In The City looks at a post-Wilson future.

Tony Wilson's `big boots' to be replaced by advisory panel from 2008, with this year's event focusing increasingly on a 360-degree model

In The City director Yvette Livesey is looking to fill the huge void left by the death of the event's co-founder Tony Wilson by setting up an advisory panel to oversee future conferences.

Livesey, who was also Wilson's long-time partner, says she has already received offers from "key people in the international business" to participate in helping to organise the event, which took place for the first time without the Factory Records founder in Manchester a weekend ago.

Livesey describes this year's event, which included Mute Records founder Daniel Miller, promoter Harvey Goldsmith and Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman as speakers, as "really lovely", with organisers and attendees rallying round to give their support following Wilson's death in August. However, she concedes that his "boots are going to be big to fill" and the structure of In The City will have to change. From this comes the idea of an advisory board.

"We are thinking of setting one up," she says. "There are key people in the international business who have offered their services. It has been all very positive."

Livesey will not say who these people are, but hints that they are "old friends of In The City". "This is really important," she adds. "In The City is quite fluid ...