Monday, 15 March 2010

Research 2010: The Annual Conference

Research 2010: The Annual Conference
A festival of ideas, innovation and inspiration

23 & 24 March 2010
Park Plaza Riverbank, London



The flagship event for researchers and clients returns to London, on 23 & 24 March 2010, putting cutting-edge thinking, expertise and debate back in the spotlight. The two-day conference will be chaired by Nick Coates, Research Director at Promise and Simon Lidington, Chief Exchanger at Insight Exchange. In 2009 we celebrated research’s creative and commercial muscle. Next year’s conference will build on that success. We look forward to seeing you and your colleagues for what promises to be an exciting, inspiring and extremely worthwhile event.

Here are just a few of next year’s highlights:

  • An interview with Armando Iannucci, the writer, director and producer (The Thick of It and Alan Partridge)

    Do you have burning question for Armando? Ask him here.

  • BBC HardTalk’s host Stephen Sackur chairs a debate that will touch upon burning issues in the research business

    Is there topic you’d like to see addressed in this session? Tell us here.

  • A keynote address from Professor James Woudhuysen on how forecasting can help make the right decisions on strategy, innovation, marketing and design

  • Learn from the fictional and historical greats that have had the most impact on the shape of research in Big Thinkers

  • Entrepreneurs grill research hopefuls pitching their research company of the future in the Research Dragons’ Den

  • Innovation Interviews with a senior manager at Philips Design, and senior end users from IPA and The Marketing socitey.

Programme topics include

Innovation, Social research, Communities, Communications, Behaviour change, Respondent engagement, Advertising research, Creative thinking, New technologies, Empowering young people, The future of MR, Influence and impact, Co-creation, Semiotics, Language and Culture.

Be inspired by our speaker line-up from:

APA Ι AXA Ι BBC World Ι Beiersdorf Ι BMRB Ι Brahm Ι BrainJuicer Ι Buzzback Europe Ι BT Ι Campbell Keegan Ι Coca Cola GB Ι COI Ι Conquest Research Ι Daniel Wain Consulting Ι De Montfort University Ι Discovery Ι Dubit Ι DVL Smith Ι EM-Business School Ι Face Ι Family Kids and Youth Ι Firefish Ι The Future Place Ι Genesis Consulting Ι GfK NOP Ι Hall and Partners Ι Herd Consulting Ι HPI Ι The Human Element Ι HYVE Ι IFF Research Ι Insight Exchange Ι InSites ConsultingΙ Interbrand Ι IPA Ι Ipsos MORI Ι Jigsaw Research Ι Kantar Operations Ι Kingston UniversityΙ Lawes Consulting Ι Leo Burnett Ι Listengroup Ι The Marketing Society Ι Mediana Ι MESH Planning Ι Millward Brown Ι Mindlab International Ι Nunwood Ι Opinion Leader Ι Partners Andrews Aldridge Ι Philips Design Ι Planning Above and Beyond Ι The Planning Shop Ι Promise Ι Proximity London Ι Publicis Ι Research Magazine Ι Sense Worldwide Ι Spring Research Ι Swan Upping Ι Talk Normal TNS Australia Ι To The Heart Ι Tuned In Ι Verve Ι Virtual Surveys Ι Vovici

BOOK BEFORE 10 MARCH TO APPEAR ON THE DELEGATE LIST