On a beautifully sunny July morning, over 90 delegates enjoyed our sold out business breakfast at Sprowston Manor, where they learnt how Norwich International Airport and KLM are helping to drive Norwich’s economic development.
We heard from our featured charity RNLI and as well as our sponsors Low Carbon KEEP and Ashton KCJ. Delegates tried out a new networking icebreaker, First Letter Last Letter, to get them thinking and finding creative ways to describe their business in just a few words. Delegates also got to meet a new table of people with our Safari Network.
It was then time to hear from out 2 keynote speakers; Andrew Bell, Chief Executive at Norwich International Airport and Melissa Hartal, Field Sales Manager at Air France KLM.
Andrew explained how Norwich airport impacts the local economy by saying ‘it facilitates, it connects, it connects your businesses.’ He discussed future plans for the 100 acre Norwich Aeropark which is to be built by 2016 and will create 1,500 skilled jobs worth £90m. He said ‘Our role is to look at what the business community wants’ with two core objectives ‘Maximise the productivity of the Airfield’ and ‘Support the region’s businesses and therefore economic growth’
Melissa Hartal started her presentation with a short video showing the journey of Air France KLM and how technology has developed to help them give great customer service. She then talked about how they consider Norwich their home port and the huge network of destination that fly from Norwich Airport, she said ‘A flight leaves the UK every 5 minutes, we are well connected’
Here’s what delegates thought of the event;
Matthew Downing from Ashton KCJ tweeted “Excellent breakfast this morning @norfolkchamber which we @AshtonKCJ sponsored great speakers @KLM and @NorwichAirport”
Peter Treglow from Four tweeted “Fascinating to hear about how @NorwichAirport supports Norfolk economy @norfolkchamber Exciting growth plans.”
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