Henrik Skovdahl Hansen and the staff of Dansk Psykologisk Forlag welcome ETPG members to Copenhagen for their annual conference on 22nd-23rd May 2008

18th CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN TEST PUBLISHERS GROUP: HOW CAN THE ETPG HELP MEMBERS CREATE A FLOURISHING TEST INDUSTRY

 

Venue: Front Hotel, Skt. Annae Plads 21, PO Box 9076, DK-1022, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

AGENDA

 

Wednesday 21st May

 

Informal dinner: Meet in hotel foyer at 7.30 pm

 

Thursday 22nd May

 

8.30: Welcome: Introduction                    Henrik Skovdahl Hansen

 

9.00: Facilitated session: What can the ETPG do to help you with your businesses ?

 

This will be a session run by an outside facilitator designed to gather together all the ideas and needs of the individual agendas and shape an agenda for action over the next year. Coffee will be available throughout this session and there will be no specific coffee break. Please spend some time before our meeting thinking of specific objectives and initiatives you feel the ETPG could undertake which would have benefits for your business.

 

12.00: Research driven businesses                         Eva Steiness

 

An invited address by Eva Steiness on “Research driven businesses - what kind of culture are such businesses dependent on and how do they combine and balance long developmental phases with an orientation towards the market”. Eva Steiness holds an MD and DSc in Medicine and is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology. She was the first female Dean of the Medical School in Denmark. Eva Steiness later went on to pursue a career in the biotech business first as Research Manager and later Executive Vice President at H. Lundbeck A/S – probably best known for the antidepressant Cipralex. She was principal founder and CEO of the biotech company Zealand Pharma until the end of 2007. Eva will provide insights from a different sector, but one which faces similar problems, which will allow us to come up with new solutions.

 

1.00: Lunch

 

2.00: Facilitated Session continued: How do we apply the ideas we have generated in the morning

 

Over the previous two hours, the facilitator will have taken our ideas and prepared an afternoon session in which we create an action plan. Coffee will be available throughout this session and there will be no specific coffee break. Our aim is to define what we should concentrate on during 2008- 2009. We can finalise the mechanics of this at our 11.45 session on Friday morning.

  

4.00: Q & A with facilitator: What can we learn from him about possible ways of solving problems in our own businesses ?

 

Our facilitator will use a very groundbreaking technique – particularly during the morning session – to help us answer our questions. He is an experienced consultant and has worked in a number of major companies and uses tests in his work. This will be our opportunity to ask him questions about his business, the new issues businesses are raising and the sorts of problems consultants face.

 

Evening: ETPG evening event. We will meet at the lobby of the Front Hotel at 17.30.

  

Friday 23rd May

 

8.30 Workshop on Intellectual Property and Copyright           All

 

At the previous meeting we talked about having a seminar or workshop on issues of intellectual property. It was our ambition to invite an intellectual property lawyer to this session, but unfortunately this turned out be financially unrealistically as the cost far outweighed the industry knowledge of any lawyer we could find in Denmark. Instead we will use the workshop to exchange and discuss experiences on issues like moral rights and property on adaptations, intellectual property for scoring keys and answer sheets etc. Collectively, we know enough about these issues after many years in the testing industry to have an informed discussion. The goal of this session could be to create a list of questions which we are not legally sure of and then organize a task force group that can look into those questions formally and present their findings at next year’s meeting. Of additional value to our group, G Harris has agreed to outline recent intellectual property issues in the USA.

 

10.00: The new web site                            Ian Florance

 

10.45: Coffee

 

11.15: Presentation of proposed new members            All

 

11.45: What are the group dynamics? How can we ensure we achieve what we decided yesterday with ETPG team?

 

Wendy Lord and Peter Hartmann will organise the session based on the TCI group profile of the ETPG members. Hopefully we will gain insight as to how we function as a group and learn how we can best work together, drawing on the specific ideas generated on Thursday.

 

1.00: Lunch

 

2.00: Board meeting and General Assembly       Henrik Skovdahl Hansen

 

3.00: Close                                  Henrik Skovdahl Hansen

 

 

Saturday 24th May

 

Optional bilateral meetings