Venturefest South: Exploiting Every Aspect of Your Business, 17 October 2024
Venturefest South (VFS) is pleased to present this exciting series of Rumble Events to help business leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs implement strategies for growth.
The aim is simple: bring together the advice, inspiration, and thinking time you need to make 2024 your year of progress.
Whether you lead a large-scale established business looking to make its next move or you’re a scaling business developing its plans, this series will give you the chance to reflect on, refine, and sharpen your plans and processes with the support you need.
Join VFS for the third event in the series, designed to help you explore and implement strategies for growth.
VFS Rumble Business Growth Series: 3. Exploiting Every Aspect of Your Business
Topics will include identifying and exploiting new revenue streams, optimising products and services, leveraging IP and protected assets, fostering a culture of innovation, expanding into new markets, preparing for investment and acquisition opportunities, and ensuring the leadership team and organisational structure support growth.
Date: Thursday 17 October 2024
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Location:NOC Innovation Centre, Southampton
Tickets: Zero Cost Funded Tickets limited to the first 50 people then £20 thereafter
What to Expect
- Headline speaker TBC
- Panel discussion and Q&A with experts explore your questions around
- Identifying and exploiting new revenue streams and growth opportunities
- Optimising existing products, services and processes for maximum impact
- Exploiting IP and protected assets
- Developing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
- Expanding into new markets and customer segments
- Preparing the business for investment and acquisition opportunities
- Ensuring the leadership team and organisational structure can support growth
- Networking opportunities with the VFS board and regional business leaders
- Free access to support in funding, marketing, legal protections, and scaling/selling businesses
- Optional VIP tour of the NOC Innovation Centre facilities after the main event
Make 2024 your year of progress with VFS
The VFS Rumble Business Growth Series will play out between now and October. You can dip in for one event or join the full series that leads all the way up to the #VFS24: Festival of Innovation in November.
These fully funded events have limited capacity but are open to all, with attendees receiving a free pass to the Venturefest South #VFS24: Festival of Innovation.
The Series in Detail
VFS Rumble Business Growth Series: 1. Shaping Your Plans for Business Growth
Date: 18 July 2024
Location: Southampton Science Park
VFS Rumble Business Growth Series: 2. Scaling Your Capability for Growth
Date: 19 September 2024
Location: Barclays Eagle Labs/Portsmouth Technopole
VFS Rumble Business Growth Series: 3. Exploiting Every Aspect of Your Business
Date: 17 October 2024
Location: NOC Innovation Centre, Southampton
Please note, the VFS partners will be running other events throughout the year, so check out the Venturefest South Eventbrite page and our website to make sure you don’t miss any opportunities. To sign up for updates please visit the Venturefest South website.
What is Venturefest South and why do they want to help?
VFS stimulates the South’s innovation ecosystem by working with key partners and influencers to fund and deliver a year-round programme of Rumble events and an annual Festival of Innovation that are designed to support our region’s businesses and to showcase the South’s talent, innovative companies, and research capabilities through bringing together innovators, entrepreneurs, and funders.
In its 8th year, our not-for-profit and all-for-growth mentality has positively impacted thousands of businesses and individuals.
Objectives are to:
- Build the reputation of the Venturefest South region as a great place to innovate and scale
- Signpost resources, information, partners, sponsors, and ideas that growing companies need most
- Develop a vibrant ecosystem of investable opportunities and drive growth
- Offer entrepreneurs an inspirational platform to develop from
- Help established businesses explore better ways to scale and sell
- Give primes or anchor organisations a way to engage with SMEs and the innovation supply chain
- Provide early-stage businesses zero-cost opportunities to share their ideas and innovations and develop
- Deliver value to our core audience by bringing them together in interesting ways.
To register for the third event in the VFS Rumble Business Growth Series, ‘Scaling Your Business for Growth’ please visit the Eventbrite page.