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Africa Annie Lennox among speakers at Portmeirion conference Americas Pop star Annie Lennox and Asia-Pacific Conservative peer Lord Patten North West Wales Europe are among a number of leading Find out more about what is Middle East figures speaking at a going on across the region South Asia conference in Gwynedd later. UK The theme of the second annual England Names Not Numbers symposium is Northern Ireland trust, privacy and personalisation. SEE ALSO Scotland It is being staged at the Italianate Prisoner remake 'set to go ahead' Wales village of Portmeirion, which was The symposium is being staged at 30 Apr 08 | North West Wales UK Politics Portmeirion the setting for the 1960s North Wales drive for US tourists Education television series, The Prisoner. 10 Oct 07 | Wales Magazine Village is 'bigger than it seems' Business Among the other speakers are MP David Davis and philosopher Alain de Botton. 18 Sep 06 | North West Wales Health RELATED BBC LINKS Science & Environment Labelled "a very British Davos" By Julia Hobsbawm, Portmeirion Technology after the world economic forum in chief executive, RELATED INTERNET LINKS Entertainment Davos, Switzerland, leading Editorial Intelligence Names Not Numbers Also in the news international figures drawn from I admit it. It is no accident ------that our global forum Names Not The BBC is not responsible for the content of external the spheres of business, politics, Numbers, takes place annually at Video and Audio internet sites arts, finance, media, culture and Portmeirion. Ever since I learnt to ------politics will attend the event. walk in the nearby Croesor valley as Programmes a toddler, and spent summers with Among the guests will be the family of Clough Williams-Ellis, philosopher Alain de Botton, the architect behind Portmeirion, I In Pictures have needed to return frequently to historian Niall Ferguson, TOP NORTH WEST WALES STORIES Country Profiles the grand beauty of north Wales and singer/songwriter and campaigner this incomparable place tucked away Brother's calls to murdered Ffion Special Reports inside the mountains. Annie Lennox, Conservative Units to free NHS emergency space politician David Davis MP and social Related BBC sites Last year I got my chance. My Meeting over coastguard station company Editorial Intelligence puts Sport commentator Peter York. on over 30 events a year involving | News feeds Weather Other attendees will be global opinion formers and professionals On This Day retail guru Paco Underhill, Abdul across the political divides and in the worlds of media, business, academia Editors' Blog Malik Al Jaber, a leading business MOST POPULAR STORIES NOW BBC World Service and culture. We bring people figure in Palestine and chief together to discuss something which SHARED READ WATCHED/LISTENED

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