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GDS International’s Next Generation Mining Summit Australia, Brings Top Level Delegation to Shangri-La Hotel, Cairns

8th February 2012, Bristol, UK: On 20 – 22 March 2012, leading CEOs, MDs, GMs and Directors will attend the Next Generation Mining Summit at the Shangri-La Hotel in Cairns to discuss the hottest and most challenging topics currently encapsulating the mining industry.

iStrategy Continues to Raise the Bar with its Fifth Digital Strategy Conference in San Francisco

2nd February, 2012, Bristol, UK: On 31 January – 1 February 2012, the South San Francisco Conference Center played host to the fifth edition of iStrategy North America, one of the world’s leading digital strategy conferences. An inspirational, two-day event held bi-annually at regional event locations across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, iStrategy focuses its efforts on curating disruptive and invaluable content for senior executives who believe that the success of their business requires a sound digital strategy.

GDS International’s Next Generation Telecoms Asia Pacific Summit Geared to Tackle the Evolving Face of Telecoms in the Asia Pacific Region for 2012

The Summit combines high-level roundtable discussions with next generation technology solutions that, together with Nick York, Summit Director of NGT APAC, have been championed by the Summit’s exclusive analyst partners, IDC.

GDS International combines exceptional content with top CIOs in Latin America for its CIOLA Summit in March

31th January 2012, Bristol, UK: The 7-9 March 2012 will be witness to the fourth CIO Latin America Summit (CIOLA), hosted by GDS International at the Fairmont Mayakoba, Riviera Maya, Mexico. A 60-strong consortium of CIOs and Senior Corporate Officers from the region’s most progressive enterprises, the CIOLA Summit promises to be 2012’s most well respected and best-attended event for Chief Information Officers in the Latin American region.

GDS International’s FST Latin America Summit Looks to Unlock Top Technology Opportunities for Regional Finance Execs

27th January 2012, Bristol, UK: On 17-19 April, leading financial services executives from the region’s biggest firms will head to Mexico’s Fairmont Mayakoba Riviera Maya Hotel for what promises to be the best attended and most well respected event for financial services technology professionals in Latin America during 2012 – the FST Summit Latin America.

GDS International brings together top oil and gas executives for its NG O&G Summit in February

26th January, Bristol, UK: On 7-9 February 2012, the Barton Creek Resort and Spa in Texas will be host to a 65-strong consortium of CEOs and Senior Corporate Officers from small, mid and large cap oil and gas producers attending the latest Next Generation Oil and Gas Summit (NGO&G). Positioned at the very pinnacle of their industry, this year’s Summit promises to be the most well respected and best-attended event for the Oil and Gas industry in the US during 2012.

GDS International brings top financial technology executives together for the FST Europe Summit in May.

25th January 2012, Bristol, UK: On 14 – 16 May 2012, leading SVPs, EVPs, VPs, CIOs and CTOs from the world’s leading financial organisations will convene at the Turnberry Resort, Scotland, for the Next Generation Financial Services Technology (FST) summit, for what promises to be the best attended and most well respected event for financial technology services in Europe during 2012.

GDS International’s Inaugural NG Customer Experience Summit set to hit Texas in late February, early March.

19th January 2012, Bristol, UK: On 28 February – March 1, leading SVPs, VPs, CMOs and CCOs from the world’s leading brands will convene at the inaugural Next Generation Customer Service summit at the Barton Creek Resort & Spa, Austin, TX, to discuss and share ideas pertaining to today’s business challenges. Topics up for discussion include how companies grow profits and boost margins in the current hypersensitive market.

GDS International’s CIO Africa Summit Set To Tackle Top IT Leadership Topics in Africa for 2012

17th January 2012, Bristol, UK: On 17-19 April, leading CIOs from the region’s biggest firms will be descending on South Africa’s Arabella Western Cape Hotel & Spa for what promises to be the best attended and most well respected event for information technology professionals in Africa during 2012 – the CIO Africa Summit.

GDS International’s Next Generation Telecoms Latin America Summit Geared to Tackle the Evolving Face of Telecoms in the Latin American Region for 2012

18th January 2012, Bristol, UK: On 20-22 March, leading senior executives from the region’s biggest telecoms firms will be calling the Four Seasons in Miami, Florida, home as they settle in for what promises to be the best attended and most well respected event for telecommunications professionals in Latin America during 2012 – the NGT LA Summit.

SolveIT Software to Attend the Next Generation Oil & Gas Summit, ANZ 2012

Bristol, UK, 10^th November 2011: SolveIT Software – a leading provider of enterprise software for supply and demand optimisation and predictive modeling – will attend the Next Generation Oil & Gas summit in Perth in from 31^st January to 2^nd February next year.

