Festival Programme 2011

Inspire, Disrupt, Accelerate @ MADE

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21st September 2011An audience with Luke Johnson

Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, S1

Time: 19:30 for 20:00

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Luke Johnson is the man behind the growth of Pizza Express and a host of other leading brands; one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs with an estimated fortune of £120 million. He is also the Chairman of Risk Capital Partners, amongst others, writes columns for the Financial Times and Management Today and is an investor in the UK’s largest business funding agency Beer and Partners.

In Start it Up he compresses two decades of success to reveal key insights into running a business and busts some myths along the way. Learn how to find the right idea, source capital from the unlikeliest places and get the best from everyone you meet – chiefly yourself. Start It Up is a rare thing: a how-to book by someone who actually has.

‘Independent, unorthodox, even bloody-minded – Johnson can be all of these and it’s what makes him reading.’ Peter Bazalgette, Chairman, Endemol UK

Off the Shelf Festival of Words in partnership with MADE Festival

In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University.

21st September 2011Beyond Entrepreneurship: Accelerating your business into an enduring global company

Private dinner hosted by Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets. By invitation only.

18:30 to 22:30Tickets: By invitation only.

An opportunity to hear and interact with four of the Region’s most successful entrepreneurs who have all either established and grown, or transformed businesses to create significant shareholder value. The panel of speakers bring a wide range of experience to the debate, all operating in different sectors, across UK and global markets and operating with a mix of private business, private equity and public markets ownership.

In what is anticipated to be a wide ranging discussion, we look at what the key ingredients are for establishing and commercialising market leading propositions, balancing entrepreneurism with key financial and operating disciplines and how growth and value is maintained when markets conditions tighten.

Panel chaired by Caspian Woods, Chairman – Editions Financial.

Panel members include: Chris Rea – AES Group, David Kilburn – MKM Building Supplies, Graham Royle – GRI Group and Ian Williamson – Carclo Plc.

22nd September 2011Inspire@MADE

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Yorkshire Post: Business Breakfast

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

08:30 – 10:00

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The Yorkshire Post is hosting a Business Breakfast featuring four of Yorkshire’s most innovative entrepreneurs. Each is breaking new ground in their own individual way. Yorkshire Post Business Editor Bernard Ginns will chair a debate to give you the chance to quiz these pace-setters on how they achieve success in business and what the future holds for enterprise in Yorkshire.

The panellists are:

* Sarah Dunwell, chief executive of social enterprise catering company Create, which helps homeless people find meaningful work and recently opened its first restaurant

* Jonathan Elvidge, the managing director of Red5, the Hull-based retail chain with more than 20 gadget stores, and creator of the original Gadget Shop

* Darren Forshaw, a founding partner of Endless, the private equity firm that specialises in turnaround investments in the North of England. Past successes include Sheffield engineer DavyMarkham

* Richard Kaye, the managing director of Fired Up Corporation, a manufacturer which exports fireplaces, the Corby Trouser Press and household appliances into China.

Inspire@MADE: Morning Session

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

10:30 – 13:30

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Aspiring entrepreneurs will have the opportuntity to listen to a series of talks and panel debates in this morning session at Inspire@MADE. Speakers include Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable MP, Mark Prisk MP, Peter Jones CBE, Martyn Dawes, Emma Jones, Julie Meyer, Penny Power and Oli Barrett.

*10:50 – Welcome to MADE: Michael Hayman, Chairman of the MADE Festival, Co-Founder of StartUp Britain, Chairman of Entrepreneurs at Coutts & Co and Co-Founder of Seven Hills, welcomes delegates to MADE.

*10:55 – Opening Speech: Minister of State for Business and Enterprise Mark Prisk MP

*11:10 – Dragons’ Den entrepreneur Peter Jones CBE, talks about his vision for young entrepreneurs in Britain to have a British Dream.

