21st June 2010
BBC’s White City Conference Centre, W12

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SPEAKERS

Chris Baker

Chris Baker is a member of Oracle’s EMEA Management Team and Senior Vice President with responsibility for Oracle’s core technology business. He will outline how technology is a key ingredient for any successful smart city and connected / creative community.

Frank Duffy

Frank Duffy, founder of DEGW, doyen of office design theory in the UK, points to major changes in the way business conducts its activities. Combined with rapid, universally accessible technology changes, these are set to challenge conventional wisdom’s about what offices exactly are about.

Frank Duffy is a world authority on organisation theory and office design. He is founder of the international practice DEGW which he co-founded in 1974. Trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School, he gained a March at Berkeley and a PhD at Princeton. He was president of the RIBA between 1993 an 1995. Duffy’s three main areas of interest at DEGW are relating organisation and technological change to office design, research (such as the seminal IBM Orbit studies the more recent Responsible Workplace and New Environments for Working studies) and writing for a wider audience about the theory and practice of design. His recent books include The Changing Workplace, The New Office, Architectural Knowledge and Design for Change.

Michele Dix

Michele Dix is the Managing Director of Planning at Transport for London where she leads the strategic thinking on the future transport needs of London, testing and challenging policies and providing clear direction on appropriate transport solutions for the future. She will examine travel patterns and share how intelligent transport solutions will affect the future of travel in the city.

Paul Finch

Paul Finch became Chairman of CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) in mid- December 2009. He is Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival, and editorial director of the Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal.

Dr Andrew Gould

Dr Andrew Gould, is the Chief Executive of the Jones Lang LaSalle business in England. He is one of the leading advisers on urban regeneration strategy and financing and has advised on many of the leading projects in the UK and abroad. He will be exploring the challenge London faces to retain its position as a world centre for Creative industries as other cities compete ever more aggressively for activity.

Reinier de Graaf

Reinier de Graaf is Partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). He is working on the Commonwealth Institute redevelopment and masterplan for the White City area, both in London; a harbour redevelopment in Riga including a contemporary art museum.

Recently he has taken responsibility for OMA's growing engagement in the Middle East and leads several master plan projects in Dubai, including Waterfront City, Kuwait, and Ras-Al-Khaimah, and buildings in Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Reinier will present his vision for Creative London.

Councillor Stephen Greenhalgh

Stephen Greenhalgh is Councillor for Town Ward in Fulham and Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council. Much credit for the Conservative resurgence in H&F has been attributed to his leadership. He was appointed by Mayor Johnson to a Panel overseeing an audit of City Hall finances and was also asked by Eric Pickles MP, to head up a new Conservative Councils Innovation Unit that will “formulate a bold Conservative blueprint for local government”. Stephen will give his perspective on Regeneration in the West.

Chris Kane

Chris Kane as Head of Corporate Real Estate he leads the BBC’s Property department – BBC Workplace and is responsible for the development, financing and implementation of the BBC’s property strategy together with the day to day operation of the estate. He leads a team that is providing the right workplace for the most creative organisation in the world.

David Kester

David Kester is Chief Executive of the Design Council, he leads the Design Council’s national programmes and policies for industry, education and the public sector that drive innovation and strengthen competitiveness in the UK.

David’s current focus is on designing out of the downturn and includes mentoring high-tech ventures on using design to accelerate new innovations, such as green technologies and sustainable services, to global markets. Across Whitehall and at a local level, David is promoting new design-led approaches that turn social challenges into economic opportunity. For instance, the recent Design Bugs Out programme with frontline NHS staff, has matched the challenges of MRSA and c.Difficile to new consortia of manufacturers and designers, resulting in innovative healthcare products and improved approaches to government procurement. Current project themes include sustainable water consumption, crime prevention, community cohesion, and preventative healthcare.

