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Z/Yen staff are often invited to speak at conferences and seminars. Forthcoming and previous events include:

2008

IIR, Strategic Risk Management – "The London Accord: Risk, Investment & Climate Change" – London, England (4 June 2008).
Securities & Investment Institute – "The London Accord" – London, England (22 May 2008).
City of London Corporation – "The London Accord" – Brussels, Belgium (6 May 2008).
Tomorrow's Company – "The London Accord & Climate Change" – London, England (29 April 2008).
Gresham College – "Save The World: A Commercial Break" – London, England (28 April 2008).
European Chief Procurement Officers' Club – "The London Accord – Implications For The Corporation" – Berlin, Germany (11 April 2008).
Finexpo, Green City 2008 - "Investment Strategies - Risks & Opportunities For Financial Institutions" – London, England (10 April 2008).
The Cabinet Office, Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit Lunchtime Seminar – "Banking The Transition To The Low Carbon Economy: Lessons For Policy-Makers From The London Accord" - London, England (1 April 2008).
Excenture, Planning For The Future - "The London Accord – Climate Change Solutions" - London, England (20 March 2008).
Securities Industry Management Association - "The London Accord" (members' presentation) – London, England (18 March 2008).
Gresham College – "How To Get Ahead In Commerce: The Sure-Fire Ways To Make Money" – London, England (25 February 2008).
Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation - "The London Accord" (roundtable) - London, England (14 February 2008).
Gresham College – "The London Accord: Sustainable Finance & Climate Change" (seminar) – London, England (30 January 2008).
Gresham College – "Perfectly Unpredictable: Why Forecasting Produces Useful Rubbish" – London, England (28 January 2008).
Gresham College – "The Case for Sustainable Business" – London, England (21 January 2008).

2007

Gresham College – "Fads And Fashions: If They Are So Bad, Why Are They So Rapidly Rich?" – London, England (17 December 2007).
Gresham College – "Stealing The Silver: How We Take From The Dispossessed, The Poor and Our Own Children" – London, England (12 November 2007).
Gresham College – "What I Like About This Country is that it Has a Nice Level of Corruption!" – London, England (4 October 2007).
Gresham College – "Liquidity: Finance in Motion or Evaporation?" – London, England (5 September 2007).
Facilities Futures – "Climate Change and FM: Accord or Discord?” – London, England (25 April 2007).
Peter Symonds College 400th Anniversary Gresham Lecture – "How Can You Have Too Much Choice?” – Winchester, England (23 April 2007).
Gresham College – "Does Society Risk My Life through Safety? The Perils of Too Much Risk-Aversion" – London, England (19 March 2007).
MIPIM (Marché International des Professionnels d’Immobilier) – "The Global Financial Centres Index" – Cannes, France (15 March 2007).
University of Edinburgh Operational Research MSc – "Correlation Causes Questions: Frontiers Of Operational Research and Risk" – Edinburgh, Scotland (8 March 2007).
The Financial Services Club – "The Risk Paradox – How Do You Reconcile Debt With A Risk-Averse Society?" – London, England (27 February 2007).
Gresham College – "Too Unimportant to Fail? Innovation and Competitive Selection in Markets" – London, England (26 February 2007).
Futures and Options Association – The City Debate, "Are Economic Advancement and a Clean Environment Incompatible?" with Chris Huhne MP, Emma Duncan, Richard D North and Michael Mainelli with the Rt Hon Michael Portillo moderating – London, England (29 January 2007).
Gresham College – "Corporation Tax or Income Tax: Which Is The Greatest Con?" – London, England (22 January 2007).

