Business Festival

The Chamber is well known for the strength of its networking opportunities, offering the chance for businesses across Coventry & Warwickshire to make new connections, build sustainable relationships and cement existing ones.  As part of the Coventry & Warwickshire Business Festival, we are delivering the LARGEST speed-networking event in our region to facilitate an opportunity to bring people together and do business!

Speed Networking is high energy, fast-paced and offers an unrivalled opportunity to meet many contacts in a short period of time.  

Coventry University specialises in supporting the health and wellbeing of your employees, offering training, education and information on how productivity can be maximised through improved mental health and wellbeing initiatives. This event will explore techniques on how you can implement small but effective changes to support your employees. Suitable for small to large organisations, our academic experts, will share the latest thinking and tips from their research.  

This event was born from a collaboration between Wright Hassall’s Construction Law-Bytes events and the FSB’s White Paper on Innovation. Wright Hassall will be hosting an open-market event where firms will showcase the latest technology advancements to help the construction industry streamline their operations and create...Innovation in Construction.

Cyber threats can be a serious threat to your business and may compromise property and data. Join Zenzero Solutions at our informative and practical event where we will explore the nature of cyber threats using practical, no-jargon demonstrations. We will explore various, cost-effective ways to protect your customers and ultimately your business.

Are you struggling with pricing within your Creative Business? Understand how to frame and articulate your value proposition to potential and existing customers, Overcome price objections, ensure you and your customers love your value resulting in you as a business being able to charge the fees that you want for your products or services.

Are you a Creative Business that is struggling to raise the finance it so keenly needs to grow and scale-up? Are you unsure of the different finance options out there? This workshop taster aims to give an overview of topics to help you navigate this complex landscape including Equity Finance, Debt Finance, Crowdfunding, SEIS/IES Funding, Grants and Research and Development Funding, Identifying and Managing Risk etc….so you can gain more of an understanding on whether any of these finance models could be right for your business as it looks to move into its next stage of development.

Do you run a business and are confused by Instagram? Don’t know what or how to use Instagram for business? What is a hashtag? Step into this Instagram experience and come away with hidden tips and hacks to implement straight away on your own Instagram account.

Danielle Fletcther, a Certified Social Media Marketer specialising in coaching businesses to use Instagram as a marketing tool, will guide you through this no-jargon session to help you feel uber confident.  

My interactive session will cover:

With the bourgeoning revival of an outdoor learning curriculum, how do we make places like Wolford Wood an accessible Warwickshire Centre for Well-being and Productivity? Join us at Wolford Wood and gain a sense of wonder – 150 acres (60ha.) of Warwickshire Scientific and Working Woods. See what we will be offering your business and employees throughout the next 30-years.

This event will provide an overview of the Digital Railway (what is it, what will it be, and the drivers of change). It will also detail the work done by the University of Birmingham and UKKRIN's centre for digital systems in fostering research, innovation and rail product and service development.

Finally, the event will talk about DIGI-RAIL, an ERDF funded project aimed at supporting local SMEs to access support from the university.  

We all know that change is inevitable in today’s business world. But how does your team cope when those changes occur?  Especially if those changes have a big impact?  Sharper Business helps business owners, leaders and managers to strengthen their team’s dynamic so that teams perform better on a day to day basis and are also more resilient to handle the pressure when inevitably “Stuff Happens!”

In this interactive workshop you’ll: