Welcome
Welcome to the web portal of the European Communication Summit 2009, hosted by the European Association of Communication Directors (EACD) and the professional magazine Communication Director. On July 2nd and 3rd, this leading forum for communication professionals in Europe will once again bring together several hundred top-level communicators in Brussels. We are pleased to present you this year's programme, which features sixty highly respected speakers, a wealth of best case presentations and lots of opportunities to connect with fellow senior communicators.
Updates
Third newsletter of the Summit focuses on Next Media and Innovation
In the third edition of The Summit Digest the central issue is Next Media and Innovation, which is one of the main topics of the Summit this year. In the newsletter of the European Communication Summit keynote speaker Soumitra Dutta asses the influen...
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Creating Relevance through Diversity: Interview with Gerd Götz
Gerd Götz has been vice president external communications and deputy global director of corporate communications at Royal Philips Electronics for six years. In a best case panel he will present his company's global strategy for a culturally diverse y...
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The Summit Digest on Crisis Communication
The second issue of The Summit Digest focuses on Crisis Communication. Bjorn Edlund, Global Head of Communications at Shell speaks in an interview about the challenges of being the communicator of a large company in a controversial sector. This editi...
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CSR on a Global Scale: Interview with Annika Berglund
Annika Berglund is vice president of corporate communications at Atlas Copco. The group manufactures industrial tooling and equipment. At the Summit Berglund will speak about Corporate Social Responsibility of Atlas Copco and the keys to a successful...
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On Strategy and Planning: First edition of The Summit Digest
The Summit newsletter The Summit Digest offers information on one of the specific Summit topics. The first issue contains interviews, tips and trends on Strategy and Planning in communications. Leading strategist Alan Kelly, first keynote speaker at ...
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Key Rules for Social Media Communication: Interview with Prof. Soumitra Dutta
Soumitra Dutta is the co-author of the aclaimed "Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World" and a Professor at INSEAD. At the European Communication Summit, he will focus on what companies ...
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A Smarter Media Strategy at Sony: Interview with Speaker Nick Sharples
When Sony Europe conducted research to find out how frequently their target consumers were engaging with their products, they were shocked by the results. What followed was a fundamental re-evaluation of their approach to Consumer PR and a campaign s...
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The Black Hole that would end the World: Interview with James Gillies
James Gillies is Head of Communication at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and was in charge of the planning and execution of the communication campaign around the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, an acclaimed scientific innov...
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