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AWARDSSHORTLISTS&ERACONVENTION
IRNAPRIL-MAY 2014
ERAProgramme
TUESDAY24JUNE
9.30 – 12.00
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
12.00 – 15.00
Visit Rental Depot (optional, open to
participants to the ERAConvention)
Visit of a newBoels depot in
Amsterdam
15.00 – 16.00
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
16.00 – 18.00
CEO PANEL
■
Rental Market Development
■
Rental Product Offering &
Services Development
■
Contractors’
vision
Panelists:
Michael Kneeland
(CEO, UnitedRentals)
Other Panelists TBC
(Moderator:
NadineDereza
)
18.00 – 19.00
ERA INAUGURATION COCKTAIL
Open toparticipants to the ERA
Convention and Exhibitors at IRE
Show
WEDNESDAY25JUNE
09.00 – 10.00
ROUNDTABLE 1: COUNTRIES IN
FOCUS
■
Japan
Mr XiaomingCheng
(Board
member JCRA, JapanConstruction
Equipment Rental Association)
(Moderator: TBC)
ROUNDTABLE 2: YIELD
MANAGEMENT
Speakers
Bill Plummer
(CFO, UnitedRentals)
Zilliant
(Moderator:
CharlesMiller
, CLMiller
Consulting)
10.00 – 11.00
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
11.00- 12.00
■
Promotion Committee Report
Chairwoman:
FionaPerrin
(Group
Sales &MarketingDirector, HSS)
■
Equipment
Technology Report
Chairman:
Martin
Holmgren
(Senior
Vice President - Fleet
Management, Cramo)
12.00 – 14.00
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
14.00 – 15.30
PLENARY SESSION
■
Welcome
Address
Vesa Koivula
, ERA
President
■
Rental versus
Ownership
JudithMerkies
, MEP
and author of
The
Lease Society – the
endof ownership
■
The Future of
theWeb
CorMolenaar
–
eMarketing and
Distance Selling
(Moderator:
Nadine
Dereza
)
15.30 – 16.30
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
16.30 – 17.30
PLENARY SESSION
■
Trends in the US Rental
Industry
ChrisWehrman
(CEO, American
Rental Association)
■
Trends in the European Rental
Industry
GrahamArundell
(ManagingDirector,
HireAssociation Europe and
Chairman, ERA Statistics Committee)
Moderator:
NadineDereza
17.30 – 18.00
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
18.00 – 20.00
EUROPEANRENTAL AWARDS
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
20.00 – 23.00
EUROPEANRENTAL AWARDS
DINNER
THURSDAY26June
09.00 – 10.00
ROUNDTABLE 1: PARTS
MANAGEMENT
Alex Schuessler
- SmartEquip
Other Speakers TBC
Moderator:
MartinHolmgren
, Cramo
ROUNDTABLE 2:
INTERNETASA
GAME CHANGER
EugenRuss (right)
-
Erento
Christian Seifert
-
Avenit AG.
(Moderator:
NadineDereza
)
10.00 – 11.00
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
11.00 – 12.00
ERAGENERAL ASSEMBLY
12.00 – 12.30
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
12.30 – 13.30
GUEST SPEAKER
RichardRobinson
(Director, Google)
13.30 – 15.30
ERA LUNCH
15.30 - 17.00
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
‘InternetasaGameChanger’
