Day 4 | Newcastle Startup Week

‘Scaleup Summit’

Thursday 16th May 2019 @ Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle Helix (8.30am-6pm)

Building on the success of our 5-day ‘Newcastle Startup Week’ festival in May 2017, we ran a 1-day ‘Newcastle Scaleup Summit’ for 190+ people at the Live Theatre in November 2017 to help people learn how to take their business to the next level.

Instead of running Scaleup Summit again in 2018, we’ve decided to run it as part of Newcastle Startup Week 2019 to provide even more impact & focus on growing & scaling businesses in the North East of England.

Newcastle Scaleup Summit 2019 will cover the following themes:

1. Adopting a ‘Growth Mindset’ that will help you think much bigger
2. Improving your sales, marketing & PR of existing products or services
3. Innovating, developing & launching new products or services
4. Improving processes to save time & money to invest back into your business
5. Building teams & finding people with the right skills & experience to grow your business
6. Learning how to forge & maintain partnerships with bigger businesses
7. Selling globally & expanding internationally

Schedule

Registration / Arrivals (8.30am-9am)

Session 1 (9am-10.48am)

Welcome from Matt Bratton (Senior Investment Manager, Invest Newcastle)
Colin Bell (Business Growth Director, North East Local Enterprise Partnership)
‘What are the barriers to scaling?’ panel hosted by Scaleup North East feat. Gillian Marshall (Chief Executive, Entrepreneurs Forum), Andrew Esson (Scaleup Partner, RTC North), Helen Lee (Mentoring and Brokerage Manager, NELEP) & Angelina Bell (Scaleup Partner, RTC North)
Marketing Excellence & Automation by Geoff Phillips (Founder, Canvas Marketing & ex-Marketing Director, Sage)
Generating & Converting Leads for Business Growth by Karen Weech (Managing Director, MostSensational)
Scaling your Business- Lessons in Growth by Ian Mapplebeck (Managing Director, S E E Consulting) & Mignon Mapplebeck (Director of Technology, S E E Consulting)

Break (10.31am-10.46am)

Session 2 (10.46am-12.31pm)

Chris Mace (Sky AdSmart Local)
Pippa Aitken (Senior Associate, Sintons) on IP as an asset
Dave Gibson (Co-Founder, Blu Sky Chartered Accountants) & Yvonne Gale (CEO, NEL Fund Managers Ltd) on the iterative nature of funding & raises for growth

Lunch (12.31pm-1.31pm)

Session 3 (1.31pm-3.43pm)

Phil Jackman (Director, Guerrilla Working) on why the way we think about work is wrong
Angie Main (Organisational Development Coach, Bellebeck) on ‘Servant Leadership’
Russell Dalgleish (Founder & Managing Partner, Exolta Capital Partners & Co-Founder, Scottish Business Network) on ‘Learning from the Scottish Scaleup Experience’
Richard Lennox (Founder, Original Angle & Ex-Senior Director Engineering, Skyscanner) on ‘Operating Systems for Scale’
Janet Balneaves (Director Growth, Swipii) & Toby Bridges (CEO, The NBT Group) on ‘Tribes & Squads’ & Industry 4.0
Dean Benson (CEO, Visualsoft) on his scaleup story & plans for future growth & investment

Break (3.43pm-3.58pm)

Session 4 (3.58pm-6.15pm)

Alan Lowdon (Global Entrepreneurship Programme (GEP) ‘Dealmaker’, Department for International Trade (DIT) & Interim Executive Director, Edinburgh BioQuarter)
North East + Nordics panel discussion with Sophia Stovall (Head of Development, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums) & Hakon Junge (UK Territory & Brand Manager, Pleo.io)
Opportunities for North East businesses in Canada by Nadine Storey (Senior Investment Officer & Trade Commissioner, High Commission of Canada in the UK)
North East + China panel with Ivy Qiao (Head of Recruitment, Chinease), Thorranze Cheung (Founder & Director, Red Unit) & Xiao Wei (Ever Trip Limited) hosted by WeiTing Huang (Founder, Busy Backpack)
Closing thoughts & intro to after party (listed below) by Ammar Mirza CBE (Founder & Chair, Asian Business Connexions)

Want to attend?

If you’d like to attend Newcastle Scaleup Summit and/or any of the other Newcastle Startup Week events taking place between 13-17 May 2019, you must book a ticket in advance by clicking / tapping on the button below:

After Parties / Networking Events

6.30pm-7.30pm: Special VIP Fireside Chat @ Northern Counties Club hosted by Asian Business Connexions. Please note that to attend this VIP chat, you need to have registered separately for it. Spaces are now full.