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LIFESTYLECARTAGENADE INDIAS,CITY OF MAGICIf we ask ourselves why And, if we combine this light races which has given the city aCartagena de Indias is a with the smiles of the people cosmopolitan character reflected incity of magic, we would, who inhabit it, and these with its its cookery, music and dance.without doubt say that it monuments and in turn unite theseis due to its light, which, with the private-public undertaking But Cartagena de Indias is also muchalthough it changes with headed by the Mayor which seeks more than this! It has the charmeach passing hour of to make Cartagena de Indias a of a South American colonial citythe day retains a special competitive city and a destination combined with the modernity of theluminosity which is not for sustainable tourism, the result is 21st century. For example, here it isfound in other Caribbean the perfect recipe to show the city possible to organise the wedding ofcities and which has off to the world. your dreams, a business conferenceserved as inspiration for or a meeting of world leaders duepoets, writers and artists. It is not a coincidence that our city to the fact that it is well furnished has seen an increase in tourism, both with an infrastructure of hotels, national and international which convention centres and companies has grown at a rate of over 12% a providing services which are in year, a very favourable result for the conformity with the international tourism industry, which in common standards of excellence found in the with the rest of the world, is a great very best global destinations. generator of employment and development. Cartagena de Indias is also cultural tourism with its cinema and music Cartagena de Indias has everything festivals, its museums, the university needed to make it a winning seat and mausoleum of the immortal destination. It is a World Heritage Gabriel García Márquez, its Festival site due to its walled city, its historic of Independance and the many events which happen each month in centre and its ramparts and the city. monuments. It is a destination born from the sun and the Zully Salazar Fuentes beach, especially in its islands which harbour rich CEO Corpoturismo Cartagena de Indias marine life, and it is also a gastronomic destination, You are invited to discover and live due to the mixing of the magic of our city. Discover more at www.cartagenadeindias.travel 53
S UPERSONIC KIESLondon to New York in anhour, the future of flight iscoming fastWay back when the Wright brothers left the safety of land to soar through the skies in the first plane, they probably couldn’t imagine what was to come. Passenger jets hurtling across the planet atover 300mph is one thing, but breaking the sound barrier at is quite another.Supersonic jets that do exactly that could soon fill the skies. That meansplanes that can travel faster than the speed of sound at 761mph. You couldtraverse the planet from London to Sydney in just eight hours. But with thesupersonic passenger jet Concorde already consigned to museum status,how will the supersonic future be resurrected, and more importantly, when?Concorde 2.0 hours - as opposed to the usual subsonic seven and a half hours.Between 1976 and 2003 you could sometimes hear the thunder-like sound of a Concorde supersonic But the exclusive price, mechanical faults, rising fuelpassenger jet breaking the sound barrier as it created prices, complaints about sonic boom noise anda sonic boom. Achieving speeds of up to Mach environmental concerns eventually grounded the2.6 (1,354mph) the Air France and British Airways jet forever. Now supersonic flight is once again set tocollaboration was able to transport passengers from become a passenger flight reality.New York to London, on average, in just three and a half Airbus has filed patents for a new Concorde 2.0 which will cut the London to New York flight time to just one hour by reaching speeds of up to four times that of sound at 2,500mph. This is thanks to flying at a higher altitude of 100,000 feet for less air resistance plus using a combination of jet, ramjet and rocket powered engines. Concorde 2.0 will likely be pricey with a limit of just 20 passengers. A realistic launch date hasn’t been mentioned yet. So what’s left for everyone else in the nearer future? Boom. Supersonic Boom So how can a Boom aircraft be described? It’s Startup company Boom has set out to create a a modern aerodynamic design, made supersonic jet that is affordable enough for everyone with light-weight materials that can withstand to use. Despite claiming it will charge prices 75 percent the strain of supersonic flight, plus what the company lower than Concorde, Boom’s XB-1 will manage faster calls a “super-cruise propulsion system”. The company speeds of Mach 2.2 (1,451mph). That makes this the fastest plans to launch a test flight of the XB-1, aka Baby Boom, commercial plane ever and should offer New York to as soon as late 2018 with plans for a 55-seater aircraft to London flight times of just over three hours, soon. fly passengers from 2023. The word “startup” can set off alarm bells. However, Boom is the only supersonic jet manufacturer to already have orders placed for not just one but ten of its planes. These were placed by Virgin’s Richard Branson who has also vowed to share his Virgin Galactic company findings to help develop these new affordable supersonic jets. Virgin Galactic is aimed at offering space flights to the public initially more for the thrill of zero gravity rather than functional high-speed travel - although this is a long, long54 term goal.
