WEDNESDAY 19 JANUARY 2011 SAÏD BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

CONVERGENCE OR COLLISION? Navigating the creative, commercial and regulatory challenges facing media over the next decade

Keynote speakers: • Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, secretary of state, culture, Olympics, media and sport • Ed Richards, chief executive, • Mark Thompson, director general, BBC They will be joined by: • Richard Allan, director of public policy, Facebook • Gillian Guy, chief executive, Citizens Advice Bureau • Richard Halton, chief executive, YouView • Desiree Miloshevic, international affairs and policy advisor, Afilias • Caroline Thomson, chief operating officer, BBC • Peter Sunde, founder, Flatter and co-founder, Pirate Bay • John Whittingdale MP, chairman, culture, media and sport select committee • And many more...

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Event partners Event organisers OXFORD MEDIA CONVENTION 2011

ABOUT THE OXFORD MEDIA CONVENTION in its ninth year, the Oxford Media Convention remains the agenda-setting event for all concerned with the future of Britain’s creative industries. With the dawn of a new coalition government working under a clear mandate to cut costs and stimulate growth, the summit will provide a timely forum for senior government and industry figures to debate the current and future challenges around domestic media policy, strategy and regulation.

As consolidation, austerity and fundamental structural change continue to define the strategic direction of Britain’s creative institutions we ask what are – and more importantly, what should be – the government’s and the market’s solutions to ensuring prosperity and provision in UK media?

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? • CXOs, corporate affairs executives and strategists who want to gain an early insight into the future policy direction of media regulation and understand the long-term impact on their business. • Solution, technology and content providers who want to understand the economic and practical challenges emerging from convergence, and how policy might respond.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT? • Policy-focused debate on the regulatory implications of the changing media world. • Long-term thinking and solutions to address the challenges facing our changing media and communications market. • Insight from the elite of the UK government and regulators and the leading lights from the domestic and global media industries. • Networking opportunities and your chance to meet the people making the headlines. PROGRAMME

08:50 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 09:45 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME Nick Pearce, director, ippr 09:50 A CITIZEN’S COMMUNICATION ACT: WHAT THE PUBLIC WANT FROM OUR MEDIA A short vox pop film 10:00 KEYNOTE SPEECH MEDIA POLICY: THE COALITION’S 10 YEAR PLAN Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, secretary of state, culture, Olympics, media and sport 10:40 PLENARY PANEL MEDIA 2011: WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE? A conversation between the public and providers

• How will public service provision, diversity, plurality and media literacy be preserved and promoted over the next decade? • How can public and private entities secure the UK’s position in the global media market place? • What will the future look like? How will audiences be consuming content, how will businesses be making money and what role will government have in shaping media policy and facilitating the creation of growth and infrastructure? Moderator: Jon Snow, presenter, News Public Panel: Sam Conniff, founder, Livity / Live Magazine Mark Damazer, former controller, BBC Radio 4 and master, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford Gillian Guy, chief executive, Citizens Advice Bureau Provider Panel: Dawn Airey, director, RTL Group Richard Halton, chief executive, YouView Ashley Highfield, managing director and vice president, consumer and online, Microsoft UK Caroline Thomson, chief operating officer, BBC

11:55 COFFEE 12:10 MORNING PARALLEL PANELS Delegates have a choice of panel sessions 1 or 2

13:20 LUNCH 14:20 AFTERNOON KEYNOTE SPEECH Mark Thompson, director general, BBC

14.50 AFTERNOON PARALLEL PANELS Delegates have a choice of panel sessions 3 and 4

16.00 CLOSING KEYNOTE Ed Richards, chief executive, Ofcom

16.40 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS Nick pearce, director, ippr MORNING PARALLEL PANELS AFTERNOON PARALLEL PANELS 12:10 - 13:20 14:50 - 16:00

PARALLEL PANEL 1 PARALLEL PANEL 3 CONSOLIDATION OF OWNERSHIP REASSESSING REGULATION: WHAT IMPACT VS PLURALITY OF VOICE: IS THE IS CONVERGENCE OF TRADITIONAL MEDIA INDEPENDENCE OF BRITISH MEDIA WITH THE ‘WILD WEST’ OF THE WEB HAVING UNDER THREAT? ON THE ABILITY TO REGULATE?

• How do we strike a balance between ensuring • What are the consequences of increased internet plurality of ownership and allowing media policing, both for the industry and society? companies freedom to expand and innovate? Is ‘policing’ an effective starting point or is self- regulation the way forward? • Will relaxing cross-media ownership rules provide a vital boost to the local media industry, or create a • What does a new regulatory settlement look like? monopoly which restricts debate and accountability? And, in light of Government cuts, what functions should Ofcom keep and lose within this? What are • What policies can help generate new media outlets the realities of a curtailed Ofcom mandate? and new forms of journalism? • Will the Digital Economy Act save the entertainment Chair: Dr David Levy, director, Institute industry, or alienate their most loyal customers? for Journalism • How does regulation need to change at an EU level? Speakers include: Sly Bailey, chief executive, Trinity Mirror Chair: Charlie Beckett, director, POLIS Professor Steven Barnett, professor of Speakers include: communications, University of Westminster Desiree Miloshevic, international affairs and policy adviser, Professor Paddy Barwise, emeritus professor, Afilias management and marketing, Business School Peter Sunde, founder, Flattr and co-founder, Pirate Bay Claire Enders, founder, Enders Analysis Dr Damian Tambini, senior lecturer, department of media and communications, London School of Economics John Whittingdale MP, chairman, culture, media and sport PARALLEL PANEL 2 select committee THE FUTURE OF CONTENT CREATION, Chris Woolard, partner external affairs and governance, Ofcom MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERY: WHAT WILL CITIZENS DEMAND IN THE AGE OF PARALLEL PANEL 4 MUTUALISED MEDIA? MEDIA 2021: CONVERGENCE OR COLLISION? • As we shift from passive consumers to interactive engagers what impact does this changed dynamic • Convergence between games industry, social and have on our definition of and relationship with mobile media - what sacrifices are made in these content? partnerships and collaborations? • Do we want authority or interaction from our content providers, and does this vary between • Who are the winners and losers of convergence? news and entertainment? Where will the revenue come from and who will it go to? • What are the implications of this shift on the short, medium and long term outlook for regulation and • Traditional distinctions between media are already public service? eroding; how will technology continue to change the playing field? Chair: Dr Damian Tambini, senior lecturer, department of media and communications, Chair: Bill Thompson, technology critic and essayist London School of Economics Speakers include: Speakers include: Richard Allan, director of public policy, Facebook Tess Alps, chief executive officer, Thinkbox David Elms, head of media, KPMG Dee Forbes, EVP, Discovery Networks UK & Richard Wilson, chief executive, Tiga Western Europe Illse Howling, managing director, Freeview Nic Newman, visiting fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Ben Page, chief executive, Ipsos MORI BOOKING FORM OXFORD MEDIA CONVENTION 2011

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Parallel panel sessions (please select one morning panel and one afternoon panel to attend)

Morning panel 1: Consolidation of ownership vs plurality of voice: Afternoon panel 3: Reassessing regulation: What impact is convergence of traditional Is the independence of British media under threat? media with the ‘Wild West’ of the web having on the ability to regulate?

Morning panel 2: The future of content creation, management and delivery: What will citizens demand in the age of mutualised media? Afternoon panel 4: Media 2021: Convergence or collision?

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