale IP networks, involving some 200 servers and 4000 jobs.
	Marc P. Tellier, President and CEO,Yellow Pages Group, Canada As head of Yellow Pages Group, Marc Tellier completed the largest ever initial public offering in the income trust sector in Canada in 2003.  In 2005, he led the $2.55 billion acquisition of Advertising Directory Solutions Holdings, Inc. in Western Canada, creating a national platform for directories that was further strengthened in 2006 with the acquisition of MTS Media, the largest directory publisher in Manitoba. In 2006, he also completed the acquisition of Trader Media Corporation in Ontario and Classified Media (Canada) Holdings Inc. in the rest of Canada, creating a second national platform, this time in vertical media.  He is currently the CEO of Trader Corporation. Marc Tellier began his career at Bell Canada in 1990 after graduating from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Economics. In time he became Senior Vice-President, Partnership Development.  He was responsible for the launch of the first commercial telecom high-speed Internet service in North America. He also served as President and CEO of Sympatico-Lycos. Among several other outside responsibilities, Marc Tellier is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Canada and of the Yellow Pages Association.  He is also a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
	Rabin Yaghoubi, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Google, GB. As Director of Strategic Partnerships, Rabin Yaghoubi is responsible for Google's content, commerce and local partnerships across Europe, the Middle East & Africa. Previously, Rabin Yaghoubi was global Vice-President of Media at DoubleClick.  He was also the founder of an independent investment and consulting firm focusing on digital media and marketing businesses in Europe and North America. He has an MBA from Stanford University and a BA and BS from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
	Ramin Ziai, Co-founder and Director Portal United Ltd, DE Ramin Ziai is Co-Founder of Portal United Ltd., operating company of blauarbeit.de, a B2C reverse service auction– platform / tender – platform in Germany. While studying computer engineering in Cologne he was in the founding team of PiroNet NDH AG, a technology firm listed on the stock exchange. Before co-founding Portal United Ltd. he was coordinating international projects for Content Management AG. Purchase - ready service buyers can post their needs. Registered service providers are informed via eMail about new jobs within their predefined service area and can directly place a price bid (quote). The buyer can freely pick the best bid, depending on price, reputation and rating. The service referral community is based on user generated ratings. blauarbeit.de co-operates with t-online.de, freenet.de, lycos.de, gelbeseiten.de etc..