Testimonials

What the sponsors said:

"The one-to-one structure of the event is a real strength. It enabled us to talk directly to key influencers who were keen to listen, rather than stand around at typical exhibitions wasting time with tyre-kickers. We’re already organizing follow-up visits to several household name organisations that have immediate projects in mind."
Graham Whistance, MD, Momote

"FSMW was awesome, in two days of meetings, and networking with just 60 companies we made more qualified contacts as we have done at traditional shows (i.e. expensive show booth, 1,000’s of visitors, 95% of visitors and exhibitors not interested in each other, less civilized). Just three weeks after the event and we are already engaging with clients on new projects."
Managing Director, X2

"Another well organised event from Ark offering good value to delegates and sponsors alike, we will certainly be back again next year."
Jeremy Squire, Aspective

"Many thanks for a well organized and professional event."
Peter Wright, Service Manager, ABB

"The unique format of this workshop provided a great basis for sharing ideas with organizations from a wide range of sectors that are planning mobile-solution projects. We’re hopeful that this will translate into a number of active projects. The informal discussions with other solution providers was also positive with a number of partnership opportunities identified."
Andrew Stamp, Director Enterprise Applications, YAMBAY

"Many thanks for an extremely well organised and successful event last week – I found it extremely useful."
Mike Wootten, Account Director, CRM & Field Service, Aspective

"I had a meeting with my colleagues who attended the event. The feedbacks that I received from them were very positive, and pleased with the quality of the delegates, and organisation. Many thanks for this,

Just wondering if you do any other similar events with 1 to 1 meetings focused on mobile and field services?"
Turkan Selby, Marketing Programmes Executive, THUS plc

"From my perspective, it was a very professional and well managed event, which I am confident will provide a good return."
Rob Edwards, Destiny

"Well done Ark Group, year after year this event has proven a great source of new contacts with real opportunities in Aspectives target market, 2007 has been no exception."
Vice President, Aspective

"Congratulations to Ark Group, this was a well organised event with high caliber delegates who wanted to discuss current mobility projects where device and asset management is a crucial part of the solution. This is exactly the type of audience that B2M are targeting."

Julie Purves MD, B2M

"We found the event to be well organised and the venue was excellent. We were able to meet with relevant end-users who also had value in meeting with us. Importantly the people we met all have live projects and have budget. We feel very positive about the future business that this will bring to our organisation."

Richard Thompson, General Manager, EMEA West, Commercial, General Dynamics Itronix

"APD Communications attended the FSMW event to meet up with potential customers for our integrated Mobile Data and Resource Location solutions. The Ark Group arranged excellent, high-quality meetings with top level contacts within the organisations which we had targeted. We are planning to attend next year's event as it is an excellent way to network with key contacts within our target markets in a professional environment with excellent entertainment."

Simone Lynn, APD Communications

What the delegates said:

"Mobile Workforce 2008 was a great event, well organised and focused on the delegates needs. Over the two days I met with suppliers who had been selected to meet my immediate requirements and listened to speakers who actually had something 'real' to say about the challenges faced in mobilising a workforce."
Peter Wright, Service Manager, ABB

"The FSMW conference 2008 was the first event of its kind that I have attended and it far surpassed my expectations. The mix of conference presentations, workshops, networking time and specific paired supplier/customer sessions was just right. The conference enabled me to make some very useful connections, both in terms of Local Government experience of mobile working projects, learning from private sector colleagues and some strong pointers toward technology solutions. I look forward to next year."
Marcus Elsom, Head of Modernisation, Isle of Wight Council

"Another well coordinated event - I particularly felt that the content of the delegate presentations was both very informative and probably more importantly, very candid. On many occasions they spoke of uninformed decisions and over set expectations that they made in their past implementations, they were happy to tell all. Their "how we would do it now" details of their presentations would have been invaluable to many of the delegates in audience. But let's not knock these guys down - They had the ambition to take the first steps on field service and mobile deployments and it's these steps that drive the industry."

Nick Meese, mWorkforce Ltd

‘Ark worked with military precision!'

‘A very good two days and a productive use of my time. The Ark staff were very friendly and pleasant, with a quiet efficiency-well done to them!'

‘Good organisation, good conference, great hotel. Thank you.'

‘Venue was very good and Ark Group personnel were very helpful'

‘Ark staff very helpful and approachable'

‘Please hold this event again in 2008-it's worthwhile'

‘Thanks, very insightful and enjoyable'

‘Overall, extremely worthwhile, thank you. AND very impressed with the Ark team I saw!'

‘Well organised event and facilitated networking'

‘This event works very well, don't change it!'

‘Excellent event, thoroughly enjoyed it!'

‘A very useful and informative conference'

‘Best event I've ever attended-thanks to the whole Ark team.'

Delegate organisations have included:

AMEC

Telent

TNT

Tube Lines

Southern Water

Transco

Yorkshire Water

Valuation Office Agency

Balfour Beatty

Thames Water

Sector Skills Development Agency

Slough Borough Council

London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham

EDF

Homeserve

BAE

Citizens Advice Bureau

Kent County Council

Cable & Wireless

Orange

Autoglass

Belron

NPower

Scottish Hydro Electric

United Utilities

Eon

Reliance Security Group

Romec

British Gas

Innserve

Alfred McAlpine

Amey

Barclaycard

Standard Life

Hewlett Packard

Anglian Water

Kone Cranes

Sodexo Facilities Management