e.i Insight Club Networking

Autumn 2008 sees a range of Insight Club events bringing thought leadership
from inside the Commentariat, and the policy and corporate worlds. Events are
invitation-only.

For further information on dates and how to join the Insight Club, please
contact Caroline Fielding.

September

Does the media break more celebrities than it makes?
In association with HarperCollins and the PRCA (Public Relations Consultancies
Association) to be chaired by Peter York, Cultural Commentator. The panel will
include Mark Borkowski, founder and head of Borkowski PR and author of the Fame
Formula; Dylan Jones, Editor, GQ; Rachel Johnson, Commentator, Sunday Times;
Clarence Mitchell, Crisis Communications Consultant and Mary Riddell, assistant
editor, The Daily Telegraph.

  • Date: 25th September, 2008
  • Time: 8am breakfast for 8.30am prompt start, ends 10am
  • Venue: The Groucho Club, 45 Dean Street, London, W1D 4QB

October

e.i./CISION “thought for the day” breakfast
e.i. is launching a new monthly breakfast club with strategic partner, the
global media monitoring firm, Cision. This is to inform and gather thirty
people from media, business, politics and public life, both to meet each
other and to hear invited guests give a speedy two minute “thought for the
day” on a stimulating topic which we might then discuss. Guests to include
Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive of SANE; David Brain, European Chief Executive
of Edelman; Anthony Hilton, Financial Editor at the Evening Standard and PR Week
and New Statesman columnist Tara Hamilton-Miller.

  • Date: 2nd October, 2008
  • Time: 8.30 – 9.30am
  • Venue: One Alfred Place, London, WC1E 7EB

What will be the true legacy of the Olympics in London?
In association with The Independent, Cass Business School and London Borough
of Hackney. This will be chaired by Hamish McRae, associate editor at The Independent.
The panel will include Jules Pipe, Mayor of Hackney; John Dickie, Director of Policy
and Strategy, London First and Professor Stefan Szymanski, Cass Business School.

  • Date: 9th October, 2008
  • Time: 8am breakfast for 8.30am prompt start, ends 10am
  • Venue: Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8TZ