2006

Gresham College – "Who Hates Globalisation: Are NGOs Outlaws, Inlaws or the De-Militiarised-Zone Between Markets and Governments?" – London, England (20 November 2006).
Gresham College – "Enclosures of the Mind: Governing the Intellectual Commons" – London England (18 October 2006).
Gresham College – "Standards Markets: The Free Market Response to Regulation?" – London, England (16 October 2006).
Gresham College – "Why Do People Play The Lottery? Make Up Your Mind!" – London, England (25 September 2006).
Gresham College – "Productivity and Capital Markets: Globalization Meets Parish-Pump Politics" – London, England (21 September 2006).
The Charities Consortium – "The Tender Trap" – London, England (12 July 2006).
Gresham College – "How Can You Have Too Much Choice?" – London, England (15 May 2006).
Gresham College – "Take My Profits, Please! Volatility Reduction & Ethics" – London, England (13 March 2006).
London School of Economics event for ADMIS and Global Consequences of IT students – "Beware of What You Dream! Prospects and Perils in the Real-time World" and "Perceptions Rather than Rules: The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets" – London, England (2 & 3 March 2006).
Gresham College – "Reforming Auditing - Incremental Change or Radical Action?" – London, England (6 February 2006).
Gresham College – "Goldilocks Government and the Market - Not Too Little, Not Too Much, But Just Right" – London, England (16 January 2006).

2005

Marcus Evans, Re-Engineering in der Fondsindustrie, Keynote – "Management, Automation And Re-Engineering: A UK Perspective On Fund Management" – Mainz, Germany (21 November 2005).
Gresham College – "Perceptions Rather than Rules: The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets" – London, England (14 November 2005).
Corporation of London, The Future Competitiveness of London and the City – "London's Ranking As An International Financial Centre" – London, England (9 November 2005).
Gresham College – "The Perverse & The Reverse: How Bad Measures Skew Markets" – London, England (17 October 2005).
Gresham College – "Danish Fairy Tales? From Andersen and the Copenhagen Consensus towards a Theory of Commerce Monday" – London, England (19 September 2005).
CASS Centre for Charity Effectiveness – "Grant Applications and PropheZy" – London, England (21 June 2005).
The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers (AIRMIC) Annual Conference, Keynote – "How Smart? Smarter Measures" – Brighton, England (14 June 2005).
CFDG 15th Annual Conference – "Forecasting & Achieving Sustainable Outcomes" – London, England (18 May 2005).
International Payments Conference – "So What Does It Cost to Process a Trade" – Gloucester Millennium Hotel, London, England (28 April 2005).
FX JSC Operations Managers Conference – "Where is the FX Market Going" – Bank of England, London, England (20 April 2005).
BIFM 2nd FM Excellence, Conference – "Looking DAPR – How Dynamic Anomaly and Pattern Recognition Will Change the Management of Facilities" – Cambridge, England (19 April 2005).
Z/Yen, Operations Risk Ratings and Best Execution, Seminar – "Who Measures Standards? ISO9001, SAS70 and Fiduciary Ratings" – London, England (7 March 2005).

2004

Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, Round Table – "Betting on the Future: Online Gambling Goes Mainstream Financial" – London, England (15 December 2004).
Coventry University Enterprises – "Making Innovation Real" – Worcester, England (30 November 2004).
Presentation to ADMIS students at LSE – London, England (12 November 2004).
UKAS Think Tank – "Benefitting from Smarter Risk Management" – London, England (9 November 2004).
City IT Conference – "Measure for Measure" – MV Aurora (4/5 November 2004).
Charity Accountants Conference – "Making an Impact" (22-24 September 2004).
LSE event for ADMIS students – "The London Consulting Trade" – London, England (14 July & 12 November 2004).
European Institute COO/CFO Roundtable – "The Profitability Challenge" (18 June 2004).
Community Building in Membership & Voluntary Sector Organisations (8 June 2004).
CSC 21st SICS User Conference – "Marionettes, or Masters of the Universe? The Human Factors of Risk and Culture" – Lisbon, Portugal (2-3 June 2004).
European Institute COO/CFO Roundtable – The Profitability Challenge (17 May 2004)
PRMIA Chapter Meeting hosted by Ernst & Young – "Biases in Decision-Making and Human Casual Factors in Risk" – London England (5 May 2004).
CSC Future Focus – "Know Risk or No Business Threats to Statistic Insurers" – Bagshot, England (21 April 2004).
Building Environment, Collaborative Risk Management – "Collaboration, Risk and Reward in Other Industries" – London, England (5 March 2004).
Dynamic Change for NHS Organisations – "Corporate Governance: Delivering Objectives and Improving Performance" – London, England (11 February 2004).
Z/Yen, Technology for Client Intelligence – "PropheZy: Predicting Client Behaviour" – London, England (22 January 2004).
British Bankers' Association - The Back Office – "Cost of Processing FX Transactions" – London, England (15 January 2004).

