10.50am - 11.30am – Registration and Coffee

11.30am - 11.40am – Introduction from Professor Trevor Jones CBE

11.40am - 1.00pm – Adam Afriyie MP

1.00pm - 1.30pm – Drinks Reception

1.30pm - 2.30pm – Lunch

2.30pm - 3.30pm – Morten Kold Mikkelsen

3.30pm – Finish

      Some of the subjects covered

• Big Pharma v. Small Biotech

             Ted Smith, HR Director, Vernalis Group

• Assessment Centres/Competency Interviews – what's their true worth?
  Dr Tuvia Melamed, PFK and Jayne Richards, The QUO Group

• Managed Service Agreements
  Ian Blake & Peter McDonnell, Cordoba Consulting
  
  
• Performance Management
  Simon Collins
  
  
• Employer Branding: still predominantly a recruitment tool – or a business necessity?
  Tom Crawford, Bernard Hodes Group, and Joe Voelcker, GlaxoSmithKline
  
  
• Ethics in Recruitment
  Campbell Singer, AstraZeneca

• Employment Law Update
  Jane Liddington, Liddington's LLP

• Where Does The Recruitment Industry Go From Here?
  Gareth Osborne, Recruitment and Employment Confederation

• Procurement and the Recruitment Function
  Richard Darley and Andrew Dawson, Eli Lilly

• Internal v. External Resourcing
  Simon Heaton, AstraZeneca

• The New EAA Regulations
  Adrian Marlowe, Lawspeed

• Emotional Intelligence and its Application in the Recruitment Process
  Simon Collins, sanofi-aventis

       Some of the speakers for 'Meet the Bosses'

•     Jeff Stewart, General Manager, Abbott UK

•     David Fisher, ABPI

•     Martin Symons, Recordati UK

•    Nigel Brooksby, sanofi-aventis UK  and President of the ABPI 2006-2008

•    Vincent Lawton, MSD UK and President of the ABPI 2004-2006

•    Andy Davis, Takeda UK

•    Andrew Hotchkiss, Eli Lilly UK

•    Olivier Brandicourt, Pfizer UK

•    Steve Glass, Altana Pharma UK