*11:20 – Showcase: StartUp Britain with panellists to include StartUp Britain co-founders Oli Barrett, Emma Jones and Rajeeb Dey, and entrepreneurs who have been helped by StartUp Britain.

*11:40 – Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones: The Black Farmer talks about the power of mentoring.

*11:47 – The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP talks about being ‘Made in Sheffield’ and introduces Emma Harrison CBE, founder of A4e.

*11.51 – Emma Harrison talks about ‘Going Global: from Sheffield to Sydney’.

*11:58 Martyn Dawes, founder of Coffee Nation, talks about building a business from ‘entrance to exit’.

*12:05 – Brand Britannia: Brilliant British Businesses.

Panel discussion chaired by Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, Mark Prisk MP, with high profile entrepreneurs:

* Penny Power, Ecademy

* Paul Lindley, Ella’s Kitchen

* James Lohan, Mr & Mrs Smith

* Will Butler-Adams, Brompton Bicycles

The Apprentices

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

13:00 – 14:00

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MAKING IT IN BRITAIN: What tasks does your business have to take?

Participants from the BBC’s The Apprentice meet again to discuss how the tasks they faced during the TV show mirrored the tasks you face when setting up a business.

Panellists:

* Claire Young, Series 4

* Paloma Vivanco, Series 6

* Melody Hossaini, Series 7

* Dr Shibby Robati, Series 6

Real Business – The role of manufacturing and services: Giving Britain the winning edge

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

14:00 – 15:00

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Chaired by Kate Bassett, editor of Real Business, this panel debate will feature Yorkshire entrepreneurs from the manufacturing and services sector to discuss whether or not manufacturing is the answer to a UK economic recovery.

Panellists:

* Emma Killilea, Delicious Alchemy

* David Richards, WANdisco

* Ruth Amos, StairSteady

* Andy Hanselman, Andy Hanselman Consulting

Peter Jones Enterprise Academy: The Wonderkids

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

14:00 – 15:00

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Dragons’ Den’s Peter Jones CBE hosts an event for young budding entrepreneurs who have the opportunity to ask successful young entrepreneurs how they have made it.

Chair: Oli Barrett

Panellists:

* Adam Bradford

* Fraser Doherty

* Alex Fakhri

* Ayo Jenyo

* Grant Ridley

* Alyssa Smith

* Emma Walker

The Pitch: Businesszone.co.uk

Inspire@MADE, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

15:00 – 16:00

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Young entrepreneurs have a once in a lifetime opportunity to pitch their business idea to a panel of successful entrepreneurs. Organised by businesszone.co.uk, the Pitch 2011 is Britain’s biggest small business pitching competition. This event offers entrepreneurs free expert advice, as well as the opportunity to pitch live to a panel of experts.

This event features Paul Boross, The Pitch Doctor and Marcus Waley-Cohen, founder of Firefly Tonic.

Virgin Media Pioneers – Control Shift

Inspire@MADE, Electric Works, Sheffield Digital Campus, Sheffield

15:00 – 16:00

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As part of its Control Shift: The Rise of Young Entrepreneurs campaign, which aims to discuss the key barriers facing young entrepreneurs, this Virgin Media Pioneers event is an opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs to join in the debate and hear from some inspiring guests.

Virgin Media Pioneers will also launch its exciting new mentor scheme which sees three of its exceptional Pioneers join forces with high-profile, successful entrepreneurs to mentor them for an 8 week period. The mentors will be revealed and then join an interactive Question Time style panel debate with the Pioneers.

Virgin Media Pioneers will also reveal the opportunity to apply for the second phase of the mentor scheme which will be revealed at Global Entrepreneurship Week in November with three more high profile entrepreneurs.

The event is ideal for aspiring young entrepreneurs looking for inspiration, practical help and to join the conversation about the future start up businesses in Britain.

