Spring Programme

All Events start at 5.30 at the BSMS (pictured right)

• 12th Feb - Joanna Yarrow from Beyond Green
  'The Green Dream: Turning the Good Life into Good Business'
  Joanna Yarrow is one of Britain's leading experts in green living.  She presented BBC3's Outrageous Wasters, is currently GMTV's Green Expert, and regularly appears on a range of news and current affairs programmes discussing environmental issues.
  
• 19th Feb - Emma Jones Founder of Enterprise Nation
  'Spare Room Start Up: How to Start and Sell and Business from Your Spare Room'
  (Told by someone who has!)
  After 5 years of working for the world's largest accountancy firm Emma Jones decided she wanted to be her own boss and at 27 years old started up her own business called Techlocate.  2 years later she sold the business to a quoted company then cam up with the idea for Enterprise Nation, a website for the millions of people who are starting up and growing their businesses from home.  Emma researched the home business market for 2 years then in January 2006 launched her home business website at www.enterprisenation.com.
  
• 26th Feb - Enterprising Engineers
  A panel of speakers chaired by Inuda Innovations and arranged in conjunction with the IET
  A panel of speakers chaired by Jonathan Markwell of Inuda Innovations. The panel will include Jool Heller-Dixon co-founder of www.c-innovate.com the group's origins were in a multi-disciplinary research team in the school of Cognitive and Computing Science at the University of Sussex. Also on the panel is Sophie Major. Sophie heads up the developer network for Yahoo! for everywhere outside of the USA and recently returned from a trip to work with the software development community in India. More info at www.ydn.yahoo.com
  
• 5th March - Tony and Judie Ellis co-founders of Conceptioneering
  'Toy Story: Bringing Inventions to Life'
  Conceptioneering is a unique product design and invention house.  Their primary goal is to conceive, develop and license innovative concepts and technology.  Conceptioneering is now highly regarded for it's creative excellence and the value of it's intellectual property.  Conceptioneering's client list includes some of the leading toy and game manufacturers such as Mattel, Tomy, Ragdoll, Ravensburger and Radica.