
	5th June, Birmingham
	Lakeside Centre, Aston University

		Keynote: Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones The Black Farmer

		Local entrepreneur: Nigel Botterill CEO, Texperts

Business networking event in Birmingham

Don’t miss the startupslive Birmingham business event.

Interact with our guest entrepreneurs and advisers during the lively panel debate. And meet, mingle, have a drink and enjoy networking with 120 like-minded business start-ups. Join us for a truly inspirational evening.

Speaking in Birmingham are:

		Keynote: Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones The Black Farmer

		Hear how the ambitious Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones talked his way into the BBC and bought us the many celebrity chefs on TV today including Gordon Ramsay, and James Martin. In addition, find out how he went on to launch one of the UK’s most successful food brands in recent times with his own range of meat products under The Black Farmer® label.

		Local entrepreneur: Nigel Botterill Managing director, thebestof.co.uk

		Discover how Nigel, masterminded the set up of www.thebestof.co.uk, a national network of local community websites run by local people and how this has become the fastest growing franchise ever in the UK. Not only has Nigel made a success of thebestof, he is also the man behind MyMag, Raring2go! and My Little Wrapper.

		Chairperson: David Lester Founder, startups.co.uk

		David Lester is a serial entrepreneur as well as the founder of startups.co.uk. David’s varied history includes him starting his first business aged 22 and selling it for millions before he was 30, taking over three loss-making businesses and making them all profitable within 6 months as well as more recently becoming an author and co-authoring the best-selling How They Started

The Inspirational Programme


	6.30pm	Event registration opens



	6.30 - 7.15pm	Networking
		Your chance to network with 120 business start-ups and make new contacts



	7.15 - 7.20pm	Welcome from startups.co.uk



	7.20 - 7.40pm	Local entrepreneur, Nigel Botterill is interviewed by David Lester



	7.40 - 8.10pm	Business service debate – find out about relevant business services available from Barclays, BT and Microsoft



	8.10 - 8.40pm	Keynote: Wilfred Emmanual-Jones



	8.40 - 9.00pm	Question and answer session – your chance to question the entrepreneurs and advisers on the panel



	9.00 - 9.30pm	Networking and prize draws – complete your evaluation form and you could win one of three fantastic prizes >



	9.30pm	Close