LIFESTYLESeeing super speedSupersonic flight shouldn’t mean sacrificing $80 million, and a maximum capacity of 18 passengers, comfort - in fact in the case of the Spike Aerospace don’t expect a ticket to come cheap when thisS-512 business jet, it should revolutionise aircraft interiors. allegedly takes off in December 2018.Not only will this 1,100mph jet offer a five hour LA to Tokyoflight time but it also nullifies the fight for a window seat.The interior of this aircraft features screen walls which willuse external cameras to show the view of outside as ifthe plane were made of glass.Passengers can dim the screens, change what’sdisplayed or set everything to sleep mode for theultimate luxury experience. But at a plane price of up toSupersonic fallout Boom banSo what do supersonic jets mean for the rest of the The US has banned supersonic flight over its aviation industry? Planes need to become more airspace due to the noise of sonic booms. This is anefficient with airlines already working on hybrid aircraft issue that companies like Boom, Nasa, Boeing and(expected by 2022), electric engines and more affordable Lockheed Martin are looking into.supersonic jets that ‘only’ reach Mach 1.6 to halve flight Nasa’s quiet-boom X-plane could do exactly thattimes. Essentially, as supersonic jets become the sports when it launches in the next few years. Boom claimscars of the skies, all other planes will become more Prius- it’s already found a way of angling the front of thelike for hybrid efficiency and affordability. plane to muffle the sonic boom noise.Conclusion 5 supersonic snippetsSo will we soon be ordering our in-flight food while hurtling • The fastest ever plane along at over 1,000mph? Or is that going to be a treat, (unmanned) reached Mach 9.6,like Concorde, that’s reserved for the luxury loving elite who aka 7,310mphcan afford it? One need is clear, the need for speed. Thethree hour transatlantic flight looks set to make a return, • Concorde’s top speed was Machand soon. Digital boarding passes at the ready? 2.04, aka 1,354mph Luke Edwards • At Mach 2.2 the nose of Boom’s Director, Offworld Media XB-1 will reach up to 345 degrees fahrenheit • At top speed, due to heat, Concorde’s aluminium grew 15-inches in length • Military ramjet engines kick-in at Mach 3.5 and push to Mach 6 for hypersonic speeds of over 4,000mph 55 55
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Who’s at the wheel? Promoting both excitement and fear, autonomous vehicle technology is much misunderstood. Jamie Carter gets under the hood. Are they safe? It’s the first 500,000 lives could be saved with the pace. The dash-cam you just question everyone asks about introduction of autonomous vehicles. bought? That’s the first step. self-driving cars. If you read Humans just cannot be trusted to Step two is ‘driver assistance’; the newspapers you’d be forgiven drive safely. They have slow reaction within a few years there will be car for thinking that coming the era of times, mis-judge distances, drive computers that can get on and off the autonomous ‘robot car’ should aggressively, and get distracted by the highway, change lanes, detect be dreaded. Prototypes that had other passengers, and by phones. obstacles, brake in emergencies, accidents have hit the headlines; Self-driving technology is largely and creep along in traffic jams, all in 2016 a Tesla Model S electric about making traffic safer, but also without any driver input. Sensors that car crashed into a tractor trailer smarter, and faster, while maximising measure GPS position, speed and in Florida while in Autopilot mode, fuel economy. Fewer people will die distance are more than enough killing its driver. on the roads and urban congestion these kind of features. will be reduced. Was the computer to blame? Not However, for fully autonomous according to investigators into that So how do they work? Let’s get this driving solely by a computer, a particular accident. Besides, the straight first; self-driving vehicles vehicle needs to have a constantly only number that developers of are the end-game, and they won’t updated 3D map of its surroundings. autonomous vehicle technology are happen immediately. Predictions For that engineers are using LiDAR concerned about is the 1.3 million range from a few years to a few (short for Light Detection And people that die every year on the decades for the arrival of a fully Ranging), which bounces millions of world’s roads (not to mention the 50 autonomous car, and the next laser pulses per second off objects, million injured or disabled). Analysts phases will see a suite of semi- and measures how long they take Strategy Analytics even suggest that autonomous technology introduced to reflect back. A precise 3D image between 2035 and 2045 that over in baby steps, albeit at a quickening of all objects around the vehicle is5588