Next Generation HR US Summit 2011 Saw Industry Leading Executives Meet To Discuss Objectives And Grow Ongoing Business Relationships

3rd November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation HR US, which took place from 12th – 14th September the Barton Creek Resort & Spa, Austin, Texas, provided leading executives the chance to establish strong business relationships, which will see the start of many innovative and exciting new ventures.

SolveIT Software to lead Keynote Panel at the Next Generation Mining Summit, Australia 2011

Bristol, UK, 7th November 2011 – Matthew Michalewicz, Director of SolveIT Software – a leading provider of enterprise software for supply and demand optimisation and predictive modeling – lead the Keynote Panel Discussion at the Next Generation Mining Summit in Perth in September 2011 with a focus on ‘Planning, Scheduling and Optimising the End-to-End Mining Supply Chain.’

Next Generation Retail APAC Summit 2011 Fosters Innovation For Industry Leading Executives

4th November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation Retail APAC summit – which took place from 18th – 20th October at The Golden Palm Tree Resort & Spa, Kuala Lumpur – provided leading executives the chance to establish strong business relationships, which will see the start of many innovative and exciting new ventures.

Next Generation Telecoms Africa Summit 2011 Provided The Framework For New Business Ventures

3rd November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation Telecoms Africa, which took place from 13th – 15th September the Arabella Western Cape Hotel & Spa, South Africa, provided leading executives the chance to establish strong business relationships, which will see the start of many innovative and exciting new ventures.

Leading Telecommunications Executives Meet At Next Generation Telecoms Latin America Summit To Discuss Demands And Objectives For a Rapidly Evolving Market

4th November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation Telecoms Latin America, which took place from 19th – 21st July at the Intercontinental, Rio de Janeiro, provided leading executives the chance to establish strong business relationships, which will see the start of many innovative and exciting new ventures.

Leading CTOs and CIOs Met At The Next Generation Finance US Summit 2011 To Address Challenges Faced By The Financial Services Sector

7th November, Bristol, UK – The Financial Services Technology Summit US – which took place from 24th – 26th October at Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Arizona – provided leading executives with an ideal framework for new business relationships to flourish.

The GDS International Mentor System

Bristol, UK – 4th November 2011 – GDS International’s Mentor System for new hires has proven very successful for the company because, says GDS HR Director Tudor Williams: ‘we keep the rules simple’.

Bristol Company Celebrates Banksy

Bristol, UK – 2^nd November 2011 – A Bristol-based events company was stuck with creative ideas for a day out and (that dreaded phrase) 'bonding exercise'. They took inspiration from one of the City's best-loved artists.

Social media must lose weight of expectation to win business

Bristol, UK – 7th November 2011 – According to global business event organiser GDS International, its recent social media marketing conference iStrategy was the 'best yet'. But, says MeetTheBoss TV editor and iStrategy emcee Adam Burns, the medium must shed its self-imposed weight of expectation to capture the heart of business.

iStrategy Conference The Most Successful Yet

Bristol, UK, 3 November, 2011: From workshops to panels, keynotes to networking, content and leading speakers combined with seamless organisation produced the most streamlined, smooth-running conference iStrategy has had to date.

Next Generation CIO Asia Summit 2011 Fosters Innovation For Industry Leading Executives

2nd November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation Manufacturing Europe, which took place from 4th – 6th October at the Golden Palm Tree Resort & Spa, Kuala Lumpur, provided leading executives with an ideal framework for new business relationships to flourish.

Higher Education Professionals Meet at the Next Generation Education Summit to Discuss Demands for the 21st Century

7th November, Bristol, UK – The Next Generation Education summit – which took place from 1^st to 3^rd November at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia – provided leading executives with an ideal framework for new business relationships to flourish.

Next Generation Manufacturing Europe Summit 2011 Fosters Innovation For Industry Leading Executives

2nd November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation Manufacturing Europe, which took place from 20th - 22nd September at the Intercontinental La Torre Gold Resort, Murcia, Spain provided leading executives the chance to establish strong business relationships, which will see the start of many innovative and exciting new ventures.

Leading Mining Executives Built Ongoing Business Relationships At Next Generation Mining Australia Summit In Perth

3rd November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation Mining Australia, which took place from 27th – 29th September The Vines Resort, Swan Valley, Perth provided leading executives with an ideal framework for new business relationships to flourish.

Next Generation Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing US Summit 2011 Fosters Innovation For Industry Leading Executive

2nd November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing US, which took place from 4th – 6th October at Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, California, provided leading executives with an ideal framework for new business relationships to flourish.

