Panel:        Omid Ashtari, Director of Business Development Europe – Foursquare
                  Nihal Mehta, Co-Founder & CEO – LocalResponse
                  Dougal Templeton, Co-Founder – Vouchercloud.com

At a turning point in an industry branching out from the simple daily deals concept, who better to talk about hyperlocal targeting that the top three players of geo-localisation. As Foursquare announce a growth rate of 330% in Europe, making it a prime market for development.

In this panel you will discover:

•    The three companies main strategies behind localisation and integration into deals, providing strong value and hyper contextual experiences

•    How Foursquare manage customer acquisition and loyalty through specials and deal, as Omid Ashtari shares key figures

•    How the three companies are handling the emergence of real time deals and geo-localisation, which Nihal Mehta believes will foster customer loyalty

•    Advice on how to address the need for personalisation, more important than hyper-localisation believes Dougal Templeton

•    How the panel confront the controversial issue of privacy, as Nihal Mehta claims “we are seeing people are becoming more and more apathetic to privacy. I call this generation the digital narcissists.”

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Since we had recently our own first Daily Deal Event, DD Summit Europe we did not want to miss the succesful serious of Daily Deal Summit New York which takes place on the 17/19 of April. The two-day event starts with a day of general sessions, where you will hear keynotes and critical discussions by some of the top thought leaders in the space.
Speakers: Dean Debiase ( Co founder – LaunchTime, LLC),  Jonty Kelt ( CEO – Group Commerce), Kevin Green ( FSales & Marketing Fandango), Patrick Albus ( CEO – KGB Deals), Jim Moran ( Co – Founder Yipit)

Stavros our CEO will be present at the Summit and is looking forward for interesting panel sessions and networking opportunities.

The Team of Daily Deal Summit NY was so great and gave us a special link, which allows you to receive $200 off  your conference pass.

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Panel:
Lopo Champalimaud, Co-founder & CEO – Wahanda
Michael Brehm, Co-Founder & CEO – Rebate Networks
Mark Bower, Commercial Director – TimeOut

In one of the speediest growing industries, the competitive and fast paced European daily deal business counts not in months and weeks but in days, daily being the optimum word.

In this panel you will learn about:

• How European daily deal companies have approached expansion in a local based market that is Europe, filled with challenges and opportunities which Michael Brehm considers to be one of Europe’s strengths
• Each company’s thoughts and experience on the best methods for expansion, be it organic, partnerships or acquisition
• How the panel think European expansion will divide the market into different blocks according to different categories
• How the European market is seen in comparison to the United States, as Lopo Champalimaud shares his lessons, stressing the importance of differentiation.
• TimeOut and how they handled their emergence into the daily deals sphere, as Mark Bower says that their already established European footprint, present in 70 cities, will help successful expansion across Europe.

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Panel:
Fabian Heilemann, Co-Founder – Dailydeal.de
Joaquin Engel, Co-Founder & CEO – Groupalia
Saurav Chopra, Co-Founder & CEO – Huddlebuy

The “elephant in the room” is addressed, as the panel bravely question if Groupon’s practices are ruining the deals landscape or allow for scope to differentiate – whilst deliberating on the good and the bad about exits, acquisitions and sustaining businesses

During this panel you will hear:

• Advice from Saurav Chopra on running a B2B company and how this differs from B2C, especially when it comes to exits, and how he thinks 2012 will see the emergence of more B2B companies
• First hand experience from Joaquin Engel on successful asset selling, with advice on what to do and what not to do
• About the importance of corporate finance partner during a business transaction, with wise words from Fabian Heilemann post Google acquisition
• Joaquin Engel declare that business sustainability is in correlation with treating customers and merchants well, as he reveals Groupalia’s repeat business figures
• Plus: an exclusive business announcement from Huddlebuy’s Saurav Chopra, as they partner with one of UK’s biggest energy brokers and Dragon Den’s Doug Richard to launch ‘power cut’, saving businesses up to 70% on their energy bills

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Panel:
Tobias Tschoetsch, Managing Director – Groupon UK
Peter Briffet, Managing Director – LivingSocial UK, IE, NL
Brian Harrison, Global CEO – Kgbdeals

Drum rolls as the three top-players of the global daily deal industry come together to discuss the be-all-and-the-end all of daily deals in 2012, an industry worth £300 million in the UK alone.

During this panel you will hear:

• How to create loyal customers and improve customer relations, as Brian Harrison explains how to exceed customer expectations, Tobias Tschoetsch breaks it down into two key points and Peter Briffet insists customer loyalty will stimulate organic growth
• How to build up loyalty and sustainable relationship with merchants by providing with tools by playing a consultant role.
• How empowering your staff can be the key to success
• The core values of the business model, a flourishing social commerce model, in the eyes if the industry’s top players
• And finally the panels’ thoughts on the evolution and future of the “live and exciting” environment that is the daily deals industry, as LivingSocial reveal their increasing mobile user percentage.

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The Global Daily Deal Association (GDDA), the first trade organisation for the burgeoning daily deal industry, launched today in the UK. Following huge demand at last week’s successful DD Summit Europe, the new trade body has been established to bring together the thousands of daily deal providers currently offering discounted goods and services to consumers across the globe. The association is the first of its kind and aims to provide one voice for the dynamic and currently disparate daily deal industry, which includes major players such as Groupon, kgbdeals and Living Social.

