Just under a week left to submit Business Festival events

Businesses wishing to run events in the Coventry & Warwickshire Business Festival have until Friday 22nd September to submit their applications.

The first Coventry and Warwickshire Business Festival – developed by the Coventry & Warwickshire Growth Hub and the Coventry & Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), will run from 20th November to 1st December 2017.

It will be the largest Business Festival to take place in Coventry and Warwickshire with and expected 75 individual seminars, lectures, workshops and conferences. Attendance is anticipated to top 7,000 people with 15 per cent of these being drawn into the area by the exciting and stimulating events on offer.

During the fortnight events are put on right across the region, run by business and for business.

Businesses of any size can apply to run an event. Applying is a simple online process via the Coventry & Warwickshire Business Festival website www.cwbusinessfestival.com. Once events have been accepted, they are posted onto the Business Festival website for people to book tickets.

Business Festival events can take any shape from an online webinar or small workshop to a large trade show or national conference. All events should benefit local businesses, showcase what the region has to offer or be topical or of national significance. Examples could include how to source new supply chains, exporting and selling to foreign markets, or improving staff retention; through to accessing university research; maximising low carbon technologies or perhaps how recent political events might affect SMEs.

There are eight key sectors in the Business Festival, chosen for their growth potential or significance outlined by the Coventry & Warwickshire LEP: Automotive & Advanced Manufacturing; Construction; Creative, Digital, Culture and Tourism; Education; Games Development & Serious Gaming; Healthcare; Logistics; Professional & Financial Services.  Applications are welcome in all sectors.

For more information, to submit an event application, or book tickets, visit www.cwbusinessfestival.com or contact hello@cwbusinessfestival.com.