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Who is Accountable? 18:15 - 19:30 Jury’s Inn Room 112 Speaker Baroness Jolly Local Government — Public Health Speed Dating 18:15 - 19:30 Jury’s Inn Room 114 Speaker Dr John Pugh MP THE Health Debate — Will the coalition deliver a better NHS? 20:15 - 21:30 Jury’s Inn Rooms 101/102 Speaker Paul Burstow MP Follow us on twitter using #HealthDebate The Health Hotel Reception — invite only Reception Partner With an address by Paul Burstow MP 21:45 - 23:00 Hyatt, Sonata Tuesday 20th Sept Patient or Doctor — whose fault is late diagnosis? 13:00 – 14:00 Jury’s Inn Room 112 Speaker Baroness Jolly Mind the gap — How can we bring health and social care together in the new NHS? 13:00 – 14:00 Jury’s Inn Room 114 Speaker Paul Burstow MP Additional Health Hotel Members: providing free access to all MPs’ biographies on the Health Hotel Stand If you have a QR code reader on your mobile phone, scan this code for the brings you the Health Hotel Lounge the most up to date information on our events. Media Partner If you need this advert in other formats please contact [email protected] introduction contents Welcome to the Conference Directory for Features: 3–6 the Liberal Democrat autumn 2011 federal Welcome to Birmingham by Cllr Paul Tilsley 3 conference. Making things better – campaigning for This Conference Directory is your guide to all that is better still by Tim Farron MP 4 taking place at conference outside the main auditorium – for details of the main conference Conference information 7–15 sessions taking place in the auditorium, see the Conference venue plan 15 separate Conference Agenda. Exhibition 17–27 The Directory is designed to help you make the List of exhibitors 18 most of conference, from fringe, to exhibition, to key conference events. It contains everything you need Plan of exhibition 19 to know to help you get the most out of your time Directory of exhibitors 20 here in Birmingham. Conference sponsors 27 A map and venue plan is enclosed to help you Fringe guide: 28–92 navigate your way around Birmingham and The Fringe venues and key 28 ICC. The conference information section contains convenient information about transport, cashpoints Saturday fringe 29 and utilities, and where to go for food and drink Sunday fringe 33 when you need to refuel. The fringe guide gives Monday fringe 49 details of this year’s packed fringe programme, with a record number of events to keep you busy! Tuesday fringe 71 Wednesday fringe 89 The Directory also includes important information List of advertisers 92 on security which is significantly different from previous years – see security and safety on page Map of Birmingham city centre inside back cover 13. Should you have any questions whilst at conference For the conference agenda, further feature please ask one of our stewards who will be happy articles, auditorium information and standing to help. Alternatively, the Information Desk, in the orders, see the separate Conference Agenda. Upper Foyer of The ICC, is available to assist you with procedural and general information requests. Keep this guide handy and all you need to do is enjoy yourself. But if all else fails, ask! Enjoy conference. For conference details and registration online: The Conference Team www.libdems.org.uk/conference ISBN 978-1-907046-36-0 Published by The Conference Office, Liberal Democrats, 4 Cowley Street, London SW1P 3NB. Design and layout by Mike Cooper, [email protected]. Printed by Sarum Colourview, 23–24 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8ND. www.sarumcolourview.co.uk Front cover photo by Alex Folkes in government on your side 1 When will energy companies stop telling me to save energy and start helping me do it? As a breed, energy companies have always been very good at you what you can do – and how much you can expect to save giving advice on saving energy. 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Registered in England and Wales No. 3407430. autumn conference directory 2011 welcome to birmingham by Cllr Paul Tilsley features I would like to welcome you all are boutiques, bookshops or on behalf of Birmingham, to markets, Birmingham has them all. we have our annual conference. Birmingham is also a diverse city and our chance historically we have always looked to to make Many of you will have visited the future. Birmingham before, when we the right hosted the Spring Conference As a Council, we have adopted a decisions in 2010 and will have already forward thinking approach to the experienced the warm digital agenda and sustainability is for the welcome that this city extends very close to my heart. We are benefit of committed to preserving the city and to visitors. environment for the next generation. not just I know that there are lots of Birmingham These are of course different times interesting opportunities at from the Spring Conference in 2010. but the conference and I would not want to Instead of being a party of opposition detract from these important events, whole we now have the responsibility of but if you get the opportunity and can government in coalition. This country. tear yourself away, please enjoy what replicates the successful progressive this diverse city has to offer. partnership here in Birmingham since 2004. You cannot truly say you have experienced Birmingham if you have I am proud that now, we also have not tried at least one of our famous our chance to make the right baltis; for a taste of times past, our decisions for the benefit of not just museum and art gallery has artefacts Birmingham but the whole country. from the world famous Staffordshire Hoard and a fantastic collection of pre It gives me great pleasure to host my Raphaelite paintings; and of course, party’s conference in my home city. we have fantastic shopping within Please enjoy your time here. walking distance, whether your tastes Cllr Paul Tilsley (left) is Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council in government on your side 3 features making things better – campaigning for better still by Tim Farron MP So here we are in Birmingham The devastation of losing an election for what will surely be another particularly when, like so many of fantastic autumn Liberal those who lost in May, you have been fantastic servants not only of Democrat Party Conference. your communities but also of the party, is not easy to get over. I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Birmingham; boasting more canals However it’s how you pick yourself than Venice, it’s the home of Duran up and move forward in the wake of Duran, Wizard, Crossroads and of great disappointment that defines course the infamous John Hemming. you, and I fully believe that the best way to answer these losses is to use The last 12 months has been a bit of this conference as an opportunity to a roller coaster for the party, with come back together, and address some fantastic highs reached as we the issues and the problems we are Tim Farron is MP for entered into government, followed by facing together. Westmorland and some extreme lows in the wake of the Lonsdale and is disappointments in May. I am not prepared to simply accept President of the that being in government means Liberal Democrats Over the course of this conference we unpopularity, or that being in coalition will approve a range of policies, and means lost identity. If we want to go let’s not forget that for the first time in on changing the world and making a our lifetimes the decisions we make in difference, losing elections is not a the main conference centre will very smart way of going about it! directly influence government policy in Whitehall. I don’t know about you, but Clearly we have not succeeded in for me that’s pretty exciting; its surely communicating our message, which what we got involved in politics for has led to a loss of identity and in isn’t it? Changing things, making a turn a loss of support.