LIFESTYLEthus created, essentially transforming and generally causing mayhem on any other automotive technology inreality into a 3D video game grid for motorways, a lead lorry will control the last century. “It will know wherea computer to navigate. the speed and direction of those you shop, work, when you drive behind it. It’s based on vehicle-to- and even what you do on yourNot surprisingly, this is a natural fit vehicle communication; when the weekends off.”for the navigation and mapping lead vehicle brakes suddenly, soexperts at Google, who since do all the vehicles behind it, and As cars gradually become2010 have been sending a heavily instantly. Reaction time is zero. The connected computers on wheels,modified Toyota Prius to project laser Department for Transport, whose another risk will appear; cyberattack.beams around three million miles Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) “By intercepting and tamperingof roads in California. Google’s is working with DAF Trucks, Ricardo with mobile communications andproject was recently spun-out as a and DHL, wants tests of self-driving over-the-air software updates,business called Waymo. However, platoons of lorries to begin in the UK cybercriminals could transmitthe real king-makers of self-driving next year. malicious code or send new andcars are the sensor-makers, Intel dangerous instructions to theand Nvidia, which are developing That autonomous vehicles will, by vehicle’s software systems,” saysself-driving platforms with vehicle their nature, also be ‘connected’ Alexander Moiseev, chief salesmanufacturers. While Intel is working cars is not lost on those in the officer at Kaspersky Lab. “It’s likelywith Waymo, BMW and Delphi, entertainment and consumer we’ll have to update and patch ourNvidia has Toyota, Volvo and Tesla. electronics industries. “The car cars as frequently as we update ourBoth groups are targeting 2021 for is a great ‘data centre’ with the web browsers.”these platforms, but they’re not just potential to collect and shareabout cars. information from a huge range So the era of autonomous vehicles of sources,” says Tom Rivers, Vice may mean replacing accidents withIn the UK the focus is on ‘automated President Global Marketing for admin.platooning’, where entire fleets of Connected Car at Harman. Hetrucks and lorries act as one. Instead thinks that connectivity will have aof trying to overtake each other more dramatic effect on cars than JAMIE CARTER Travel & Technology Editor 59
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LIFESTYLEHidden Gemsin the Cityof LondonDuring the Great Fire, Samuel Pepys climbed to the top of the tower of All Hallows and surveyed the massive conflagration sweeping the city. Dating from 675, this most ancient ofLondon churches is the close neighbour of the Tower of London.Hence quite a few public execution victims from Tower Hill foundtheir way here. John Fisher, Thomas More, William Laud … Unlike therest of the building, the tower on which the troubled diarist perchedwas a the time very new: the only church structure to be put upin London during the Commonwealth period (1649 –1660). Almost a thousand years older, to the rearof the nave you can see a section ofSaxon wall from the late 7th Centurybuilding.Go further down to the crypt and you’ll find a section of Roman mosaic.Layer upon layer, the story of London.You’ll find there too the records of WilliamPenn’s baptism and John Quincy Adams’swedding demonstrating the City’s ties withboth pre- and post-colonial America.Quite randomly it seems, there are oldgrave markers from the Western Front;and - made from a barrel - a crow’s nestfrom Shackleton’s ship Quest! Back upstairsin the main church there is an exquisitebaptismal font cover by Grinling Gibbons,the most talented wood carver who everheld a chisel. 61
LIFESTYLE On the river front five minutes commercial London throughout all From here, inevitably, emerged upstream of All Hallows we find old ages. Lloyd’s of London. Billingsgate Market, from the Middle Ages until 1982 the main entrepôt Everywhere we look in this part Explore the alleys within the of all seafood arriving in the capital. of the City, we see the signs triangle of Cornhill, Lombard and One can hear the ghosts of porters, of commercial London in the Gracechurch Streets and you buyers, merchants and imagine, modern historical sense. Some will see everywhere traces of the perhaps, Hogarth’s shrimp girl obvious: Thomas Gresham’s London insurance markets of old. fetching her stock for the day. The Royal Exchange, first founded trading hall is a bold and handsome in 1571 and immediately across Venture east now to the Gherkin structure by Sir Horace Jones, Threadneedle Street: the Bank and we are reminded of the Baltic of England (1694). But buildings Exchange, all but destroyed by the master don’t do business: people do. From a 1992 truck bomb. Virtually in architect the late seventeenth Century, its shadow is the ancient church of London’s the actual venues where much of St Andrew Undershaft, a rare markets. At meaningful