May 2007 Newsletter
Forthcoming BCCD events:
Our next lunch is on Friday 25 May and we will be welcoming Kim Graugaard, Deputy Director General of Dansk Industri as our guest speaker on the topic of globalisation. There is still time to sign up, if you haven't already done so. We have also announced an EGM of members on that day, which will be taken after our speaker and lunch. Full details of the programme can be found on the website.
We will be announcing some of the speakers for the new season of lunches shortly before the summer break.
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Social Media in a Corporate World - Tuesday 29 May 2007
Have you sent an SMS, read a Blog, heard a Podcast, taken a stroll through Second Life or been Linked-in or Twittered during the last week?
At 17.00 in the SAS Royal Hotel, Karin Høgh, a journalist, blogger and podcasting consultant will give a presentation of the social software she uses herself and give examples of the evolving corporate use of social media such as podcasting. This and other new media can be used as internal as well as external communication and as additional tools in the marketing mix, but they raise a number of issues and present challenges.
Further details are available on the website.
This event is the first in a series of "on the way home" (Gå hjem) meetings that BCCD will be arranging to cover topical issues that can benefit your business or organisation.
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Summer Garden Party - Friday 15 June 2007
Allan Eimert, of Founder Member, The European Search Group, is once again sponsoring an additional lunch event in his garden, before the summer break. Greve Harmoni Orkester will entertain us during the afternoon.
All members are invited to attend but numbers of guests will be restricted, so please sign up before 8 June.
More details are available on the website.
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The Ernst & Young Cup 2007, BCCD Annual Golf Tournament - Sunday 17 June 2007
This year’s golf tournament will be taking place on Sunday 17 June at Helsinge Golf Club and will once again be sponsored by Ernst & Young. The official invitation has been sent out to members. Non-members are also very welcome to register. The deadline for registration is Thursday 7 June.
Further details are available on the website.
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Autumn Ball 2007 - Saturday 27 October
The Ball will once again be held at the Odd Fellow Palæ in Bredgade, Copenhagen. We are pleased to announce that the evening will be sponsored by both Sterling and the Ketner Fund.
Please put the date in your diaries and begin thinking about who you will invite as guests to this glamourous evening. Planning is already well advanced for new features and the entertainment for the occasion, which is BCCD's highlight of the year for members and guests alike.
Further information and details of how to order tables and tickets will be available on the website shortly.
Board:
- Ove Hänel retired on 10 May from his position as Head of Marketing at Danske Bank.
- Ove will be leaving Denmark at the end of June for Vilnius and is therefore leaving the Board of BCCD. We would like to take this opportunity to thank him for all his dedicated hard work for the Chamber .
- Ove has been with us since the transition from the British Business Lunch Club to Chamber. We wish him all the very best in his retirement.
- Please read the article from Børsen
Our Executive Director, John Mott has decided to leave BCCD at the end of this month.
John was contracted part-time from his own Management Consultancy Company, viaction, as the first Executive Director of the new BCCD in May 2004, a position which he has held for the last three years, during all the turbulence of the transformation from Club to Chamber. With the support of a working Board, and later on a part-time administrator, John has been able to maintain the momentum of the daily operations of the new Chamber, in spite of limited time and resources. The Chamber is now established, has a full-time Administrator, a busy programme with a more secure financial base and, after almost exactly three years, is poised for a merger that will enhance its ability to develop its visions as a bilateral Chamber of Commerce.
John feels it is now for him to stand down and turn his full attention and energy back to his company, viaction.
We will be inviting all BCCD members and other guests to a reception to say goodbye and thank you to John at 17.00 on Thursday 31 May in the SAS Radisson Royal Hotel.
Other organisations' activities:
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Mansion House Scholarship
Up to £5,000 in scholarship funds is available for studies, training or work experience in the UK's financial services industry.The Mansion House Scholarship is offered to strong Danish candidates and is linked to the visit to Copenhagen of the Lord Mayor of the City of London on 4 June 2007. Further information including an application form is available here.
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Strictly Financing Award - 12 June
UK Trade and Investment at the British Embassy is organising an event in cooperation with Medicon Valley Academy at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen. This is a chance to meet British investors, a keynote speaker from Genmab, a British entrepreneurship guru and the most promising biotech companies in Medicon Valley. A great opportunity to network with biotech executives, investors, entrepreneurs and other life science professionals This is a chance to meet British investors, a keynote speaker from Genmab, a British entrepreneurship guru and the most promising biotech companies in Medicon Valley. A great opportunity to network with biotech executives, investors, entrepreneurs and other life science professionals
Please see their invitation for further information.
Sponsors:
We have had overwhelming success with the launch of our sponsorship scheme at the Founder's Dinner in February. 13 major companies have demonstrated their support for the Chamber by becoming gold sponsors. Their logos are all displayed for the first time at the bottom of this newsletter.
We will be approaching companies for the silver and bronze categories of sponsorship in the coming months but are pleased to say that :
British Airways has already joined us as a Silver sponsor
and Ernst & Young, Sterling and Ketner Fund are event sponsors.
We are grateful to all our new sponsors for their contributions and vote of confidence.
Membership:
We are pleased to welcome the following who have joined us recently:
G4S Security Services
Their BCCD contact is Kristian Durhuus at: kristian.durhuus@dk.g4s.com
Nykredit
Their BCCD contact is Erik Urskov at: eu@nykredit.dk
Danisco
Their BCCD contact is Tom Knutzen at: tom.knutzen@danisco.com
Kromann Reumert
Their BCCD contact is Vagn Thorup at: vt@kromannreumert.com
Aktino
Contact Kristian Henriksen on: kontakt@a-skat.com
@dd-IT
Contact Poul Erik Thomsen on: pet@add-it.dk
We are looking forward to seeing them all at future events.
New on the extranet:
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Social Trends 37 is a newly published report by the UK National Statistics Office which brings together a wide range of statistics on many aspects of contemporary UK society and how it has changed over the years. Members can read more about its findings and download the full report, by logging onto the extranet.
If you have mislaid your password, contact the BCCD secretariat.
Secretariat:
Some members will already have noticed that we are now sending invoices as Pdf files by e-mail. This will hopefully save BCCD both time and money as we increase our membership, and also increase efficiency.
Penny Schmith
Administrator
ps@bccd.dk
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