BASDA AGM & Executive Seminar 28th April 2009
This year’s BASDA AGM, sponsored by Sift Media, is combined with a full afternoon of topical sessions focused on ideas and initiatives to help your business survive in a downturn.
Speakers will share their insights and experience and there is ample opportunity to ask questions during the sessions as well as at the networking event following the AGM.
The full programme is detailed below. To register for the event, please email Lynne Wallis
Event: How can the business sofware industry survive the downturn? Incorporating the BASDA Annual General Meeting
Date: 28 April 2009 1pm - 7pm
Location: The Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AP. Directions: http://www.thecommonwealthclub.co.uk/pages/page.php?id=67
(Briefing available to Software Satisfaction Award entrants only. BASDA Annual General Meeting available to BASDA members only.)
| 1.00pm | Registration and coffee |
| 1.30pm-2.00pm | How can the business software industry survive and thrive during the downturn Rob Donaldson, Partner and Head of M&A and Private Equity, Baker Tilly
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| 2.00pm-2.30pm | Innovation for growth Paul Druckman, Former ICAEW president, Access & Rugged Logic non-exec
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| 2.30pm-3.00pm | Building demand in a downturn Chris Lewis, CEO and Founder, Lewis PR
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| 3.00pm-3.30pm | Media panel Q&A Moderator: Peter Robertshaw, BASDA marketing SIG chairman
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| 3.30pm-4.00pm | Coffee break |
| 4.00pm-4.30pm | Making best use of your greatest asset - happy customers sell for you John Stokdyk, Sift Media
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| 4.40pm-5.00pm | Cloud computing: Feet on the ground or head in the clouds? Stuart Lauchlan, Editor, BusinessCloud9 and Partner, Darksome Media
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| 5.00pm-5.30pm | BASDA Annual General Meeting (BASDA members only) |
| 5.00pm onwards | Drinks reception |
| 7.00pm | Close |
Sift Media Software Satisfaction Awards
To register for the event, please email lynne.wallis@basda.org