Accelerated-Networking-for-the-Busy-Executive

3^rd November, Bristol, UK—GDS International, a global business to business event company, has announced the launch of a new platform to provide accelerated networking for busy executives from Global Fortune 500 companies.

CIOs and CISOs Meet At Next Generation Security Summit US To Discuss Objectives In An Age Where Disruptive Technology Brings Further Threats To Security

4th November, Bristol, UK -- Next Generation Security US, which took place from 19th – 21st July at Barton Creek Resort & Spa, Texas, provided leading executives with the framework to establish strong business relationships, which will see the start of many innovative and exciting new ventures.

Across Europe, CIO Summit Provided Technology Leaders with the Framework for

3rd November, Bristol, UK – GDS international’s CIO Europe Summit, which took place from 24th – 26th May at the Ritz-Carlton, Berlin, provided leading executives with an ideal framework for new business relationships to flourish.

Global business events company looking for charitable causes

Bristol, UK – 2^nd November 2011 – GDS International is currently looking for charitable causes to support in 2012.

Chief Financial Officers Meet To Discuss Strategy And Objectives In The Wake Of

4th November, Bristol, UK – The CFO Europe Summit, which took place from 13th – 15th September at the Intercontinental La Torre Golf Resort Murcia, Spain, provided leading executives the framework to establish strong business relationships, which will see the start of many innovative and exciting new ventures.

Physical Graffiti

The phrase ‘work day out’ can strike fear into the heart of the bravest soul. We’ve all spent a day ‘team-building’ (wearing the same t-shirt), ‘bonding’ (being shot at by a sociopath with a paintball gun), and ‘thinking outside the box’ (looking forward to the free cookies).

The GDS Mentor System

New starters play a massive part in our future success – they are the next generation of managers, directors and more. Our mentor system is intended to give them the best start possible, and to ensure that they feel supported and encouraged.

Read all about us!

Works Management magazine sent their editor to our NG Manufacturing Summit at the Intercontinental La Torre Resort in Murcia, Spain and he returned with a front-page story about empowerment. The takeaways from our Summit – he advises his 17,000-strong readership of senior manufacturers – are 'vital to achieving strategic goals'.

119 miles, 41 hours, 2 legs

GDS Bristol’s HR Director Fraser Jamieson recently completed an astonishing feat of physical endurance in aid of the GDS Foundation’s 2011 UK cause, the National Autistic Society.

Confirmed Delegates, August 2011

GDS is hugely proud of the services we provide for our senior executive delegates, and of the high level of delegates at our events. Here are a selection of confirmed attendees from August…

Alberto Guidotti, Head of Research & Development, Intesa Sanpaolo Group will be attending the Financial Services Technology Summit.

Accelerated Networking is Here!

To ensure the best possible start to every GDS Summit, we are proud to announce Collabor8: Eight working groups, eight industry hot topics, one accelerated learning and incredible networking opportunity...

GDS Summits bring together some of the world’s biggest and brightest executives from the companies driving business and the solution providers that enable them. So what do they think about the hottest topics currently defining their industry? The news stories and headline challenges forcing change?

Congratulations GDS! Over £31,500 raised for Autism Charities…

At the start of 2011, our Chairman Spencer Green decided that GDS needed to be more than a good place to do business: we had to be a business that did good. He launched the GDS Foundation in March, with the initial ambition of helping charities that work with autism spectrum disorder children and young people. It’s incredible what 450 talented people can achieve in three months…

NextGen Oil & Gas Making Headlines

Our NextGen Oil & Gas Summit for the Middle East and North Africa, held in Dubai’s 40-degree heat, featured more than the usual collection of senior executive decision makers.

14 journalists and camera crew/sound recordists came along to interview our superb delegation and document the fine work they are doing. These included top-of-the-food chain media outlets CNBC Arabia, Meed and Al Arabiya TV.

Click here to view the coverage

The Charity World’s Most Demanding Assault Course?

Lauren Heal, GDS’ Travel & Venue Director, and her very-excited team arranged a charity assault course on gorgeous Georgian Queen Square in Bristol. The result was floury faces, water balloon madness, a lot of cling film (saran wrap) and TOTAL chaos!

Why We Focus on Summits

17 years ago, I was Spencer Green, founder, GDS Publishing Ltd. I am now Spencer Green, chairman, GDS International. That company name change reflects more than our opening offices outside of the UK – we have always traded internationally – it reflects a change of focus and a tricky transition for our sales teams.

GDS International started as a business-to-business publisher, moving into events in the late 90s. We took it slowly but, in typical fashion, started big – large-scale conferences (1500+ people, industrial and agricultural heavy machinery, sound rigs powerful enough to provide instant facelift) – before finding our area of expertise: smaller, senior executive summits, in September 1998.