Events in 2012
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Building a Global Market Leader
Jan 12 31 Start: 19:00 End: 21:00
The iVentureTuesday Speaker Series features a new programme of talks given by prominent members of the business community. The programme seeks to inspire and motivate those who wish to develop their careers in different directions or have entrepreneurial ambitions.
Dr David Milne, OBE, FREng, FRSE, FIET
Founder and Non-Exec Director Wolfson Microelectronics Plc
Dr David Milne was educated in Edinburgh and graduated in Physics from Heriot Watt University in 1965. He completed his PhD at Bristol University in X-ray Optics in 1968 where he worked on a new fundamental determination of the Avogadro number using X-ray interferometry. In 1970 he was appointed to the Wolfson Microelectronics Institute in Edinburgh where he became director in 1973. He took the Institute private in 1985 forming a company specialising in integrated circuit design for third partiesThe company transitioned into a fabless semiconductor company in 1995 addressing the emerging market for digital consumer applications and has since established a worldwide reputation for its audio products used in many iconic digital consumer products. It listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2003 reaching a market capitalisation in excess of $1bn in 2006.
He has kept a keen interest in education and the commercialisation of research. He created a strong interaction between the Edinburgh University and the electronics industry for which he was awarded an OBE in 1984. He was appointed an honorary Professor at the University in 1998, was a member of the University Court from 1998 to 2007 and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in 2008. He also has honorary degrees from Bristol and Heriot Watt Universities and recipient of the IEEE Millennium medal for his contribution to electronics.
As Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh he led the Commercialisation Project with Scottish Enterprise which has formed the basis for much of the subsequent government investment into technology transfer for company creation and growth in Scotland.
Since stepping down as CEO of Wolfson in 2007 he has become Chairman of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, Chairman of Elonics, a start-up fabless semiconductor company and remains a Non-executive Director of Wolfson Microelectronics. He is Chairman of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation.
Format
19:00 - Registration & Networking drinks
20:00 - Lecture
40mins lecture
20min Q & A
21:00 - Close of event
Preceding the David Milne talk and as part of this Enterprise Evening there is an Entrepreneurship Club joint event with Archangels Informal InvestmentsTo REGISTER for this event please click HERE
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Entrepreneur Pitch Presentation Workshop with Bill Joos 'The Pitch Doctor' (internal event)
Feb 12 7 Start: 08:30 End: 17:30
Bill Joos, the 'pitch Doctor' from Silicon Valley, will be back in Scotland in February 2012.
Less than one week from now Bill will be conducting two 1-day interactive seminars focused on specifically preparing and delivering your all-critical 'Elevator Pitch' as well as your initial PowerPoint presentation to attract investors... and customers.
The workshop will take place on Monday, 6 February 2012 at the Informatics Forum in Edinburgh, and will be repeated Tuesday 7 February 2012 at the Hillington Innovation Centre,Glasgow (http://www.innovationcentre.org/hillington/location/)
Bill's workshop will include these four sessions:-
THE TOP TEN MISTAKES IN BUSINESS PLANS
Your business plan is the most important document you'll write as an entrepreneur. It can be the ticket to funding and garnering interest from potential clients and partners.
Learn what NOT to do so you can develop a hard-hitting, compelling business case for your company.
PERFECTING YOUR 'SHORT BUILDING' ELEVATOR PITCH*
You can't assume your elevator pitch will be in a skyscraper! What if the mythical elevator ride is in a short building, and you only have 20 seconds?
In this session you will learn how to focus on what really matters to instantly grab the listeners attention when asked 'what does your company do ?'
PERFECTING YOUR PITCHING*
Learn how to craft the best possible pitch(presentation) in the shortest possible time.
This session will take you through the process of creating and delivering two versions of a company overview presentation:
One suitable for a one-hour discussion with investors and a version suitable for shorter pitches, such as at the EIE 2012 investor showcase event.
This session features a hard-copy, walk-away presentation development tool that will help you put together these presentations for a technology based start-up company.
THE POWER OF AN ADVISORY BOARD
This dynamic bonus session will focus on what Bill feels is the entrepreneur's most under-utilized resource: a powerful Advisory Board.
This can be the key to tapping into external expertise and impressing investors. When you ask for funding, you often get advice.
The opposite may also be true: ask for advice and get funding!
