Welcome to CenterStage (CenterStage)! CenterStage is Informa’s network of speakers and content creators (the Programme). As a member of the Programme, you will be amongst the first to hear about exciting new opportunities to speak, record, or write content across Informa’s global events and platforms. The Programme is designed to amplify your voice, expand your reach, and strengthen your position as a thought leader in your field. By signing up to the Programme, you will become a member (Member) which entitles you to exercise the rights granted hereunder as part of your membership (Membership). The Programme is owned, organised and operated by Informa Connect Limited with company number 01835199, whose registered address is 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG United Kingdom (Informa, we, or us). When we refer to you or your, we mean you, the person agreeing to these CenterStage Terms and Conditions (these Terms). These Terms govern your participation in the Programme and by enrolling in the Programme, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not access, browse and/or use the Website, participate in the Programme and/or obtain or redeem any benefits offered through the Programme (Benefits).

For more details on how to join the Programme and the available Benefits, please visit https://informaconnect.com/center-stage/reasons-to-join.

1.1 To participate in the Programme, you must be at least 18 years of age or older and a content creator (which may include speakers or digital content providers) whose content is used in any of Informa’s live or virtual events, publications and/or online platforms (including Informa’s Streamly video platform).

1.2 If you meet the eligibility criteria above, you can join the Programme by completing the registration form on https://informaconnect.com/center-stage/ (the Website). By enrolling and participating in the Programme, you confirm that you meet these eligibility requirements.

2.1 Only one account is allowed per individual. We may refuse to grant to you, and you may not use, an account username (or e-mail address) that: (a) is already being used by someone else; (b) may be construed as impersonating another person; (c) belongs to another person; (d) violates the intellectual property or other rights of any person; (e) is offensive; or (f) we reject for any other reason in our sole discretion. You agree to provide us with, and keep up-to-date, accurate, truthful and complete account information (e.g., your e-mail address).

2.2 Your account, Membership and any Benefits are for your sole personal use and may not be used for a corporate or commercial account or multiple persons on such an account. Your account, Membership and any Benefits are non-transferable and may not be sold, bartered, combined or otherwise shared with another person.

2.3 You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account, and are fully responsible for any activities that occur under your password or account. You may not share your Membership identification and/or password or in any way make them accessible to others. You must immediately inform us via email at centerstage@informa.com of any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other security breach.

2.4 As a Member, you shall not: (a) access, use, reproduce, modify, download, sell, transfer, publish or otherwise make available your Membership for any commercial purposes; (b) do any act or thing that might damage, disrupt or otherwise interfere with the operation of the Programme; (c) abuse your Membership or use it for any unlawful or unauthorised purpose (which includes transmitting any computer viruses through your account or using your account in a manner which is discriminatory, offensive, abusive, malicious, defamatory or other violates or infringes the rights of anyone else); (d) sell or barter (or attempt to sell or barter) any of your Benefits or Member exclusive promotional offers; and (e) at any time make, publish or communicate to any person or entity or in any public forum any defamatory or disparaging remarks, comments or statements concerning the Programme, Benefits, Informa or its businesses, affiliates, events or employees.

3.1 As a Member, you will have access to the Benefits more particularly described at https://informaconnect.com/center-stage/reasons-to-join.

3.2 Certain Benefits are conditional upon you agreeing to separate terms and conditions applicable to redemption of those Benefits. For example and without limitation, a Benefit that grants you complimentary attendance to our event is subject to your agreement to our delegate terms and conditions and event code of conduct applicable to such event.

3.3 Benefits may be subject to change, discontinuance, limitation, and substitution by us, at our sole discretion and at any time without notice.