For more information please visit www.virginmediapioneers.com

Intuit: Business Bootcamp

Inspire@MADE,

15:00 – 17:00, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

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One of the main reasons for business failure is financial difficulties due to poor financial management. To survive and thrive it’s vital you keep a close eye on the money coming in and out of your business – and of course, get paid on time!

In this session, headline sponsor Intuit and former chartered accountant and founder of Ella’s Kitchen Paul Lindley, together with training specialist BCSG will present a practical training course aimed at helping small business owners get organised with their finances and set up for long term success.

The course will cover the basics of good record keeping, how to track and improve cash flow as well as save time on everyday tasks like invoicing, expenses and calculating and reporting VAT.

Before and after the session, there will also be the opportunity to talk ‘one-on-one’ with small business accountants for advice and time saving tips. Please contact mark.lever@sevenhillsgroup.co.uk to register your interest for one of these exclusive free sessions.

The Hour: Meet the Editors

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

15:00 – 16:00

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Panel debate chaired by Michael Hayman and featuring some of the UK’s leading business and enterprise journalists.

* Kamal Ahmed, Business Editor, Sunday Telegraph

* Kate Bassett, Editor, Real Business

* Rachel Bridge, Enterprise Editor, Sunday Times

* Bernard Ginns, Business Editor, Yorkshire Post

Heels and Deals: Panel Debate

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

16:00 – 17:00

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Panel discussion featuring some of the UK’s most successful female entrepreneurs to get their take on women in the boardroom and the much talked of ‘glass ceiling’.

Panellists:

* Julie Meyer, Ariadne Capital

* Emma Jones, Enterprise Nation

* Penny Power, Ecademy

* Paloma Vivanco, Apprentice candidate

* Claire Young, School Speakers

* Lara Morgan, Pacific Direct

Engaging Young Britain: Seminar

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

16:45 – 17:45

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Engaging Young Britain: enterprise and entrepreneurship as a catalyst for educational change.

In the wake of urban riots, the spotlight is on engaging and inspiring Britain’s young people to be more entrepreneurial. This seminar will contribute to the thinking that an industrial model of education focused on compliance, knowledge, skill and constraint no longer has a place in the global economy.

Colleges and schools need to energise young people to work together to create their own future, to take risks and to make things happen for UK PLC. A group of leading College Principals in the UK are investing in entrepreneurship as a strategic driver for change. They are serious about transformation and are connecting with the private sector to create a new paradigm for the Further Education sector.

Chair: Oli Barrett

Panellists:

* Rajeeb Dey, Enternships

* Ayo Jenyo, Daniel and Samson Associates

* Emma Harrison, A4e

* Kieran Miles Entrepreneur in Residence, City College Norwich

MADE it: Panel Debate

Inspire@MADE, Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

17:00 – 18:00

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Panel debate featuring some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have ‘made it’ in their industries. The discussion will focus on the unexpected challenges they have faced and tips on dealing with success for budding entrepreneurs.

Chair: Kamal Ahmed, Business Editor, Sunday Telegraph

Panellists:

* Martyn Dawes, Coffee Nation

* Paul Lindley, Ella’s Kitchen

* Lara Morgan, Pacific Direct

* Julie Meyer, Ariadne Capital

MADE Festival Reception

Winter Gardens, Sheffield18:30-20:00

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MADE FESTIVAL RECEPTION SUPPORTED BY VIRGIN MEDIA PIONEERS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH COURVOISIER FUTURE 500 AND THORNBRIDGE BREWERIES.

Virgin Media Pioneers will be hosting a drinks reception on Thursday 22nd, between 6.30pm and 8.00pm in the Winter Gardens outside the Mercure Hotel.

This will be in association with Courvoisier and Thornbridge Brewery and will be open to over 18’s only. You will need to provide ID.

 

Come along for drinks, food, music, and a fantastic opportunity to network with your fellow delegates at MADE.

