{"id":74143,"date":"2016-09-14T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=18970facacdfa7791792d18d499bd959"},"modified":"2016-09-14T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T11:00:01","slug":"news-story-venturefest-wales-breaking-barriers-to-business-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74143","title":{"rendered":"News story: Venturefest Wales: breaking barriers to business growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Investors, entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers will gather for a free event to showcase innovation in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Venturefest Wales takes place at the SSE Swalec Stadium, Cardiff, on 28 September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Among the speakers are Ken Skates, Welsh Government Cabinet Member for Economy and Infrastructure, and Richard Noble, entrepreneur, one-time holder of the world land speed record and project director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle that holds the current land speed record.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event aims to address the barriers faced when starting, scaling or growing a business and how working with others can help a business.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates will have the opportunity to hear inspirational speakers, take part in workshops, tap into expertise,   chat informally, develop partnerships and visit an interactive exhibition and start-up village.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote sessions will include a talk by Interim Director of Emerging and Enabling Technologies at Innovate UK, Paul Mason, on how Innovate UK is helping businesses to overcome barriers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.venturefestwales.co.uk\/timetable\/\">View the programme for Venturefest Wales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"event-features-wearable-tech-fashion-show\">Event features wearable tech fashion show<\/h2>\n<p>There will be a fashion show featuring wearable tech, a session on how Diurnal Ltd is aiming to become one of the world\u2019s leading specialty pharma companies, and a session on how to get from a start-up to a high-value business.<\/p>\n<p>Other events include panels on accessing both public and private finance, an innovation summit on how innovation is being taken forward in the public sector, and opportunities to hear  other innovators and entrepreneurs share their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Experts will be available for bookable one-to-one chats on a range of subjects from tax to innovation funding and from marketing to intellectual property.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.venturefestwales.co.uk\/registration\/\">Register your place at Venturefest Wales.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Venturefest Wales is one of a series of Venturefest events across the UK supported by Innovate UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation event aims to break barriers to starting, scaling or growing a business and highlight benefits of people working together.<\/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\/74143"}],"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=74143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}