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SUMMARY:UKSPA Autumn Conference
DESCRIPTION:UKSPA is delighted to announce its Autumn Conference\, which will take place on the 15th & 16th September 2022\, at Charnwood Campus \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nUKSPA members and stakeholders will gather for its Autumn Conference at Charnwood Campus\, Loughborough on Thursday 15th & Friday 16th September 2022. Following on from the last UKSPA Conference at The Oxford Science Park in late March & early April\, the two days will consider and debate current national and regional trends. \nThe Conference will start at lunchtime on Thursday\, and conclude on Friday afternoon.  Throughout the two days\, leading speakers from the UKSPA network and key partners will discuss in depth the challenges\, opportunities\, and innovative ways the sector continues to further engage\, inspire and grow.
URL:https://www.heyfordpark-ic.co.uk/event/product-market-fit-2-2/
LOCATION:Charnwood Campus\, Main Gatehouse\, Loughborough\, LE11 5RB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220707T173000
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SUMMARY:Product Market Fit
DESCRIPTION:About this event \nYou have a good idea but you need to know that your product has a market. Product market fit is the first step in building a successful venture. Expert advice from entrepreneurs Phil Wakefield and Mark Preston will help put you on the right track by sharing their experience and expertise in the field. They will ensure that you ask the key questions before you go to market: Is there a customer base for your product? Is it packaged right? How do you blow the competition out of the market? \nSpeakers \nPhil Wakefield\nCEO\, Product Studio\, Oxogen \nPhil supports new founders creating impactful tech solutions through user-focused strategy\, design and the development of Minimum Viable Products. He particularly enjoys making use of the increasing array of tools available to start-ups looking to prove their idea without the need for big investments. \nMark Preston\nCEO\, Prismea \nMark helps companies scale through data\, cloud and compliance. Working with engineering and biotech companies\, we provide specialist analytics\, build cloud infrastructure and make companies audit-ready.
URL:https://www.heyfordpark-ic.co.uk/event/product-market-fit/
LOCATION:Wood Centre for Innovation\, Quarry Road\, Oxford\, OX3 8SB
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SUMMARY:Fundraising & Pitching
DESCRIPTION:About this event \nThe right business pitch is vital for telling your company narrative and striking a chord with investors. Having developed two software companies\, MD of OION\, Richard Cooper will give you the inside track on pitching and angel funding in a new\, post-COVID funding landscape. And\, Benjamin Storey from Eagle Labs will look at access to funding and support available to start ups and growing businesses. \nSpeakers \nRichard Cooper\nMD\, OION Ltd \nRichard is the Managing Director of OION Ltd. He has been working with early-stage companies for the past twenty years\, both in the UK and Australia in both a funding and business advisory capacity. Having developed two early-stage software companies himself\, he has advised hundreds of early-stage companies to develop their growth strategies and raise them funding as a result. Richard has an MSc in Marketing from the Universityof Leicester and post graduate qualifications in applied finance and project management. Richard also has a CFA Certificate in Investment Management and the foundation course in Private Equity from the Australian Venture Capital Association. \nBenjamin Storey\nHead of South & East Barclays Eagle Labs \n 
URL:https://www.heyfordpark-ic.co.uk/event/fundraising-pitching/
LOCATION:Wood Centre for Innovation\, Quarry Road\, Oxford\, OX3 8SB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220609T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220609T183000
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SUMMARY:Marketing & Branding
DESCRIPTION:About this event \nWant to know more about brand and marketing strategies that work? Leading experts Su Copeland\, Founder of Priddy Marketing\, and Warren Brown\, Creative Director of Brown Creative\, will give you insights and strategies on how to successfully implement branding for your business and leave you with a marketing ‘toolkit’ to help your company flourish and grow. Clarity of message is vital and a solid foundation on which you can market your products. \nSpeakers \nSu Copeland\nFounder\, Priddy Marketing \nSu provides marketing strategy and implementation to MDs and CEOs\, specialising in STEM-based organisations. She has over 30 years’ experience in helping start-ups\, SMEs and corporates acquire\, reach and convert more quality business leads. Her approach is practical\, approachable and results-focussed. A well-known connector\, she is an adviser to Thames Valley  Chamber of Commerce\, mentor and business sub-group adviser for OxLEP and founder of the STEM Advisers Hub. \nWarren Brown\nCreative Director\, Brown Creative \nFor over 20 years Warren has been making business look amazing. Using a combination of deep level strategy and beautiful\, meaningful design he gives businesses a tool to express themselves\, to tell their story and reflect their reputation. He creates emotional resonance between a brand and its audience using logic and magic.
