Events in the North West 

• • Pennine Lancashire Festival of Food and Culture 2010

  • Location: The ACE Centre, Nelson | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 14 Sep 10 10:00AM - 1:00PM

  • Business Bites is a free business event held by the festival organisers to bring together venues, producers and supporters to develop beneficial working partnerships. This event will include an opportunity to meet, greet and eat. There will also be workshops offering tips to put into practice for developing tourism and hospitality business through marketing and partnership learning....

• • Supply National SME Engagement Programme North West Conference

  • Location: Hilton Hotel, Manchester | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 23 Sep 10 9:00AM - 3:30PM

  • This one-day conference aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the North West win more public sector business. With spending under pressure, the public sector will need to seek innovative new suppliers. There has never been a better time for SMEs to supply to the public sector. The public sector currently spends approximately £220 billion a year on procuring the goods...

• • North West Business Pitch

  • Location: West Lakes Science and Technology Park, Moor Row | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 20 Oct 10 10:00AM - 1:00PM

  • This business pitch event is part of the North West Innovation Network.   The event will give small and medium-sized businesses a unique chance to hear first hand the technologies and innovations available from some of the leading companies in the North West.    It will help businesses identify potential opportunities with companies on their doorstep.   After the pitches there...

• • North West Business Pitch

  • Location: The Incubator Building, Manchester | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 26 Oct 10 10:00AM - 1:00PM

  • This business pitch event is part of the North West Innovation Network.   The event will give small and medium-sized businesses a unique chance to hear first hand the technologies and innovations available from some of the leading companies in the North West.    It will help businesses identify potential opportunities with companies on their doorstep.   After the pitches there...

• • North West Innovation Network (NWIN): Biomedical business pitch event

  • Location: Core Technology Facility, Manchester | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 26 Oct 10 9:00AM - 2:00PM

  • This event will give you the opportunity to hear about the latest developments, technologies, innovations and services available from some of the leading companies in the North West. It will help you to grow your business network, identify business development opportunities, source business expertise or services and find new opportunities for...

• • Outsourcing Manchester: Achieving efficient public service partnerships

  • Location: The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 27 Oct 10 8:30AM - 4:45PM

  • The Treasury has reacted swiftly to tackle the UK's unprecedented £156bn deficit by not only agreeing to £6.2bn of cuts in this financial year's spending, but also a 25 per cent cut in departmental budgets over the next four years. Any spending cuts need to be balanced against the quality of service provided, and as government looks to reduce in-house costs, the demand for support...

• • North West business pitch programme

  • Location: Liverpool Innovation Park, Liverpool | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 18 Nov 10 10:00AM - 1:00PM

  • Following the success of previous business pitch events, the winning formula will be repeated as part of the North West Innovation Network.   It will give small and medium sized businesses a unique chance to hear first hand, the technologies and innovations available from some of the leading companies in the North West.   The session will undoubtedly help businesses identify potential...

• • The Liverpool Design Festival

  • Location: St George's Hall, Liverpool | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 19 Nov 10 - 28 Nov 10

  • The Liverpool Design Festival was launched in November 2009 as a new annual design and contemporary craft festival in Liverpool.   In 2009 the festival incorporated over a dozen events in Liverpool city centre and the wider Merseyside area and nearly 8,000 people visited or participated in exhibitions, workshops, debates and talks. The festival saw hundreds of designers from across the UK...