The Hartlepool Innovation for Profit Workshop

Do you want to generate profitable new business ideas?

This free, easy to understand workshop will give you some simple approaches to generating profitable new business ideas. This session will:

• Help you generate ideas that are natural extensions of your business and therefore be easier and quicker to develop – rapidly increasing your profits

• Give you advice on how to access funding to develop your new business ideas

• Provide coaching on how to generate ideas continuously, making your company “future proof” and able to cope with new and unexpected developments

• Improve your problem solving skills to minimise risk and maximise your opportunities

• Rekindle your enthusiasm and entrepreneurial flair to break the glass ceiling and shatter the mind sets holding your company back

‘The Hartlepool Innovation for Profit’ Workshop - Thursday 9th March 2017

Location: Hartlepool College of FE, Hartlepool

17:00 Registration and Light Refreshments

17:30 Welcome to Hartlepool and ‘Innovation for Profit’

17:35 ‘Innovate Tees Valley Programme’ - Suhail Aslam, Teesside University

17:45 Introduction to the ‘Innovation for Profit’ Programme - John O’Connor, Excalibur

18:30 Break

18.45 A Case Study - An Interactive Session- Pete Lodge, Excalibur

19.25 ‘Funding Innovation in your Business’- Mike Cratchley, BE Group

19:40 Questions and Next Steps – John O’Connor, Excalibur

20:00 Networking