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bullet2.jpg (345 octets) BUSINESS PROGRAMME

 

"Confront the European Future"

Wednesday, 12.09.2001  

11.00 Opening of the welcome desk in the Bayerischer Hof. Imprimerie Nationale offers welcome drink in the exhibition room.
12.30  Lunch in the Bayerischer Hof
14.00 Opening of the congress by the President
14.15 Keynote address
The "t-info" Content Portal (Market and Development Trends within the International Environment)
Jürgen Kindervater, Head of Corporate Communication, Deutsche Telekom AG
15.00 Coffee break offered by Amdocs
15.30 Is there an emerging European Market?
The route to a "European" consumer
Professor Robert Worcester, Chairman of MORI (Market and Opinion Research International), analyses recent developments in consumer behaviour.
16.15 Advertising in a European Market
How publishers should approach the European Market ? 
Philippe Boutié, Director of Strategic Planning, Publicis La Rochefoucauld
16.45 followed by p a Panel discussion 
Frank-Peter Oppenborn, EADP President and Edouard Prisse, EADP Vice-President and the speakers.

Thursday, 13.09.2001

09.30 Business success in the "New Economy"
Presentation of EADP members' and users' surveys
Analysis of EADP publishers' interviews and reactions of several thousand internet directory users presente d by David Worlock with comments from the  panel
:
Henrique Cerqueira, Interpropo, P
Nikolaus Futter, Compass, A
Franz-Ferdinand Kress, Eniro Windhager Medien, D
Peter Snook, Reed Business Information, UK
Valérie Shwartz, Pages Jaunes, F
Ib Topholm, Krak, DK
who will discuss what the surveys revealed about print and internet directories; e-commerce and other internet services; and the role of publishers and newcomers.
10.50 Coffee break offered by Amdocs
Entering the new world of competitiveness - "Darwin was right!"
Professor Stephane Garelli, IMD Business School, CH
12.30 Lunch in Bayerischer Hof
14.30 Group B business session
Panel discussion on electronic directories: the transition from print to online directories; finding the win-win solution for advertisers, users and publishers
Moderator : Kimberli Lewis, Group B President
Scott Hanle, Group President International,Verizon Information Services, USA
Marco Sala, General Manager Directories Division, SEAT, Italy
Chris Cummings, President & CEO, Marquette Group, USA
Mark Canon, Vice-President Business Development,Switchboard, USA
Paul Fry, Strategic Development Director, Yellow Pages, UK
Alain Wahba, Business Development, General Manager,
Kapitol, S.A., Belgium
15.15 Coffee break offered by Amdocs
15.45 Continuation of the session

Friday, 14.09.2001

09.00 Group A business session
Introduction
Trevor Fenwick, Group A President, Nikolaus Futter and Per Svanaes, Group A Vice-Présidents

The European Directories Market: insights and trends
Tobias A. Elbl, Vice-President, Deutsche Bank AG, UK
Mark Beilby, Head of European Media Research,
Deutsche Bank AG, UK

09.45 Revenue Models in the European Business-to-Business Market
Panel of 3 publishers respond to Keynote Speakers discussing changing business models in their markets and how they are evolving their strategies to deal with the needs of a growing European market alonside the challenges of the new economy: 
Reino Lantto, Blue Book, FIN
Christoph Dumrath, Birkner, D
Peter Villa, Bonnier, S
10.30 Coffee break offered by Amdocs
11.00 European Initiatives in Content Development
The E-Content programme explained by Erwin Valentini, DG INFSO D-4, European Commission:
- Improving access to and expanding use of public sector information
- Enhancing content production in a multilingual and multicultural environment
- Increasing dynamism of the digital content market
11.30 Content integration... The future of database publishing
How to maximise the value of your content through the integration of different data sources.  A commercial and technical insight into the implications of Content Management techniques for the European directory and database publisher.
Paul Cunningham, President and CEO, IIMC, Ir
12.00 The Taxonomies of database publishing in a multilingual and multicultural environment
Classifying International Databases- Panel discusion
- Marie-José Cocquyt, Kompass International
- Alec Watt, Dun and Bradstreet, UK
- Ross Leher, Wand, USA
12.45  Lunch in Bayerischer Hof
14.45 Benchmarking 
Presentation of EADP Study 
15.00 General Assembly
including EADP'report on EU Affairs and especially the draft data protection directive.
If the directive maintains the change to "subscriber opt-in" instead of "subscriber opt-out", it will be the greatest threat our industry ever faced.