Join us for our annual celebration of all things innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, hosted by the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice in collaboration with CityVentures.
Innovation and entrepreneurship
hold the key to solving society's greatest challenges, driving prosperity, and building sustainable futures. Despite the transformative potential of innovation, productivity and economic growth can be hard to achieve, with access to entrepreneurial opportunities restricted, especially for underserved communities.
Through a variety of talks, workshops and panel discussions, we will explore how creativity, innovation, and emerging technologies like AI can break down barriers and ignite a thriving entrepreneurial culture that bridges divides and creates opportunities for all.
View the latest programme here.
Join us for the afternoon to find out more about:
- Bridging socio-economic divides: how to create more inclusive startup ecosystems in the UK for people from disadvantaged socio-economic groups.
- Bridging global divides: how to build on insights from the Innovation for African Universities programme to develop thriving innovation ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
- Bridging financial divides: how to transform your pitch deck to fast track your access to start-up funding wherever you are, using exclusive insights from a seasoned Venture Capitalist as well as cutting-edge AI technology.
Stay on in the evening from 6pm to join the CityVentures Demo and Networking Night, find out more about the Museum of Entrepreneurship, and discover how AI-powered tools from the Institute for Creativity and AI could help you develop your business.
Speaker Profiles
Kelly Bewers is a creative strategist, researcher and facilitator working with organisations that are designing more equitable systems of 
social & economic justice. She has been working with CityVentures for over a year and most recently co-led a research feasibility study exploring the relationship between social mobility and entrepreneurship in the UK startup ecosystem. She is passionate about equitable production in all systems change work and loves bringing creative, playful approaches to these engagements.
Stewart Noakes, founder of global powerhouse Canopy Community, brings his exceptional track record of
growing businesses to your service. A serial entrepreneur who has successfully built, scaled, and sold multiple companies, Stewart now channels his expertise in fundraising, growth strategies, and exit planning to elevate entrepreneurs worldwide.
Philip Salter founded The Entrepreneurs Network in 2014 with the aim of building an 
organisation with the aim of helping make Britain the best place in the world to start and grow a business. Philip was previously Business Features Editor of City A.M. where he wrote a weekly column on entrepreneurship and interviewed many of Britain’s leading entrepreneurs. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, writes a column for Forbes on entrepreneurship and appears regularly elsewhere in the media.
Marwa Ebrahim is a founder-turned-investor with a deep understanding of both sides of the fundraising process. After founding and
raising investment for her startup, Marwa experienced the challenges of fundraising firsthand, which fueled her desire to better understand what makes startups successful from an investor's perspective. Today, she’s part of the investment team at Haatch, where she works on sourcing and managing deal flow, particularly within B2B SaaS, while supporting startups through due diligence and the investment process. Marwa’s passion lies in helping founders navigate the fundraising journey, drawing from her experience to guide them toward building sustainable, scalable businesses that attract the right investors.
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