{"id":71328,"date":"2016-06-10T08:42:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=28115845ecdd4963501a330bd6059a2f"},"modified":"2016-06-10T08:42:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:42:33","slug":"news-story-venturefest-west-midlands-event-joins-business-and-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71328","title":{"rendered":"News story: Venturefest West Midlands: event joins business and investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>More than 800 innovators, entrepreneurs and investors are expected to gather at Birmingham\u2019s NEC this month for the Venturefest West Midlands event.<\/p>\n<p>Venturefest West Midlands, which takes place on 23 June 2016, is a free one-day event sponsored by Innovate UK and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktn-uk.co.uk\/\">Knowledge Transfer Network<\/a> that will showcase innovation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>An independent evaluation of last year\u2019s event by the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) found that it led to a financial return of \u00a31.44 million and the development of 1,410 new connections between innovators, entrepreneurs, inventors and innovation support.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote address at this year\u2019s event will be given by Dr Zoe Webster, head of high value manufacturing at Innovate UK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.venturefestwm.co.uk\/#!programme\/c690\">View the programme for Venturefest West Midlands<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"sessions-focus-on-innovation-and-investment\">Sessions focus on innovation and investment<\/h2>\n<p>The day\u2019s events will feature a number of sessions on innovation and investment in the region including on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>supply chain innovation<\/li>\n<li>business gateways to universities<\/li>\n<li>the Enterprise Research Centre<\/li>\n<li>developing super sensors of the future<\/li>\n<li>the entrepreneur\u2019s journey<\/li>\n<li>intellectual property<\/li>\n<li>low carbon innovation<\/li>\n<li>accessing early-stage and growth investment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A key element of Venturefest West Midlands is Pitchfest, at which a group of selected businesses will have an opportunity to pitch for support to investors and industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Venturefest West Midlands is one of a series of Venturefest events supported by Innovate UK that take place across the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.venturefestwm.co.uk\/#!registration\/c1lhs\">Register for Venturefest West Midlands<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venturefest West Midlands will see hundreds of innovators, entrepreneurs and investors join to promote UK business innovation and growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}