Join us at the Festival of Enterprise!

Come and learn from the UK's leading entrepreneurs and business growth experts and meet the service providers who can help you grow faster.

We are delighted to announce our partnership with the Festival of Enterprise - an event designed to help your business grow faster and expand your professional business network.

The festival will take place on October 23rd-24th, gathering over 5,000 business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs at the NEC Birmingham.

We will be located in the Growth Hub Village and will be on hand to share details of our support and network with other Growth Hubs, business support organisations and government agencies.

We’d love to see you there - you can get your free pass now.

Who will you meet?

  • Over 5,000 other business owners, entrepreneurs & leaders
  • Over 150 expert speakers such as Piers Linney (formerly of Dragon’s Den) sharing insider tips
  • Over 150 expert brands in business IT, funding and marketing such as Google, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Hewlett Packard Enterprises

Get involved as an exhibitor or sponsor

Does your company provide products or services designed to help other businesses succeed? Get involved as an exhibitor and sponsor - contact the festival team on 0121 582 0519 or hello@festivalofenterprise.co.uk.

If you still need more reasons to come along, have a read of the following…

Now is the time to grow faster

Strategy can be side-tracked in the day to day running of a business, and scaling up takes a back seat as you end up dealing with piles of paperwork, projects going wrong or your overflowing inbox.

This shows in the statistics - according to the ScaleUp Institute, scaleups bring in £1.3tn of the £1.9tn generated by all UK SMEs. The remainder is brought in by millions of companies not making anywhere near as much of an impact as they could.

There are clearly more than a few secrets business owners need to learn about scaling up. Fortunately, the Festival of Enterprise will reveal them all.

Over 150 experts in business growth will take to the stage at the Festival of Enterprise to share their secrets with other business owners. This is where you can learn from people’s real experiences, hear how they went about getting the funding that enabled their growth, how they grew their management and delivery teams, the big obstacles they overcame and how they re-shaped their plans as they grew.

Managing Director for the Festival of Enterprise, James Ashwood, said: “Over the past 3 years, we have learned a great deal about the types of information and services business owners and CEOs are looking for to support their growth ambitions. This has enabled us to create such an exciting programme.

“Not only are we offering world-class advice from business growth experts, we are also offering real-life case studies from successful entrepreneurs who have the achievements and battle scars to speak with authority about what it takes to innovate and succeed in today’s business environments. This really is an event not to be missed.”

Join “Dragon” Piers Linney and more for expert advice

Entrepreneur and Startup specialist Piers Linney has joined the festival as one of the speakers. Linney is perhaps best known to the public for being a "dragon" on the BBC Two television series, Dragons' Den, and for his appearance on Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire. He will be sharing his no-nonsense business advice with aspiring business owners.

Piers commented: "I'm delighted to be speaking at the Festival of Enterprise, which is providing brilliant advice to help businesses grow. I'll be talking about my Startup with Piers Linney course and look forward to sharing this with you all at the NEC in October.”

Get your free ticket and get in the "Ideas Zone"

The Festival of Enterprise is designed to provide the owners of established SMEs and start-ups with the tools and information they need to achieve fast growth.

A day at the Festival of Enterprise will put business owners in the “Ideas Zone” and will help them re-focus on the strategic issues that affect growth.

The Festival of Enterprise takes place at the NEC Birmingham on October 23rd-24th.

Free entrance passes can be obtained here.

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