Lib Dem Voice at Conference

As ever the LDV team will be providing as full coverage as we can from the conference, including reportage, podcasts and as much as possible to make conference accessible and participatory for those not able to join us in Bournemouth.

We will also be hosting four fringe events, all of which will be recorded and podcast as mini-radio shows here on LDV. The rooms are booked and topics selected, and we can now give you full information on our confirmed speakers. The details are as follows:

• Campaigning after Rennard
  Saturday 19th September, 8pm Premier Inn, Bournemouth, Connect 2
  Our panel looks at the ramifications for the party of Lord Rennard’s departure. How will we campaign in the future?
  Chair: Mark Pack. Speakers: Lynne Featherstone MP, James Graham, Neil Fawcett
• Blog of the Year Awards, 2009
  Sunday 20th September, 10pm Marriott Highcliffe, Old Harry’s Bar
  Lib Dem Voice Editor at Large Stephen Tall is your compère for this bejewelled event now well established in the party calendar.
• Liberal Drinks
  We will once again be having an informal night drinking beer at a pub one night of Federal Conference. We will be returning to the Goat and Tricycle – and this year, we’ve even warned the bar staff to expect us! It’ll be the Monday evening of conference from 7.30pm
• Beyond Twitter – e-engagement in local and national politics
  Wednesday 23rd September, 1pm Marriott Highcliffe, Shaftesbury Suite
  How can people in politics at both a local and national level engage meaningfully with the people they represent?
  Chair: Alex Foster. Speakers: Jo Swinson MP, Mark Pack, MySociety’s Richard Pope

If you’d like a taster of LDV fringes, the recording of our excellent meeting “Learning the Lessons from the Obama Campaign” is still available.

In addition, LDV’s editor Stephen Tall will be joining a panel of four – alongside Vince, Shirley and Charles Clarke – for the IPPR’s fringe event, The end of politics as we know it?, on Tuesday 22nd September at 1pm. Full event details here.

UPDATE: Mark Pack has let me know that he is speaking at the Public Services Trust fringe on public data on Tuesday 19 September, 18:15 – 19:30, BIC, Bournemouth:
Surveillance State or Empowered Citizens: who controls data in Public Services?