4.1 As between us and you, you own the intellectual property rights in any content provided or produced by you whether before, on or after the Effective Date (and whether subject to these Terms or other Informa terms and conditions) in connection with Informa’s live events, virtual events, publications and/or online platforms (Content). To amplify the reach and impact of your Content, you grant us an irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, sub-licensable license, at no charge, to use your Content to:

4.1.1. create derivative works from your Content in any present or future form (New Work), such as newsletters, online media publications, webinars, whitepapers and other forms of digital and non-digital media;

4.1.2. create derivative works from New Work in any present or future form;

4.1.3. publish, display, reproduce, distribute and use quotations or excepts from your Content and New Work in any medium, including on our Streamly video platform and social media (whether our own or others); and

4.1.4. otherwise use your Content and New Work for our lawful business purposes, including commercializing your Content and New Work in any manner we sit fit, without permission from, or compensation to, you.

4.2 You agree that the rights you grant to us under Clause 4.1 to use your Content shall apply equally to our use of the New Work.

4.3 You unconditionally waive all moral rights that you may have anywhere in the world in your Content and New Work.

4.4 We are not obligated to exercise any of our rights above with respect to your Content or New Work. If, however, we do, you acknowledge that we may use a variety of technological tools to do so such as deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence tools.

4.5 You also give us permission, at no charge and without limitation as to time, to:

4.5.1. record any of your speaking sessions at our events in any medium (such as text, audio, photo and video) (our Recording);

4.5.2. broadcast and live stream our Recording; and

4.5.3. use your name, voice, photograph, likeness and biographical data with our Recording.

4.6 For the avoidance of doubt, our Recording shall also mean and include any recordings by us on or before the Effective Date of your speaking sessions at our events in any medium. You acknowledge that we own all intellectual property rights in our Recording and, as the owner, have the exclusive right to use our Recording for our lawful business purposes. We may commercialize our Recording in any manner we see fit without permission from, or compensation to, you. We may do so by using a variety of technological tools as described above, including artificial intelligence tools.

5.1 Cancellation by Speaker

5.1.1. You may cancel your Membership at any time by informing us via email at centerstage@informa.com.

5.1.2. Upon cancellation of your Membership, you will lose access to your account and any accrued Benefits will be cancelled, forfeited, void and no longer available for redemption.

5.1.3. Cancellation of your Membership will not cancel or revoke any permissions you have granted to us above in Clause 4.

5.1.4. If you cancel your Membership, you may choose to later rejoin the Programme by registering on the Website. When rejoining the Programme, your previously accrued Benefits will not carry over to your new Membership.

5.2 Cancellation by Informa

5.2.1. We may suspend or terminate your Membership without liability at any time at our sole discretion, if we determine that (a) you are ineligible in accordance with Clause 1 above, (b) you have violated or acted inconsistently with the spirit of any of these Terms, any applicable terms issued alongside a Benefit or any applicable laws or regulations, (c) you have misused or abused any Benefit; (d) your Membership or participation in the Programme violates any applicable laws or regulations, (e) our provision of any Benefit violates any applicable laws or regulations, (f) you have knowingly attempted to obtain or maintain more than one account; (g) you have engaged in any deception, forgery, fraud or committed any other abuse of the Programme, or (h) you have taken any other act which we feel is detrimental to us or the Programme. Upon any such suspension or termination, your right to use the Website, participate in the Programme and/or redeem Benefits will immediately cease, and we may, without liability, immediately deactivate or delete your username, password and account, and all associated materials, without any obligation to provide any further access to such materials. If we terminate your Membership for any reason, any accrued Benefits will be cancelled, forfeited, void and no longer available for redemption.

5.3 Termination of your Membership does not affect any rights or obligations that have accrued prior to the date of cancellation.

6.1 We may terminate, suspend or modify the Programme, in whole or in part, at any time without liability to you.

6.2 We may modify these Terms at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Terms on our Website. Please check these Terms regularly to ensure that you understand the current terms that apply to your Membership. Your continued participation in the Programme and/or redemption of any Benefit after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of any such revised terms.

7.1. The Programme and all Benefits are provided on an “as is”, “where is” and “where available” basis” without any warranty of any kind, either express or implied (including, but not limited to, warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose). NO BENEFIT MAY BE REDEEMED UNTIL IT HAS BEEN CREDITED TO YOUR ACCOUNT. BENEFITS HAVE NO CASH, MONETARY OR OTHER VALUE, CANNOT BE CONVERTED INTO ANY CURRENCY, CANNOT BE APPLIED AS CREDIT TO ANY PAYMENT OBLIGATION, AND MAY BE CANCELED AT ANY TIME.

7.2. Informa shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential or exemplary damages you may suffer arising out of or in connection with the Programme, your status as a Member, your Membership, the Website, the Benefits and/or Informa’s noncompliance with these Terms, including, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses.

7.3. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for:

7.3.1. death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

7.3.2. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or

7.3.3. any matter in respect of which it would be unlawful for us to exclude or restrict our liability.

7.4. To the maximum extent permitted by law, and save in respect of our intentional, unauthorised use of your Content in material breach of Clause 4 above, our aggregate liability to you in respect of any loss or damage suffered and arising out of, in connection with and/or relating to these Terms, the Programme, your status as a Member, your Membership, the Website and/or the Benefits, whether from breach of contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, shall not exceed £100.

7.5. By participating in the Programme, you release Informa and its affiliates from any costs, damages, injury or harm that may arise from participation in the Programme, your status as a Member, your Membership and your Benefits. You may find other Members’ content to be offensive, harmful or inaccurate. You agree to look solely to the original content provider for any claims you may have regarding their content. If you have a dispute with one or more other Members, you release Informa and its affiliates from all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”

7.6. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND YOUR RIGHT TO PURSUE ANY CLAIM OR ACTION RELATING TO THE AGREEMENT ON A CLASS OR CONSOLIDATED BASIS OR IN A REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY.

7.7. YOU WILL NOT INITIATE OR PURSUE ANY CLAIM OR ACTION RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE PROGRAMME, THE WEBSITE, YOUR MEMBERSHIP AND/OR BENEFITS AGAINST INFORMA NINETY (90) DAYS AFTER THE FACTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES GIVING RISE TO SUCH CLAIM OR ACTION (BUT IN NO EVENT NINETY (90) DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF CANCELLATION AND/OR TERMINATION OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP).

7.8. YOU WILL INDEMNIFY AND HOLD INFORMA AND ITS AFFILIATES HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, COSTS AND EXPENSES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS) INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CLAIM DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO (I) ANY ACTUAL OR ALLEGED BREACH BY YOU OF THESE TERMS, AND (II) YOUR CONTENT.

8.1 Your personal information shall be held and processed in accordance with the Informa Privacy Policy, available at: https://www.informa.com/privacy-policy/.

9.1. If you are a resident of a US state or a Canadian province, then these Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, exclusive of any choice of law rules and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in the State of New York having subject matter jurisdiction.

9.2. If you are a resident of England, Wales or any other jurisdiction, then these Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in England and Wales having subject matter jurisdiction.

9.3. Nothing in this Condition 9 shall prevent or restrict Informa from pursuing any action against you in any court of competent jurisdiction.

10.1. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the Programme (including your Membership and Benefits) and that it does not rely upon any oral or written representation made to it by the other.

10.2. A person who is not a party to these Terms shall have no rights under or in connection with it.

10.3. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and obligations under these Terms without your consent.

10.4. No failure by either party in exercising any right, power or remedy shall operate as a waiver of the same.

10.5. If any provision of the Terms (or any part of any provision) is found by a court or other authority of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision shall, to the extent required, be deemed not to form part of the Terms and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of the Terms shall not be affected.

PLEASE RETAIN A COPY OF THESE TERMS FOR YOUR RECORDS AND CHECK THE WEBSITE FREQUENTLY FOR ANY CHANGES TO THESE TERMS.

Last Updated: July 1, 2025