About the Global Media Field Trip

New York: Monday 21 ^_ Wednesday 23 May 2012

The Nomura Global Media team is pleased to announce its annual European Media Field Trip to New York. The trip will focus on the US operations of the major European media companies, meeting with operational management, and where possible, their customers, competitors, and other industry experts

Participants include Activision, Aegis, Advertising Panel – Beekman Associates,  American Association of Publishers, Belltower Books, Interpublic, Kno.com, Omnicom, Publicis, Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier , Rockefeller, Wolters Kluwer and WPP

Instead of the usual “last results presentation” we aim to differentiate the conference through focusing on specific company divisions that are driving growth with divisional management presenting; we also have a great line up of industry speakers, please see the presenting companies and agenda tab for details. This year we are focusing on 3 key themes i) Advertising, ii) Legal, iii) Publishing – particularly the move to digital.

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Presenting Companies

Confirmed companies to date are:

• Activision
• Aegis
• Advertising Panel – Beekman Associates (Agency compensation consultancy)
• AMEX (Agency corporate client)
• American Association of Publishers
• Belltower Books – Textbook rental company
• Interpublic
• Kno.com – Online textbook rental company
• Publicis
• Thomson Reuters
• Reed Elsevier
• Rockefeller Institute – Federal and State funding – focus on education.
• Wolters Kluwer
• WPP

This list will be updated as speakers are confirmed.

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Agenda

Monday 21st May 2012

Advertising Day

07:45

Breakfast and registration
Venue: New York Palace Hotel

08:15

Transfer to WPP from the New York Palace (for interested parties)

08:45 - 10:00

WPP (Their offices)
Venue: Ney Center at Y&R, 285 Madison Avenue (40th/41st)

Jon Cook CEO VML, Brian Lesser, CEO Xaxis, David Moore CEO 24/7 Real Media
Brian Lesser leads Xaxis and offers a unique perspective on the buying of digital media. Xaxis is WPP’s unique targeted global digital audience buying platform which reaches audiences across display, search, video, search, mobile and social in 13 markets for over 700 clients. It uses proprietary technology and offers complete secure client data warehousing. Brian offers a unique perspective on the buying of digital media. David Moore, Chairman and CEO of 24/7 Real Media, will be explaining the function of 24/7 in offering ad serving, tracking, targeting and analytics and explaining WPP’s approach to proprietary technology vs the open standards approach of other agencies. VML, headed by Jon Cook, is one of WPP’s award winning digital agencies and was rated by Forrester as one of the industry’s 7 digital leaders along with OgilvyInteractive and Wunderman. WPP is targeting 35-40% of revenues from digital within 5 years
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10:15

Return transfer and coffee break

10:45 - 11:45

AEGIS

Nigel Morris – Head of North America
Nigel Morris, Head of North America, presents for the third year. The US continues to drive strong momentum within Aegis – highlighted by the recent GM account win. The US contributes c. 20% of revenues and last year Nigel suggested he could see this rising to 25% in the medium term. We look forward to an update along with an outline of future strategy

11:45 - 12:30

ADVERTISING PANEL

Eve Reiter VP Marketing & Advertising at AMEX
Eve will present from a corporate client viewpoint – discussing how agency relationships work, how budgets are decided and how spend is split. This should provide a fascinating glimpse from “the other side”
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12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

INTERPUBLIC

Aaron Shapiro - CEO, HUGE
We are pleased to welcome Aaron Shapiro from HUGE to the conference for the first time. Aaron has been with HUGE for 7 years and currently manages the 500 members of staff. HUGE is a full service interactive agency offering clients competitive analysis and analytical reviews of current digital activities. The agency offers brand planning, search strategy, CRM strategy and social strategy. HUGE has offices in America, Europe and Latin America

14:30 - 14:45

Break

14:45 - 15:45

PUBLICIS

Bob Lord CEO Razorfish
Bob Lord is CEO of Razorfish, one of the world’s largest and most successful full service digital agencies, also named as a digital leader by Forrester. It was founded in 1995 and was owned by Microsoft from 2007 as part of Aquantive before being acquired by Publicis in 2009 for US$530m in cash and stock. Razorfish is one of several large digital businesses acquired by Publicis including Digitas, Performics and Rosetta. Razorfish has over 2400 people globally, with 1800 in the US and 600 internationally. Bob is ideally placed not only to give insight into the growth of digital at Publicis but into all aspects of digital media

