Selected:

Dave Carter
Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) Manchester City Council
Head
Dave has recently received the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) Founders Award, in recognition of his role with Manchester City Council in developing the MDDA and the many innovative projects he has worked on during his career These include: the UK's first public access email system; the "Manchester Host" and the Electronic Village Halls in 1991; the digital summer festival in 1998 to celebrate Manchester being the birthplace of the first real computer in 1948 and most recently the "Fibre to the People" pilot project for next generation broadband for Corridor Manchester Dave's work also stretches beyond Manchester and the UK. He is one of the founding members of Telecities, a project in the Eurocities network that promotes knowledge sharing on new technologies among European cities. Telecities has been running successfully for 15 years MDDA is co-ordinating the pilot project for next generation access infrastructure - fibre to the premises for Corridor Manchester - repeated below
Speakers:
- Prof. James Powell
University of Salford
Pro Vice Chancellor for Enterprise and Regional Affairs
- Lesley Gavin
BT
Futurologist
- Prof Takeda Shuzaburo
BUF
Executive Director
- Rt Hon Hazel Blears
Local Government
MP Salford
- Prof Paul James
RMIT University, Australia
Director, Global Cities
- Melissa Sterry
Societas
CEO
- Chris Yapp
Exec Technology Strategy Consultant
- David Shaw
Alcatel-Lucent
Director, Industry & Public Sector UK & Ireland
- Nicky Gavron
London Assembly
Londonwide Assembly Member
- Katz Kiely
Just-b. Productions
Katz Kiely, Founding Director of Just-b. Productions
- Prof. Michael Harloe
University of Salford
Vice-Chancellor
- Roger Milburn
Arup
Director
- Professor Carolyn Kagan
Manchester Metropolitan University
Division of Psychology and Social Change
- Veli-Pekka Niitamo
Nokia-IT/Netherlands
Research Director
- Prof. Martin Hall
The Univertsity of Salford
Vice-Chancellor Designate
- Prof Tim May
SURF / University of Salford
Co-director / Professor
- Jane Lucy
Keo Films
Producer
- Kate Braithwaite
Carnegie UK Trust
Director, Rural Programme
- Dave Carter
Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) Manchester City Council
Head
- Jackie Potter
Manchester City South
- Ian Cooper
Eclipse Research Consultants
Founding Partner
- Mike Reardon
Greater Manchester Environment Commission
Strategic Director
- Bob Paterson
Community Finance Solutions
Visiting Social Enterprise Fellow
- Lesley Lomax
Corridor Manchester
Head of Marketing
- Prof. Erik Bichard
University of Salford
Regeneration and Sustainable Development
- Richard Adams
Communications Lighthouse
Digital Strategist


























