From Bristol247
Bristol will host Next Gen 11 – one of the UK’s premier events to promote broadband technology – next month at the University of the West of England.
Taking place on November 15 and 16, it comes as s series of major international reports have encouraged leading UK politicians to recognise how improved broadband access is key to enabling new business and jobs across every sector of the economy.
Contributors to the event at UWE Exhibition and Conference Centre will include EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, acclaimed futurist Rohit Talwar, and a host of leading industry players and thought leaders from across Europe, the UK and, of course, Bristol.
Bristol City Council Leader Barbara Janke said the event would help the city showcase its “credentials as a leading media and digital city”, as well as promoting the new Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
“Hosting this prestigious conference is an ideal opportunity for Bristol to showcase our credentials as a leading media and digital city, and make the case for further investment in the city in superfast broadband,” she said.
“We are very keen to promote the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone – this will provide unrivalled investment potential for creative and digital businesses from the UK and abroad to locate to a thriving new quarter in the heart of Bristol and the South West.”
The Enterprise Zone in Temple Quarter is designed to drive regeneration and create jobs by attracting more creative and technology industries to the city. Delegates will be able to see the potential of this project firsthand on a special Enterprise Zone tour during the conference.
The UK market for high quality broadband has shifted from high-level planning to urgent requirements of turning those plans into reality. Next Gen 11 plans to encourage this through its new NextGen Challenge – the UK’s first open competition to celebrate broadband achievements.
The winners will be revealed at the Next Gen 11 conference dinner at Bordeaux Quay on Bristol’s waterfront.
- Full agenda details at: http://www.nextgenevents.co.
uk/events/nextgen-11-november- 2011/agenda/ - Registration details at: http://www.regonline.co.uk/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1007463
- NextGen Challenge: http://www.nextgenevents.co.uk/ngchallenge
