Business Resilience & Recovery
The Big Networking Breakfast
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Why not start your day at Business Vision LIVE making new contacts over a delicious cooked breakfast, whilst gaining inspiration from leading business right across Kent.
Tickets cost just £25 + VAT, including full cooked breakfast. Click here to book your place.
To kick off the day at the Big Networking Breakfast we will be looking at valuable insight and lessons for the future resilience of our economy, as over 120 business owners, managers and leaders from across Kent and the South East come together to hear from Kent’s biggest business supporters. Showcasing key learnings and strategies from the Kent business community this inspirational start to the day will see the proven business leaders offer an insight into the practical reality of their business journeys. The audience will hear practical advice on how to make their business fit for future; business opportunities that will arise over the next 15 years; commercial developments growing across Medway; what new industries are being targeted to increase innovation and productivity in Medway.
Agenda:
| 7.00am | Arrival, Networking & Buffet Breakfast served |
| 7.55am | Welcome & introductions from Tudor Price, Deputy CEO, Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce |
| 8.00am |
"Kent County Council – Supporting Business in Kent and Grasping Opportunities post Pandemic" Derek Murphy, Cabinet Member, Economic Development, Kent County Council |
| 8.10am |
"Growth and Development in Ashford: Stepping up a gear” Tracey Kerly, Chief Executive, Ashford Borough Council
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| 8.25am |
"Business in Medway: Recovery and Regeneration to 2037" Sunny Ee, Assistant Director - Regeneration, Medway Council Medway's renewed 15 year regeneration strategy to 2037 sets out the regeneration aims and objectives for Medway looking past the changes caused by and accelerated by Covid-19 and a more ambitious need for greener energy. The session will explain how the Council will lead on increasing high value businesses, supporting innovation and business growth. Focusing on expanding high quality employment by providing or facilitating the right infrastructure and accommodation for business. Improving employability matching business demand with a supply of skills. A special guest speaker will give an update on one of the new innovative sectors establishing itself in Medway. |
| 8.40am |
"Lockdown Lessons in Business Support" Tudor Price, Deputy CEO, Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce Kent Invicta Chamber, through its KCC funded Growth Hub contract, supported more than 18,000 businesses in Kent & Medway during our economy's most turbulent period in recent history. We will share with you the things we learnt about how resilient or not, Kent businesses were, and what needs to be addressed going forward. Throughout 2020/21, the Chamber's team provided support, and succour to more than 18,000 businesses across Kent & Medway. Working alongside KCC and the Local Authorities, our Team of Advisers engaged with business owners and managers as they battled with impact of Covid lockdown. Some calls were
emotionally harrowing whereas others were inspirational but all of them
provided valuable insight and lessons for the future resilience of our economy.
During this short session we will impart the lessons we learnt and hope to make
your business fit for the future. |
| 8.55am | Thank you & closing comments from Tudor Price, Deputy CEO, Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce |
