Programme
Registration and coffee

09.30 Welcome and introduction Colin Monk - Pro-Vice Chancellor Business and Marketing for the University of Brighton

Morning chair

Peter Stonham, Editorial Director, Resource in Urban Design Informationand UKTourismPro.net

South Coast strategies
09.40 The regional perspective -a strategic overview of the past six years and the future
James Brathwaite, Chairman, SEEDA


10.00 A broad business view of the South Coast Speaker to be confirmed,
School of Service Management, University of Brighton


10.20 Creating business through art Felicity Harvest, Executive Director Arts Coucil England South East

10.45 Question and answer session

11.00 Morning coffee

Environmental and social challenges

11.20 Designing the 21st century town - the challenge of building a self-sustaining urban environment Andre Viljoen, Centre for Research and Development, University of Brighton

11.40 Enhancing the railway - creating the green option forSouth Coast - London travellers
Southern Railways speaker to be confirmed


12.00 The CABE Coastal Project - redeveloping the South Coast A representative from Alan Baxter Associates - advisors to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)

12.20 The challenge of changing demographics Jim Baker, Director, Brighton Hove & Portslade Age Concern

12.40 Question and answer session

12.55 Lunch

Afternoon chair

Nick Ewbank, Director, Creative Foundation, Folkestone

Business opportunitiesand the creative economy

13.50 Universities, the creative economy and the South Coast Martin Lloyd, Business Sector Manager,University of Portsmouth & Joseph Cavalla, Sector Manager - Technical Innovation

14.10 The success and challenges for the South Coast's creative economy Dany Louise, Creative Industries Manager, Brighton and Hove City Council

14.30 Bringing the Cultural Olympiad to the South Coast Caterina Loriggio, Cultural Olympiad Creative Programmer, Culture South East

14.50 Questions & discussion

15.10 Afternoon tea

Case studies: challenges and successes on the South Coast

15.30 Margate is my Milan Derek Harding, Programme Director,Margate Renewal Project

15.50 Regeneration through redevelopment - the Bournemouth Pavillion Project Trevor Osborne, Chairman, Trevor Osborne Group

16.10 Questions & discussion

16.30 Close of conference
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