URL:https://www.heyfordpark-ic.co.uk/event/marketing-branding/
LOCATION:Wood Centre for Innovation\, Quarry Road\, Oxford\, OX3 8SB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220526T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220526T183000
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SUMMARY:New Business Development & Customer Acquisition
DESCRIPTION:About this event \nAs you start to build your business\, business development and customer acquisition are key. Customers are the lifeblood of any business\, big or small. Serial entrepreneur and sales expert\, Paul Essery\, Innovation Director\, Wendy Tindsley\, and CEO of Innovation Gateway\, Matt Pumfrey will advise and discuss putting together a value proposition\, lead generation\, how to build your customer base\, customer relations and\, of course\, sales. Entrepreneur Matt Brown will talk through his learnings and successes as his new business has developed over the last couple of years\, including some of the challenges as the journey continues. \nSpeakers \nMatt Brown\nCo-Founder\, Quorbit \nWith 15 years’ experience in assisting businesses justify\, design\, implement and realise benefits from enterprise technology solutions\, Matt co-founded Quorbit in late 2016. A niche consultancy\, Quorbit makes workload budgeting simple. 2021 has seen the company secure three large contracts with multi-year supply agreements in the retail and hospitality sectors. \n Paul Essery\nFounder\, My Sales Guru International \nPaul is a serial entrepreneur and sales expert. His current business\, My Sales Guru International\, is focused on helping clients sell complex technology solutions. Previously he has set up and sold four businesses and now uses his experience of business development and sales to help people sell better. He holds an MSc in Strategy and Resource Management. \nMatt Pumfrey\nCEO\, Innovation Gateway Ltd \nMatt has had a lifelong passion for sustainability and has worked in the sector his whole career. He has set up and run his own businesses\, as well as create and run a sustainability and energy services business for a FTSE100 outsourced services organisation. Matt specialises in identifying and translating sustainability goals for business and developing strategies\, processes and operating models to enable these goals to be delivered. He has a proven track record in building businesses that take advantage of emerging sustainability markets. He has a clear understanding of the social\, economic and environmental business drivers\, the risks they may pose and how to mitigate them along with a pragmatic approach to delivering successful business outcomes. Skills that are becoming more and more important in a world in climate crisis. During his career Matt has worked with and advised organisations as diverse as the New Zealand Government\, Bosch\, Serco\, E.on and Greenpeace. \nWendy Tindsley\nInnovation Director\, Oxford Innovation \nAn experienced business support professional\, Wendy has a scientific background and experience of running several businesses. She a wealth of experience in obtaining funding for R&D and capital investment. With extensive knowledge of innovative technologies across different sectors\, Wendy’s passion is helping ambitious businesses to achieve rapid and sustainable growth.
URL:https://www.heyfordpark-ic.co.uk/event/new-business-development-customer-acquisition/
LOCATION:Wood Centre for Innovation\, Quarry Road\, Oxford\, OX3 8SB
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SUMMARY:Scaling Up
DESCRIPTION:About this event \nScaling up your businesses for growth requires managing the change and putting the right processes and people in place. It’s all about capacity and capability. Does your business have the capacity to grow? Do you have the right infrastructure and team to accommodate growth? What about cash flow? Independent scale-up consultant Babita Devi and change management specialist Deborah McCormack will talk you through putting in the right processes and helping the team to grow with you. Jane Fryatt from Face2Face HR and Tracy Smart\, The Smart Team will follow up with advice on your people and the impact of a rapid growth business and ensuring your financial modelling is where it needs to be. \nSpeakers: \nBabita Devi\nCoach & entrepreneur \nBabita Devi is a coach and entrepreneur with nearly 30 years’ experience in marketing\, strategy and business development. Babita has worked in a diverse range of industries\, including IT\, life sciences\, higher education\, consumer goods and optics. She has lectured on entrepreneurial marketing at Anglia Ruskin University and Lincoln University Business School. Babita is an advisor to several organisations in technology\, medtech and games and a Portfolio Advisory Board Member for Sure Valley Ventures. As an independent consultant\, Babita supports personal and business growth\, to scale up high potential\, innovative start-ups and SMEs through the Accelerate Programme at the Judge Business School\, part of Cambridge University. She is Innovation Director for Oxford Innovation’s centre in Cambridgeshire and more widely across the UK as a Mentor for Barclays Eagle