Special Events

Editorial Intelligence aims to promote thought leadership through a special range of high end events which provoke ideas and media coverage.

Comment Conference

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Brand New Britain?
Can Britain renew or be called ‘brand new’ again, after the General Election? Where is Britain’s brand going?

The first of ei’s new Comment Conference series will bring together major opinion formers from business, policy, culture and media in a post-election discussion on the changing role of British business, Britain’s global brand and where it leaves trust in the UK’s reputation abroad.

The programme includes a live recording of BBC Radio 4’s The Bottom Line with Evan Davis for radio and TV.

Taking place on Tuesday 29th June 2010, and starting at Somerset House, participants will be taken to Canary Wharf via riverboat, and will finish with a drinks reception at the Design Museum.

For more information and to book online please visit www.commentconference.com

Names Not Numbers

www.namesnotnumbers.com

Names Not Numbers is an international thought leader symposium which brings together opinion formers in media, academia, politics, business, culture and technology.  Described by a senior Unilever executive as ‘a very British Davos’, it aims to set opinion as much as to reflect it.

The inaugural symposium took place at the iconic location of Portmeirion in February 2010 with the likes of Niall Ferguson, Alain de Botton, Annie Lennox, CEO of Starbucks, Darcy Willson-Rymer and David Aaronovitch to name but a few. Watch this space for Names Not Numbers 2011.

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Brand partners include BBC Global News, the Financial Times, Cass Business School, Edelman, Jaguar Land Rover and Vodafone.

See www.namesnotnumbers.com for full details, to register interest for Names Not Numbers 2011 and to download the post-2009 symposium report.

Comment Awards

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2009 was the inaugural year of the first UK Comment Awards.  The awards ceremony was held at RIBA, London on 13th October 2009 and hosted by Peter York in order to celebrate the achievements of the finest commentators in print and online – with categories which included Commentariat of the Year, Cultural Commentator, Best Comment Pages, Online Independent Blogger and Poison Pen: Polemicist of the Year.

The Comment Awards were held in association with Jaguar Land Rover, our broadcast partner Policy Review Interactive and a number of category sponsors that range from Nationwide to BT and Demos to Climate Change Capital.  The prestigious list of category judges included Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4; Ed Vaizey MP, Shadow Culture Minister; Lucy Neville Rolfe, Executive Director (Corporate & Legal Affairs) at Tesco and Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company.

The judging panel was chaired by Sir Christopher Meyer, former Chair of the Press Complaints Commission and British Ambassador to the US.

You can see the full list of winners and footage of the ceremony itself at www.commentawards.com.