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Kendra Meeting 4 Invite
The Kendra meeting will take place on Monday 22nd October 2001 in the Ballroom on board HMS President, central London starting at 9.00am and finishing at 6.00pm. Yes, it's a day event! Dress how you want but be relaxed. Ballroom dress not required. We are here to share, explore and create.
Aims
Who's Speaking
Who's Attending
Attendance Requirements - Please Read
Event Sponsors
Venue
Agenda
Drinks
Promote Event
Aims
The aims of the meeting are to bring people together to discuss the progress of Kendra Initiative, to take Kendra to the next level and take action point away with us. We will also be working through issues raised in the previous Kendra meetings.
There will be people from the music/radio industry, film/video/TV industry, Internet service providers, content delivery networks, commercial and free (open source) software communities, payment system companies, legal industry, financial industry, etc... All with a view to producing an open system for content distribution and delivery.
Who's Speaking
The day will be divided into 2 main sections. We'll start off with some short talks from a few diverse speakers and then we'll move on to workshops. So, the truth of it is that we'll all be speaking... The following people will do early talks with more on the way (here ordered alphabetically and not by speaking slot):
Daniel Harris Instigator - Kendra Initiative, talking: the Kendra vision.
David Morris Director of Broadband Initiatives - BlueArc, talking: broadband.
Justin Keery Internet Analyst - Trafalgar Asset Managers, talking: stop worrying and start making money.
Lisa Gornick Film Maker - Valiant Doll, talking: what I want.
Neil Harris - Media Channel, talking: metadata and where it's going.
Nick Ogden CEO - WorldPay plc, talking: billing and payment systems evolution in the content value chain.
Paola Di Maio Editor - Content Wire, talking: the way forward for digital rights management.
Stacey Pogoda - Middlesex University, talking: interface design and the design process.
Steve Kennedy Head of Technology Futures - Thus Plc, talking: content providers, ISPs, caching and content peering.
Toby Slater - Toby Slater, talking: what artists want.
Who's Attending
To see who's attending go here.
Attendance Requirements - Please Read
This meeting is free and open to all but if you wish to attend the Kendra Initiative meeting make sure you are listed as doing so here. To make this meeting (and refreshments) a success it is essential that we get accurate numbers of people wishing to attend. The logistics of setting up workshops (and refreshments) require significant preparation so help us out and list yourself as soon as you can.
Event Sponsors
This event is sponsored by BlueArc so far...
Venue
The Ballroom
HMS President
Victoria Embankment
The Thames (between Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges)
London
EC4Y 0HJ
For a map of the location look here.
Have a look at the 360° view of London from HMS President here.
By tube: Blackfriars, Embankment, Charing Cross and Temple
By train: Blackfriars and Charing Cross
Agenda
Times may vary during the event but the start and end times are fixed. Please be on time for 0900.
0900 Registration, tea and coffee
0930 Introductions and keynote presentations from speakers
1100 Tea and coffee
1130 Keynote presentations from speakers continued
1300 Lunch
1400 First workshop: vertical - investigate interface requirements of each link of the whole content value chain: Form workgroups of like-link participants to discuss desired interfaces, common ground and ways of interoperating. No more than 5 people per group.
1500 Group presentations on workshop findings
1530 Tea and coffee
1600 Second workshop: horizontal - combine links to form whole content value chain: Form workgroups of unlike-link participants to create model of the whole content value chain while each participant represents one link within the group. Map out information flow between links that is required to facilitate desired interfaces for each link as defined in first workshop.
1700 Group presentations on workshop findings
1730 Groups looking at organisational structure and marketing. Assign tasks and assign coordinators. Summation and Q&A session.
1800 Networking, drinks and end of day
Drinks
At the end of the day, the bar will be opened and BlueArc, the event sponsors (those lovely people), will buy everyone their first drink (beer, wine or soft drink - afraid spirits not included).
Promote Event
Please do help promote this event. Bring along your colleagues and competitors and find your common ground. If you are on mailing lists then please send out a short invite. We need more content creators/owners and all the other types listed here. Please feel free to modify the following text and make it appropriate to your audience...
Do you want convergence? Kendra Initiative is building an open platform for content delivery facilitating revenue generation for content owners/aggregators and service providers.
Kendra Initiative invites you to its forth all day meeting - convergence workshop. On Monday 22/10/2001, in the Ballroom, on board HMS President, central London. Register on the website, at no cost.
For more details please see: http://www.kendra.org.uk/meetings/20011022invite.php
Also, include the current speakers list and whatever other information you think is relevant. I've added some more content orientated text at the start of the homepage. Together, we will make this a meeting worth having...
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