Labs. \nJane Fryatt\nHR consultant \nJane is a highly competent and knowledgeable HR Consultant with over 18 years’ experience in HR and people management gained across a range of industries including media and publishing\, science\, technology and engineering. A Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development\, Jane has worked extensively with senior executives and operational managers\, managing complex disciplinary and grievance situations\, dealing effectively with issues such as poor performance\, sickness absence and time keeping\, improving employee engagement and reducing HR admin through technology. Jane loves to bring practical\, down to earth HR support to small business owners to take the stress away when they have an HR issue and help them to get the best from their people. \nDeborah McCormack\nDirector\, Change Reaction \nDeborah runs a Change Management Consultancy called Change Reaction. She has worked around the world\, across all sectors\, in the field of Business Psychology and Change Management for the past 26 years. With a collaborative ‘abundance’ mindset her key strength is working with organisations to help them espouse their purpose\, values and strategy for the future. Deborah ensures leaders are ignited\, organisations are enlivened\, cultures invigorated and importantly that any change is integrated\, thoughtful and effective. She is currently consulting to GlaxoSmithKline as a Global Change Leader focussing on how to manage Third Party Risks worldwide with new systems\, processes and behaviours to support the enterprise. \nTracy Smart\nFounder & CEO\, The Smart Team \nTracey is a Finance Director who is passionate about making a difference and delivering results for small and scale-up businesses. She founded The Smart Team to offer businesses bespoke portfolio FD and NED services to build the best flexible finance team with the right skillset for individual businesses.
URL:https://www.heyfordpark-ic.co.uk/event/scaling-up/
LOCATION:Wood Centre for Innovation\, Quarry Road\, Oxford\, OX3 8SB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220428T173000
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SUMMARY:Exit Planning
DESCRIPTION:About this event\nMalin Svanberg Larsson\, corporate partner at Freeths\, well-known entrepreneur\, Rob Nicoll and Andy Robinson from technology incubator\, Barclays Codebase\, will give expert advice on Exiting your Business. They will look at the early steps you need to take with a view to exiting your business and developing a clear strategic plan and delve into some key questions: Is your business ready for purchase? Have you got the right buyer? How do you handle negotiations and the legal aspects? Exit planning at the start helps entrepreneurs build and structure their business correctly and drives the best value at the end. \nSpeakers: \nMarlin Svanberg Larsson\nCorporate Partner\, Freeths \nMalin specialises in advising businesses on a wide range of corporate matters from starting up\, early-stage investment (including S/EIS funding) right through to exit (whether that is to private equity\, or national or international acquirers). She also advises on joint ventures\, strategic acquisitions and corporate governance for clients across a range of sectors including technology\, manufacturing and consultancy. Malin is well regarded for her highly attentive and solutions-orientated approach and is known for bringing sound commercial understanding of achieving business goals and objectives. \nRob Nicoll\nExecutive Chairman\, Zeta Compliance Services \nRob has specialised in the development and application of software (Software as a Service) for the management of regulatory ‘environmental’ data for much of his career. In 1998 he setup Zeta Compliance Services which specialised in air and water hygiene management. Zeta expanded significantly and in 2004 branched out into software development. In May 2008\, Rob listed the business group on PLUS (a London stock exchange) and then delisted Zeta Compliance Group plc in 2012. He then started the process of demerging the various business units and ultimately selling them privately in two sales in December 2019 and July 2021. Rob has valuable experience in raising investment\, putting it to work\, developing valuable executives and management teams – ultimately building shareholder value and delivering it. \nAndy Robinson\nSenior Business Development Manager\, Codebase\n\nAndy works at the intersection of Business Development\, Value Proposition Design and Product Management. He was previously CCO at Cultivate\, where he led their acquisition by Deliveroo before joining their engineering leadership team and heading up their Edinburgh tech office. He currently leads an early-stage start-up in the restaurant tech space\, and is a mentor\, investor and advisor with numerous early stage tech companies. Andy enjoys positioning and selling complex software solutions and leading high performing cross-functional teams to solve interesting problems.
URL:https://www.heyfordpark-ic.co.uk/event/exit-planning/
LOCATION:Wood Centre for Innovation\, Quarry Road\, Oxford\, OX3 8SB
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