Mediapsssst reported former WPP CEO Mark Read is launching a London conference to connect AI startups, business and marketing leaders, and potential investors.
Um, didn’t Read technically exit WPP for failing to bring together AI startups, business and marketing leaders, and potential investors?
Former WPP CEO Read Launches AI Start-up Conference
By Richard Whitman
Former WPP CEO Mark Read is launching a new conference in London next month designed to bring AI startups, business and marketing leaders and potential investors together, according to UK reports. It’s called Prompt.
Read was quoted by online trade publication More About Advertising as saying, “I launched Prompt because I could see the opportunity to bring AI leaders together with business and marketing leaders.” In London, he added, “There’s not a venue that does that today and what I hear from CEOs and CMOs is a desire not only to embrace AI but also to know who they should be talking to.”
The inaugural conference takes place June 9 at London’s Design Museum and is timed to London Tech Week.
A decade ago, Maurice Lévy, the former Publicis CEO, co-founded a similar event in Paris called VivaTech, a conference and exposition.
That event is still going strong. This year’s event takes place at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on June 17-20. It’s expected to draw 180,000 attendees, 14,000 startups, and numerous global tech leaders and investors.
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