Bath is to be promoted as a prime location for international conferences, meetings and events at one of the top exhibitions for the global events industry as its key players look beyond Covid-19 to make bookings. The annual IBTM World in Barcelona attracts a worldwide audience of conference, events and incentive travel planners. Although...
The organisers of TEDxBath have appointed Covid-19 specialist Dr Bharat Pankhania as expert advisor on event safety as they look ahead to staging the rescheduled event next spring. Bath-based Dr Pankhania, pictured, is an expert in communicable diseases and has become high-profile commentator on the successful management of the Covid-19 pandemic, including for BBC...
A long-running annual conference held in the West of England for communications professionals working in the natural history, conservation and environmental sectors takes place next month with a fully digital programme of events. Staged for the past 16 years, Communicate is hosted by the Natural History Consortium the organisation behind Bath Festival of Nature - and...
Some of the world’s brightest minds in fintech and investment are being brought together by tech-focused investment bank ICON Corporate Finance to provide a masterclass on successfully raising funds. The expert panel will provide the inside track on how to pitch for investment, whether through a bank, venture capital group or corporate venture capital...
Food and drink producers from Bath and its surroundings will have an opportunity to meet commercial trade officers working across the world tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22, at the first-ever virtual Meet the Market Expert event. It is being organised by the Department for International Trade (DIT) in conjunction with the Great British Food Programme...
Major challenges for employers ranging from managing remote staff to changing the way entire organisations work post Covid-19 will be tackled head-on in a webinar to be staged next week by Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King. Called Workforce of the Future: The New Norm, the event will give insights from practical futurist and...
Bath-headquartered national firm Stone King is offering free virtual training sessions for trustees and senior management teams of charities, including guidance on managing the impact of the coronavirus crisis. The training programme, called Essential Trustee And Governance In Practice, is designed to equip charity trustees and staff with the knowledge they need to carry...
TEDxBath has announced three more speakers for its 2020 event in October, which it promises will be its biggest yet. Organisers said the speakers would bring new and exciting idea to the stage with “incredible personal stories and audacious visions for today’s societies”. TEDxBath 2020 takes place at The Forum on October 10 –...
Bath’s investment-hungry tech start-ups can find out how to get the attention of potential funders in a webinar featuring experts from the city next week. Staged by Bristol-based tech investment bank ICON Corporate Finance in association with Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon, the free event aims to show how fledgling tech firms can...
The first speakers have been announced for this year’s TEDxBath as its organisers vow to go ahead with the event in October. International bestselling writer and renegade economist Kate Raworth, creative strategist Dan Burgess and Royal United Hospital director of intensive care Dr Andy Georgiou are to speak at what will be the third...