22nd September 2011 Disrupt@MADE

Various Venues

10:00 to 18:00 A day focusing on exploring disruptive business models. Looking at how to gain a distinctive competitive value proposition by incorporating disruptive thinking into your business and management practices. Including an exclusive TEDxSheffield event – see below for details.

Finance Yorkshire Breakfast – challenges of funding for tech companies

Disrupt@MADE

Creative Lounge @ The Workstation

09.00 – 10.30

If you are a tech businesss in it’s early stage, a start-up or a pre-revenue technology business in Yorkshire and love the potential for rapid growth this is a must attend event for you!

If you are interested in attending this event please contact Caroline Wilson at caroline.wilson@marketingsheffield.org

Fail Faster

Disrupt@MADE

The Showroom, Cinema 1

10.00 – 12.00

CollaboJam invites you to Fail Faster as part of the Disrupt@MADE Festival. Discover how to stop worrying and embrace the opportunities that not getting it perfect brings in this interactive audience-led panel discussion. We’re putting your questions about how to learn from failure and transform it into part of a creative and constructive culture of innovation for your organisation.

Sign up and submit your burning and provocative questions now!

Lunch with HGF: Using Intellectual Property to Compete

Disrupt@MADE

Creative Lounge @ The Workstation

12.00 – 13.30

A lunch hosted by HGF exploring how businesses can use intellectual property (IP) to compete in the marketplace.

Dr Chris Benson, Partner, will speak about:

* Why businesses invest in IP

* Why failure to consider IP can hamper business growth and competitiveness

* How IP can be used to make a business an attractive acquisition target, boosting the value of the business.

If you would like to attend, please contact Kathryn Grant kgrant@hgf.com

TEDx Sheffield

Disrupt@MADE

The Showroom – Cinema 4

13:30 – 18:00 (registration from 12.30)

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As part of Disrupt@MADE, over 250 thinkers and innovators across all business disciplines will gather in Sheffield for an exclusive North of England TEDx event. Host: Herb Kim who was recently been voted into The Guardian Media’s Top 100.

Speakers include:

Adrian Hon, Creative Technologist
The founder of games development company Six to Start and technology columnist for The Telegraph newspaper.

Alan Moore, Creative Destructionist
Alan is a noted expert on disruption particularly in a nonlinear world. He’s the author of ‘Communities Dominate Brands’ and he has a new book coming out in October entitled ‘No Straight Lines.’

Joe Cohen, Matchmaker
Joe has a long history of using technology to match people with events, concerts and other people they want to meet. He’s the Founder & CEO of Seatwave and formerly founded the International Division of Match.com.

Lee Strafford, Disrupting for Sheffield’s Future
Lee originally rose to fame as the CEO of PlusNet taking the ISP from 7 to 200+ employees during his tenure which was eventually acquired by BT. More recently Lee has become a member of the Sheffield City Region LEP with a vision and focus around championing the creative & digital industries as an economic force for Sheffield’s future.

Tom Bloxham MBE, Architecting Progress
Tom is the co-Founder & Chairman of Urban Splash – a property regeneration company with a difference. Urban Splash have been awarded over 300 times for their architecture, designs, regeneration and commercial successes.

Dr. Brendan Stone, The Power of Story
Brendan Stone is a Senior Academic Fellow at The University of Sheffield. Much of his work focuses on themes of wellbeing, communities, social and cultural capital, and the development of creative approaches to understand and combat social exclusion. His ‘Storying Sheffield’ project attempts to empower individuals to renegotiate the stories which define them.

Dr. Simona Francesa, CSI Sheffield
Simona is a lecturer in biomedical sciences at Sheffield Hallam University where she leads the BMRC Fingermark Research Group. The group are applying new chemical techniques to fingermark analysis that could potentially provide Police with increased intelligence information from fingermarks including a person’s diet, contact with drugs, gender, etc.

