Media Futures Conference 2009
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Beyond Broadcast

Friday 3 July, Bloomberg Auditorium, London, EC2

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Howard will explain how to use social insights to find out what the consumer really wants and to help create innovative content and platforms.

Melanie Howard co-founded the Future Foundation, a consumer think-tank, in 1996. She has spent 20 years using social trend analysis to help businesses identify opportunities and develop new services. She has identified powerful trends such as the 24 Hour Society, has explored the nature of communications in the network society and established a successful online trends subscription service, nVision. A Visiting Business Research Fellow at InnovationRCA at the Royal College of Art, she is currently writing The Future Unwrapped with James Woudhuysen – a short guide to understanding and using the future.