University participates in International Festival for Business 2014

liverpool Skyline for Inter Fest Bus

The University of Liverpool is taking part in the International Festival for Business 2014 (IFB), the UK’s biggest business festival.

Promising an ambitious programme of events, IFB 2014 is a key government supported initiative to rebalance the economy and achieve UK export and investment targets. There will be more than 150 business-focused events, spanning several broad business themes:

• Cities, Enterprise and Urban Business

• Creative and Digital Industries

• Financial and Professional Services

• Higher/Further Education and Research

• Low Carbon and Renewables

• Manufacturing, Science and Technology

• Maritime, Port and Logistics

• Health

It will run for 50 days in June and July and attract business delegates and trade intermediaries from all over the world.

International educators

The University is leading the Higher Education and Research theme and will host ‘Global universities of the 21st century’ – a three-day event bringing together international educators and policymakers to explore how economic changes and diverse demand are affecting higher education globally.

Events organised by the University also include a public lecture from Karren Brady, Chairman of West Ham FC, as well as an ‘International Sport Business Congress’, which will bring together senior figures to unlock the commercial and social power of sport.

Among the events organised by University departments are :

• ‘PHYSICS INNOVATE’, showcasing how to innovate and do business in the energy, security, environment and healthcare sector

• ‘Entrepreneurship as a driver for local and regional growth’, sharing local and regional initiatives and good practice from local Higher and Further Education partners.

• ‘International One Health symposium’, with main themes of food safety, natural/scoail science interactions, antimicrobial resistance, obesity and emerging and new infectious diseases.

• ‘Rural Futures and Rural Urban interface’, focusing on the dynamic economic and social interaction between the rural and urban.

• ‘Business planning for city and regional innovation’, drawing on international, national and regional experience and focusing on neighbourhood planning for business, knowledge/innovation quarters and transformational infrastructure.

• ‘International Year of Crystallography 2014 Symposium’, examining the arrangement of atoms in solids.

Information is regularly updated about available events on the University of Liverpool IFB event schedule  or the main IFB site .

For staff who are organising an event that they feel could be linked to IFB, please contact Sian Winston .

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