[kNews] Final Summit Invite, World Tour: CN, UK, IT, NL, DE, US,

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Dear All,

Our World Tour kicks off in Beijing in just under a week. See you there...

1. Final invite for Cross Media Summit - great speakers and networking
2. Wake Up Americas! World Tour comes to town in Fall
3. Europe to get World Tour treatment in late Summer
4. Broadcast LIVE - Daniel talks - Is This the End of Broadcasting?
5. London Calling music event ticket give away
6. UK Trade & Investment funds Beijing trip
7. Daniel needs a personal assistant
8. Latest donations
9. Event summary

1. FINAL INVITE FOR CROSS MEDIA SUMMIT - GREAT SPEAKERS AND NETWORKING

Not swayed by Tony Blair's attempt to steal our thunder we'll be staging 
our second Cross Media Summit for Content Discovery on June 27. Taking 
place all day at the salubrious Frontline Club with speakers including 
James Cridland, Head of Future Media and Technology, Audio & Music, BBC * 
Patrick Attallah, CEO, ISAN International Agency * Lisa Wren, Picture 
Research Manager, Pearson Education * Gavin Robertson, Vice President of 
Strategy and Business Development, Broad Street Digital * Scott Cohen - 
Founder and VP International - The Orchard:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/index.php#future-meetings

This Summit will bring together business strategy and technical know-how 
from all media industry sectors to work through the issues, innovate and 
answer the question: THE UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE - IS THERE THE WILL TO BUILD 
IT? Let your colleagues know too.
 

Register your intention to attend by clicking your personalised link at the 
bottom of this email - that goes for you too, Tony! Security is tight and 
space limited so make sure you are listed at:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/meetings.php#meet30

Want to speak at the Summit? Burning to talk about the issues and 
frustrations you are having with content discovery and distribution; and 
about solutions? Contact our Summit coordinator:
 
Gordon Rae <gordon.rae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Many thanks to Phil Haggar of Two Four - http://www.twofour.co.uk - for 
again kindly sponsoring the Summit venue. We still need a sponsor for 
breakfast and lunch so let us know.
 

2. WAKE UP AMERICAS! WORLD TOUR COMES TO TOWN IN FALL

The Americas leg of our World Tour will kick of in October and take us 
through New York, Los Angeles and many other townships. Early December will 
see us exhibiting and speaking at the Broadband World Forum in Sao Paulo, 
Brazil. We want to attend and speak at industry/community events along the 
way; rap with movers and shakers; meet potential funders; raise awareness 
and drive participation.
 

Want to be involved? Suggest who we should meet, what events to sync with 
and where we should go? Contact our, Washington DC based, World Tour 
Americas coordinator:
 
Farooq Hussain <fhussain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
And submit your ideas directly to the wiki:
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraWorldTour

3. EUROPE TO GET WORLD TOUR TREATMENT IN LATE SUMMER - The European leg of 
our World Tour will see us in Amsterdam, Rome and Berlin. Get involved with 
meeting, speaking and exhibiting. Let me know:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraWorldTour

4. BROADCAST LIVE - DANIEL TALKS - IS THIS THE END OF BROADCASTING? - 
Nestled neatly between Beijing and Glastonbury, June 21 1210-1300, Daniel 
will join Federico Grosso, Global VP, Business Development, Blinkx * Paula 
Le Dieu, Managing Director, Magic Lantern Productions * Myles MacBean, VP 
Technology & Operations, Walt Disney Internet Group * Bill Scott, Leader, 
Digital Media, IBM to discuss: Navigating the Media, Divide - Is This the 
End of Broadcasting As We Know It?
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/index.php#future-events

5. LONDON CALLING MUSIC EVENT TICKET GIVE AWAY - We've got two free tickets 
to give away for London Calling. Let me know quickly!
 

6. UK TRADE & INVESTMENT FUNDS BEIJING TRIP - Thanks to UK Trade & 
Investment, Daniel Harris and fellow Kendra-ite, Simon Perry of 
Digital-Lifestyles.info, have received funding to take part in Broadband 
World Forum Asia, Beijing. Did you know that the UK will fund small 
businesses to explore market opportunities in new and exciting foreign 
economies? You do now.
 

7. DANIEL NEEDS A PERSONAL ASSISTANT - Any ideas on how to find one, where 
to find one and how to write a good job description much appreciated. It's 
sure to be interesting. Not just for my work with Kendra but for many other 
projects I'm involved in:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?DanielHarrisPersonalAssistant

8. LATEST DONATIONS - A big thank you to Andreas Sallam, Managing Director 
of InLiMedia ( http://www.inlimedia.com ) for his recent donation:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/donate.php

9. EVENT SUMMARY

For links to events see:
http://www.kendra.org.uk/index.php#future-events

Broadband World Forum Asia and Broadband Content Forum - Daniel Harris 
talks
 
05-08/06/2007 - China World Trade Center, Beijing, China - International 
Engineering Consortium (IEC)
 

Broadcast LIVE - Daniel Harris talks: Navigating the Media Divide: Is This 
the End of Broadcasting As We Know It?
 
19-21/06/2007 - Earls Court 2, London, United Kingdom - EMAP

Kendra Initiative Cross Media Summit for Content Discovery - We all talk!
27/06/2007 - Frontline Club, London, United Kingdom - Kendra Initiative

London Calling 2007
Supporter - 100 GBP discount for Kendra Initiative members
28-29/06/2007 - Earls Court, London, United Kingdom - Ithaca Business 
Media
 

PICNIC'07
Network Partner
22-29/09/2006 - Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Cross Media 
Week
 

Broadband and Triple Play Services - Daniel Harris talks: Building An Open 
Distributed Marketplace For Digital Media
 
24-25/09/2006 - Sheraton Roma Hotel, Rome, Italy - ViB events

Broadband World Forum Europe and Broadband Content Forum
Associate Sponsor - Exhibitor - 30% discount for Kendra Initiative members
08-11/10/2007 - Estrel Convention Centre, Berlin, Germany - International 
Engineering Consortium (IEC)
 

Broadband World Forum Americas and Broadband Content Forum
Associate Sponsor - Exhibitor - 30% discount for Kendra Initiative members
03-06/12/2007 - ITM Expo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - International Engineering 
Consortium (IEC)
 

It's getting busy out there! ;-)

Cheers Daniel

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