David became Design Council Chief Executive in 2003. His background in design, industry and the environment includes nine years as Chief Executive of D&AD. He is a Council member of the Royal College of Art, a member of the Home Office Design & Technology Alliance Against Crime, and a trustee of the Rose Theatre Kingston.

Professor Donyun Kim

Professor Donyun Kim is Professor of Urban Design at Sung Kyun Kwan University and visiting Professor of the City Design and Development group at MIT. He is currently working for Seoul Metropolitan City on the planning and design of Sangam Digital Media City (DMC), Korea and will share his learnings from this case with us.

William McKee, CBE

William McKee is Chair of the Mayor of London’s Outer London Commission. He was Director General of the British Property Federation and Chairman of the European Property Federation and a town planner, traffic engineer and chartered surveyor by profession. He received the CBE in the 2002 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to the property industry. He will share the thoughts and recommendations of the Outer London Commission.

Danny Meaney

Danny Meaney, Managing Director and founder of New Media Partners has led much of the company’s work in the development of Media Cities across EMEA and Australia over the last five years including: MediaCity:UK, Glasgow’s Pacific Quay, Bristol Harbourside and is working with King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia to bring to fruition a plan to develop a “Smart City” completely from scratch. He has been a member of two Downing Street Think Tanks – one on Creative Entrepreneurs and the other on the Communications Industries.

Steven Norris

Steven Norriswas MP for over fourteen years at the Departments of Environment, Trade and Industry and the Home Office and Minister for Transport in London from 1992-96. He now sits on the boards of Transport for London and the London Development Agency. Steve will deliver his perspective on London’s future as a ‘city in motion’

Richard Pearce

Richard Pearce is a specialist in creative property development and regeneration responsible for the acquisition and development of over £700 million of assets in last 10 years and will examine the catalyst for creative clusters and present the case study for the Media Park, Hilversum, Netherlands.

Hamish Pringle

Hamish Pringle, Director General of the IPA, the trade association and professional institute for the leading UK advertising, media and marketing communications agencies. Hamish has co-authored two books, 'Brand Spirit: How Cause Related Marketing Builds Brands', and 'Brand Manners: How to Create the Self Confident Organization to Live the Brand', and written ‘Celebrity Sells’. His latest work, ‘Brand Immortality’, was co-authored with Peter Field, and was published in November 2008.

Philip Ross

is CEO of the Cordless Group, author and commentator on emerging technology and its impact on work and the workplace. Philip will look at how work patterns are changing and how technology empowers ‘distributed working’ examining the potential impact for a future London.

Dr Richard Simmons

Dr Richard Simmons, Chief Executive of CABE since 2004. At the London Docklands Development Corporation in 1987, Richard led teams developing masterplans for the development of the Royal Docks and Canary Wharf, building infrastructure and selling land for development. In 1993 he became Chief Executive of the Dalston City Challenge regeneration company in Hackney, where he led a five-year programme of economic, social and physical renewal before becoming Director of Development and Environment for the new Unitary Council of Medway.

Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum in London. Founded in 1989, the Design Museum is the UK’s cultural champion of design and wins international acclaim for exhibitions of modern design history and contemporary design.

Before joining the Design Museum in August 2006, Deyan was Dean of the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design at Kingston University, visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, and the Observer newspaper’s design and architecture writer. He was Director of Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture, and in 2002 was Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which attracted more than 100,000 paying visitors for the first time in its history. Deyan was for several years visiting professor at the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, running a course in design history and theory. From 2000 to 2004 he was Editor of Domus, the international magazine of art, architecture and design, and was Founding Editor of Blueprint magazine from 1983 to 1996.

Caroline Thomson

Caroline Thomson is the Chief Operating Officer of the BBC – part of the central triumvirate running the BBC with the Director-General and Deputy Director-General. She is the member of the BBC’s Executive Board with responsibility for Policy & Strategy and also all major infrastructure projects including Digital Switchover, the move to the North West and property portfolio projects worth more than £1 billion. Caroline will deliver the BBC’s perspective on Creative London.