ESRC Business Boost ‘Newsnight’ style Panel
6th June 6pm-8:30 at the Great North Museum
Organised by the ESRC, NINE DTP, Business Boost Project
Join us for this ESRC Business Boost ‘Newsnight panel’ that explores different aspects of the Industrial Strategy Grand Challenges, featuring a wide range of speakers from business and industry. The evening will be an opportunity to hear what the four challenges mean to their membership, workforce or community, how the challenges manifest in their environments and how aspects of these challenges impact at the ‘coal face’ for the workforce, community and economy.
These various provocations around the Grand Challenges are focused on global trends which will transform future working life:
- Artificial Intelligence and data
- Ageing society
- Clean growth
- Future of mobility
Speakers include:
- Kate Welch; OBE DL, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Acumen CIC. (Provides capacity building support & advice to social entrepreneurs to develop their concept and grow.)
- Simon Hanson; NE Development Manager National Federation of Self Employed & Small Businesses Ltd (FSB is the leading business campaigner, focused on delivering change that supports smaller businesses to grow and succeed)
- Tom Smyth; Deputy Area Director, Yorkshire, Humber and North East, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Wendy Adams; Locality Manager, Skills for Care (S4C are the strategic body for workforce development in adult social care)
The Government says: “we are developing ambitious missions to tackle the Grand Challenges. Each of these will focus on a specific problem, bringing government, businesses and organisations across the country together to make a real difference to people’s lives.” This is an opportunity to hear what the reality of that is.
6.00 – 6.45pm Networking with refreshments in the shadow of the iconic Natural History Museums Dippy the Dinosaur, a replica of the fossilised bones of a Diplodocus Carnegii skeleton
6.45 – 8.15pm Panel discussion of Grand Challenges
8.15 – 8.30pm Questions and close
This event is open to all academic and PS staff.
Register your attendance here