Tony Kennick, Desktop Revolutionary
Most of us know Tony as a mild mannered web technologist at the consultancy Technophobia. Earlier this summer, however, he and a group of people led an online effort to pressure advertisers in the News of the World to quit the paper in response to the phone hacking scandal as documented by the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones.

Wired: Panel Debate

Disrupt@MADE

Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield

17:00 – 18:00

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A panel debate on digital entrepreneurialism in conjunction with Wired magazine – the first word on how ideas and innovation are changing the world.

Panellists:

* Benjamin Cohen, Channel 4 Technology Correspondent

* David Richards, WANdisco

* Joe Cohen, Seatwave

* Penny Power, Ecademy

* Mehdi El Gueddari, Shhmooze

22nd September 2011: An audience with David Erdal

Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield

Time: 18:00

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David Erdal has written a book for our times. Offering inspiration and vision in the wake of financial Armageddon, it is the happy story of ordinary people who share the ownership of the businesses where they work and control their own destinies. The enterprises come in all sizes from small companies to large corporations such as John Lewis. The book contains case studies and interviews with people whose inspiring stories of success fly in the face of economists’ standard predictions.

David Erdal has worked for over 20 years designing and leading the transference of ownership of companies to employees.  He has a BA in Chinese from Oxford, an MBA from Harvard and a PhD from St Andrews. At a time when the ‘normal’ corporate economy has been badly shaken, Beyond the Corporation – Humanity Working is a book to weigh in the balance.

Off the Shelf Festival of Words in partnership with MADE Festival

In collaboration with Showroom Cinema.

23rd September 2011Accelerate @ MADE

Sheffield City Hall, Memorial Hall

09:30 to 16:00

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In association with The University of Sheffield

How to make your company more entrepreneurial.

Accelerate@MADE will tackle 3 of the burning issues that can help you drive growth in the next 12 months: coming up with new ideas, spotting new opportunities and making things happen.

10.25 – 11.30

Session 1: Coming up with new ideas – How to develop new products and markets

Evan Davis recently highlighted the critical role of innovation in his BBC SERIES Made in Britain. In this session we hear from Industry Leaders on how to develop new products and markets, and how to deliver long term innovation through developing a clear process.

Learn from the experts:

Mikel Lezamiz from the Mondragon Corporation – Spain’s seventh largest company in terms of turnover and the leading business group in the Basque country. The Corporation owns 716 patents for innovation.

Gordon Macrae – Special Projects Manager at Gripple and Loadhog, one of the UKs award winning companies for originality, verve and enterprise. Innovation is so much more than a simple buzzword; it’s the foundation of the company’s culture.

Tudor Brown - President of ARM Holdings Plc, the world’s leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier.

11.45 – 13:00

Session 2: Making things happen – getting the most out of your people

Making things happen – Get the most out of your people.This session looks at how to maximise the performance of one of your biggest assets – your people. Including the Rapid Results Approach in 100 days.

Learn from experts:

Rick Heinick - Rick has over 23 years of experience consulting with organisations and executive leaders across a sweeping range of industries. His clients include Bausch+Lomb, CR Bard, Fidelity Investments, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, MeadWestvaco, Merck & Co., Motorola, Timken, and TomTom.

Salem Samhoud - Entrepreneur and owner of the best company in Europe to work for -&Samhoud, talks about how to achieve change by connecting and inspiring people.

David Erdal - We also look at co-ownership models with leading expert David Erdal – understanding the success of organisations such as The John Lewis Partnership and the wonderful story of Loch Fyne Lobsters.

14:00 – 15:30

Session 3: Spotting new opportunities – focus on India

Spotting new opportunities – Focus on India:India is the UKs second largest trading partner and is a rapidly growing market offering great possibilities.

This event highlights some of the key features of the Indian market, explains how you can start to win export business there and identifies sources of support.

Hear from:

Susan Haird - Deputy Chief Executive at UKTI.

Captain Gopinath - India’s leading entrepreneur talks about his remarkable story of possibility and opportunity.

