Ecobuild, Futurebuild & Cityscape 2009

Ecobuild is the UK’s leading event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment. Registered visitors can attend the seminars and visit co-located events, Futurebuild and Cityscape, free of charge.

Event Organiser:The Olympia
Event Type:Exhibitions
Address:The Olympia, Hammersmith Road London
Specialisation:Seminars
Postcode:W14 8UX
Website:www.eco.co.uk
Event Name:Ecobuild Futurebuild and Cityscape 2009
Email:info@eco.co.uk
Venue:Earls Court One & Two, Ground Level
Phone:020 7385 1200
Fax:
Start Date:03-03-2009
End Date:05-03-2009
Geocode:51.496587,-0.210540
Time:00:00 to 23:59
Price:Free

Stitch & Craft 2009

If you didn't manage to get along to Stitch & Craft at Olympia from 27-30 March you missed a great action-packed exhibition! The show opened its doors on a rain swept Thursday but the atmosphere soon warmed up, as people streamed in to buy their supplies, visit the demonstration theatre, take a workshop or speak to their favourite Stitch & Craft stars.The Stitch and Craft Show has something for everyone; it covers stitching, knitting, papercrafts and scrapbooking and no-one left empty handed!Stitch and Craft offered so much to the visitor with free demonstrations throughout the day, the Scrapbook Theatre offering free, drop-in sessions all day, plus nearly 150 workshops to choose from in subjects including cardmaking, jewellery-making, gift bags, knitted necklaces and many more. It was great to welcome stars such as QVC's Dawn Bibby and the new, themed workshops brought in by organisations such as Do Crafts, Rowan and Fiskars proved immensely popular.There was a fantastic buzz around the exhibition, with many happy, smiling faces everywhere.Make sure you put the dates - 19th to 22nd March 2009 - in your diary now so you don't miss next year's show, which is set to be bigger and better!This year's Stitch & Craft Show was better than ever; full of enthusiastic, and high focused visitors. The show brings together four distinct craft elements (stitching, knitting, cardmaking and scrapbooking) and whilst in previous years success had been clearly demonstrated in 3 out of 4 of them, this year all corners of the hall reported strong business.By the time the event closed on Sunday night, the organisers were able to announce a 5% increase in attendance. Of greater importance, however, was the fact that, in difficult trading conditions, (and with doom and gloom a constant feature in the news), visitors had clearly come with specific purchases in mind. Business had proved brisk with the Saturday being a particular high point.One enthusiastic tour group organiser, making her 10th visit to Stitch & Craft and coming all the way from Wales, declared this year's event the best ever! "A terrific show" she declared.Regular exhibitors and visitors know that Creative Exhibitions (twistedthread) stage the very best events in the business, but, with a goodly number of new exhibitors coming into the mix for the first time, it was particularly important that Stitch and Craft proved a storming success. Exhibitor comments - noted below - demonstrate that the year has started well.It's been a fabulous experience - our first time at Olympia. Great!This was a good Show - great range of products available, friendly exhibitors and plenty of interested customers with money to spend.A really busy Show with friendly organisers and lots for the public to see and do!Great fun meeting our customers at this busy Show. The friendly and helpful staff at Creative Exhibitions made it a breeze to exhibit here - can't wait for next year!This is our first Show and we've had lots of support from the organisers and contractors. We've met lots of exhibitors who have been very friendly and also lots of positive feedback from visitors. Can't wait for Ali Palli!!

Event Organiser:The Olympia
Event Type:Exhibitions
Address:The Olympia, Hammersmith Road London
Specialisation:Clothes hire
Postcode:W14 8UX
Website:www.twistedthread.com
Event Name:Stitch and Craft 2009
Email:info@eco.co.uk
Venue:Olympia Two
Phone:020 7385 1200
Fax:
Start Date:19-03-2008
End Date:22-03-2008
Geocode:51.496587,-0.210540
Time:00:00 to 23:59
Price:

IPTV World Forum 2009

IPTV has completed stage one of its growth, moving from a technology concept at the start of the decade to a real service that, in some countries, has now achieved mass-market status. With deployment and scale come new challenges related to the every-day business of delivering TV, including successful provisioning, customer care and the guarantee of uninterrupted 'reception' and robust picture quality. It was clear from IPTV World Forum 2007 that the IPTV sector is in the midst of a reality-check, addressing the basics of good service provision in the knowledge that cable and satellite operators are fighting back. The vision is still there, including the ultimate ambition - contained within many IPTV providers to de-couple television from schedules and deliver a truly personalised experience that is also available anytime, anywhere. But moving forwards, IPTV is as much about the engine room as the boardroom. Delegates who attended IPTV World Forum over the last three years will be familiar with the questions that dominated phase one, the lengthy debates that surrounded them and the subsequent answers. Does IPTV technology work? Absolutely. Is there a business model? Yes - several, in fact. Can broadband providers and telcos attract the right content? Clearly many of them can. Can telcos get their heads around television culture, pricing and packaging? If they employ the right people. Can they scale economically and quickly? Clearly, if they choose a suitable technology ecosystem. Can they deliver HD over DSL? They can with ADSL2+. But just as one set of questions is answered, others reveal themselves. In this highly dynamic marketplace, telcos and other broadband providers still have to prove that they can really differentiate themselves from cable, that they can hang on to the customers they acquire, and that they can make real money from video. Crucially, they have to demonstrate that they can keep their broadband and voice competitors at bay. They need to prove that they can create the open, standards-based systems that can make converged, cross-platform service delivery a reality. The largest IPTV providers have to demonstrate that they can achieve significant Pay TV penetration by hitting millions of subscribers rather than hundreds of thousands. They have to show that they are not simply warming up the video-over-IP marketplace, driving middleware, headend and set-top box costs down to a point where their larger and more experienced cable and satellite rivals step into the IPTV game - and clean up. Indeed, the impending arrival of 'cable IPTV' and 'satellite IPTV' introduce a significant new dynamic to this market. The anticipated use of IP as the delivery mechanism for television on these networks redefines IPTV, expanding its boundaries far beyond what has, until now, been considered a telco-centric activity. And in keeping with this important trend, IPTV World Forum 2008 is also expanding its scope to encompass the emergence and impact of IP television over cable and hybrid satellite/broadband networks. For 2008, this event will address the specific issues associated with the next generation of cable TV as it seeks more multicasting, unicasting, switching and IP switching. In one of many carefully constructed conference streams, 'IP Cable' will cover Switched Digital Video, channel bonding, DOCSIS video, DOCSIS bypass, fibre-to-the-premise, one-to-one advertising and all the transport, headend and customer premise technology considerations that fall within these subject headings. The vision for 'IP Cable', the business rationale and the migration strategies that can make it achievable will fall under the microscope at IPTV World Forum 2008. IP Cable is an important addition and joins TV-over-Net (Internet TV) and The Connected Home (customer premise, networking and super-distribution) among the stand-alone conference streams that enhance the overall value of this event. It is now possible to take three days out of the office and gather intelligence about IP video across all the platforms it shapes. Increasingly a mix of new media and old, incorporating 'classic' IPTV, Internet TV, cable, satellite and mobile, IPTV World Forum is delivering a truly converged conference/exhibition fit for an industry where platform boundaries are really starting to blur. This conference/exhibition attracts delegates and speakers from all parts of the television delivery chain, from content producers, owners and distributors, through channel owners and broadcasters, to platform operators. The exhibition is significant and growing, and has achieved the critical mass that makes it a chosen industry meeting and networking venue. At the heart of everything at IPTV World Forum is IP video. Leading from the front in 2008, as they have at our last three annual exhibitions, are the telcos, ISPs and other alternative broadband providers. As always, this event will address all the significant telco-centric IPTV issues with rigour and insight. Across all conference streams there will be the usual - and almost unique - emphasis on speakers from operators and content owners: those people who make the big decisions and drive deployments. As always, the aim will be to pass on practical experience and best practice in speaker sessions and unravel complex issues in the many panel discussions. We hope you will join us for what is now the undisputed No.1 video-over-IP event in the world.

Event Organiser:The Olympia
Event Type:Exhibitions
Address:The Olympia, Hammersmith Road London
Specialisation:Seminars
Postcode:W14 8UX
Website:www.iptv-forum.com
Event Name:IPTV World Forum 2009
Email:info@eco.co.uk
Venue:Olympia National Hall
Phone:020 7385 1200
Fax:
Start Date:25-03-2009
End Date:27-03-2009
Geocode:51.496587,-0.210540
Time:00:00 to 23:59
Price: