Chris Ingram, founder of the Ingram agency, has been added as a speaker at the Venice Festival of Media. Ingram, who founded CIA Medianetwork (now MEC Global, part of the WPP Group), will chair the
panel discussion entitled "The Agency Model. Is it broken"? Included on the panel are Nick Smith, group managing director, Accenture Marketing Services; John Billett, founder and chairman, Billetts;
Steve Harrison, international media director, Schwarzkopf & Henkel; Janet Fitzpatrick, chief strategic officer, Initiative Worldwide and Joanne Davis, president of Joanne Davis Consulting and SCAN
International.