Schedule for each day:
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival and Registration
09:00 - 09:05 Introduction and overview
09:00 - 09:30 Self - introductions
09:30 - 11:00 Top 10 Mistakes in Business Plans
Break
11:15 - 12:45 Short Building Elevator Pitch
Lunch
13:45 - 15:45 The VC Pitch
Break
16:15 - 17:30 The Power of an Advisory Board
17:30 - 17:40 Recap of the day.
Due to high demand these events are now full
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How to use LinkedIn to supercharge your profile
Feb 12 7 Start: 10:00 End: 13:00
Julie Moulsdale of Perceptive Partners will guide us through a very practical session on how to get the most out LinkedIn to supercharge our personal profile and in so doing, create more business opportunities.
This unmissable masterclass will cover:
• Managing your reputation online : What's already being said about you and how do you find this out?
• Managing the message : Being clear on the message you want to convey and how do you say it most effectively
• Managing your network: Using your network effectively using LinkedIn, how to make the most of groups, how to find business opportunities on LinkedIn
• Minding your Ps and Qs online : The worst LinkedIn clangers and how to avoid these
• Top 10 LinkedIn tips NB.
Whilst you will inevitably learn a great deal from simply attending, to get the most out of the session please bring along your laptop.
As part of the learning process, together with the whole group, Julie would like to work on the LinkedIn profiles of a few people attending the event. Once you have signed up, if you would like the chance to volunteer your profile, please email Julie directly julie@perceptivepartners.co.uk
About Julie Moulsdale: Julie founded Perceptive Partners Communications www.perceptivepartners.co.uk in 2006. She has worked with several blue chip brands, small organisations and individuals to drive better business results through better communication. These include IBM, PWC, Cisco, Thomas Cook as well as City Legacy, the consortium building the Athletes' Village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and best-selling author, Carmen Reid. Julie regularly shares useful LinkedIn tips on LinkedIn and on Twitter.
The cost to attend these events is £30.00. A discounted rate of £20.00 is available for clients/tenants of HPIC, AIC, the Atrium, Interactive Scotland, Tech Meetup and members of Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire Chambers of Commerce. Please select the 'members only' ticket to access this discount.
Hillington Park Innovation Centre, Scotland's leading Innovation Centre, is delighted to bring you the next series of business masterclasses. These events have been created to deliver three key benefits:
a) Hear from industry experts passing on the benefit of their experience.
b) Network with a wide range of companies and individuals.
c) Promote your own business to potential partners and customers.
Each event will contain a formal presentation from a key business expert, a question and answer session, a formal networking opportunity, a chance for one company to present to the attendees on their products and services, lunch and an informal opportunity to network.
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PR for Technology Companies
Mar 12 1 Start: 09:45 End: 13:00
This Masterclass shows how PR can be used to maximum effect for high growth Technology companies. We start by setting PR in its proper context (by looking at the wider function of Marketing), then show how Companies can maximise their use of PR by gaining a deeper understanding of the needs of the various parties that form the PR ecosystem ...
Delegates get the chance to hone their skills (or learn new ones) by drafting a Press Release; these are then critiqued and evaluated in an interactive session that highlights best practice and provides many useful hints and tips ...
Agenda ...
Marketing in Technology/Product Companies
Strategic Marketing
Marketing in Technology versus Consumer Focussed Companies
Best Practice Product Companies
PR within the Marketing Mix
The PR ecosystem
Understanding everyone's needs
The core components of a PR programme
Cost - Benefit analysis
Interactive Session - writing a Press Release
Evaluation and critique
Summary and Conclusions
Q and A
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT
EMAIL guy@integriscomms.co.uk for more information
The course is hosted by Integris Communications who have over 30 years' experience in technology marketing and implementing global PR campaigns in association with Hillington Park Innovation Centre.
Integris Communications have worked with a wide variety of companies from internet start-ups to technology multinationals.
Follow us on Twitter@integris_comms
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CEO MASTER CLASS WITH GERRY DOCHERTY
Mar 12 7 Start: 13:00 End: 16:00
Wednesday 7 March 2012, 1pm - 4pm
Hillington Park Innovation Centre
Raising Your Company Presence:
Getting the Right Message to the Right Person
So much of your sales and marketing activity is wasted.In the age of digital communications and social media, you can spray your message farther and wider than ever before.
It's cheap, it may be comforting, but much of it is useless.
Getting your message to the person who'll buy your product or service remains the priority - everything else is noise.
You need to focus - but how?
