In December we welcome Danny Wootton, Head of Innovation for Information Systems within the MoD, an organisation that is at the forefront of innovation in the UK. In this role, Danny engages with businesses of all sizes, including early-stage start-ups, to understand how their innovative solutions can help the MoD. He works closely with the Defence & Security Accelerator to support these businesses, helping them to gain traction and accelerate the maturity of their solutions, hopefully leading to commercial opportunities. He is well qualified for this role, having founded four start-ups himself, successfully exiting two.
In the session, Danny will talk about how founders can improve their pitches to corporate and government organisations – focusing on business value and not just technology – and will share insights into the following…
- Identifying enterprise partnership opportunities
- Establishing the credibility of your business
- Delivering your pitch and communicating your unique value proposition
When & Where…
- December 11th, 2018
- 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Media Lounge, 8-10 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3NA
November 2018
Learn about new customers, new revenues, and new technologies
Join Doug Roerden, our expert on design thinking and experience design, at Wealth 2.0, now recognised as Europe’s most senior wealth and asset management gathering, featuring exclusive insights from global senior decision makers on the industry’s changing landscape. As a Wealth 2.0 Advisory Board Member, Doug will moderate two panels and two roundtable discussions and will be available for networking and conversation both days.
- Wednesday-Thursday 28-29 November 2018
- 8:30 – 17:00 both days
- Jumeirah Carlton Tower, 1 Cadogan Place, Knightsbridge, London SW1X 9PY
Cris Beswick will be doing the opening keynote at this years Innovation Land 2018 in Colombia.
At the 6th version of Innovation Land, Cris will kick off the conference with his latest keynote ‘Why Strategy, Leadership & Culture should eat breakfast together’? #InnovationLand
- 14 & 15 November 2018
- City Hall, El Rodeo, Medellín, Colombia
Reem Mobassaleh Wyndham: What Investors Look For
So you have a great business idea, maybe you have built a great product – but you need to raise capital. Proving that customers will actually buy your product will be a sure-fire route to investment… right?
Founders are understandably focused on their product and market, but this can sometimes be at the expense of concentrating on the dynamics of the founding team – a frequently overlooked and critical component of their business.
Having a great product simply isn’t enough to convince reputable investors, who often invest primarily in the people behind the business. In this interactive fireside chat, Reem Mobassaleh Wyndham, Investment Lead at Accelerated Digital Ventures, will share insights into: What drives investment decisions, The dynamics of a successful founding team and How to build a team around an idea.
- November 14, 2018
- 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Media Lounge, 8-10 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3NA
Malta Innovation Summit
Why Strategy, Leadership & Culture Should Eat Breakfast Together.
In a fast-paced and conversational keynote Cris Beswick will explore the challenges of building the holy grail of competitive advantage and even business survival; a culture of innovation and why he doesn’t think culture eats strategy for breakfast but that strategy, leadership & culture should eat breakfast together.
- 11th & 12th October 2018 (Meet Cris Beswick on the 12th October)
- Intercontinental Arena Conference Centre
Use promocode MIS99 to get 33% off your ticket from www.maltainnovationsummit.com
September 2018
NOTWICS 24
PLEASE JOIN NOTWICS for the next instalment of London’s leading EARLY STAGE PITCH EVENT for its 24th EDITION.
12 START-UPS have been selected to pitch for 5 minutes to this leading audience of Angels, VC’s and other leading figures in the UK Tech Industry.
Networking, courtesy of our hosts & sponsors, Huckletree, will take place after the pitches.
- 19th September 2018
- 4.45pm – 8pm
- Huckletree Co-working Space, The Alphabeta Building, 18 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AH
July 2018
The Future Shapers Investor Drop-in
We are delighted to announce that we’re now in ‘Public Live’ and open to the wider Crowdcube and investment community.
If you’re interested in investing in our vision; a combination of blockchain infrastructure, integrated with industry and content specific smart contracting algorithms and a frictionless yet sticky user experience and micropayment backend’ then I would encourage you to download our restricted documentation as it enables much more sector specific materials outside of the pitch template. The documents cover our proposed solution, market and forecasted revenues and our vision to deliver a disruptive business model and technology platform that will underpin and enable a truly pay-per-read model.
But, if you’re a serious investor and you’d like to see the whites of our eyes then please come and meet us at our investor drop-in session.
- Wednesday 25th July 2018
- Drop-in any time between 8am and 10am
- Eight Club Moorgate, 1 Dysart St, London EC2A 2BX. Ask for Cris Beswick at reception.
A Future Shaping Breakfast Drop-In…
The founders of The Future Shapers, Cris Beswick & Richard Copland invite you to join them at this open event, to drop-in between 8am and 10am for a coffee and an introduction to The Future Shapers and our equity crowdfunding raise to help build the worlds leading innovation thought leadership platform.
We’re developing an Ethereum Smart Contract technology to manage the digital rights & royalties of trusted experts. A global community of experts & leading thinkers providing business leaders with curated & trusted content with the aim of ‘Returning Value Back to Knowledge!’
- Wednesday 11th July 2018
- Drop-in between 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
- Eight Club Moorgate, 1 Dysart St, London EC2A 2BX.
June 2018
Returning value back to knowledge with the Blockchain
The founders of The Future Shapers, Cris Beswick & Richard Copland invite you to join them for informal drinks, networking and introduction to The Future Shapers and the launch of our crowdfunding raise to help build the worlds leading innovation thought leadership platform.
- Wednesday 13th June
- 18:00 – 20:00
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The Banker Cousin Lane London EC4R 3TE
May 2018
Investor drop-in to discuss The Future Shapers Crowdfunding Raise…
We’re developing an Ethereum Smart Contract technology to manage the digital rights & royalties of trusted experts. A global community of experts & leading thinkers providing business leaders with curated & trusted content with the aim of ‘Returning Value Back to Knowledge!’
The founders of The Future Shapers, Cris Beswick & Richard Copland are holding an investor drop-in, to meet face-to-face for informal drinks and to discuss The Future Shapers raise to help build the worlds leading innovation thought leadership platform.
- Wednesday 30th May 2018 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM
- Private Dinning Room, Eight Club Moorgate, 1 Dysart St, London EC2A 2BX.
May 2018
The Future Shapers hit Madrid
The founders of The Future Shapers, Cris Beswick & Richard Copland will be in Madrid for the Innov8rs Conference and invite you to join them for informal drinks, networking and introduction to The Future Shapers and the launch of our crowdfunding raise to help build the worlds leading innovation thought leadership platform.
Thursday May 17, 2018 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST
Greatroom (located at the main entrance of the hotel), Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel & Conference Center, Avenida de Aragon, 28022 Madrid No 400
Click here to register
November 2017
The Future Shapers hit Toronto
The founders of The Future Shapers, Cris Beswick, Simon Hill & Richard Copland will be in Toronto for the Intrapreneurship Conference and invite you to join them for an informal conversation about the challenges of driving innovation and building a culture of innovation in a VUCA world.
Thursday November 16, 2017 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Fionn MacCool’s Front Street, 310 Front Street West, Toronto
Click here to register
November 2017
Intrapreneurship Conference Toronto 15-17 November
Cris Beswick (Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker & Strategic Advisor on Innovation) and Simon Hill (CEO & Co-founder, Wazoku) will be speaking at the 2017 Intrapreneurship Conference in Toronto.
Be part of the ecosystem, share your experience with your peers and learn from one another. Remember to use the promo code IntraCnf-Beswick for 15% discount.
Hope to see you in Toronto!