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About the Organisers & Partner Organisations

Please find below details of the event organisers and partner and sponsor organisations.

Organised by

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com

Based in Cardiff and with offices in Brussels at the heart of the European Union, Forum Europe specialises in EU focussed political and economic conferences and events. These events are organised with clients and partners and aim to progress ideas and actions on important issues, all within a balanced and neutral setting.

Founded by Giles Merritt, columnist for the International Herald Tribune and former Brussels correspondent at the Financial Times and headed by a team of EU events specialists with over 19 years of experience, Forum Europe’s strategic services can maintain and develop your networks at EU level, and also deliver forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

Forum Europe works successfully with businesses, institutions and governments alike and its expertise, through the medium of events, lies in understanding and interpreting the processes and political issues within the EU.

Platinum Sponsors

Microsoft www.microsoft.com

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Symantec www.symantec.com

Symantec is the world leader in security with by far the largest global presence of any security software company. We protect more systems, companies and communities than anyone. We deliver the most highly rated products and services, and more of them. We also offer the deepest security domain expertise and the most comprehensive global intelligence. Whether it is protecting vital information, responding to threats, demonstrating compliance or simplifying security management, Symantec is the leader.
Nothing is more important to Symantec than the security, protection and productivity of our channel partners and their customers’ infrastructure in critical situations such as these.

Research in Motion www.rim.com

Research In Motion (RIM) is the designer and manufacturer of the award-winning BlackBerry® smartphone, used by millions of people around the world. The company also creates solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market, including the software that allows the BlackBerry smartphone to provide mobile access to email, applications, media and the Internet.

Intel www.intel.eu

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world's computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.eu and blogs.intel.com.

Gold Sponsors

SAS www.sas.com

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

Business Software Alliance www.bsa.org

The Business Software Alliance is the world’s foremost advocate for the software industry, working in 80 countries to expand software markets and create conditions for innovation and growth. Governments and industry partners look to BSA for thoughtful approaches to key policy and legal issues, recognizing that software plays a critical role in driving economic and social progress in all nations. BSA’s member companies invest billions of dollars a year in local economies, good jobs, and next-generation solutions that will help people around the world be more productive, connected, and secure. BSA members include Adobe, Altium, Apple, Asseco Poland S.A., Attachmate, Autodesk, Autoform, AVEVA, AVG, Bentley Systems, CA Technologies, Cadence, Cisco, CNC/Mastercam, Corel, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation, DBA Lab S.p.A., Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Kaspersky Lab, Mamut, McAfee, Microsoft, Minitab, NedGraphics, O&O Software, PTC, Progress Software, Quark, Quest, Rosetta Stone, SAP, Scalable Software, Siemens, Sybase, Symantec, Synopsys, Tekla, and The MathWorks.

Lunch Sponsor

Park Legal LLC

Park Legal LLC is an Indianapolis-based law firm that assists clients in the areas of data privacy, security and records management.   Unlike many other firms, our lawyers have decades of experience as in-house counsel as well as experience as regulators.  We also have information security experts working side-by-side with us.  As such, we offer a next generational approach to the practice of law by integrating technology into our operations and by providing materials to clients in a format that is business-focused and prioritized to address key risks.  We also eliminate the use of multiple associates and generalists who are not fully immersed in this specialized and continuously evolving area of law—and who therefore may overlook critical factors in providing counseling to you, or increase your bills unnecessarily as you pay for their research and training.
We offer end-to-end services to our clients though an affiliated on-line training company and a software company, making it easier, faster and more economical for your organization to ensure a solid level of compliance.  In addition, we collaborate with an international law firm with 21 offices across Europe and Asia, as well as external security experts in the U.S. and globally.  These resources can be added as needed in a seamless, cost-efficient manner to provide full service to your organization.
Our team of professionals includes Joan Antokol, a former Vice President and Global Head of Data Privacy for the 260 companies in the Novartis Group; Matt Light, a former Indiana Deputy Attorney General who previously assisted in managing the security breach division of the Indiana Attorney General’s Office and who drafted some of Indiana’s security breach laws; and Susan May, an attorney with an international Masters in Business Administration who has over 20 years of in-house counsel experience in privacy and healthcare compliance.  Our training and software affiliates include Monica Brown, a former director of training for Eli Lilly, as well as a former global head of enterprise risk management for a Fortune 100 global database hosting company.  You may reach us at +317-616-3350.

Supporting Partner

Association of Television and Radio Sales Houses (egta) www.egta.com

egta is the trade association of 113 television and radio sales houses that commercialise the advertising space of both private and public TV and radio channels throughout Europe and beyond.

egta fulfils different functions for its members in fields of activities as diversified as regulatory issues, audience measurement, sales methods, interactivity, cross-media, technical standards, new media etc. , and provides a network for its members based on relationships with high-level advertising executives and experts in the media industry.

During its 35 years of existence, egta has become the reference centre for television & radio advertising in Europe.