business was transacted survivor of the Fire, the Blitz and, each end – more lively, more exciting, more narrowly, modern terrorism. It is is a golden interesting, more popular – were the wholly appropriate that it houses weathervane, coffee houses. the memorial to local parishioner both featuring a John Stow, author of the Survey of strange fish. The first coffee house in London London (1598) and hence the father was more of a shack in the yard of London History. But we must venture of St Michael Cornhill. Begun in northwest a bit to 1652, it was run by Pasqua Rosee Mike Paterson enjoy Sir Horace’s a business acquaintance of Daniel Director of London Historians speciality: wrought iron Edwards of the Levant Company. and glass. Leadenhall A blue sign on the Jamaica Wine www.londonhistorians.org Market was completed House in St Michael’s Alley marks in 1881, a luscious the spot. Despite – to modern high-roofed open lips – the disgusting taste of their market in cream and “Mohammedan gruel” – coffee maroon. Gorgeous. The shops were an instant success, site had been in use as opening in their dozens during the a market since the late following decades. Garraway’s in 14th Century on a site Exchange (now Change) Alley was where once stood a a huge multi-room establishment hall with a lead roof and favoured hang-out of Robert belonging to a family Hooke who had the job of re- called Neville. The establishing property rights after the market sits directly Fire. There’s a marvellous carved where once stood sign marking the spot; it features the the Forum of Roman Gresham grasshopper. A neighbour Londinium from 70AD. in Change Alley was Jonathan’s This, then, represents from around 1680 which became London’s de facto stock exchange the heart of until the official version was formally established. Most famous of all, though, must be Lloyd’s coffee house, established by Edward Lloyd and based in Lombard Street from 1691. Everyone involved in shipping – sailors, traders, brokers – hung out in this establishment for their news, prices, trades and their business.62
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With many of us HAVING For those who do want to explore to attract new customers and to ALREADY BOOKED OUR un-chartered terrain, heli-skiing offer something else to do in poor should be on the to-do list. However, conditions,” says Daniel Loots at SUMMER BREAK, now’s the do think about your skiing ability the Ski Club of Great Britain (www. before signing-up. “You don’t skiclub.co.uk), who suggests St time to start thinking about want to jump out of a helicopter Moritz in Switzerland as one of the in the middle of nowhere and best for those that don’t want to hit what’s on offer DURING THOSE be out of your depth,” says Rob the piste;. “It has mountain railways Stewart at Ski Press, who advises that can transport you to some of DARK WINTER MONTHS. those without off-piste or deep the most spectacular scenery in the powder snow experience should alps, five Michelin star restaurants, Market People Magazine first do an off-piste course in a resort great shopping, and for thrill-seekers, looks at some of the options (try SnowWorks snoworks.co.ukl). a chance to ride the Olympic available; particularly those on You’ll need to be very fit, and take Bobsleigh run.” the slopes; there’s no business like avalanche safety equipment, snow business. There are scores of transceiver, shovel and probe. There are now hundreds of ‘emerging’ destinations in Poland, exciting new ski resorts and unique Slovenia and Bulgaria but the Alps It’s just as likely that you’ll be looking experiences to be had, from remains a firm favourite. However, for a resort for friends and family snowcat or cat-skiing (guided what’s the very ‘hottest’ place to who don’t want to ski. “Most resorts backcountry skiing using a grooming ski? Japan, no doubt about it – the have really improved their non-skiing machine with a cabin on the back.), snow is just so good there. If money options in the last few years, both ski-touring and even ‘ski joring’ with is no object, consider Verbier and Zermatt in Switzerland, which has fewer skiers than the French Alps and some of the very best hotels (and the very best off-piste skiing).6644
