{"id":79589,"date":"2017-03-09T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c08a05ef579a77d75478c0f9c14da5fd"},"modified":"2017-03-09T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:47:00","slug":"news-story-venturefest-east-midlands-business-growth-and-innovation-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79589","title":{"rendered":"News story: Venturefest East Midlands: business growth and innovation support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.venturefestem.com\/\">Venturefest East Midlands<\/a> will invite businesses and investors to come together next month to network and share expertise. The event &#8211; supported by Innovate UK &#8211; is being held on Wednesday 22 March 2017 at Derby Arena, Derby. Entry is free.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"smart-innovation\">Smart innovation<\/h2>\n<p>The event theme is smart innovation. The aim is to help businesses unlock opportunities to engage in innovation. There will be a focus on how businesses can use technology to improve their processes and become more cost efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will range from those who want to get or provide finance, and win or contract for new business.<\/p>\n<p>Key speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Janie Morgan-Wood, founder and CEO of the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/app.hiive.co.uk\/companies\/leicester-fashion-textiles-academy\/2691\/#\/\">Leicester Fashion &amp; Textiles Academy<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dr Mirren Mandalia, Senior Director New Ventures &amp; Transaction, Medical Devices, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jnjinnovation.com\/\">Johnson and Johnson Innovation<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Clifton, Sustainability Manager \u2013 Engineering and Design, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/\">Rolls-Royce<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mike Biddle, Deputy Director for Innovation Programmes, Innovate UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delegates will be able to meet other local businesses and discover how they\u2019ve improved their business through innovation and design.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.venturefestem.com\/\">Visit the Venturefest East Midlands website for more information and to book your place.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"about-the-venturefest-network\">About the Venturefest Network<\/h2>\n<p>Innovate UK and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ktn-uk.co.uk\/\">Knowledge Transfer Network<\/a> launched the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/venturefestnetwork.com\/\">Venturefest Network<\/a> in 2014. Its aim is to strengthen connectivity between innovators, investors and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re an entrepreneur or innovator you could benefit from a networking event to help grow your business through smart use of technology.<\/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\/79589"}],"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=79589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79602,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79589\/revisions\/79602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}