Daily deals have had a huge impact on consumer spending habits since they took off just two years ago. In the UK alone, consumers spent nearly £300 million on daily deal sites in just six months last year (July-Dec 2011). Led by daily deal expert Stavros Prodromou, the GDDA’s first role will be to work with the industry to establish and agree a code of conduct. “This industry is very young and has grown at a phenomenal rate, but a trade association is long overdue,” says Stavros Prodromou, director of the newly established GDDA.

“The first ever DD Summit Europe was a fantastic forum for discussion, and a great starting point for the Global Daily Deal Association. We know there are many issues facing the daily deal industry; there has been a lot of negative press and industry successes and failures have been widely publicised. Now, for the first time, we will be able to work together to find common solutions,” continues Stavros. The GDDA will bring together daily deal providers from across the world to collaborate on industry initiatives and standardise approaches to this new and developing sales channel.

The organisation will also coordinate conferences and networking events for the industry to share best practice, building on the success of the first ever DD Summit Europe.

About the Global Daily Deal Association

The Global Daily Deal Association (GDDA) is the trade association for the international daily deal industry. Founded by daily deal expert Stavros Prodromou, the GDDA brings together thousands of daily deal providers to collaborate on industry initiatives. The GDDA works with the daily deal industry to standardise approaches to sales and marketing and coordinates conferences and networking events for the industry to share best practice. To find out more and to register your interest here

Huddlebuy.co.uk, the daily deals site for small businesses, and Make It Cheaper, the business energy experts, have teamed up to launch the ‘Great Business Power Cut’ campaign – giving UK businesses the power to save billions of pounds a year. The campaign is the biggest ever UK online group buying initiative launched specifically for businesses – which will reach out to more than 500,000 small businesses that Huddlebuy, Make It Cheaper and their partners work with. http://www.huddlebuy.co.uk/greatbusinesspowercut

Experts at Huddlebuy and Make It Cheaper will use the collective buying power of thousands of businesses to negotiate better deals for the nation’s hard-working entrepreneurs.

UK small businesses are overpaying for their energy bills to the tune of £2.5bn according to Huddlebuy and Make It Cheaper. These figures comprise £1bn on gas bills and £1.5bn on electricity bills.

Small businesses should be saving £2,500 on average a year on their energy bills – more than 30% of a typical annual bill. Many businesses stuck on uncompetitive tariffs could be saving up to 70% on their energy costs.

Saurav Chopra, CEO of Huddlebuy said: “Small businesses are paying through the nose when it comes to their energy bills. They are getting ripped off and we are determined to change that. Our Great Business Power Cut campaign harnesses the power of businesses joining forces to save billions of pounds. It has the potential to change the face of the business energy sector permanently.”

Jonathan Elliott, managing director at Make It Cheaper, said: “The rates that energy companies charge their business customers can vary enormously. Knowing what’s a good rate, how to get on it and then stay on it isn’t necessarily that easy. However, that’s exactly what the Great Business Power Cut is there to do, free of charge, for anyone who comes on board.”

Doug Richard, former TV Dragon and leading entrepreneur: “There’s no nice way of saying this but energy companies are taking advantage of small businesses by making billing opaque and switching complex. The demon intent in this is to take them to the cleaners with rollover rates. What’s scandalous is there’s nothing stopping suppliers from doing it, which is why the Great Business Power Cut is a big deal for smaller firms. It provides the necessary protection for anyone who’s short of time or, quite frankly, ill-informed about buying their energy and means it’s one less headache for them to worry about.”

It is estimated that there are 1.8m electricity meters and 1m gas meters within small businesses in the UK. Energy companies typically give small businesses a poor deal because they roll clients onto expensive ‘renewal deals’ after their initial, cheap contract is over. These new tariffs can be twice as expensive as the original ones, plus there is only a narrow window within which to opt out.

Key facts:
¥    The average energy bill for a small company is over £8,000, or 9% of their annual costs
¥    Average savings as a result of the Business Power Cut campaign will be 30%, but could be up to 70%.
¥    The Business Power Cut campaign will aim to save nine out of ten businesses money within a 12 month period.
¥    30% of businesses will be able to switch and save immediately – these are the ones that are out of contract or within their ‘renewal window’. 60% will save as they reach their renewal window over the course of a year. 10% will be locked in for a period longer than a year.
¥    Energy costs are a vital and pressing issue for British businesses and are set to become an even bigger part of the average small businesses budget, with British Gas recently warning that power prices could rise for a decade.

About Huddlebuy:
Founded in 2011 by ex-Yahoo!, Apple and Microsoft executives, Huddlebuy is the largest B2B daily deals site in Europe that offers significant discounts products and services for entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses at specially negotiated prices.
Entrepreneurs save thousands of pounds a month on products and services and get exclusive access to deals normally reserved for large corporations.
Huddlebuy now helps more than 50,000 UK small businesses save millions of pounds. It has featured 200+ exclusive offers from leading brands such as Vistaprint, TALK TALK, Three, Philips, Streetcar, Euroffice amongst many others.

Welcome to Anton Bernstein! The Founder and CEO of Lookingo, France's leading private sale site for leisure, and Founder of Ouffer.com, one of the leading daily deal companies in Australia is joining the Daily Deals´ Next Move-Panel as a Guest Speaker. Prior to Lookingo and Ouffer, Anton was an investment professional at Redpoint Ventures in San Francisco and Insight Venture Partners in New York, focused on consumer Internet and mobile investment.

About Lookingo

Backed by Otium Capital and Naxicap, part of Natixis, Lookingo has raised over 5M euro to become the leading quality private sale website for leisure in France. Today, the company boasts 2M subscribers across France and Australia.

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