Now that we are approaching the closing few months and as the nation counts down to London 2012, here at America Square we had the G4S Conference, addressing the securityfor the games here yesterday.
The event had many exhibitors. The Royal Mint ( giving away some of the Olympic 50 pence’s,  I was fortunate to be given one of the atheltic coins for my son, he now has 7, only another 20 to go !.),  Transport for London, plus many more.

But the best part of the event was having the Olympic Torch here, under strict supervision,we felt very privileged to be able to touch it .  It has 8000 holes, one for each person who will be carrying it. Please let us know if you are one of the lucky ones.

Check out Cavendish Conference Venues Face book page and you will see a photograph of the torch with Elizabeth, Business Development Manager  and Valeria,  Operation Manager.

So what can we say from America Square Conference Centre  to Athens the torch will go.  A  lasting memory of the 2012 Olympicsfor all the team here at  America Square Conference Centre.

Today we have The 10 th National Conference on Current issues in  Midwifery, no two two days are the same. This is why we all love working her at America Square, variety is the spice of life…..

Yesterday evening we had the pleasure to hold the Women in Wireless Party launch at the ICO Conference Centre.
The launch event featured Jerri DeVard, CMO of Nokia as inaugural guest speaker and founding member of the Women in Wireless London Chapter.

It was an inspiring and successful event, with a huge audience and amazing interactive participation throughtout the event ,where it was established a wide range of opportunities to members in the UK.

Back From My Hols!

Yes, just back home after a few months away from operational duties  and what  larks I’ve had !   SW Rep had been threatening to send me away to Doggy Borstal, but thankfully relented and instead I’ve been living in a home away from home with my very own pack,  learning the social skills I’m told I need with regard to co-existing with other dogs.       To celebrate my new pacifist lifestyle, SW rep and Steve took me on an exciting walk along the South West Coastal path.    Sporting my new Hannibal Lecter style muzzle, fellow walkers scattered when they saw us coming (a most pleasing result, SW rep said).   We stopped at a wayside pub for a pint, lovely sunny day, sitting outside in nice garden, all was harmony.       Steve spotted  what he called a “midget greyhound”.    Midget greyhound’s companions overheard and protested.   Well, who has ever heard of an Italian greyhound anyway.   It was poncing around in a diamante collar, surrounded by admiring children, who took no notice of me at all   So I levered myself up onto a chair when no-one was looking (quite a feat, since I’ve put on so much weight that I ‘m told I now resemble a large white slug) and  crossed my back legs in the manner that SW Rep says looks so charming and which never fails to draw admiring glances, and still….  nothing .

Nearing home,  SW Rep commented that I’d behaved pretty impeccably and that sending me away to a holiday home had obviously been a Very Good Thing.   Within moments, I spotted a herd of sheep, and the ensuing fun and games I had  rounding them up made my day complete.

The venue lends itself perfectly to this type of event: right in the middle of London’s traditional ‘medical land’ is ideal, meters from Florence Nightingale’s original hospital. In addition the possibility of exclusive use by one client is perfect for these type of high profile and potentially controversial events.

Here are a few comments made on the feedback sheets:

Great team       
Good location       
Initial welcome was extremely efficient & friendly. Those serving refreshments were extremely efficient & professional       
Seamless, great hospitality       
Good food

 Thanks once again Denis.

 Brita

If you keep doing what you’ve always done – you will get what you’ve always got …  makes sense doesn’t it – there are always reasons to stay the same.

 “we need to keep our noses to the grindstone”

Lizzy

• “things will come good”
• “this is no time to take risks”
• “we need to hunker down, consolidate”
• It’s tough out there”

 HOWEVER CHANGE IS GOOD

 Imagine meeting with a corp client who is considering a series of conferences.   Suddenly 10 mins into the meeting he jumps to his feet and says “right”.

 Would you jump up too, tell him that you recognise he is busy and will get back to him with a proposal?  Most sales people would.

 Change – doing something different looks like this –

 Stay seated and trust your instincts.   You look up and say “sorry Sir I was hoping to ask you a few more questions so that my proposal makes sense.  Is my time up?

 To which he answers “good god know, I need a pee”

 the salesperson got another hour resulting in lucrative contract.

 HAVE A NICE DAY!

• new proposals to introduce an archive that will allow viewers  to download permanent copies of their favorite programmes, initially named project Barcelona
• The BBC’s director general Mark Thompson will say the corporation should “think carefully” about the size of its news operation given the scale of the economic pressures faced by newspapers.

The BBC announced just over a year ago that 360 staff would be cut from its online operation, with its budget due to be cut by 25% to £103m by next year.

• Separately, Thompson will outline further details of a “sustained attack” by the Iranian authorities on the BBC Persian service, which it says has 6 million listeners.

“It now looks as if those who seek to disrupt or block BBC Persian may be widening their tactics,” he will say.

“There was a day recently when there was a simultaneous attempt to jam two different satellite feeds of BBC Persian into Iran, to disrupt the service’s London phone lines by the use of multiple automatic calls, and a sophisticated cyber attack on the BBC. 

“It is difficult, and may prove impossible, to confirm the source of these attacks, though attempted jamming of BBC services into Iran is nothing new and we regard the coincidence of these different attacks as self-evidently suspicious.”