The City of
Lausanne and the International Olympic
Committee.
Roy was hired to moderate a series of panel
discussions at this inaugural
global event for past, present and future
Olympic cities. Delegates included
the mayors of many of these global cities. Roy's
duties also included
interviewing the Deputy Mayor of Beijing for the
first formal de-brief of
the hugely successful Beijing Olympic Games.
Discussion topics during the conference included
the future role of the
Olympics in society, the Olympic legacy for
Olympic cities, as well as
social, economic and urban regeneration of
Olympic cities.
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Symantec Europe
Symantec, the fourth largest software company in
the world held its European
conference for 1700 of its European Enterprise
customers in The Hague, the
city of justice, peace and security. Roy was the
MC and moderator for this
conference. His duties included introducing and
interviewing speakers. This
included interviewing John Thompson, Symantec's
Chairman and CEO.
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KPMG
For the past 5 years, Roy has been a guest
speaker at KPMG's annual European
Emerging Leaders conference. Roy shares his
thoughts on how to be proactive
and professional about building meaningful
business relationships internally
and externally.
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MECSC (The Middle East Council of Shopping
Centres)
Roy was moderator and MC in Dubai for yet
another MECSC conference. He
interviewed speakers and chaired discussions on
the growth and potential
challenges for the retail real-estate industry
in the Middle East.
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Lovells
Lovells is one of the world's top law firms.
This was Roy's third global
conference for Lovells, (the second for the
litigation arm of this firm).
Held in Brighton, Roy introduced, interviewed
and chaired various
business-related discussions.
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Philips
Healthcare
A global conference for corporate communications
professionals within the
Healthcare division of the electronics giant,
Philips. Roy was the MC and
moderator for this two day event, chairing
unscripted panel discussions and
interviews with speakers.
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ICSC,
New York, USA
The International Council of Shopping
Centers is based in New York city. Roy has moderated about 6
international conferences for this trade association. With
over 65,000 members worldwide the 180+ staff met to discuss
their successes and any challenges they face as the
organisation continues to grow. Roy introduced the speakers
and conducted a ‘no-holds-barred’ panel discussion with
senior staff and a small group of long-standing members, one
of whom travelled from South Africa to attend this meeting.
The following day, Roy chaired a business development
workshop with ICSC’s marketing staff. Twice the number of
people showed up than expected for a session that explored
ways to grow the organisation by tapping into the power of
word-of-mouth marketing, a specialist area of Roy’s
expertise. He is the author of the book’s “Meet Greet and
Prosper” and “Rapid Result Referrals”. While in New York Roy
also attended a meeting to discuss ICSC’s forthcoming World
Summit in South Africa (see below).
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ICSC, Cape Town, South Africa
Roy moderated ICSC’s first World Summit
in Istanbul, Turkey in 2005, when he interviewed Jean
Chretien, the former Prime Minister of Canada and Lee Scott
Jnr, the CEO of the world’s largest retailer – Walmart.
Again, he was asked to moderate this global event. Nearly
2,000 senior executives and global investors travelled from
all over the world to meet and discuss the shopping centre
industry. Roy chaired a variety of panel discussions as well
as introducing and interviewing a vast number of speakers
which included the Nobel Prize winner and former President
of South Africa FW de Klerk. At one point Roy asked de Klerk
‘You say you and Nelson Mandela have become friends. How
long did it take to learn to trust one another?” Another
speaker was Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former Director
of Communication’s and Strategy who gave a very stimulating,
candid and engaging presentation.
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FW
de Klerk and Roy Sheppard |
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BAT
Global Legal Conference, Paris
Tobacco has become a highly
controversial industry. It is also highly complex. Roy was
invited back to moderate BAT’s second global conference for
its in-house lawyers. Roy chaired many detailed discussions
on various legal and commercial topics. In order to fulfil
this role, Roy had to be extremely well-briefed, and possess
a high level of understanding in order to add value to
discussions by some of the world’s most experienced
litigation lawyers. He also conducted an extended,
un-scripted interview with BAT’s CEO. As part of his
moderating role, in the months leading up to this
conference, Roy interviewed many of BAT’s board members and
country managers on video, talking about the issues they
face around the world. Roy’s staff edited 8 videos which
were shown at appropriate times during the conference.
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