Date: 10/10/2018
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The Festival of Business
Cloth Hall Court, Quebec St, Leeds LS1 2HA
10 October 2018
08:00 - 17:00
Held on Wednesday 10th October, The Festival of Business is a day dedicated to everything you need to know about running a business successfully – you can expect staff training, HR support, Financial advice, GDPR and legal advice as well as much, much more. Made up of over 30 seminars, and a small exhibition, The Festival of Business has the capacity to seat 2000 individuals. Sign up to the seminars you're interested in as soon as possible to secure your place.
Over the next few months, we'll be adding more and more seminars to this event, so make sure to come back and take another look!
Building Athletic Organisations: Embedding Innovation for Growth
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
09:00 - 09:45
Future-ready organisations have many of the characteristics of great athletes: they sense the environment better, process information faster, and respond with speed and agility. Tom Cheesewright will give insight on some of the skills he teaches top multi-national businesses including FTSE250 organisations on how to beat the competition, and remain innovative and agile.
HR and Technology: Simple Strategies to bring your People and Systems One Step Closer
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
09:00 - 09:45
Make practical progress towards up-to-date HR, payroll, line management, recruiting and analytics wherever you are currently at. Bring your context to market-leading experts for immediate suggestions about how to take at least one positive step forward to help bring your employees, your support services and your technology closer together. Digital people strategy is a great aspiration and few have quite got there yet!
Working Smart – Living Pain Free
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
10:00 - 10:45
Join Myofascial Release specialist and author Amanda Oswald for this seminar to discover what’s really going on in your body, how to solve your back pain, and what you can do to help yourself stay fit and pain free. Come along prepared to take part as she’ll be sharing some simple, practical stretches and self-help techniques you can use practically anywhere!
DISCover Your Work Personality
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
10:00 - 10:45
If you love personal development and have never had a DISC profile before, this is for you. Join Business Coach, Melissa Makan in this seminar to uncover:
• What DISC is and what the letters refer to
• An idea of your own work personality style
• What to consider when you work and communicate with other styles
Biblical Billionaires
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
10:00 - 10:45
This talk - Biblical Billionaires - identifies characters of huge wealth in the Bible. Not a religious presentation or a sermon, it looks at how they got their money, what we can learn from them and where there are modern day examples in the business world.
Building a business that provides a regular, predictable income and cash
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
10:00 - 11:00
In this session, attendees will understand why their business is struggling to generate the financial rewards, how you can build the right business and the top tips to start to implement for immediate implementation.
The Key to Success – How to Manage and Maximise Your Cash Flow!
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
11:00 - 11:45
Corp & Comm will present a fast paced, entertaining seminar using film clips and real-life anecdotes, to leave you feeling confident and equipped to maximise your chances of invoices being paid.
Top Tips on Tech to Make You More Effective
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
11:00 - 11:45
This seminar by Wokati is set to be highly informative about current technologies available to SME’s today, and how you can practically make use of these technologies to enable their business.
Your financial future – is your business doing enough?
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
11:00 - 11:45
This session will take you through all of the above and demonstrate how careful and sensible financial planning can help you use your business to your best advantage, both now and in the future.
Destination Export
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
11:00 - 11:45
Machine Learning – not just for the giants
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
12:00 - 12:45
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is all over the media. SMEs will automatically think all this technology is for bigger organisations, the giants, and is too expensive for them.
The objective of the seminar is to dispel that myth
Unleash The Power of Voice for your Business
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
13:00 - 13:45
Come along and see a 'live' demonstration of the speech recognition solution – let VoicePower show you how you can save time and money, improve your client service and have an overall less stressful working life, all through using your voice!
Come along and let us show you the power of your voice, with a little help from our Dragons and VoicePower!
Pretty Fierce Principles of Marketing
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
13:00 - 13:45
How a Solicitor Saved My Life! And Ten Tips to Avoid Costly Legal Pitfalls and Bills for Business Owners
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
14:00 - 14:45
Richard Coulthard, Director of Oakwood Solicitors, will explore key legal issues facing local SME’s and will in particular focus on costly mistakes made by many business owners who do not appreciate issues surrounding legal compliance and the interaction between business owners business based assets and the owners personal lives.
Win on Value, Never Lose On Fee
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
14:00 - 14:45
The pitfalls of PR and making it work for you!
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
14:00 - 14:45
Businesses know that there are benefits to PR but with so many other priorities it’s inevitable that it continues to end up at the bottom of a very long to-do list. Sound familiar? Rather than tackling the marketing mix head-on, Lindsey Davies, Director from Open Communications, will explain how to embrace PR and get best value from breaking the tactics down into smaller bite-sized chunks.
How to get a better return from your sales and marketing
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
15:00 - 16:00
In this presentation, you will understand the main reasons causing this, how you can build a business that will free you and the top tips to start for immediate implementation.
Plan, Protect and Prosper
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
15:00 - 15:45
Are you an owner-manager, family business owner or entrepreneur? How often are you faced with the challenge of balancing your business and personal motivations? Your ambitions for the business and your aspirations for yourself and your family?
Grant Funding – How to apply & what you can access
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
15:00 - 15:45
Your business could be benefiting from access to funding that enables you to grow! This seminar will bust some of the myths around grant funding; we’ll discuss what you can apply for, what you can’t apply for, how to apply and how long the process takes. Take advantage of this free money and support to get your business to the next level!
Partner Events Wednesday
10 October 2018
TBC
Brand Bootcamp Taster Session
Munro House
10 October 2018
TBC
AHQ Free Co-working Week 10/10/18
Avenue HQ
10 October 2018
09:00 - 18:00
Thriving Minds
The Mansion
10 October 2018
09:30 - 17:00
IoD Open Doors at Cloth Hall Court
Cloth Hall Court
10 October 2018
17:00 - 19:00
A Paradigm Shift for Businesses: Leveraging Organisational Change as a Driver for Sustainable Growth and Innovation
Leeds Beckett University
10 October 2018
17:30 - 19:00
Cloud Accounting and Artificial Intelligence
Fusion Court
10 October 2018
18:00 - 20:00
Technology is moving so fast, it’s hard to keep up. In this workshop attendees will learn how Cloud Accounting and Artificial Intelligence will change the way you work.
The Truth About Stress – Skills for Work and Life
Leeds Law Society
10 October 2018
09:30 - 12:30
Start-Up Boost
Avenue HQ
10 October 2018
10:00 - 12:00