Agenda

4.00pm – 4.30pm

Registration and Networking

4.30pm – 4.40pm

Chairman’s Welcome: Anthony Hilton, Financial Editor – Evening Standard

4.40pm – 4.50pm

Overview of current economic climate

4.50pm – 5.10pm

Keynote Speaker: Richard Watson, Futurist

5.10pm – 5.50pm

Panel discussion and audience questions

5.50pm – 6.00pm

Chairman’s Conclusions

6.00pm – 7.00pm

Drinks Reception

7.00pm

Close

Chairman

Anthony Hilton, Financial Editor – Evening Standard

Anthony Hilton is a journalist who won the “Decade of Excellence Award” in 2007, the most prestigious award in business and financial journalism given annually by the World Press Awards; an offshoot of the Davos based World Economic Forum.  He has worked for the Observer, the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express and has served in New York, where for three years he was Business Correspondent for the London Sunday Times.

Anthony joined Fleet Street in 1968.  He was City Editor of the Times, 1981 to 1983 and City Editor of the Evening Standard from 1984.  In 1989 he became Managing Director of the Evening Standard, a post he held for six years before returning to the City Office as Editor in 1996. In 2003 he became Financial Editor and economics leader writer for the paper. He has worked in television and radio, has written books on understanding finance and the City, and is a frequent conference and after dinner speaker and moderator on City and media matters.

Keynote speaker

Richard Watson, Futurologist

Richard Watson is a writer, speaker and thinker who helps organisations to think ahead with a particular focus on strategic foresight. He is the founder of nowandnext.com, a website that documents global trends and is co-founder of Strategy Insight, a scenario planning consultancy.

He is the author of two books; Future Files: 5 Trends for the Next 50 Years (2007) and Future Minds: How the Digital Age is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters and What We Can Do About It (2010).
Richard has lectured at London Business School and has written for a number of publications, including Fast Company (US), What Matters (McKinsey & Company), Retail Banking Review (Australia) and Future Orientation (Denmark).

Panellist

Miles Ashley, Director of Crossrail & Stations

Miles Ashley began his career setting out the centre line of the M25 Motorway in Leatherhead whilst working for Balfour Beatty. He graduated in Civil Engineering at Kingston, and worked for Lovell Construction across a wide range of projects; eventually managing its business with London Underground and Railtrack.

He became MD of Heritage Property Group in 2000 and soon after also joined the board of project manager, Clarson Goff Ltd, as part of a management buy-in.

Today he runs the Crossrail & Stations Capital Programme at London Underground, and very much enjoys grappling with complex urban projects such as Tottenham Court Road, Bond Street, Victoria and Bank. Equally rewarding is the day-to-day activity of much smaller schemes and managing the never-ending activity of replacing escalators!

Miles is a participant in the Infrastructure UK initiative and is managing the IUK implementation activity on Risk, Contingency and Optimism Bias as part of the Infrastructure Client Group.

Panellist

Colin Stanbridge, Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI)

Colin Stanbridge became Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) in November 2002. He is responsible to the Board for all aspects of LCCI work.

Prior to joining LCCI, Colin was Managing Director of Carlton Broadcasting, the London weekday ITV Company from 1996, having joined Carlton as Controller of Regional Affairs in 1993. He became Controller of Public Affairs for Carlton UK Television in 1994.
Colin was at the BBC for nearly twenty years after joining as a News Trainee straight from York University. He has worked in local radio, network news, current affairs and regional television.

After working as a producer on ‘Midweek’, ‘Tonight’ and ‘Nationwide’, Colin joined the team that set up Breakfast Television. He was a senior editor on ‘Breakfast Time’ for two years. He was the Editor in Brighton on the morning of the Brighton bomb.

He was made Home Editor on ‘Newsnight’ before moving back to ‘Breakfast Time’, first as Deputy Editor and then as Editor. After a spell as Editor of ‘This Week Next Week’, the political weekly, he became Head of Television for the South East. He was responsible for the transformation of ‘London Plus’ into ‘Newsroom South East’ and the creation of the current affairs strand ‘First Sight’ which won two Royal Television Society Awards. His last job at the BBC was as Head of Centre, South East, where he headed up all regional television and the output of five local radio stations.

Colin is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and has helped produce a number of RTS events. He is a keen golfer and a member of Ross on Wye Golf Club.