2003

The Risk Management Association – "Pattern Recognition: How Can It Help Us Manage Operational Risk?” – Washington, D.C. (20 November 2003).
CSFI Round Table – "Might Consumer Gambling Transform Finance?” – London, England (12 November 2003).
London Metropolitan University – "The Business of Consulting" – London, England (14 October 2003).
Charity Accountants’ Conference – "Spend for Glory or Reserve Wastefully" – Manchester, England (4 September 2003).
TW Financial Events, How Predictive Tools are Transforming Finance – "Dynamic Anomaly and Pattern Response" – London, England (24 July 2003).
Strategic Planning Society's Voluntary Sector Group, Understanding Strategy – "Figuring Out the Future: Strategic Scenarios for the 21st Century" – London, England (16 June 2003).
Charity Investment Forum – "Spend for Glory or Reserve Wastefully" – Runnymede, England (25 March 2003).

2002

Facilities Futures – "Sustainable Facilities Management Service" – London, England (26 November 2002).
HSBC & Z/Yen, Charity Conference, Gridlock, Chaos or Productive Accountability – "Make Hay While the Sun Shines or Save for a Rainy Day?” – London, England (9 October 2002).
Oesterreichische Nationalbank – "Operational Risk Measurement through Activity-Based Costing" & "Enterprise Risk/Reward Management Systems" – Vienna, Austria (3-4 October 2002).
EUSIDIC – "Risk/Reward in Virtual Financial Communities" – Lisbon, Portugal (24 September 2002).
Tomorrow’s World, hosted by ACEVO and Microsoft – "Evidence of Worth and IT" – Reading, England (17 September 2002).
Alpbach European Forum – "Valuing Intellectual Assets" – Alpbach, Austria (23 August 2002).
Z/Yen Breakfast of Technology Champions – "Enterprise Venturing" – London, England (10 July 2002).
HSBC & Z/Yen, Charity Conference – Evidence of Worth for Not-for-profit Organisations – London, England (1 March 2002).
UK Asset and Liability Managers Association Annual Conference – "Enterprise Risk/Reward Management" – Runnymede, England (25 January 2002).
Z/Yen, Breakfast Briefing – "Client Intelligence using Dynamic Anomaly and Pattern Response" – London, England (22 January 2004).

2001

Facilities Futures – "Why Shouldn’t I Pay More? The Value of Cost Certainty in FM’s Future" – London, England (26 November 2001).
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, FM Faculty – "FM Risk/Reward Analysis Models" – London, England (10 October 2001).
BioIndustry Association – "Bull/Bear Biotech Bourse" – London, England (8 October 2001).
The Property Forum Keynote – "Enterprise Risk/Reward Management in Property" – MV Arcadia (23-26 September 2001).
ASIS International, The Business of Security – "Risk/Reward Management" – London, England (17-18 May 2001).
Quadrilect, FM Technology Briefing – "Future Technologies" – London, England (5 April 2001).
Occupiers’ Property Databank Conference Keynote – "Managing Risk in Corporate Property" – London, England (8 March 2001).
IIR, Operational Risk Management – "Incorporating New Operational Risk Variables Into Investment Banking Risk Strategy" – London, England (24 January 2001).

