Headline Sponsor: O2

Telefónica O2 UK Limited is a leading communications company for consumers and businesses in the UK, with 21 million mobile customers and over 520,000 fixed broadband customers as at 30 September 2009. Telefónica O2 UK Limited is part of Telefónica Europe plc, a business division of Telefónica S.A. which uses O2 as its commercial brand in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Germany and the Czech Republic, and has 46 million customers across these markets.

O2 employs around 13,000 people in the UK and has 490 retail stores. O2 was ranked highest in customer satisfaction for both UK mobile and fixed broadband customers according to the J.D. Power and Associates UK Mobile and Fixed Broadband Studies 2009. O2 was launched on 1 May 2002 and now has more customers than any other UK mobile network. O2’s UK mobile network covers 99% of the UK’s population. O2’s 3G network covers over 84% of the UK population and is fully HSDPA-enabled, providing speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps for customers with an HSDPA-enabled device. For further press information about O2 go to www.o2.co.uk/news



Event Host: UCL

Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. UCL is the fourth-ranked university in the 2009 THES-QS World University Rankings.

UCL alumni include Marie Stopes, Jonathan Dimbleby, Lord Woolf, Alexander Graham Bell, and members of the band Coldplay. UCL currently has over 12,000 undergraduate and 8,000 postgraduate students. Its annual income is over £600 million. For more information see: www.ucl.ac.uk



UCL Advances

UCL Advances is the centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction at UCL. It exists to stimulate collaboration among researchers, business and investors, driving innovations that benefit society and the economy, with a particular focus on new businesses and SME engagement.

As part of its mission, UCL Advances works to support start-ups and small businesses across London by helping them to access the technical and business expertise of UCL’s staff and students through a series of programmes including Higher Education London Outreach, Innovation Central London and Selected Interims for London Enterprises.

For more information see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/advances