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With well over 200 delegates from across the general insurance, banking, life and protection, funds and DFM industries, the Defaqto annual conference was an unmissable event with updates from Defaqto and leading industry experts shining a light on industry trends, discussing current issues and developments to help professionals make smarter financial decisions.

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Alongside such topics as Distribution Challenges Consumer Duty and Product Design there were several celebrated keynote speakers - Georgie Frost talking about Artificial Intelligence and how it will affect every walk of life. Georgie is an accomplished broadcaster and journalist with over a decade of experience in the media industry. After a successful career in sports broadcasting, they transitioned into freelance finance presenting and journalism in 2014, quickly establishing themselves as a leading voice in the field. Their work spans some of the biggest media organizations in Britain, earning them numerous accolades, including Personal Finance Journalist of the Year at the 2023 British Bank Awards and International Personal Finance Broadcast Journalist of the Year by ADVFN.

Currently, Georgie holds the position of Editor-at-Large at Times Money Mentor and regularly contributes to TalkTV, Times Radio, and the BBC. With extensive experience as an event host and media trainer, they are also a well-known podcast host. In 2023, they achieved the remarkable feat of reaching number one in the business charts in both the US and UK for two different podcasts. For the past nine years, they have been writing, hosting, and editing the This is Money podcast, the finance section of MailOnline, while also leading Boston Consulting Group’s official podcast, The So What, since summer 2021.

In addition to their podcast work, Georgie broadcasts for BCG at high-profile global events, including the COP climate conference, Milken, Davos, and the Cannes Lions Festival. Their work at these events includes recording videos, hosting LinkedIn live sessions, and moderating panel debates. [Name] also hosts video and podcast content for Business Reporter, The European, and Hub TV.

Passionate about promoting girls' involvement in sports,Georgieholds FA coaching and refereeing qualifications and actively advocates for increased participation in sports by women

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And who could not love Professor Anand Menon’s brilliant talk on our baffling geopolitical situation? Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in politics and why it matters to you? Meet Anand, a passionate politics professor and expert in European affairs, who's dedicated his career to making complicated topics like Brexit more understandable for everyone, not just academics.

Before joining King’s College, Anand was a Professor of West European Politics and the founding director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. That means he’s spent a lot of time researching and teaching about how European politics work—and how they affect all of us. But Anand’s career hasn’t just been about the classroom. He’s held some pretty cool visiting positions at places like New York University and Columbia University in the U.S., and the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He’s also closely connected to the world of global affairs through his roles at Chatham House and Nuffield College, Oxford.

If you’re interested in politics, you might have even come across his work in West European Politics, a journal he co-edits, where some of the most important political conversations in Europe are published.

One of Anand’s biggest projects is leading an initiative called UK in a Changing Europe. Funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council, this project is all about making political research accessible to regular people—people like you! Anand and his team work to break down what Brexit means for the UK and Europe, and they explain how it affects everything from jobs and travel to education and human rights.

And finally Tim Papandreou, the visionary leader in emerging technology, dedicated to bridging the gap between cutting-edge innovations and their practical applications. With a focus on how these advancements shape the future of work, education, business, and daily life, [Name] advises numerous startups while also serving as a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator in a variety of advanced technology sectors. These include generative and predictive AI, supply chain automation, robotics, tele-operations, smart cities, agtech, blockchain, digital twins, the space economy, and Web3.

As the founder of ETA, a global advisory firm, Tim works closely with startups, governments, and corporations to accelerate innovation in emerging technologies. Their experience spans influential roles, including working with Alphabet/Google’s X Moonshot Factory, where they currently advise on AI Moonshots, and Waymo, where they contributed to launching the world’s first automated robo-taxi and truck system. [Name] also served as Chief Innovation Officer for Transport with the City of San Francisco, spearheading innovative policies and projects that broke new ground in the transportation industry.

With a deep passion for shaping the future, Tim continues to lead and inspire through their work, helping organizations worldwide unlock the full potential of emerging technologies.

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Mar 21, 2023

HOW MUCH DOES A CORPORATE VIDEO COST?

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY AND HOW YOU WANT TO SAY IT, BUT WHAT IS YOUR BUDGET?

How much will my film cost? Is inevitably our first question. The unhelpful answer is of course, how long is a piece of string? You may want a simple one-day, one-man shoot with a quick one-day edit, and you can probably get that for under a grand if you’re not too fussy and it really is just a one-day edit. Or you might want an ambitious creative concept, with lots of pre-production followed by a complex week-long shoot, filming on a RED camera, and lots of complicated compositing and animated graphics. And that could be £20 - £30 000. Or more.

Mar 20, 2023

WHY YOU HIRE A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER

So here’s the cruel irony. Even though I know I possess the kind of staggering youthful good looks that make people catch their breath and drop their falafel when they meet me in real life, on camera I look like a laboratory experiment where the mad scientist has injected the DNA of Brendan Gleason and Charles Manson into a old potato

And being self-conscious - oh my crooked smile, oh my seventy-eight chins - means I forget that my delicious eyes are like limpid emerald pools you could drown in, and I project discomfort - In short, I don’t pose well. Maybe you do. Millions of others dont. And some of them work for you.

Mar 16, 2023

TESTIMONIAL VIDEOS, WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR?

WHY THE BEST WAY TO SELL YOUR PEOPLE IS TO USE YOUR PEOPLE

Back in the mists of time, every corporate video had an ambitious narrative, like a storyboarded long-form commercial, a piece of expensive, styled, authored creative in its own right. These films do still get made and they are great. I make them myself, though more usually I work in short form. Is this always how you want to disseminate your information, your brand, your company? Sometimes yes. Just as sometimes you want to Ronseal it, to say it like it is. But do you want to be that blunt? Again probably not.

WHY SPEND MONEY ON A PROFESSIONAL VIDEOGRAPHER?

WHAT VALUE DOES A PROFESSIONAL VIDEOGRAPHER ACTUALLY BRING TO THE PARTY?

Sure so this is where you get sold all the corporate and advertising cliches about brand identity and adding value to your message and blah blah blah. And you may not be thinking in those terms, but rather about just demonstrating something seemingly quite simple.

CAN ONE PERSON SHOOT PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY AT AN EVENT?

YOU NEED A PHOTOGRAPHER , AND YOU ALSO WANT A CORPORATE VIDEOGRAPHER, BUT YOUR BUDGET PAYS FOR ONLY ONE OF THEM - WHAT DO YOU DO?

The short answer is of course some people can do both. The challenge is finding someone who is genuinely good at both, which is not as easy as it sounds. There are plenty of great photographers out there who can’t really shoot video. There are some good videographers out there, though they are no nearly so easy to find, and some of them are competent photographers too.

Mar 5, 2023

WHY EITHER EVERYONE OR NO ONE NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT AI

With the announcement that China-based NetDragon Websoft says it is the first company in the world to appoint an AI as its CEO only to see stocks soar, naturally it isn’t just struggling bloggers and graphic designers who are worried about the implication of AI

This is where I’d like to reassure you that climate change ravaging the planet and making the lives of those few who survive the catastrophic flooding, wild fires and raging hurricanes that are predicted absolute hell.

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