Free, impartial business advice with a Genix business adviser, Whether you’re an established small business or thinking of starting a business we’re able to help with advice, information and to discuss thoughts and ideas.
Coffee Means Business – relaxed, informal business networking for all local businesses. Meet over 20 business people – no pressure, no membership fees, just great networking over coffee and biscuits. Hear from our invited guest speaker who will share their thoughts and top tips for business success. Free business card raffle.
Coffee Means Business – relaxed, informal business networking for all local businesses. Meet over 20 business people – no pressure, no membership fees just great networking over coffee and biscuits. Hear from our invited guest speaker who will share their thoughts and top tips for business success.
What:Fast-paced multiplayer & Stories of British-based Robotics Start-ups
When:Wednesday, July 6, 2016 @ 6:30pm
Where:The King’s Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH
How much:Free
RSVP:https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/231093858/
Fast-paced multiplayer: an introduction to client-side prediction and server reconciliation. Gabriel Gambetta
Creating multiplayer games is hard. One of the reasons is that networks are unreliable and laggy. In this talk we’ll discuss several techniques to give players a smooth experience even under suboptimal conditions.
Gabriel Gambetta
Gabriel was a senior software engineer at Improbable for a year because turning into its Head of Marketing for some reason. Before Improbable he had spent four years as a software engineer at Google, and nine years running Mystery Studio, a small indie dev studio, where he started researching networking techniques for multiplayer games after making yet another match-three stopped being challenging.
Transforming the Status Quo: Stories of British-based Robotics Start-ups Dominic Keen
Autonomous robots open up amazing possibilities for highly productive one-to-many modes of human-machine operation. Rather than needing to push your vacuum cleaner around the house, you’ll soon just get it started and tell it whether it has done a good job at the once it has cleaned up all the dust. These new types of autonomous machines will allow us to reclaim much lost time and will usher in new paradigm of hyper-performance that entirely transforms the status quo for both the users and creators of technology. Through telling the stories of the foremost British-based robotics start-ups, Dominic will demonstrate the breadth of robotic invention and the hope it gives us all for the future.
Dominic Keen
Dominic Keen started Britbots to helping British robotics start-ups flourish by providing access to capital and opening up new commercial opportunities. He brings a wealth of experience to rapidly growing early-stage businesses, having previously floated the software business he created on the London Stock Exchange. Dominic has been a member of the Great Britain judo team and graduated in Engineering from Cambridge University. He is a passionate advocate of the societal and economic benefits of widespread robotisation.
“I am a successful British entrepreneur. Having previously floated the software business that I founded on the London Stock Exchange, I now help exciting ventures to maximise their growth potential. My fascination with all things robotic drives an impassioned evangelism of the field.”
Coffee Means Business – relaxed, informal business networking for all Norfolk businesses.
Meet over 20 business and network over coffee and biscuits.
Our invited speakers will share their stories and top tips for business success.
Bring your business cards for the free raffle.
Norfolk County Councilinvites youto attend a consultation event on the Rural Development Strategy for Norfolk 2013-2020.
With new EU funding programmes starting in 2014, constraints on public spending and rapid changes in the rural economy and communities, the strategy will be used to focus growth programmes so they benefit rural businesses and communities whilst delivering a healthy environment. As part of the strategy development process, threeevents are planned to consult businesses, community groups and other stakeholders on the priorities for rural development and how funding programmes could be used to deliver positive change for rural areas.
Each event includes:
You will also be told how you can feed into the development of the strategy after the event.
The three events will be held on:
Each event will be structured as follows:
8.00-8.15 Arrival, coffee and light breakfast
8.15-10.30 Consultation on the Norfolk Rural Development Strategy
10.30-11.00 Coffee and networking
11.00-12.30 OPTIONAL – opportunity to stay to discuss the proposed boundaries for Local Action Groups for the 2014-2020 period with County Council staff
To reserve a place at one of the events please contact: [email protected] confirming which event you would like to attend.
You will be sent a copy of the draft strategy and questions to be discussed in advance of the event to allow you to consult colleagues and think about the issues you wish to discuss.
Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. If demand exceeds the spaces available the Council reserves the right to limit organisations to one place at each event.
Join us at Love Downham for the next West Norfolk Focus Event. As well as having the opportunity to discuss key topics, you’ll also be able to network with fellow businesses.
Our aim is to have groups in many cities, towns, market towns, and villages across Norfolk, to connect, support, and give voice to every business in Norfolk. These groups are accessible to all businesses, whether you are a Chambers member or a non-member.