2000

Facilities Futures – "UK FM Industry: What Does the Future Hold?” – London, England (22 November 2000).
IIR, Practicalities of Implementing E-Procurement – "Evaluating and Matching Potential E-Procurement Solutions to your Business" – Dubai, UAE (12 November 2000).
IIR, Developing Online Business Opportunities for Professional Services – "Determining the Effectiveness of Your Website as a Marketing Tool" – London, England (29 June 2000).
Charity Finance Directors’ Group, Keynote: Figuring Out the Future – "Strategic Scenarios of the 21st Century" – London, England (10 May 2000).
Quadrilect, FM & The Net – "Purchasing via E-Commerce" – London, England (May 2000)
Quadrilect, Successful Facilities Management – Raising the FM Profile: From Cinderella to the Strategic Level" – London, England (April 2000).

1999

Quadrilect, Developing Strategy – "Developing a Business Strategy in a Rapidly Changing World" – London, England (8 December 1999).
IIR, Integrating Defence Procurement – "E-Commerce and Defence Procurement" – London, England (17–18 November 1999).
Charity Accountants’ Conference – "Enhancing Voluntary Sector Organisations Through Risk Management" – Manchester, England (6-8 September 1999).
International Assocation Congress Keynote – "Governance is Risk/Reward Management" – London, England (18 April 1999).
International Group of Accounting Firms – "IT - Are Your Clients’ Strategies Sound?” – Coventry, England (16 April 1999).

1998

Comax, Focus on Key Performance Measurements – "Mapping Core/Non-Core Functions for Service Frameworks" – London, England (25 November 1998).
Strategic Planning Society and Business Intelligence, The Innovation Enterprise – "Strategic Innovation" – London, England (24-25 November 1998).
Henley Management College – "Strategic Risk/Reward Management" – Henley, England (October 1998).
SMI Conferences, Scenario Planning – "Scenario Planning and Minimising Uncertainty" – London, England (17 March 1998).

1997

IIR, Strategy Implementation – "Strategic Planning Does Not Equal Strategic Performance: Empirical Research Analysing Links between Strategic Planning and Company Performance" – London, England (December 1997).
ICM, Knowledge Management in Banking & Finance – "Information Technology and the Knowledge Management Process" – London, England (30 September 1997).
The Strategic Planning Society, Public Service Standards versus Private Finance Principles – "When is Private Finance Public Borrowing?” – London, England (10 July 1997).
IR, Value-Based Performance Measurement – "Value-Based Metrics" – London, England (17-18 March 1997, 7-8 July 1997).
IIR, Practically Implementing Scenario Planning – "Scenario Building" workshop with Ged Davis of Shell International – London, England (13-14 May 1997).

1996 and earlier

Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, Round Table – "Visualising Financial Risk" – London, England (1996).
IIIR, Scenario Planning – "Scenario Planning and Risk/Reward Management – Using Scenario Planning to Assess and Minimise Risk in Future Markets" – London, England (25-26 November 1996).
Oman Telecom Keynote – "Defence and the Internet" – Muscat, Oman (September 1996).
ITEC, Defence Training Simulation – "Assets in Wonderland: The Financial £aboratory" – Den Haag, Netherlands (April 1996).
University of North London – "Strategic Risk/Reward Management: Benefits of a Soft Holistic Approach" – London, England (16 March 1996).
Athena, Strategy Confidential – "Business Strategy Principles" – London, England (11 October 1995, 1 November 1995).
Unicom, Improving Business Performance through the Effective Use of IT – "Strategic Crisis or Emergent Change?” – London, England (7-9 June 1994).

As well as speaking at conferences, Z/Yen hosts regular events, from boating parties on the Lady Daphne (complete with merger mysteries) to client and public seminars and workshops, and evening meals:

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Last modified: 30 April 2008