At Tech Entrepreneurs Week we are committed to helping entrepreneurs develop their skills in their respective technology market, and to helping position them to be successful in creating the right start-up, getting funding, avoiding entrepreneurship pitfalls, and marketing their products and services. We recommend that our entrepreneurs to attend all of the seminars below as the combined insight will prove to be invaluable during the entrepreneurs journey to build a great start-up.
How the seminars work:
- All seminars are FREE and available for everyone to attend, just register at the Seminars desk
- 2 seminars will run each day for the first 4 days
- Each session will run 1hr 30mins (includes 30mins Q&A)
- Seminars will be led by successful practitioners in the subject field, delivered in a practical execution-based format.
The Seminars
Seminar 1
Speaker: Nigel Grierson
Date: Monday 5th December
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Subject (1): Jumpstart your business plan into a winning VC presentation
Presentation Synopsis
This session focuses on sharing and understanding the key information that VC's need to evaluate your business. Apart from understanding the messages and key metrics, this presentation helps the entrepreneur structure their business information into a three-stage format, enabling the entrepreneur to build the critical opening meeting presentation, and understand the right follow-up information needed for early due diligence, and take a future view of the remaining important information and activities that will be required to gain successful funding.
Seminar 2
Speaker: Alan Gleeson
Date: Monday 5th December
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm
Subject (2): Become an expert in picking the right financing path for your start-up.
Presentation Synopsis
This presentation deals with identifying the varied sources of funding, and applies an approach to quickly identify the stage in which the entrepreneur should consider each source, and explores the each method's pro's and con's, including delving into the financial model and the data needed to succeed in the funding path you choose. With every start-up, through its early chronology, from idea through the formative years, almost certainly each entrepreneur will need to explore a number of sources of funding from angel/VC seed to series A funding to name a few. This presentation opens the door to all sources of funding know how.
Seminar 3
Speaker: Tom Evennett
Date: Tuesday 6th December
Time: 10:30am-12:00
Subject (3): Why you should start-up fast, and measure as you go…
Presentation Synopsis
This compelling presentation follows the philosophy GETTING STARTED quickly. Gain insight into critical but succinct speedy planning, and discover the core emphasis and techniques of executing quickly. Find out how to deliver what you are thinking as soon as possible with proven guidelines, and implement the right business measures so that you review dynamically your success and make the appropriate course corrections along the way. Be one of the successful entrepreneurs to master this approach and build the right team that will embrace this approach so you can begin your accelerated execution.
Seminar 4
Speaker: Alison Berryman
Date: Tuesday 6th
Time: 2:30pm-4pm
Subject (4): Understand how to Protect your Idea in an Ever Changing World
Presentation Synopsis
Intellectual Property is the key to many technology companies and entrepreneurs, you need to learn want you can do to protect your idea. The difference between all the forms of IP protection. How, When and Why you need to secure your idea? Also, we will be covering the often raised question of Non-Disclosure Agreements, because you do need to tell people about your Idea!
Seminar 5
Speaker: Tim Berg
Date: Wednesday 7th December
Time: 10:30am – 12:00
Subject (5): Discover the creative, yet effective ways to build, incentivise and motivate your early team…
Presentation Synopsis
In start-ups, traditional methods early on of paying staff a basic salary are not often available. Normally there is the product founder or someone with an idea of creating that next great tech business, after the inception, this presentation assesses the different resource start points, and evaluates the different team formations that prove to create success, and opens up ways to incentivising and motivating your team from - cause-based activity, crowd association, equity ownership, incremental performance, flexible project-based internships to other methods. This presentation widens the perspective of how you can work in different structures and identifies where to source this talent for the different methods.
Seminar 6
Speaker: Robert Daverschot
Date: Wednesday 7th December
Time: 11:00am – 1.00pm
Subject (6): Innovation and the software of organisations
Seminar 7
Speaker: Caroline Bosher
Date: Wednesday 7th December
Time: 2:30pm – 4pm
Subject (7): Learn the secrets of winning social media campaigns and implement them in your start-up.
Presentation Synopsis
Everyone has a view on social media, and many people have ideas on how to develop and implement social media campaigns. This presentation looks at why it's hard to get success out of social media, and begins to set the 'expectation' with the 'execution', by looking at the common hurdle points, and then unearths the top 5 successful and repeatable social campaigns in the market today. Dive into the secrets and implementation possibilities of scaling these campaign's for your business - without spending lots of money. Gain valuable insight into the technology platforms, the process routines, and ways of measuring your success with each campaign.
Seminar 8
Speakers: Jim Bouton & Paul Alexandrou
Date: Thursday 8th December
Time: 10:30am-12:00
Subject (8): The great conundrum: online vs offline marketing – get the balance right for your business.
Presentation Synopsis
This seminar focuses on helping entrepreneurs navigate their way through the online and offline marketing worlds. The rise of online marketing and its enhanced measurability makes it a viable option that competes for your offline marketing funds. Delve into the different ways to construct activities and implement blended campaigns that are created and specifically driven for the tech start-up. Discover ways to save money, source the best approaches, and set up your campaigns for success. This presentation elaborates further on the essential skills needed in each campaign, opening up creative sourcing possibilities too.
Seminar 9
Speaker: Colin White
Date: Thursday 8th December
Time: 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Subject (9): Micro Payments & the opportunities for SME’s…
Presentation Synopsis
How you tackle the vast volumes of payments online, make payments via phone seamless for customers or how to target the youth market are all critical factors when deciding upon the right payment platform. The wrong choice will see conversion rates plummet and repeat purchases vanish. Join this important seminar to learn about the options ahead for your business, the pitfalls to overcome, and the opportunities you can enjoy by executing the right payment strategy for your business. No matter what industry, whether you sell products, services or both – receiving and clearing payments is critical to the success of running your business operation.
(Dates/times of each seminar will be available with the registration materials.)
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