THERE’S still time to register for the Echo-backed South Coast Business Works and to take an exhibitor stand at the event.
To date more than 20 companies and organisations have taken stands at the event, to be held at Novotel Southampton, on Wednesday, February 1.
They are Amplify PR, Answers Investigations, Basepoint Centre, Berry Recruitment, BH1 Promotions, Box It, 12 College Place, Eight Wealth, Eric Robinson, Five Bars Mobile, Halo Conferences, Hendy Group, Hilton at the Ageas, Innovate Websites, Lucketts Travel, Spectrum Workplace, Southanpton Solent University, University of Portsmouth, University of Southampton, and Zest Consultancy Ltd.
There are three keynote speakers at the event who can offer a special insight into the way the area will be developing in the future.
They are Brad Roynon from Go! Southampton, Dave Lees, managing director of Southampton Airport, and Andy Collyer manager of Westquay shopping centre.
Brad has worked in the NHS and in local government, having been chief executive of three local authorities, including Southampton City Council, over a period of 22 years. Over this time the importance of working with business to support economic growth has been of increasing significance. The title of his talk will be ‘Business growth through Business Improvement Districts’.
The title of Dave Lees’s presentation will be ‘Southampton Airport – serving the South’ and Andy Collyer’s is ‘Westquay Watermark: Creating a new leisure destination for Southampton’.
During the afternoon there will be a question time session with a specially selected panel.
They are Mike Warren, managing director of the Harbour Hotels Group, Derek Headrige, campus principal of Totton College, Simon Rhodes, senior partner at law firm Trethowans, Catherine Turness, executive director of Winchester Business Improvement District (BID); and Nella Pang, chair of the Southampton Property Association.
The session will be chaired by Lee Peck, of Southampton-based PR company Lee Peck Media, whose career spans more than 30 years as a journalist, broadcaster, PR professional, management consultant and motivational speaker.
Business Works will take place at Novotel Southampton, on Wednesday, February 1 from 10am – 4pm.
Trethowans Solicitors are back on board for the fifth year as principal sponsors alongside event partners Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and Destination Southampton.
The three keynote speakers will be Brad Roynon from Go! Southampton the organisation which is setting up the city’s new Business Improvement District, Dave Lees, managing director of Southampton Airport, and Andy Collyer manager of the newly-extended Westquay shopping centre – all of whom have some fascinating insights about the future of the region’s economy.
For exhibitor package details call call 023 8042 4872 or email businessworks@dailyecho.co.uk to find out more.
Visitors to the exhibition can register for free at dailyecho.co.uk/businessworks.
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