Kevin McCole - Chief Operating Officer at the UK India Business Council.

Audience: 300 established business leaders.

MADE Festival Fringe Events:

21st September 2011Ideas Bazaar

The University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank

11.00 to 16.00On the 21st September, the University of Sheffield will be holding a first-of-its-kind event for Sheffield’s creative community to come together, meet one another and share ideas.

The event will be compered by writer and broadcaster Christopher Green who will act as a cultural matchmaker. There will be stalls, where you will be able to bring along exhibits to showcase your ideas – or a single object to act as a talking point or to summarise your work. Refreshments will be provided.

The Ideas Bazaar is for everyone in the city who has creative ideas, whether they be in the arts or sciences, history or any other field. If you live or work in the city and you’re interested in ideas and creativity, then this event is for you.

If you would like to just attend or bring an object, please register at www.sheffield.ac.uk/ideasbazaar

21st to 23rd September 2011IP drop-in clinic

Fountain Precinct, Balm Green, Sheffield S1 2JA

Free 30-minute consultations hosted by Harrison Goddard Foote Do you have a question on intellectual property?

HGF Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, one of the top ten IP firms in the UK and sponsors of Disrupt@MADE, are offering a free 30-minute consultation to businesses interested in developing their IP.

For the duration of the festival, HGF’s team of experts in Sheffield will be on hand to offer advice.

HGF is the fastest growing, full-service intellectual property firm in the UK. With offices in Sheffield and across the UK, the firm works with entrepreneurs at all levels to protect their ideas, from the identification and prosecution of patents, trademarks, domain names, design rights and copyright to advice on IP strategy, IP due diligence, oppositions and appeals and litigation. HGF Sheffield has particular expertise in the areas of electronics, computer software, information technology and engineering.

To book your free 30 minute consultation, please email Kathryn Grant kgrant@hgf.com

20th September 2011YABA Investment Forum

Advanced Manufacturing Park, Rotherham

17:45 to 22:00 Are you an entrepreneur looking for private equity funding?

Are you considering becoming an angel investor?

If so, we’d like to hear from you – charlotte@yaba.org.uk

At this investment forum up to ten entrepreneurs are invited to introduce their business proposal to an audience of business angel members, associate members and intermediaries from the professional community.

The evening will commence with refreshments & networking followed by welcome speeches by YABA Director, Andrew Burton, and the meeting sponsor Irwin Mitchell. Each of the ten selected companies seeking finance will present their proposal and will be given the opportunity to exhibit their company services/products during the networking and buffet. The event will close by 10 o’clock.

23rd September 2011Regional Entrepreneurs’ Survey 2011 Launch Event

The Crucible, 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 1DA

07:30 to 09:30 Launch of the Entrepreneurs’ Survey 2011 – A perspective of the Yorkshire and Humber Region.

Nabarro and Barber Harrison & Platt have teamed up with the Yorkshire Association of Business Angels to identify the issues and opportunities facing entrepreneurs in the Yorkshire and Humber region. The findings of our survey of 100 entrepreneurs from across the region are summarised in a report which is being launched at this exclusive breakfast event.

For more information or if you are interested in attending this event please contact events@nabarro.com

23rd September 2011Fix it Friday

Creative Sheffield Offices, First Floor, The Fountain Precinct, Balm Green, Sheffield , S1 2JA

12:00 to 14:00 Sheffield Hallam University’s free 30-minute expert consultancy service.

Back by popular demand, Sheffield Hallam University’s free business consultancy service Fix It Friday returns on 23 September.
Whether you’re looking to reduce costs, streamline your manufacturing processes, develop new products or enhance the skills of your staff – this is the event for you.

It’s a free opportunity for you to speak to Sheffield Hallam’s technical or business experts about a challenge you have in your organisation. Their expert consultants will then work with you to identify the best course of action.

Click here to find out more about Fix It Friday and to book your free consultation.

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