LIFESTYLEI want to ski somewhere It’s time to treat myself I love skiing for theclose to home with plenty to a winter break I’ll frequent stops for greatof choice remember. Take me food and wine. somewhere amazing!Chalet Pelerin, Sainte Foy, France Sommelier on the Slopes, Alta Badia, Niseko’s ‘champagne powder’, ItalyIn an area renowned for its Hokkaido, Japanbackcountry powder, Chalet Pelerin The self-styled ‘gourmet skihas six world-class ski resorts all Nestled at the south base of the destination’ of Alta Badia in thewithin a 40-minute drive; Sainte Foy, 1,308m Mount Niseko Annupuri, Italian Dolomites has some specialVal d’Isere, Tignes, La Rosiere, La Niseko Village has 2,191 acres of food and wine-themed skiingThuile and Les Arcs. Chalet Pelerin skiable terrain renowned for its dry activities. Its ‘Sommelier on thehas a swimming pool, outdoor hot ‘champagne powder’. Onsen hot Slopes’ day sees a professional skitub, and a Alpage (mountain hut) spring spas will soothe your aching instructor, who also happens to bethat guests can snowshoe to for a limbs while non-skiers in your group a qualified sommelier, ski with acandlelit fondue. can snowmobile, snowshoe, snow- group and stop at mountain huts for raft or go reindeer sledding. tutored tastings of South Tyrol’s finestThis chalet holiday experience wines.from Luxury Chalet Book (www. The three-bedroom, six-personluxurychaletbook.com) includes Kasara Townhouses (www.kasara. Tickets can be purchased inqualified ski guides, custom- com) in the heart of Niseko Village advance through the Alta Badiamade adventure itineraries, all ski include stylish, luxury homes beside Tourism Board (www.altabadia.org).equipment, and even a professional the ski slopes, and close to shops Alta Badia is a two-hour drive fromphotographer for a day to capture and restaurants at Niseko Village. Venice.your exploits. Prices start at £36,000 The starting price per night perper week on a catered basis for 8-12 townhouse is approx. £650.guests.I’m bored of the Alps and I want to try heli-skiing I love skiing, but the thrillwant a unique off-piste with an expert guide is gone. I need a newArctic adventure challenge! Heli-skiing in Alagna, ItalyArctic Circle Safari, Scandinavia Ski joring in St. Moritz, Switzerland British Columbia, Canada is THEThe world’s most northerly ski place to heli-ski, but Alagna in Italy is If you yearn for that exhilaratingresort north of the Arctic Circle, one of the few places to do it in the feeling you once got from alpineRiksgransen’s lifts open in February Alps. James Orr Heliski has launched skiing, try being pulled along aand don’t close until June. A a new four-day heli-skiing trip to snowy valley by a galloping horse.magnet for free-riders, with a heli-ski Alagna accompanied by four-times Ski-joring beginners start in a flatdrop zone that’s bigger than the British Olympic skier and BBC Ski valley at a gentle pace, but it isNetherlands, ski touring is also high Sunday Presenter, Graham Bell. The possible to race around a trackon the agenda. However, piste-skiers trip includes one full-day heli-skiing laid for White Turf, an annual horsehaven’t been forgotten, with slopes with two drops, but it’s possible to racing event held on frozen Lake St.that criss-cross into Norway – and add more. Moritz in January & February.stay open until one o’clock in themorning come June! Go in the early The four-day heli-skiing trip to Alagna Kulm Hotel St. Moritzpart of the year and the Northern with James Orr Heliski (www.heliski. (www.kulm.com) can organise skiLights are often visible, with an co.uk) costs £1,875 for four nights joring lessons for £270 per personexcursion possible to the Aurora Sky including off-piste skiing everyday per hour, and charges £525 for twoStation in Abisko National Park. with Graham Bell and a mountain people sharing a double room guide, half-board accommodation (half-board).The Arctic Circle Safari (www. in the four-star Christallo Hotel,skisafari.com) includes three days in airport transfers, and avalancheRiksgränsen and four in Björkliden, transceiver rental.including B&B accommodation,flights and transfers. It costs from£1,195 per person, with lift passesand ski hire extra.JAMIE CARTERTravel & Technology Editor 65
Haven House Children’s Hospice Haven House is the chosen charity of London Market Forums and is a nurse-led hospice for children and young people from birth to age 19 who have life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Situated in 18 acres of woodland extensive refurbishment to create “The most important gift of in ‘The White House’, a converted a new kitchen/café hub, larger lift, all was the confidence and locally-listed building on the borders enhancing bedrooms including a ability Haven House gave us to of London and Essex, the hospice new teenage bedroom with ensuite make sure our little soldier was works across nine London Boroughs, as well as moving its bereavement comfortable and relaxed at all in addition to East Hertfordshire and suite, creating a new nurses station times during those difficult final West Essex. To date, Haven House and other care facilities. This will days. We were able to spend has supported over 900 families. help provide better support to Isaac’s last hours together, families such as the Brodie’s who holding him close, singing to The hospice provides services used the hospice with their baby him, praying for him and making including palliative, respite care and Isaac. Stephen spoke at the LMF sure he knew he was loved more end-of-life care, post-bereavement fashion event in June 2017 and than anything as he made his support as well as a variety of shared with guests how the