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Late Summer Networking 14th September

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

Evening networking event in London for interactive media, mobile and entertainment businesses. Come and join members from the mobile network operators, broadcasters, and interactive connectivity industries for an evening of relaxed networking and drinks. This event is open to everyone.

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Come and relax after a hard day in the office with fellow colleagues and business contacts for drinks, networking and a fresh snack of your choice, at our Late Summer Networking Event in the heart of London. This popular event is well attended by members of the mobile, entertainment, and interactive media industries.

Our Late Summer Networking Night on the 14th September  will  be at the Magic Roundabout in Old Street, London EC1Y 1BE. Situated in a hideaway on Old Street roundabout and accessed by its own private staircase straight from Old Street underground station, this venue will offer AIME exclusive networking space, a private bar and your choice of three in house eateries to choose from on the night (White Men Can’t Jerk – Caribbean jerk style food, Burger Bear – fresh juicy burgers with choice of toppings, Feral Food Store – Vegan goodness)

You will receive three drinks tokens on arrival (valid for use on all craft lagers, ciders, wine and single spirits and mixers), and also be presented with a food token which provides a main and side of your choice, which can be exchanged at one of the eateries mentioned above.

This fun and quirky venue will create a relaxed atmosphere for you to unwind after work and enjoy catching up with colleagues and new industry contacts for the evening.

Please note that this event is open to all members and non members and we encourage new contacts and businesses to attend, to ensure that it is a valuable networking event for everyone involved. Please pass this invitation on.

Tickets are available for sale from our tickets page: TICKETS

We hope you can join us.

New AIME Board announced

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

Thank you to all members who voted for this year’s positions for the AIME Board.

We are now delighted to announce the 2016-2017 Board membership. During the Board meeting, the positions of  Vice Chair(s) was decided by the full Board. It was agreed that two vice chairs that represent the membership worked well and would continue in this new term.

New Board Positions:

  • Vice Chairs: Eric Feltin (Safari Mobile) and Rob Weisz (Fonix)
  • New elected Board Members: Kevin Dawson (Oxygen8) and Paul Murphy (OpenMarket)
  • Re-elected Board Member: Jeremy Stafford Smith (Vodafone)

Remaining Board:

  • Chairman: Edward Boddington (Harvest Media)
  • Alan Partington (Telecom2)
  • Barry Hayter (ITV)
  • Toby Padgham (AIME Executive Director)
  • Sally Weatherall (Strategic Brief) (Board Advisor)
  • Alex Haffner (Dentons) (Opt-in)
  • Hamish MacLeod (MBG) (Opt-in)

The Board expressed its gratitude to Chris Newell (ImpulsePay) for his previous tenure and significant contribution to AIME’s activities.

Mobile World Congress 2016 – A personal view from Hugh Griffiths

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

The world’s biggest mobile trade show, Mobile World Congress, took place in Barcelona between 22-25 February 2016. As has become customary, the show’s attendance broke previous records: the GSMA announced on the final day that 101,000 people had attended MWC in 2016, an increase of almost 8% over the 2015 show’s attendance of 93,000.

The event is slowly moving to become more of a consumer electronics show as a variety of networks connect an increasingly significant number of consumer devices together. Read my report here: Review of Mobile World Congress 2016  .

 

AIME supports PhonepayPlus Statement on the 14th Code of Practice

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

PhonepayPlus today announced their 14th Code of Practice, accompanied by a statement and draft procedures. In AIME’s response to the consultation AIME identified, on behalf of membership, over 30 areas of concern or observations on the proposed operation of the Investigations and Sanctions part (part 4) of the 14th Code of Practice.

 

A majority of AIME input has been accepted and has resulted in either changes to the Code or the supporting procedures. The changes that were not accepted are accompanied by responses from PhonepayPlus that will serve as reference material for any future review of processes.

 

We are confident that PhonepayPlus has set out to ensure a fair and pragmatic process exists and our observations were mainly in the event that the process went wrong. AIME expects PhonepayPlus  to have at its disposal a robust investigation and sanction procedure that targets the individuals and companies that seek to cause damage to consumers at the expense of the well behaved providers that make up AIME’s membership.

 

Our concerns for members who fund the operation of PhonepayPlus are that the process is economical, legally sound and fair.

 

In the unlikely event that a member will have a case raised against them, that there is an opportunity for an early settlement akin to the “on the spot” fine for a minor traffic offence.

 

If the process has gone wrong for a provider, we want to ensure that there is an appeals process to allow for economical review of a case without the need for a judicial review. AIME has successfully won this change amongst others.

 

We expect the 14th Code to go live in July 2016 after Ofcom and EU consultation. The full PhonepayPlus statement can be read here:

http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/news-and-events/news/2016/march/statement-following-consultation-on-the-14th-code-of-practice

Charity Text Seminar a Success!

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

Charity Text Donation Seminar a Success

AIME and PhonepayPlus jointly ran a free one day Charity Text Donation Seminar in London on Friday 19th February. This was well attended by many small charities who came to learn more about how to use text donations to improve their fundraising, make sure that their marketing campaigns are compliant, learn the importance of increasing donations by Gift Aid and to ensure the audit standards are good.

As well as regulatory updates from PhonepayPlus, there were highly informative presentations from Telefonica, OpenMarket, Instagiv, Cymba, Vir2, Open Fundraising, Fonix and BBC Children in Need.

With positive feedback from the attendees it has been suggested that this event is run on an annual basis to ensure the spread of the successful intelligence sharing. A link to the presentations for the day is here.

You can also read about the event on PhonepayPlus’ blog here.

Feedback from the day:

I attend the Charity Seminar last week and I just wanted to say thank you for such a well-organised, informative day. It was really useful and I hope there will be a similar seminar next year! Samaritans

Thank you for organising Friday. It felt like a good session, let’s do it again soon. Open Fundraising

Great event. Informative, relevant and enjoyable. Can’t ask for more! OpenMarket

Well done on organising such a great day. RSM2000

 This event was so informative and useful, and should definitely be an annual event! Parkinsons UK