Multimedia Ventures

Event Management

With extensive experience in the planning and administration of conferences, exhibitions and awards competitions, we offer a full range of event and competition management services including:

conference planning, management and administration
press launches
awards' competitions (including judging, presentation ceremonies and awards' dinners)
seminars, workshops and meeting programmes

Multimedia Ventures has organised a variety of events from half-day workshops to international conferences, for corporate clients, national institutions and academic organisations.

We have organised conference programmes, seminars and industry events for organisations including British Interactive Multimedia Association (BIMA), the British Library, Brameur, British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), Centaur Conferences, Elsevier, EMAP Business Communications, the Film Archive Forum (FAF), the Grierson Trust, ID Exhibitions, NTT, Reed Exhibition Companies and the Smart Card Club.

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Recent and forthcoming events organised by Multimedia Ventures

Learning on Screen Conference and Awards 2006
for the British Universities Film & Video Council

Learning on Screen 2006 takes place at the Custard Factory in Birmingham on 19 and 20 September.
The Conference and Awards promote the effective use of moving image media and sound in the creation and delivery of high quality learning materials for all forms of education.

www.bufvc.ac.uk/conferences/learningonscreen/index.html

Grierson 2006: The British Documentary Awards
for The Grierson Trust

The Grierson Awards commemorate the pioneering Scottish documentary maker John Grierson (1898 - 1972), famous for Drifters and Night Mail, and the man widely regarded as the father of the British documentary. They are Britain's only awards dedicated to film and television documentary. Established in 1972, The Grierson Awards continues to recognise outstanding films that demonstrate integrity, originality and technical excellence, and social or cultural significance.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony thatwhich will take place at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 17 November 2006, which is scheduled to be televised by BBC Four.

This is the fourth year that Multimedia Ventures has organised the Grierson Awards.

www.griersontrust.org

Capturing the Public Value of Heritage 2006
for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage and The National Trust.
A major conference on Heritage and Public Value wasill held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 25th and 26th January 2006. The conference was chaired by Nick Higham, and speakers will included the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, as well as the cultural economist David Throsby, World Heritage expert Christina Cameron, and many others. The first day focused on the idea of Public Value, and what the public think; the second day was about what a values-based approach means for heritage organisations.

www.multimediaventures.com/conference

IDSmart: Cards for Government and Healthcare 2003
for Elsevier
Multimedia Ventures assisted in the development of the conference programme for IDSmart which ran in conjunction with Elsevier's Compsec and Biometrics conferences and exhibitions at the QEII Conference Centre in London. IDSmart was a two-day conference which considered the use of smart cards within local, national and international government bodies and within the healthcare environment. The conference examined trends in the world smart card market in the application areas of health and government and provided case studies of projects already implemented in the UK and overseas.

>>fastforward 2001, 2003
JISC and RSLP

The second >>fastforward conference took place at London 's National Film Theatre and was chaired by Bamber Gascoigne. The conference looked at how new media and communications technologies are developing, and what impact this wealth of new channels and resources have on the relationships between media industries, business and education. Speakers included Toby Bainton (SCONUL), Peter Fydler (British Pathé), Harriet Nimmo (ARKive) and Anthony Murphy (the Patent Office). The first conference, in December 2001 at BAFTA, had a distinguished panel of speakers including Baroness Susan Greenfield, Stewart Purvis (Chief Executive of ITN), Roger Laughton (Head of Bournemouth Media School), Andrew Yeates (DG of the British Phonographic Industry) and Derek Law (University of Strathclyde). >>fastforward was supported by the British Film Institute (BFI), British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP). .

www.bufvc.ac.uk/fastforward/

Hidden Treasures 2002
for the Film Archive Forum

Hidden Treasures was a one-day conference at the British Library which considered the central importance of moving images and sound to our heritage and present-day culture, as well as the necessity of adequate funding for the archives that preserve such materials, asking why there is a lack of coherent infrastructure for moving image and sound archives in the UK. Hidden Treasures was supported by the British Film Institute (BFI), the British Library National Sound Archive, the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), the Film Archive Forum, the Heritage Lottery Fund, ITN Archive, National Council on Archives, and Resource. Speakers included Sir Christopher Frayling (Rector of the Royal College of Art), Joan Bakewell (Chair of the British Film Institute), Taylor Downing (Flashback Television), Lord Evans (Chair of Resource), Liz Forgan (Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund), Trevor Phillips (Chair of the London Assembly). The conference was chaired by Gillian Reynolds, broadcaster and radio critic of The Daily Telegraph .

www.bufvc.ac.uk/hiddentreasures/

Advanced Card Awards 1999 - 2002
The Advanced Card Awards are an international competition to recognise excellence in the development and implementation of advanced card technology and applications. Multimedia Ventures launched the Advanced Card Awards in 1999, initially working with the smart card journalist Jane Adams. The Awards were first presented at the London Hilton on Park Lane during Smart Card 99, in a three-year partnership with Turret RAI. In their fourth year, the Advanced Card Awards 2002 were presented in association with Reed Exhibitions' SmartSolve at Infosecurity Europe 2002, with a black-tie dinner at the Inter.Continental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner in April 2002.

BIMA Awards 1989 - 1998
Multimedia Ventures' partners were involved in the organisation of the BIMA Awards since their inception in 1989 until 1998. During this period, the number of competition entries grew steadily year on year and support for the event increased from a single sponsor in 1989 to 14 corporate and 12 media sponsors by 1998. Under Multimedia Ventures' management, attendance at the black-tie BIMA Awards Dinner grew from 230 guests in 1991 to a record 575 in 1997, as the event progressed through the hotel ballrooms of the Dorchester , Park Lane, Savoy and Royal Lancaster and London Hilton on Park Lane , with the growing demand for tickets and tables.