hospice services for parents and siblings. had supported his family when they ultimate journey. were given the devastating news, To enhance their care, the before the birth of Isaac, that he Natalie Chevin, Head of hospice is currently undergoing had an inoperable brain tumor. Corporate and Major Gifts at the Hospice said: “On behalf of everyone at Haven House, and especially our children and families, thank you to Roger and Oscar, and everyone at LMF who have all done so much to support Haven House. We are so thankful and delighted to work with them. 2018 is our 15th birthday year, and the refurbishment programme is a very exciting time for us which will enable us to deliver even better care to all those who need us”. You can meet more of Haven House’s families at their website: www.havenhouse.org.uk and find out more about their work. If you would like to directly support Haven House, please contact Natalie on 020 8506 3631 or [email protected]
13TH DECEMBER 2017 Andrew Vertigan BROKING PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEARProfessionals from across the Lloyd’s and Erik Johnson London Insurance Market gathered at the magnificent One Moorgate Place on Diversity and Inclusion Champion Wednesday 13th December 2017 for the 2nd annual of the Year Market People Awards, produced by London Market Forums, in association with Market People Magazine. The event celebrates those who make a special or outstanding contribution to their team, business or the London Insurance Market as a whole.13 incredibly talented and make a genuine difference Sebastian De Zuluetahighly worthy recipients in the insurance sector, whopicked up an award at the INNOVATION CHAMPIONglamorous event, ranging OF THE YEARfrom those at the beginningof their career in insurance, go above and beyond tosuch as Conor Husbandsfrom Hiscox, through to the help their colleagues, clientsCEO of Aon UK, DominicChristian, who received and make the industry athe Lifetime AchievementAward. better place to work. We are Branko Bjelobaba delighted with the supportThe event, commonly known from the Market and the OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONas the “friendly awards”, TO LEGAL & COMPLIANCEis a great showcase fortalent and commitment in numerous commercial firmsthe insurance industry, withpeople being rewarded, who sponsored the event,who ordinarily wouldn’treceive any form of public making it such a memorablerecognition for their efforts. evening.”Guests enjoyed an amazingdrinks reception, live music, The Market People Awards Conor Husbandsentertainers, a silver service always creates an eveningdinner and the Awards YOUNG PERSON OFCeremony itself, which was THE YEARfollowed by a prize drawwith funds going directly of great memories forto Haven House Children’sHospice, the annual charity everyone involved. “This is aof LMForums. A further £2,000was raised on the night, night of real winners; people Stephen Wares Dominic Christianon top of the £8,000 raised chosen by their Marketearlier in the year at the UNDERWRITING PROFESSIONAL Lifetime AchievementCharity Fashion Gala. OF THE YEAR AwardCommenting on the peers because of a real Stuart Willoughbyevening, Roger Oldham, difference they’ve madefounder of LMForums and in their team, workplace or Claims Professional ofthe Market People Awards the Yearsaid “our awards are aboutrecognising real people who the Market as a whole” said Roger. The 2018 Market People Awards will be held on 14th November and nominations will open in July. If you are interested in attending or supporting this event, Justin Emrich do get in touch with OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO INDUSTRY LMForums - we’d be TRANSFORMATION delighted to see you there. Jackie Overington Outstanding The 2017 event was kindly Contribution to sponsored by Charles HR/L&D Taylor InsureTech, ISG, CCH Jenny Pavitt Tagetik, Aon UK, Morning Market People, Data, ActiveOps, Hanson Lee Outstanding Contribution Award Resourcing, Decoded, SAI John Muir 67 Global, Sheridan Resolutions, Xenovida and Market OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION People Magazine. TO OPERATIONS & CHANGE Mark Simpson BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION TO THE MARKET IN 2017
• JOIN US FOR AN AMAZING EVENING WHERE WE recognise real people doing real Market jobs • ENJOY OUR BLACK TIE EXTRAVAGANZA WITH YOUR MARKET COLLEAGUES, CLIENTS AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATES • PRESENT ONE OF 15 INCREDIBLE AWARDS • ASSOCIATE YOUR BRAND WITH MARKET EXCELLENCE • ENJOY A STUNNING DRINKS RECEPTion and silver service dinner, all in our themed venetian set • an event created by market people for market people and those supplying and supporting this sector • Tables, half tables and individual places • sponsorship opportunities available68 LMFORUMS, level 30, the leadenhall building, 122 Leadenhall street, london, ec3v 4AB
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