In this interactive workshop, Gerry Docherty will provide you with proven techniques that get your message to the right person. We'll explore:
- How to characterise customers, and tailor messages that appeal to different needs within that customer base
- How to utilise committees, associations, technical press and industry commentators
- How to make the most of exhibitions and conferences
- How to exercise your existing networks to get personal access to key decision-makers
Attendees are asked to bring your laptop/tablet/smartphone with you.
Places for this event are being fully sponsored by Informatics Ventures, in association with Innovation Centres Scotland.
Spaces are limited to facilitate the interactive nature of this event, so don't delay.
Please contact Danny Helson at DHelson@ed.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
About our speaker - Gerry Docherty
Gerry Docherty has worked in the ICT industry for 35 years. He was the founding Managing Director of Real Time Engineering, which became one of Scotland's largest and most successful indigenous ICT organisations.
He is a past Chair of ScotlandIS, was Chair of the Scottish ICT Industry Advisory Group, and is now a member of SE's Technology Advisory Group. In recent years, he has been a non-exec director and adviser to numerous early-stage Scottish technology companies.
He is currently non-executive Chairman of New Media Partners, a strategic consultancy in the creative industries arena. He is also a non-exec director of Maestro Sports UK, providing software products for the management of high-performance sports academies. He is a member of the Par Equity syndicate, investing in young companies in the ICT and sustainable technologies arenas. He is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the School of Informatics at University of Edinburgh. Since late 2008, he has been the Chair of the Advisory Group for Common Purpose in Glasgow.
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The Business Model Canvas has Landed!
Mar 12 14 Start: 10:00 End: 13:00
A different kind of business world calls for a different kind of approach. Join the Business Model Revolution where 'Entrepreneurial Thought and Action' is helping to drive out sustainable business growth and create real social and economic value. Our ecosystem is changing, so let's embrace this worldwide change and together we can lead the way!
Join us for an exciting opportunity to: describe, discuss, challenge, improve, innovate, redesign your business model with the Business Model Canvas (BMC); a simple, highly visual and easy-to-use method of mapping, designing and inventing new business models - all on one page!
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT PLEASE CLICK HERE
Target audience:
- Entrepreneurs
- Business Owner/Managers with DESIRE for high growth
- We would really welcome a mixture of; SME's & Corporates, Investors, Professional Services, Banks and public & 3rd sector organisations. This is not a sector specific workshop.
The workshop will challenge your mind, challenge your approach and challenge your business model! Real opportunities exist on your doorstep, so allow Rothko Business Growth and Hillington Park Innovation Centre to help you identify these opportunities and determine how to reach them. The workshop includes:
- Introduction to the Business Model Canvas (#BMGEN), which is now a globally adopted methodology for visualising and analysing Business Models.
- Shifting your perspective - let's appreciate the subtle difference of true Customer Centric Thinking and the Customer Development Journey (#CustDev).
- Networking Lunch to put your learning into action!
With a staggering 450 new jobs created over the last twelve years and around 200 companies supported, Hillington Park Innovation Centre (HPIC) is proud of its success. Support provided at the Incubation Centre has been a major factor in the survival rate of companies with 85% surviving after 5 years almost twice the national average, making HPIC an excellent location for any young, innovative, ambitious company to get their business off the ground.
Rothko is a leading entrepreneurial leadership and strategy consultancy, helping aspirational businesses and organisations achieve sustainable growth. They bring foresight and knowledge, deep strategic expertise and a practical approach to build capabilities and deliver real results.
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New Routes to Revenue – The Power of Business Model Innovation
Mar 12 19 Start: 09:30 End: 14:30
Every business has a business model - it describes the way you create value and deliver that value to your customers in order to generate revenue. By learning how to adapt and update your business model, you could identify entirely new markets, develop new routes to market and create fresh revenue streams without having to change your existing product or service.
New Routes to Revenue - The Power of Business Model Innovation is open to all businesses in Scotland.
The event will introduce an incredibly practical methodology that allows you to understand, describe and develop your current business model; design new business models; and compare and contrast with other models in your sector. You will also hear from leading business model experts and practitioners with the best-practice experience and knowledge to help you quickly learn about the benefits of business model innovation.
