Internet World – now rebranded as Interop London and the flagship event of London Technology Week - is the leading event for the network and the technologies associated with it: the cloud, applications, storage, data centres and business.
The show was acquired by UBM – the world’s largest pureplay business-to- business events organiser – from Ithaca, a media business with a portfolio of six UK shows, in 2007. For ten years I curated content and acquired major speakers for the keynote theatres on the show floor – underpinning the trade show business model. The content brings the footfall, and the footfall makes the exhibitors happy.
We are skilled at reaching out to senior executives, engaging with them and bringing them onto the programme. Speakers included:
- Jon Gisby at Freeserve
- Ashley Highfield at the BBC
- David Gilbey at AOL
- Julie Meyer at Ariadne Capital
- Douglas McCallum at eBay
- Simon Waldman at The Guardian
- Brent Hoberman at Lastminute.com
- Gillian Kent at MSN
- Mark Howe at Google
- Joanna Shields at bebo.com
- Dharmash Mistry at EMAP
- Michael Acton Smith, creator of Moshi Monsters
- Loic Le Meur, founder of LeWeb
- Tim Westergren at Pandora
- Rod Henwood at Channel 4
- Phil Guest at Sulake
- Annelise van den Bend at ITV
- Peter Cowley at Endemol
- Laurent Ezekiel at LBi
- Mario Turza at Nike
- Brian McBride at Amazon
