Growing for Gold

Growing for Gold

Thursday 17th November 11.00am - 4.00pm, Ron Cooke Hub

Do you want to find out what it takes for your company to win Gold?

How about refreshing and enhancing the key business tools that lead to success while meeting dozens of new customers along the way?

Run by the highly-acclaimed and innovative Rambutan bunch and held at the inspiring Ron Cooke Hub, “Growing for Gold” will provide the key secrets to unlocking your company’s future potential and revitalising your business.

As if that wasn’t enough, gold medal Olympian, Ben Hunt-Davis will explain how to take your company to world-class levels by drawing on his own Olympian experiences, giving you the inside knowledge on what really drives success. Using the Hub’s fabulous facilities, you could meet and network with 199 other businesses and make the day a real winner.

The event comprises of four workshops running concurrently with a keynote speech at each end. Attendees can attend the whole event, or individual sessions and take the opportunity to network over lunchtime. The workshops include

• "Lend me your ears"
• "Jailing your time thieves"
• "How to gobsmack your audience"
• "Leading through the light"

Find out more about these engaging workshops 

Find out more about Ben's keynote "Will it make the boat go faster?"

No need to wait – book your free place now

The Ron Cooke Hub is supported by investment from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in Yorkshire and the Humber. This development is a key component of a major £19.74M ERDF project, awarded to Science City York via Yorkshire Forward to promote the regional economy.

Business Creativity

Business Creativity for Busy People

Tuesday 15th November, 10.00am -12.00pm, CPD Seminar room, Ron Cooke Hub

A highly interactive and fun session that will challenge participants’ thinking around business creativity and commercial innovation.

The objective of the session will be to develop delegate's ability to generate new ideas in the midst of a very busy day job. They will leave with plenty of useful tools and techniques that they can use when they get back to the office, however challenging their workload.

By the end of the session delegates will:

• Have a greater understanding of how key concepts, tools and techniques can be integrated into their own business practice, however busy they are
• Know how to integrate the three key modes of thinking for optimal business results
• Have awareness of and the ability to apply creative leadership principles, to generate improved commercial innovation outcomes from themselves and their colleagues
• Have a toolkit of pattern-busting techniques that open up new ways of viewing problems and opportunities in order to identify previously unidentified, high potential options

In association with York Science Park

For further information contact Rebecca Dodgson on 01904 435116.

Register for this free event.

Talking the media talk

Talking the media talk

Thursday 17 November 4pm, Ron Cooke Hub

Have you ever read a newspaper article about a competitor and wondered how they got it printed? or thought about how they got interviewed on local news? 

The media is a superb tool for generating interest in your company, a new product or an event but it can seem like a dark art to those on the outside. 

Patrick Titley, a lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, and a very experienced television producer, is on the inside. 

As part of York Business Week, this free event will give you the information you need to create opportunities for your business through the media. Find out how to:

1. get the media interested
2. work with print and broadcast journalists
3. avoid the most common media pitfalls

Register a free place at this event

Cloud computing

Yorkshire IT User Group Meeting

Cloud Technologies and Tablets

Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 5:45 PM - 8:30 PM
Venue: Sir Ron Cooke Hub

The University of York’s IT Academy offers a unique opportunity to explain the proliferation of Cloud Technologies and Tablets and why IT Professionals and IT Managers should take a closer look sooner rather than later.

IT Academy manager and technologists Andrew Bettany and Chris Rhodes will present an interactive discussion introducing the following topics:

• The proliferation of Cloud Technologies
• Windows Intune version 2 - remote laptop management just became easier
• Tablet PCs today and tomorrow

The event will include plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow IT managers, service providers, sponsors and supporters of the Yorkshire IT User Group.

Register your free place

Creating Opportunties

Creating Opportunties

Monday 14th November, 4.00-7.30pm

Do you want to find out how to advance your business – with more resources, more expertise and more customers?

Did you know that the University of York delivered over 35,000 hours of professional training last year? Or that York St John University specialises in developing creative companies? Or that York College delivered apprenticeships for over 80 employers last year?

York is blessed with some of the best further and higher education institutions in the country creating opportunity for your business. To celebrate the opening of York Business Week, Higher York has bought together some of the best brains from the local business community to help create opportunities for your business. You can find out:

• where to find tailored CPD courses that will get the best results from your staff
• how other companies have taken advantage of the opportunities in York
• what to do to recruit the best graduates to your business
• how Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) can improve your organisation
• how to get world-class expertise to give your business the edge

Keynote speakers include Barry Dodd (Chair of the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding LEP) and Greg Dyke (Chancellor of The University of York and renowned media guru).

With over 50 companies due to attend, the event is also a superb networking opportunity.

Booking and further information.