Click here to register for this event
Timings
Speakers and Themes
09:30 - 10:00
Registration & Exhibition
10:00 - 10:10
Welcome and Introduction by Host, Kaye Adams
10:10 - 10:55
Headline Speaker - Colin Burns, former Director, IDEO
10:55 - 11:05
Alexander Osterwalder, Author "Business Model Generation" - video message
11:05 - 11:30
Tea/Coffee & Exhibition
11:30 - 12:10
Speaker - Tim Latham, Unconsultancy
12:10 - 12:30
Speaker - Iain Hepburn (Case Study)
12:30 - 12:50
Q&A with Speakers and Host
12:50 - 13:00
Closing Remarks by Scottish Enterprise and Host
13:00 - 13:30
Lunch, Exhibition & Networking
13:30 - 14:30
Speaker Workshops
14:30
Event Ends
Colin Burns is a designer, consultant, entrepreneur and educator. He is currently ‘Director of Stuff' at Elmwood, the world's most effective brand design consultancy. He is an expert in the application of user-centred design methods for corporates, SMEs and start-ups, in both public and private sectors. He helps his clients make the most of their creative resources - building new business or social value. Colin spent 15 years at IDEO - the international design consultancy, famous for its user-centred, interdisciplinary approach.
Tim Latham spends his working life helping businesses to redesign themselves so they can be more successful. Tim started two businesses, one of which was successful and the other wasn't. The one that wasn't successful won various awards, had a fair amount of press attention and many people saying "what a great idea". So what was wrong? His search for a more scientific approach to understanding startup businesses eventually led him to Steve Blank's customer development process thinking and Alexander Osterwalder's business model canvas. Tim believes these two methodologies are the most significant advances in designing new businesses for decades.
Alexander Osterwalder is a sought-after author, speaker, workshop facilitator and adviser on the topic of business model design and innovation. He has established himself as a global thought leader in this area, based on a systematic and practical methodology to achieve business model innovation. Executives and entrepreneurs all over the world apply Dr. Osterwalder's approach to strengthen their business model and achieve a competitive advantage through business model innovation.
Iain Hepburn is a media commentator, columnist and director of brand journalism. A 16-year veteran of the news industry, he has spent more than a decade working in digital media - and was named Scotland's first multimedia journalist of the year at the 2009 Scottish Press Awards. He has worked with, and developed digital, multimedia and social news strategies for among others Trinity Mirror, Whyte and Mackay, STV, Guardian Media Group and Musa Aberdeen. He currently writes a weekly column for the Drum looking at digital journalism and media issues in Scotland.
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Business Model awareness session
Mar 12 19 Start: 10:00 End: 14:30
Every business has a business model - it describes the way you create value and deliver that value to your customers in order to generate revenue.
By learning how to adapt and update your business model, you could identify entirely new markets, develop new routes to market and create fresh revenue streams without having to change your existing product or service.
Scottish Enterprise’s new programme of business model innovation support aims to help companies understand the benefits of changing their current business model or even adopting new models.
The launch event "New Routes to Revenue – The Power of Business Model Innovation" will take place on Monday, 19th March at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh from 10.00-14.30. The cost is £25 (plus VAT) per delegate.
Delegates will hear from leading business model experts and practitioners with the best-practice experience and knowledge to help you quickly learn about the benefits of business model innovation. The event will also introduce practical methodology that allows you to understand, describe and develop your current business model; design new business models; and compare and contrast with other models in your sector.
You will have the opportunity to sign up for more personalised follow-on Business Model Innovation Workshops in your area. Event places will be filled quickly so for further information including how to book, please visit our website.
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Knowledge Transfer through Partnership Annual Conference
Mar 12 20 Start: 10:00 End: 17:00
HealthTech and Medicines KTN are proud to announce the third Knowledge Transfer through Partnership Annual Conference. The conference is being held jointly with the University of Strathclyde,University of Glasgow and the British Heart Foundation. The conference will be followed by a networking reception at the British Heart Foundation which will be an excellent opportunity to meet with the team and discover more about the KTN.
To find out more please click here
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Digital 2012....Monetising Opportunities
Mar 12 29 Start: 18:00 End: 17:30
2 day conference!
18:00 - 21:00 29th March
09:00 - 17:30 30th March
SECC, Glasgow
Digital 2012 is Scotland’s leading conference for the digital, creative and cultural sectors, created by Interactive Scotland, a Scottish Enterprise initiative, in partnership with AmbITion Scotland. The conference is a mixture of workshops, keynote speeches and lots of opportunity to collaborate with individuals from across the digital, creative and cultural sectors.
