| Time |
Track 1 Investment Track |
Track 2 Everything the Entrepreneur Needs |
| 07:00 - 08:30 |
Networking Breakfast sponsored by Action Coach York including a presentation from "Kirkstall" The Venturefest Yorkshire 2007 Investment Competition Winner. £15 p.p. |
| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Exhibition Area Open Main Delegate Registrations |
| 09:30 - 10:45 |
The Venturefest Yorkshire Investment Competition Presentations |
Seminar One "Marketing.. Stop before you Start" The YP Marketing Professionals |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Morning Keynote Presentation - Julie Meyer, CEO Ariadne Capital. Sponsored by UK Steel Enterprise. |
| 12:15 - 1330 |
The Venturefest Yorkshire Investment Competition Presentations |
Seminar Two Preventing employees stealing your secrets, Tiggy Clifford and Alexandra Weston, Denison Till Solicitors |
| 13:00 - 13:40 |
Keynote Presentation by Ajaz Ahmed - Founder of Freeserve "The Dot Com Bubble - Have we really learnt the lessons?" |
| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Afternoon Keynote Presentation "Reinventing Entrepreneurship"
Peter Day, Radio 4 Business Correspondent
|
| 15:00 - 16:00 |
"Ask the Expert" A series of experts available for delegates to meet |
Seminar Three Ben Kench - The Can Can Man. Building a Business - No Sweat! |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Routes to Finance Debate Representatives from around the region debate how best to secure investment and what to look for.Chaired by Martin Vander Weyer, Business Editor of the "Spectator" |
Seminar Four "How to be Virtually Big" Ian Weatherhogg of Sandford Technology |
| 17:00 - 18:30 |
Open Networking in the Bar Area |
| 18:30 - 19:15 |
Pre Dinner Drinks "Sponsored by the Acorn Fund"
|
| 19:15 - 22:30 |
The Venturefest Yorkshire Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony Sponsored by Leeds Metropolitan University. Pre Dinner Student Victoria Brown and After Dinner Speaker Deirdre Bounds. £55 per ticket |