MADE The Entrepreneur Festival: Sheffield (Demo)

An international green building conference being staged in Sheffield for the first time is set to bring hundreds of delegates to the city – spending hundreds of thousands of pounds.

At the two-day event more than 500 people will attend a manufacturers’ dinner on June 24. And there will be a conference, with more than 1,000 delegates, and all-day exhibition with up to 120 stands – double that of last year – at the AMRC training centre on June 25.

Take stock of where your customers are today. Has anything changed in your international sales cycle for current markets? The landscape is changing all the time; are there emerging opportunities in countries you might not have considered before?

Covering a multitude of countries across several continents, the guide includes key market information, special reports and narrative from some of the worlds influential figures in export.

The UK is participating at the World Expo 2015 in Milan from 1 May to 31 October. Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life is the core theme. It aims to highlight one of the most pressing challenges of our time – how to feed and sustain an expected rise in the world’s population to 9 billion by 2050.

The centre has 34 PlayStation4 development kits for students on final year undergraduate and postgraduate courses, developing the next generation of videogame talent.

When Anne Wilson joined Numill as a book-keeper in 2000, exports accounted for less than a fifth of the tool reclamation company’s business. A management buyout and a recession later, Anne has built international trade into half the business “and that proportion is likely to rise still further”, she says.

Reporting on Britain Open for Business, a five year strategy launched in May 2011 and its progress to date.

A new whole-of-government approach to boosting British exports delivered through a transformed, UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), focused on priority markets and sectors, has been announced today (19 January 2016) by Trade Minister Lord Maude.

The University of Sheffield has awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters to the Director General of Hanban – the Office of Chinese Language Council International – and the Cheif Executive of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, in a special degree ceremony in Beijing this week.

Just ignore the fact that it’s based in Liverpool, organisers say.

The IFB, which features 240 events across the North throughout June and July, is being hailed as the biggest event in the UK since the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the biggest business bash in the world in 2014.

The Derbyshire town is being rejuvenated and turned into a tourist destination with the help of £750k of European regional development funding secured by Bolsover District Council.

Creative Sheffield, in partnership with representatives from four Canadian provinces, are hosting a free to attend lunchtime event for companies to explore opportunities for doing business with and in Canada. The event will focus on partnership opportunities in sectors where each province is at the forefront of innovation….

First ambassadors announced for International Festival for Business 2016 Prominent entrepreneurs and leaders within Britain’s business community have today pledged their support for the International Festival for Business (IFB) 2016. The unveiling of the new cohort of ambassadors for IFB2016 comes as new data shows…

Local leaders from the public and private sector have secured a £320 million cash boost for Sheffield City Region, which will create over 28,000 jobs and training for 40,000 people.  This is the fifth most substantial Growth Deal that any City Region has made with…