Digital 2012 boasts an excellent line-up of world-class speakers and an excellent platform for meeting interesting people and sharing ideas. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Microsoft, Paul Gillooly, BSkyB, Marc Sands, Tate, Jean-Philippe Randisi, ITV, Simon Walker, Barnes and Noble and Kevin Bradshaw, Zendit.
The theme for Digital 2012 is Monetising Opportunities. As the global economy suffers, we all need to consider how to build a sustainable business with robust strategies to generate revenue from multiple streams. Making connections across sectors is a key method of building a sustainable business and Digital 2012 will provide a range of opportunities for you to meet new contacts from across Scotland and find ways to collaborate.
BOOK your ticket now to Digital 2012 to ensure you leave with:
• an address book full of contacts of potential collaborators
• an understanding of where the monetisation and growth opportunities lie for your business or project; and
• an insight into the future predictions for the global digital, creative and cultural sectors.Plus
Join us the night before for an evening of networking and light entertainment. Relax, have a drink and meet lots of interesting people from across the digital and creative sectors. Hear about the opportunities to compete for investment to fund your collaborative digital idea. Speakers from the main conference and workshops will be in attendance to share their thoughts and experience of how to monetise opportunities.
You also have the opportunity to showcase your products or services from as little as £100 in our Exhibitor Zone which will run throughout the main Digital 2012 conference. There are only 3 exhibitor spaces left at this conference so contact debbie.mccutcheon@innovationcentre.org to secure you place now!
To find out more and book your ticket go to www.digitalconnections.org.uk
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Alba Masterclass - Leadership
Apr 12 18 Start: 09:30 End: 13:30
Many businesses have told us that leadership is the most difficult role someone can undertake. To combat this Alba Innovation are running an interactive masterclass designed to offer you the opportunity to reflect on the leadership challenges in your own business though case studies and open debate.
The major challenge is that not all business people are leaders, and very few are born leaders. But creating a vision for your business is still possible!
If you are an established business, undergoing rapid growth this masterclass sets out the role of the leader in the growing business and highlights how the role changes as the business evolves. From attending this masterclass you will have an understanding of:
How to make the leap from manager to leader
What the future of leadership means for your business
Understand your leadership style & how to make it work for your business
Delivered on our behalf by Leadership Factory - our speaker Dr. Andy Kelly (BA Hons, MBA, M Res, Ph.D) is an organisational development consultant with experience of designing and delivering leadership programmes.
Tweet us @Albainnovation and use the hashtag #albamasterclass
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Social Media Masterclass for Business
May 12 25 Start: 09:30 End: 17:00
Following on from another highly successful masterclass series run earlier this year, in associations with the Hillington Park Innovation Centre, NSDesign is delighted to announce a new date for their "Embrace the Space" 1 Day Social Media Masterclass Workshop.
Hillington Park Innovation Centre
Friday 25th May 2012
9.30am – 5.00pm Includes lunch and refreshmentsLed by NSDesign's ever enthusiastic Gary Ennis, the workshop also features the expert talents of TV and Radio presenter Colin Kelly, giving attendees the expert information and guidance to ensure the right Social Media route for their businesses.
More Information and Booking Details: http://www.nsdesign.co.uk/social_media/training
Book before 11th May for Early Bird Discount
50% Grant Funding Available -
Investment Masterclass – Getting your Business Investor Ready
Jun 12 14 Start: 09:30 End: 16:00
Funding the growth of an early stage business is an increasing complex and challenging task. Most businesses fail at the first hurdle – getting past the investment companies gatekeeper!
This investment masterclass will provide practical help to companies seeking first round investment and will tackle the challenges along the way. BOOK YOUR PLACE AT THIS EVENT to receive practical advice and support from a range of leading investment professionals who will look at a range of investor ready areas such as corporate finance, investment funds, exit strategy, company valuation, business planning, legals and Intellectual Property (IP) protection.
You will leave this masterclass with the knowledge and a range of contacts to help you build a compelling investment proposal. Please note, there will be some practical interactive sessions as part of this investment masterclass.
This event is being run in partnership with MEPC and is open to all companies on the Hillington Industrial Estate.
The cost to attend this event is £30.00. A discounted rate of £20.00 is available for clients/tenants of HPIC, AIC, the Atrium, Interactive Scotland, Wellness and Health Innovation and members of Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire Chambers of Commerce. Please select the 'members only' ticket to access this discount.