15:45 - 16:30

ADVERTISING PANEL

Tim Bajraktari – Partner, Beekman Associates
Beekman Associates is the leader in agency compensation assessment, assessing $5bn in agency economic per year, They work collaboratively with both advertisers and agencies to determine and implement fair compensation while promoting transparency and trust between the partners. Tim is a partner at the firm with over 20 years experience
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Tuesday 22nd May 2012

Legal & Publishing

08:30

Breakfast and registration

09:00 - 10:00

WOLTERS KLUWER

Richard Flynn – Group President and CEO of Corporate Legal Service
This year Wolters focus on their Legal division which contributes c. 40% of EBITDA. FY11 results saw negative growth in legal but despite this, legal margins increased by 30bps to 22.4% reflecting cost savings and higher margin electronic sales. We expect investors to focus on the future of the transition from print to digital as well as increasing subscription revenues
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10:00 - 10:15

Break

10:15 - 11:15

THOMSON REUTERS

Mike Suchsland – President of Legal
Mike Suchsland is one of the key members of the Executive Team under Jim Smith at Thomson Reuters and runs one of its 4 most important business units. Legal accounts for c.27% of group revenue and c.33% of operating profit and is one of the company’s highest margin divisions with a margin of over 27%. Covering large law firms (mainly through Westlaw), corporate and government, risk and compliance the legal business has both US and international (18%) exposure. In FY11 the legal business grew 3% organically and 8% overall with 13% growth internationally. This is a chance to understand the development in the legal market as well as Thomson’s views on the changing competitive dynamics with Bloomberg increasing its exposure to the legal environment

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 12:30

ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE

Thomas Gais – Director, Rockefeller Institute and Lucy Dadayan - Senior Policy Analyst
This remains one of the most popular sessions and is back by popular demand. The presentation covers US Federal and State tax funding as well as covering thoughts on future budgets. The obvious read across is for the education sector, but all state funded activities are affected
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12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:15

COST OF KNOWLEDGE

 Henry Cohn - Academic group challenging the price of journals

Henry Cohn is a principal researcher (and one of three founding members) at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previously he was head of the cryptography group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, and before that, he was a senior researcher in the theory group. He is also an adjunct professor in the MIT Department of Mathematics.

 Henry is one of a group of mathematicians and scientists who have signed up to the boycott of Reed Elsevier journals and will discuss the reasons for the boycott and potential changes to the science journal industry at our conference. Potential structural change in the journal industry is a topic subject and very much of interest for Reed shareholders and those of other journal publishers. This is the article that Douglas Arnold and Henry wrote about the Elsevier boycott
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14:15 - 14:30

Break

14:30 - 15:15

KNO.COM

David Straus, VP of Product
Kno.com “on a mission to shake up higher education by making learning engaging, efficient, and social for students”  offers an online digital textbook download service – both purchase and rental and was founded by the co-founder of Chegg (the online textbook rental company). We expect to learn about changing student behaviour as well as adoption of digital textbooks for US schools and universities

15:15 - 15:30

Break

15:30 - 16:30

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS

Jay Diskey, Executive Director, School Division
The presentation will focus on the market environment for the US educational publishing market. Jay Diskey is responsible for working with school book publishers, state education departments, and lobbyists across the whole of the US market. As well as providing an invaluable insight into the mechanics of the market, he should also be able to shed some light on current conditions and longer term trends
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012

Publishing & Risk

08:30

Breakfast and registration

09:00 - 10:00

REED ELSEVIER

Jim Peck CEO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions / Bill Madison, SVP and General Managers LexisNexis RISK Insurance Data Solutions
This year Reed will be presenting on their Risk division – with the manager of the insurance division also present. The risk division reported organic growth of 4% with the insurance division contributing 7% organic. We will be focusing on whether insurance can maintain its growth rate, when we can expect Government to turn around and if the 40% margin rate can be maintained
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10:00 - 10:15

Break

10:15 - 11:15

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

Kristin Southey, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations & Treasurer
Kristin will present on Activision Blizzard which contributes c. 12% Vivendi’s group sales and c. 10.5% of Vivendi’s group EBIT. Investors will also be focused the potential for future blockbuster creation beyond the existing World of Warcraft and Call of Duty franchises
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11:15 - 12:00

BELLTOWER BOOKS

Dave Krysiak - Chief Executive Officer
Dave Krysiak, the CEO of Belltower Books will be presenting on the second hand market in College books. Belltower books was founded in 2004 by two Cornell University under grads (DK being one of them), and offers students a simple way to sell on their old college text books for cash. Belltower then re-sells the second hand textbooks. We expect to learn about current student behaviour, attitudes to ebooks, rental, and digital, from someone right at the coalface of the college book market

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Travel and Accomodation

The conference and accommodation will be at the New York Palace Hotel. Nomura has reserved a number of bedrooms from Sunday 20 May to Wednesday 23 May at the negotiated room rate of $379 per room per night, applicable to local taxes. 

For reservations please contact the hotel directly on +1 212 888 7000.  Please quote Nomura Conference Rate when making your reservation in order to take advantage of the negotiated rate.

New York Palace Hotel
455 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Telephone: + 1 212 888 7000
Facsimile: + 1 212 303 6022
http://www.newyorkpalace.com/index.php

Please click here for a detailed map

A credit card will be requested upon booking your accommodation.  All reservations must be booked by Monday 23 April 2012.  After this date rooms and rates will be subject to availability.

Travelling to New York Palace Hotel
From JFK Airport – 20 miles, travel time approximately 45 minutes by car.  From Newark Airport – 15 miles, travel time approximately 40 minutes by car.  Taxis are readily available from both airports. Kindly note, all guests arriving by car or taxi must use the entrances on 50th or 51st Streets. Traffic does not stop on Madison Avenue as it is a bus lane.

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Client Registration

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Speaker Registration

Please see below some important information relating to the conference:

Accommodation
Nomura has reserved a limited number of bedrooms from Sunday 20 to Wednesday 23 May. Should you require a bedroom, please email heidi.mortlock@nomura.com with your request. All rooms are subject to availability.

Biography
Please email a brief half page biographical profile and a photograph for each speaker to Heidi Mortlock at heidi.mortlock@nomura.com. Please be sure to include present title, employment history, education and any industry affiliations.

Presentation format
Please allow approximately one hour for a formal presentation followed by an additional 15 minutes for Q&A. Please ensure your PowerPoint presentation is prepared using windows XP.

Presentation submission
Please email your PowerPoint presentation no later than Thursday 17 May 2012 to heidi.mortlock@nomura.co

Shipping Presentation Materials/Handouts
If you want to hand out hard copies of your presentation at the conference, please ship 50 copies to the New York Palace to arrive no later than Friday 18 May 2012:
Banquet Manager
For use at the Nomura European Media Field Trip - 21 – 23 May 2012
New York Palace Hotel
455 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022

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Audio visual/technical equipment requirements
The meeting room at New York Palace Hotel will be equipped with the following: laptop computer with disc and CD_ROM drive, podium and microphone, facilities to project PowerPoint presentations, a screen and laser pointer. Please refer to the registration page if you have any additional requirements for this event, such as internet access, DVD or video player or audio feed into your presentation.

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Thank you for registering.

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Contacts

European Media Equity Research

Matthew Walker
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7102 4459
Email: matthew.walker@nomura.com

Kate Woolfoot
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7102 3936
Email: kate.woolfoot@nomura.com

Michael Nathanson
Telephone: +1 212 667 9040
Email: michael.nathanson@nomura.com

Brian Nowak
Telephone: +1 212 667 9199
Email: brian.nowak@nomura.com

Keli Reader
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7102 4624
Email: keli.reader@nomura.com

Corporate Events Contacts

Zehra Close
Phone: +44 (0)20 7102 2288
Mobile:+44 7767 383828
Email: zehra.close@nomura.com

Heidi Mortlock
Mobile: +44 7827 349603
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