The event features over 35 speakers[3], including representatives from The Economist, CityA.M. and The Times, The Evening Standard and business leaders and experts including:
Luke Johnson - Chairman, Risk Capital Partners; formerly Chairman, Channel 4 & PizzaExpress
Dame Helen Alexander - Chairman, UBM; Non-Executive Director of Rolls-Royce plc; formerly: President, CBI; CEO, The Economist Group; Non-Executive Director of Centrica plc and BT plc
Lord Hannay - formerly UK Ambassador to the EEC and UK Ambassador to the UN
Lord Liddle - Chairman, Policy Network
Sharon Bowles MEP – Chair, European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee; considered most influential Briton in development of EU policy
Helena Morrissey - CEO, Newton Investment Management (assets under management of £51.7bn); voted one of the 50 Most Influential People in Finance by Bloomberg Magazine
Roland Rudd - Chairman, RLM Finsbury; Chairman, Business for New Europe; Non-Executive Director, The Army Board
Simon Walker - Director General, Institute of Directors
Colin Stanbridge - CEO, London Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Sir Stephen Wall - Former UK Permanent Representative to the EU and Ambassador to Portugal; advisor to Sir John Major and Tony Blair, as well as to five foreign secretaries
Professor Vernon Bogdanor - one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts; Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King’s College London
The event is being held in partnership with London Chamber of Commerce & Industry, London First, Open Europe, Centre for European Reform, Business for New Europe, Business for Britain, European Movement, British Influence, the European Leadership Network and EurActiv