We have six excellent Speakers lined up for you this year:
(All the Conference Sessions are Free to attend and will be held in the First Floor Conference Room)
All the Speakers will be addressing the overall theme for the EAFN Show this year in their presentations:
‘the positive impact that Festivals have on the Region’s wellbeing, culture and economy’.
or as we like to say:
‘Festivals are Fun, Fulfilling and Fruitful!’
YOUR COMPERE FOR THE DAY
NICK PANDOLFI
Nick Pandolfi has run his own media business for more than twenty years. As a broadcaster he has twice been named BBC local presenter of the year – he is the UK correspondent for MAGIC talk in New Zealand and his digital marketing experience is called upon by SMEs across East through his work with MENTA Business Support. Nick has also been a freelancer for BBC network radio for the past ten years.
http://nicholaspandolfi.co.uk/
PHILLIP AINSWORTH
Chief Executive Suffolk Agricultural Association/Trinity Park -The Suffolk Showground/The Suffolk Show
Are we relevant anymore?
Phillip is the Chief Executive of the Suffolk Agricultural Association having joined it in January 2016. Founded in 1831 the Association is a registered charity which promotes education and learning in agriculture. Phillip is responsible for the 350 acre Trinity Park estate, Ipswich (the home of the Suffolk Show), all employed staff and a commercial arm delivering some 400 events per annum which operates to provide income to the Association in support of its charitable objectives. Phillip will be talking about: how they organise the SAA and all the events that take place on the site; why what they do matters – their sense of the social and economic impact for the Suffolk community and Suffolk plc; and staying relevant – their plans for the future.
https://suffolkshow.co.uk/suffolk-agricultural-association
www.trinityparkevents.co.uk
PETE WATERS
Executive Director, Visit East of England
How festivals help grow the year-round visitor economy.
Pete has been Executive Director of Visit East of England, formerly Visit East Anglia, since April 2014. VEE also operate Visit Norfolk and Visit Suffolk and the three between them look to promote the unique year-round cultural offering of the region. VEE is a private sector, not-for-profit organisation that works closely with the public sector and is established as the Visitor Economy Group for New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership. Pete will be presenting the unique cultural offerings of the region, including festivals and how they help develop the year-round visitor economy, encouraging more staying visitors and helping drive wealth, employment, skills etc.
www.visiteastofengland.com
PROFESSOR GEORGE McKAY – UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, and Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow for its Connected Communities Programme (2012-19).
The Impact of Festivals.
George McKay is His research interests are in popular music from jazz to punk, festivals, alternative culture and media, social movements and cultural politics. Among his festival-related books are Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties (Verso, 1996), ed. DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain (Verso, 1998), Glastonbury: A Very English Fair (Gollancz, 2000), Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain (Duke UP, 2005), Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism & Rebellion in the Garden (Frances Lincoln, 2011), ed. The Pop Festival: History, Media, Music, Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015), and, with Emma Webster, Music From Out There, In Here: 25 Years of London Jazz Festival (2017). He has been a member of several EU projects around music, identity, festivals, including Society & Lifestyles (FP6; 2006-08), Rhythm Changes (HERA; 2010-12), and Cultural Heritage in Improvised Music Festivals in Europe (Heritage+ JPI; 2015-17). He has been Professor in Residence at Kendal Calling pop festival in the Lake District and at the EFG London Jazz Festival. Recently he has led AHRC-funded projects and co-authored reports on The Impact of Festivals, and Street Music.
George will be discussing his recent report on the impact of festivals, which looks of course at economic impact but also at a series of other types of impact, which illustrate the wider complex ecology of festivals and their importance.
georgemckay.org.
KATE COLCHESTER – NEW ANGLIA GROWTH HUB
Business Growth Advisor
Funding and Developing your Events to the next Level.
Covering Norfolk and Suffolk; New Anglia Growth Hub was set up in 2014, and can help your business access a range of business support services from hundreds of sources. The hub’s service is FREE and IMPARTIAL and can help you access grants, finance, start-up support, international trade support and other specialist advice from single point of contact Kate’s passion for events shines through and she will be offering her guidance on taking your events to the next step through growth support, potential finance and funding options as well as offering a realistic view on the event market in the region and its progression over the next few years. The New Anglia Growth Hub is managed by Suffolk Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership and is supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the European Regional Development Fund.
www.newangliagrowthhub.co.uk
BARRY DOWMAN – Director HS Direct
and STEWART BAILEY – Consultant HS Direct
Why Bother With Health and Safety?
HS Direct is the leading provider of health and safety, employment law and HR services to SMEs. They currently look after approximately 8,000 clients across the UK in many different sectors. Barry Dowman has been Director of HS Direct for 7 Years and has 20 years previous experience in liability/corporate insurance.
Stewart Bailey DipSM MIIRSM is a consultant with HS Direct who has 26 years health and safety experience including 9 years at Mount Pleasant Airport (Falkland Islands) and multi-million pound contracts with the Home Office.
Barry and Stewart will discuss the topic ‘Why Bother With Health and Safety’ when it comes to events and how it could be made easier. The connection between current legislation and fun at festivals and how a safe event will be a fruitful event. The floor will be open for questions.
