Past speakers at Lunch at the Circle

Here are a few of the speakers that we have previously welcomed at Lunch at the Circle. Most of our speakers come from the technology sector, in a broad sense, with an operational and business perspective.

We welcome suggestions for future speakers.

• On Mergers & Acquisitions
  – Martin was Executive Vice President M&A and on the management board at Gemalto for around a decade
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• “How I created Lauritz.com and made it Scandinavia’s biggest auction house”
  – Bengt Sundstrøm, founder, owner and president of Lauritz.com
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• Growing your business on unknown markets
  – Tom Thorelli, founder and managing partner, Thorelli Law Firm Chicago
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• A design and web entrepreneur: “How I created l’Usine @ Design”
  – Emilie Gobin, co-founder and CEO of Usine @ Design
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• ROI in online marketing. How can you measure success and effectiveness?
  – Sophie Callies, founder & CEO of SO’xperts
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• Talent management in technology, challenges and solutions.
  – Marc Timmerman, Axiom Consulting
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• Information security in a world with both traditional IT and social networking: it’s all about people
  – Joseph Graceffa, co-founder and CTO of Advens
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• FSI, investing in the technology sector
  – Marc Julien, director of technology and environment portfolio, FSI
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• Teams That Work
  – Lindsay Adams, President, Teamocracy
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• Selling Ideas
  – David Ednie, Founder/President, Sales Channel Europe
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• Web presence strategy
  – Gifford Morley-Fletcher, Strategy Director, Skive
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• Enterprise Social Software
  – Carlos Diaz, Founder & CEO, blueKiwi
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• Detective Marketing
  – Stefan Engeseth, Founder & CEO, Detective Marketing
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• Virtualization
  – Carlos Escapa, Director Europe, VMWare
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• How can enterprises catch up with consumers on Web 2.0?
  – Louis Nauges, founder, Microcost
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• My web site is up. Now what?
  – Emmanuel Podvin, founder, Intersel
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• Pitching to Win
  – Philippe Jeanmaire, founder, Team Performance
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• Innovation in the Internet Age
  – Serge Soudoplatoff, founder & president, Almatropie
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• French Vertigo – Is France in terminal decline?
  – Peter Gumbel, senior writer, Time Magazine
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• Software as a Service – SaaS
  – Robert Steggles, Director of Marketing, NTT Online Europe
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• Time for text-to-speech – finally?
  – Roy Lindemann, manager France, and co-owner, ReadSpeaker
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• Where the internet is moving; video on the internet; vpod.tv
  – Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz, founder of vpod.tv
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• Buzz Marketing
  – Emmanuel Vivier, founder and CEO, Culture Buzz
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• “The journalist made me say it” – mini-workshop on how to deal with media
  – Amy Porter, founder of Star Speeches, media consultant
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• The Long Tail, marketing revolutionised
  – Erik Larsson, VP marketing, Netcentrex
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• PriceMinister.com – the business model and history
  – Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, founder of PriceMinister
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• What happens with “old media” in the “new world”
  – Meredith Artley, editor and director, IHT.com
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• Broader Broadband
  – Jean-Michel Billaut, internet and networking consultant and “guru”
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• Social Networking and Internet Networking Sites’ business models
  – Alain Lefebvre, founder of 6nergies.net (and previously of SQLI)
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• Blogging
  – Loïc Le Meur, serial entrepreneur and head of Six Apart Europe, and
  – Jacques Froissant, head of Altaid Executive Search.
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• Outsourcing and Offshoring
  – Rebecca Scholl, Director of Market Strategy, ACS (previously lead analyst at Gartner for outsourcing)
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• RF devices
  – Claudia Wolosin, Editor, RFID International Newsletter
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• What’s happening in the US tech sector – impressions from a traveller
  – Susan Lucas-Conwell, Founder, Clear Day Consulting
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• China and the Technology Sector
  – Jean-Charles Doineau, Research Director, Ovum
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• Grid computing
  – Laurent Charreyron, Executive VP, GridXpert
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• Open Source – why is it important?
  – Tristan Nitot, Founder and President Mozilla Europe and open source evangelist
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• What are today’s requirements on technology managers? or How to sell yourself to head hunters.
  – Caroline Apffel, Russel Reynolds,
  – Francesca Lahiguera, Mercier and Partners,
  – Catherine Ducros, Whitehead Mann
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• Current trends in technology marketing
  – Erik Larsson, founder, Martenhus Consulting
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• VoIP – finally ready for the market?
  – Marc Couraud, marketing director LDCom, Philippe Diez, Head of Business development Alcatel
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• WiFi – What’s the business model (is there one?)?
  – Marc Taieb, founder of a WiFi operator, Rick Thomson, founder, TCF (Technology Consulting and Finance)
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• Mobile marketing and mobile campaigning
  – Elias Moubayed, industry specialist and advisor to various companies
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• IT Security – what’s happening, what’s important
  – Christian Simatos, independent consultant, ex-head of IT Schlumberger
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• Biometrics – Does it work? Where is the business?
  – Michael Klug, Istec-Thykva