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THE FUTURE WILL NEVER END
The annual European congress for directory and database publishers 

 

Wednesday 14.09.2005
12.00 Opening of the welcome desk
12.30 Lunch in the Hilton Hotel
14.15 Welcome by the President
14.30 "Understand your neighbours" 
Dominique Bouchet, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark explains how to overcome the pitfalls of cross-cultural communication
15.30 Coffee Break offered by
16.00

The path to the future 
- an industry insider: Andrew Day, CEO, World Directories
- the outside perspective:
         - Leo Reif, Vice President, Media and Telecom Group,  CSFB
         - Michel Sasportes, Partner, OC&C Strategy Consultants

17.30 End of session 
Thursday 15.09.2005
09.15 For members only : collecting voting slips for the general assembly
09.30 General Assemby
10.30 Coffee Break offered by
11.00 The wild and wonderful world of database publishing 
Russell Perkins, Infocommerce Group, USA returns to give us his unique and authoritative take on
what's new,what's working and  what's making money in the fast moving world of B2B and B2C database publishing.  
The future of advertisement based business models:
Presentation of a study which reviews the challenges and the changes in business models, with scenarios for future development by Toon Lowette, Founder of Grid Electronic Publishing Consultancy, BE
12.15 Lunch in the Hilton Hotel offered by
14.15 Some extracts from the EADP benchmarking study
14.30 Are we ready for the future challenges? 
- The significance of VOIP for directory publishers, Joel Bernstein, partner,  Halprin Temple, USA
- ENUM and its implication for directory publishing, Robert Schischka, Enum.at
- How traditional telecoms are managing the change, David Axam, BT
- How new telecoms view directory publishing, Michael Kakuschky, Nikotel, DE 
- The regulatory aspects, Friedhelm Dommermuth Head of Department, Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications, Germany 
 - Publishers examine the impact on directory publishing
15.10 Coffee Break offered by
15.40 Are we ready for the future challenges? (continuation)
16.45 End of session 
Friday 16.09.2005
09.30 The Directory Market in Scandinavia
Thomas Franzén, CEO, Eniro, SE 
10.00 Sales session  
Selling in a multi-product environment:
In this session, some B2C publishers will be presenting their approaches to selling voice, internet and paper products in an increasingly competitive and complex environment.
11.15 Coffee Break offered by
11.45 European Databases : Opportunities and Threats
Directory and database publishers are at the leading edge of the growth of the European knowledge economy.  European and national governments have recognised the potential growth in our sector and have sought to encourage this through supporting legislation on the protection of databases and liberalisation of access to public sector and government held information.   Have  the good intentions of governments translated into real opportunities for publishers?

- Access to Public Sector Information:  What’s changing? Trevor Fenwick, Euromonitor International, UK
The decision to liberalise access to European public sector information is designed to stimulate the knowledge economy by boosting the data publishing sector.   With national legislation due this year what are the changes taking place and how can data publishers take advantage of the changes ?   This session will explain what is happening by focussing on issues surrounding access to company information and telephone subscriber information.
Are databases still protected? Laurie Kaye,  UK
In 2004 the European Court of Justice surprised the database sector  with its decision in the William Hill and Fixtures Marketing cases. Are databases still protected and, if not, what has changed?  What do data publishers need to do to maximise the protection of their data from unauthorised copying and re-use?
13.00 Lunch in the Hilton Hotel
15.00 The behaviour of the young generation concerning search and directory usage
The new generation is developing different search habits. Do we understand the implication for directory publishing?  It's all a question of strategic planning! 
Panel of young people 
16.00 Session open to spouses and accompanying persons:
The internationally acclaimed author and behaviourist Allan Pease explains
"Why men don't listen and women can't read maps".
17.00 Closing of the congress by the President

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