1st International Enterprise Promotion Convention
Do you promote enterprise? Would you like the opportunity to promote your successes and network with like-minded specialists in SME creation and development from all around the world? If the answer is yes, then it may interest you to know about the 1st International Enterprise Promotion Convention call for speakers.
The 1st International Enterprise Promotion Convention is a new convention which will be held in the Harrogate International Centre from 15th to 17th November 2009. The convention aims to promote examples of best practice and innovation in the creation and support for small businesses, sharing experience of successful programmes so that the many organisations and agencies trying to stimulate enterprise around the world can learn from each other.
Perlex Associates the conference organisers are inviting speakers for the following main themes:
A - Advancing entrepreneurship education and training
B - Business creation & development – stimulating start-ups
C - Community, ethnic minority, rural and social enterprises
D – Developing SME’s in emerging and transition economies
E - E-business, e-learning, e-mailing and website marketing
I - Innovation, incubation, networks and knowledge transfer
M – Management skills, environmental and global growth issues
S – Supporting small business development world-wide
V – Venture capital, business angels, finance, regulation and taxation
W – Women’s enterprise and family business development
Y – Youth enterprise support programmes world-wide
Speakers will be considered for the above themes in three categories:
Plenary Presentations – a comprehensive report on one of the main Conventions Themes with details of best practices used and results achieved over several years operation.
Workshop Presentations – a shorter report or a case study of a successful scheme within one of the themes with evidence or examples of the results achieved.
Panel Presentation & Debate – a series of bullet points to indicate the topics that could be covered verbally in a Panel Session and Debate within a specified theme.
Key groups recognised as having particularly relevant contribution to offer include:
• Advisors, Consultants and Mentors offering guidance and advice in a variety of contexts
• Educators & Trainers specialising in entrepreneurship, SME management skills and CPD
• Financiers, banks and venture capitalists specialising in start-ups and growing businesses
• Incubation and Innovation Centres offering premises and support for start-ups
• Policy makers concerned with funding, eco issues and support – nationally and regionally
• Practitioners assisting in the start-up, development, growth and support of enterprise
• Representative Bodies and Networks offering networking opportunities and lobbying
• Support Organisations engaged in small business creation development and growth
For further information telephone Brian L Dunsby 01423 879208, email info@enterprisepromotion.org or visit www.enterprisepromotion.org