These groups will provide you with a platform to debate issues that are most important to you, and your business and the Chamber network will lobby and influence on your behalf, using our dedicated team, our website, social media channels, and our digital platform.
Your feedback will be used by our team and the Chamber’s Board to help shape the strategic direction of Norfolk Chambers to ensure we can truly be the voice of Norfolk businesses.
Whether the local challenge is skills, road, rail, digital infrastructure, recruitment, or the rising costs of doing business, we want to hear from you.
Read our review on our Diss Focus Group event which took place at Park Farm Hotel on Tuesday 7th March – https://www.norfolkchamber.co.uk/news/diss-focus-group-review/
Our 2023 Focus Groups are kindly sponsored by UPP
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Are you close to retirement?
Lovewell Blake Financial Planning Limited is committed to helping you plan for the financial and emotional impact of retirement on yourself and your family.
We are running four informal workshops at our Norwich office covering a range of topics to help you plan for retirement, as well as a seminar in Bury St Edmunds to provide further useful and informative guidance on how to effectively manage the impact of retirement. This is the third in the series.
Join us for our Annual Pure Norwich Charity Quiz 2018, for an evening of playful rivalry and great prizes, all in support of Alzheimer’s Society.
The Pure Norwich Annual Charity Quiz brings together local businesses and colleagues, providing you with the opportunity to compete for the coveted prize of ‘Quiz Champion 2018″.
You can enter a team of 4 players and up to 3 teams per organisation. The cost is £40 per team which includes a jacket potato with a choice of toppings. A fully licensed bar is also available. The doors will open at 6.00pm with the quiz starting at 6.30pm
Proceeds from the quiz including the annual raffle will go to Alzheimers Society
This year we are supporting Alzheimers Society, a dementia charity. Alzheimers Society offers a range of services and money raised from the quiz will go towards providing dementia cafes, research and side by side volunteers. On the night, we will have volunteers available to discuss the many ways in which funds raised can help the local community.
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Growth is at the heart of every business – whether that’s achieved through innovation in products and services, exploiting merger or acquisition opportunities, developing people to be the leaders of tomorrow or optimising operations to increase efficiency and profitability.
Experience shows that one of the essential ingredients for achieving success is having an engaged workforce and strong leadership.
We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with Grant Thornton for the next series of Directors Clubs (formerly known as FD Clubs).
Topic
At these sessions we will discuss :
· GT Growth 365 team: How you can prepare for the future through embedding a positive culture and adopting a leadership style that encourages the continuous development of people, building loyalty and engagement to help deliver real sustainable growth.
· Pure Executive: Developing our leaders of the future, best practice within the region and Board Ready Scheme.
· The session will also include advice on utilising the Apprenticeship Levy to develop your people, peer group discussions and the opportunity to network with other local business leaders, GT’s experienced Growth Advisers and the Pure Executive team.
Agenda
8.00am Registration
8.30am Presentations
9.30am Q&A and networking
10.00am Close
Book your place by emailing [email protected]
Steeles Law and Jo Rayner, a relationship and business coach, have teamed up to run a full day drop in clinic for those that may have questions abou their relationship. Can you relate to any of the following?
The clinic sets out to deliver a full service to those with relationship issues whether they would like to discuss the more formal legal and financial elements or they would like to talk about their worries about managing the emotional and day to day parts of the process.
It will run from 10am on 23rd February with the chance to book a FREE 30 minute appointment with either Jo or Amanda or to drop in between 12-2pm.
In this third masterclass in our series for business owners and managers looking to develop their skills we will turn our attention to the importance and value of your brand with Mark Harvey from MH Consulting. Your brand is your most valuable business asset. Find out why brand is not your ‘logo’ and how modern businesses grow by using their brands. This is not a creative presentation, but a commercial session for businesses looking to maximise their growth potential. We’ll explore what brand is, how modern brands work and what practical things you can do to ensure your brands health and help you to drive growth in your business.
Mark Harvey Mark Harvey is a marketing turnaround specialist who operates as board adviser, mentor and presenter. Mark is a career marketer. He spent 16 years in Plc marketing culminating in the role of Head of Brand and Communication for Norwich Union’s first ever eCommerce business at the height of the dot com boom. This lit an entrepreneurial fire and he moved into the world of agency where he acquired and grew his own business. The agency enjoyed a stellar client list, multi award wins and was successfully sold at the end of 2015. Mark now works with businesses in an advisory capacity leveraging his experience in both marketing and developing a successful business.