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2010 Programme

Wednesday 13th October 2010
Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK

09.00 Registration and Coffee

09.30 Welcome by The Lord Mayor of Leicester Introduction by Sue Thomas

09.45 Keynote: John Thackara How to make less, more. Introduced by Sue Thomas

10.45 Coffee

11.15 Parallel Presentations A

A1 Hugo Spowers The future of personal transport Chair: Sue Tilley

A2 Martin Rieser The future of mobile media Chair: Katherine O'Sullivan

A3 Thilo Boeck The amplified resilient community Chair: Sue Thomas

A4 Michael Fern The future of retail Chair: Tracy Harwood

A5 Bernd Carsten-Stahl Ethical issues of emerging technologies Chair: Pankaj Mistry

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Keynote: Warren Buckley, Managing Director, BT Retail Customer Service Connecting the New Communities Introduced by Sue Tilley

14.00 Parallel Presentations B

B1 John Stobart What will the future of the law firm look like? Chair: Katherine O'Sullivan

B2 Aidan Lane The sky's the limit Chair: Pankaj Mistry

B3 Nicholas Ebbs Placemaking Chair: Tracy Harwood

B4 Fiona Bennie Sustainable innovation through future scenarios Chair: Sue Tilley

B5 Satish Visavadia The future of production and broadcast media Chair: Sue Thomas

14.45 Tea

15.00 Unconference hosted by Amplified Leicester

16.15 Plenary Session with John Thackara

17.00 Wine Reception and Networking

How an Unconference works

Unconferences are increasingly popular amongst businesses that want to generate and access more views and ideas.

Ours will work like this:

• There will be a noticeboard listing the rooms available for unconference meetings - probably around a dozen.
• Delegates are invited to add a topic to a room listed on the board. It can be very specific e.g. Room 1: ‘The future of transport’ or very vague e.g. Room 10: ‘How will money work in 2020?’
• During the unconference hour, choose a topic and join other delegates in that room to discuss it. If you decide that 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!
• Our unconference will last one hour – at the end of this, we ask you to join us back in the main theatre for a plenary session
• Tip: Google 'unconference' and 'Open Space Technology' for more about this technique.

A further twist

We’ve added a further twist to make the Vision2020 Leicester Unconference extra special. Each room will have an expert facilitator, a member of our Amplified Leicester team, to help the group produce a Wish List of items you would like to see in Leicester in 2020 e.g. the Future of Transport Unconference might wish for free city bikes, or perhaps helicopter landing pads!

You will also create a Todo List to help move towards it e.g. to produce a proposal for free city bikes. The lists will be brought to the Plenary session for discussion and after the event they will go onto the website as a record and reminder.

John Thackara will wrap up the day with his feedback on your proposals before we move to the Wine Reception at 5.00pm.

We plan to run further meet-ups over the next decade, as well as continue the discussion online at LinkedIn, where we will re-visit these ideas.

You will benefit most from the day as an active participant, so we encourage you to come and think like a futurist, add to the debate and challenge your colleagues to do the same!