Forthcoming Events
ICON's CEO Leadership Summit 2008
A unique business event that provides CEOs and Entrepreneurs with advice, ideas and inspiration on how to accelerate growth and maximise shareholder value.
Date: 18 June 2008
Start Time: 09:00
Finish Time: 17:00
In association with: Intellect and The Telegraph Business Club
Venue: London Stock Exchange, 10 Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7LS
Description
Tech CEOs are facing ever-increasing challenges in today’s dynamic and fast changing world of business.
The CEO Leadership Summit explains what the world’s most visionary leaders do differently, how they organize their companies to succeed and which management practices produce exceptional results.
With the ever-increasing challenges that CEOs face today, the Summit is a unique business event providing CEOs and Entrepreneurs with advice on how to accelerate growth and maximize shareholder value.
Come and hear top tech CEOs reveal the secrets of their success.
By attending this Summit you will:
- Find out from Adobe how to create and dominate a new market
- Learn from Oracle how innovation can fuel your top and bottom line
- Hear from Cisco how to integrate acquisitions successfully and accelerate growth
- Understand from Apple how to compete globally including how to succeed in China & India
- Learn how other successful leaders formulate strategy and key decisions
- Discover the top three leadership priorities to improve a company’s performance
- Understand what creates successful channel strategies
- Make better and faster decisions and execute strategy more effectively
- Hear from top VCs how to finance your growth strategy
Who should attend?
CEOs/ Managing Directors/FDs
Chairmen & Non-Exec Directors
VC Investors & Portfolio Companies
VP Business Development/Sales & Marketing Directors
Entrepreneurs
Agenda
09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Welcome from conference chairman
Alan Bristow, CEO, ICON Corporate Finance
09:35 Imagine if you couldn’t fail
What would you do? Where would you go? Who would you be?
David Taylor, author of The Naked Leader
10.30 Born Global
Why XMOS was “Born Global”, Roadmap for global management success, The global nature of business and how to meet those challenges successfully
James Foster, President & CEO, XMOS Semiconductors11:00 Coffee
11:30 Cultivating innovation within your organization that fuels your top and bottom line
- Innovation as a competitive strategy
- Developing the people, processes, and structures that create growth
- Marketing, marketing, marketing - the power of the brand
Chris Baker, Senior Vice President, Core Technology Business, Oracle, EMEA
12:15 The practical challenges and steps to global success
- Growth through acquisition
- Key acquisition criteria
- Integrating acquisitions successfully – the Cisco model
- Challenges & pitfalls
Yann de Vries, Business Development Manager, Cisco Europe
13:00 Lunch
14:15 How to become the industry standard – the Adobe story
- Lessons from the US
- Establishing a culture of execution
- Execution as a competitive advantage
- Execution checklist
- Pitfalls to avoid
Sue Thexton, Former Vice President EMEA, Adobe
15:00 Taking it global - the Apple story
- Competing globally
- Creating successful channel strategies
- Aligning go-to-market activities
- Succeeding in Asia and India
- Cultural “lessons learned”
Robin Abrams, Former President, Apple, Asia
15:45 Coffee
16:15 Panel session: financing global success
Moderator: Alan Bristow, CEO, ICON Corporate Finance
- Graham Brant, co-founder Beyond Asia VC Fund and former MD, Microsoft HK
- Michael Jackson, Chairman Partygaming.com & Managing Partner, Elderstreet Ventures
- Mark Crosier, CEO, Deepstream Technologies
- Robin Abrams, Former President, Apple, Asia
- Mike Reid, Director, 3i Plc
Contact
Tammy Greeno
T: 020 7331 2037
E: tammy.greeno@intellectuk.org
Sponsorship opportunites available please contact tammy.greeno@intellectuk.org
