The Battle of Big Thinking -- Thursday 6th Nov 2008 
APG and Campaign bring you the biggest thinkers in marketing, planning, creative, research, communications planning, PR and (for the first time) publishing. They wrestle it out, 15 minutes each, and you choose the winner.

Combatants include: 
Dave Trott (CST) ~ Tim Britton (YouGov) ~ Jason Gonsalves (BBH) ~ David Bain (BMB) ~ Nikki Crumpton (McCanns) ~ Mark Borkowski (Borkowski) ~ Simon Waldman (Guardian Media Group) ~ Claire Harrison-Church (Boots) ~ Graham Fink (M&C Saatchi) ~ Nigel Newton (the publishing brains behind Harry Potter) ~ Mandy Pooler (Kantar) ~ Fernanda Romano (JWT) ~ Ian Armstrong (Honda) ~ Les Binet (DDB Matrix) ~ Paul Melody (Freud Communications) ~ Tim Allnut (CHI) ~ Mike Hoban (Scottish Widows) ~ Jez Groom (Edwards Groom Saunders) ~ David Hepworth (Development Hell) ~ David Hackworthy (The Red Brick Road) ~ Angie Moxham (3 Monkeys Communications)

Venue: British Library, London NW1.  Book your tickets with Celia Miranda on 020 8267 4919 or e-mail celia.miranda@haymarket.com

Social networking evening meeting -- presentation available to download ... click here (then go down the page)

Two more APGs established:  Congratulations to APG Romania and APG Norway. We wish the planning communities in those two countries all success.   http://www.apgromania.ro/    http://www.apgnorway.no/  

2007 APG Creative Strategy Awards - who won what? ....  more details click here

A Masterclass in Brand Planning: the timeless works of Stephen King   Marketing and advertising books come and go.... but only a few can be said to be genuinely important: this book is one of that rare breed. Price 20pounds plus postage  .... more details and order form click here   There's a review in Market Leader click here; and in Admap click here

"Planner v planner"  A Campaign article looks at whether comms planners and account planners can do each other's job. Or are two heads better than one?  click here