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Cranfield VentureDay is organised by
The Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurial
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Cranfield VentureDay 2009 – 14 May 2009
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Cranfield VentureDay is supported by CUBIC
CUBIC is a heavily subsidized facility designed to encourage and support hi-tech and
knowledge-based pre-start and early start companies in the formative stages of their
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It offers a dynamic, creative environment where entrepreneurs can work to develop their
business concept into reality, with the added benefit of its location in the middle of
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at Cranfield University
organised by The Bettany Centre for
Entrepreneurial Performance
and Economics
A one-day conference and networking event for
entrepreneurs, investors and all those interested in
cutting-edge entrepreneurial performance
2009
VentureDay
12.30
Keynote address: Mel Young, Co-Founder, Big Issue Scotland; President,
Homeless World Cup
Cranfield VentureDay 2009 is a one day conference and networking
13.00
Networking lunch
entrepreneurial performance. The event comprises keynote
14.00
Entrepreneurial Finance Forum:
(1) Early stage finance forum: raising money in tough times
Chair – Martin Rigby – ETCapital
Michael Anderson – Business Angel
Modwenna Rees-Mogg – Angel News
Provisional timetable:
(2) Selling a business:
Chair – Guy Rigby – Smith & Williamson
Simon Rowlands – Cinven
Rod Leefe – Formerly Chairman Witan Jardine
Lara Morgan – Pacific Direct
08.30
Registration
09.00
Welcome: Professor Sir John O’Reilly, Vice-Chancellor,
Cranfield University
09.15
Keynote address: Entrepreneurial Economy Outlook
Professor Andrew Burke, Director of the Bettany Centre for
Entrepreneurial Performance and Economics
10.00
14.45
(2) Family business:
Chair – Mark Evans – Coutts & Co
Nick Bettany – Business Angel & Entrepreneur
Pev Manners – Belvoir Fruit Juices
Ron Pollin & Fiona Temple – Open Contact
(1) Internationalisation:
Chair – Robert Wright – Wizz Air
Patrick Flockhart – Steel Business Briefing Ltd
Karim Sekkat – Founder & Chairman KAS Technologies Group
(3) Corporate Finance Strategies for Growing Businesses:
Smith & Williamson
Chair – Brian Livingston
(2) Commercialisation of technology:
Sparc Milton Keynes Technology Network
(3) Corporate Finance Strategies for Growing Businesses:
Smith & Williamson
Chair – Brian Livingston
11.00
Tea/Coffee – Visit exhibition stands
11.30
Start-up and business strategy workshops:
(1) Ambitious start-ups:
Chair – Dr Stephanie Hussels – Bettany Centre
Raj Anand – Kwiqq
Joel Cadbury – Longshot
Tristram Mayhew – GoApe!
(2) Growth through acquisition vs growing organically:
Chair – Alistair Heslop – Founder BiT Group
David Courteen – Fitness Express
Tim Newberry – Co-Founder Coffee Point
Richard Salvage – Medsa Group
Steve Taylor – Fitness Express
(1) Corporate entrepreneurship:
Chair – David Molian – Bettany Centre
Professor Paul Davis – Insense
Paul Lawes – Virgin
Dr Glenn Round – Rolls-Royce
15.30
Tea/Coffee – Visit exhibition stands
16.00
Entrepreneurs open pitch to investors attending the conference
for finance and non-executive directors – Event sponsored by
Invest Milton Keynes:
Session chairs will include
Harry Clarke – Cobalt Telephone Technologies
Nick Jenkins – Moonpig.com and Business Angel
David Noble – Business Angel
Participating ventures to be announced closer to the event*
17.00
Keynote address: Lord Bilimoria, Chairman, Cobra Beer
17.30
Drinks reception and closing:
Closing: Professor Frank Horwitz, Director of Cranfield School
of Management
* If you are interested in pitching your venture, please contact heather.fisher@cranfield.ac.uk
event for entrepreneurs and those interested in cutting-edge
addresses by leading entrepreneurs, exposure to the latest
research, exhibits by new enterprises and a networking zone. The
extensive range of workshops and plenary sessions will focus on
business start-up, growth, finance and business strategy and will
incorporate leading entrepreneurs, business angels, venture
capitalists and academics.
More details can be found at: www.ventureday.co.uk
Following their great success last year, the
Bright Sparc Awards 2009 will take place on
the evening prior to Venture Day, Wednesday
13th May. The Awards showcase the region’s
finest technology-led organisations:
for more details on entering or attending
please go to www.brightsparcawards.co.uk.
PRE VENTUREDAY WORKSHOP ON ENTREPRENEURIAL
STRATEGY FOR INNOVATIVE VENTURES with Prof David Audretsch
(Max Planck Institute) plus other leading professors and practitioners in
the field. This one-day workshop will be held on May 13 2009 at the
School of Management. Attendance is free, for a place please contact:
heather.fisher@cranfield.ac.uk