Come along and find out from Steven Grimshaw and Andrew Lavender about Kent County Council’s award winning ‘No Use Empty’ programme and the interest free loans which are available to help transform empty properties back to life.  Hear how the process works and about renovation projects with investment in sustainable renovation and renewable energy.

This is a networking event, with a presentation followed by a panel style question and answer session.  On the panel is Victor Evans of Alternative Energy Solutions who has successfully renovated properties in Dover, with the added investment of installing energy efficient measures.

The event is subsidised by European funds from the Low Carbon Essentials project and the Greenov (Green Renovation Cluster) project and hosted by Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce.

What is the unvented hot water qualification?
NICEIC Certification operates an Unvented Hot Water Systems certificate of competence, which complies with G3 of the Building Regulations, Approved Document G and is recognised by Competent Person Schemes for both Plumbing and Heating Installation.
The certificates are valid for a period of 5 years.

With one-to-one pre-arranged meetings, exhibitors and visitors can find potential commercial and technology partners from all over Europe. To arrange the most suitable, effective meetings, we will be compiling an online catalogue which contains profiles of each attendee.  The brokerage will take place on Wednesday 11th July 2012.


Thematic focus of the Brokerage Event will be on:

• Aerospace
• Defence
• Space
• Security sectors

How to participate

Register and submit a collaboration profile describing your activities.

Your profile will be published on the on-line catalogue and other participants can then request a meeting with you.

Using your username and password, you can also select interesting profiles from the catalogue and request meetings.

Participation in the FIA Matchmaking event is FREE OF CHARGE.

Entrance to the conference is £30 per pass, per day when booked in advance, or £37.50 if purchased on the day. You can register online at: http://www.farnborough.com/visitors/trade-buy-trade-passes

If you would like to talk to an adviser about this event, please telephone +44 (1634) 883615, or e-mail S.M.Ramsden@Greenwich.ac.uk and we will be happy to help.

9:00     Registration, networking, refreshments

9:30     Introduction

            Paul Toben, Enterprise Europe South-East, High Growth Kent

9.40     Overview of how to use social media in your business

• What is social media – where should you start?
• What is the difference between broadcasting and engaging?
• What are the main platforms of social media?

 Sian Murphy, The Ruby Marketers

10:00   Marketing to Europe

•  The best free technology marketing tool you've never heard of.
•  The value of networking events.

          Dr Andy Hebb, Enterprise Europe South-East

10.20   How to work a room

• Why you would network and what is networking?
• What to expect, timescales to get business, and how could you benefit from face to face networking?
• Being prepared with your 40 second slot and elevator pitch
• Maximising your networking efforts by continuing the conversation online

                 Sian Murphy, The Ruby Marketers

10.40   How to exhibit effectively at trade shows

• Making the right impression
• On the day
• Making the most out of your attendance

         Emma Batt, CFA Group

11.00   Question and Answer Session

11:15   Coffee and networking 

• provide an opportunity to hear from a range of pest management stakeholders on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and the drivers for change in pest management technologies and practices in European agriculture and horticulture
   
• bring them together with representatives from companies in different parts of the industry wishing to learn about and exploit new markets for alternatives to conventional chemical pesticides
   
• stage a pre-arranged matchmaking network session to encourage and facilitate strategic partnering

The Event will be held on Friday 5th October 2012 at:-

University of Greenwich
Old Royal Naval College
Park Row
London SE10 9LS

The event is aimed at stakeholders in the current and new technologies and regulatory aspects of biopesticides and IPM along with the companies engaged in the manufacturing and supply chains that will be affected by changes in legislation, technology and associated farming practices and of course the farmers themselves and representative bodies from the Agricultural Sector.

Participants will be facilitated to make new contacts that might lead to both commercial and technology development partnerships, addressing new markets for biopesticides and other IPM component technologies.
 

Agenda

To register your interest and to reserve a place at this event,  please respond  by email or telephone to: 

'Internet of Things' - Speed Dating Event for SME's in the South East

This is a new type of brokerage/matchmaking event.

Tuesday 12th June 2012
National Physical Laboratory
Hampton Road, Teddington TW11 0LW

The Event will bring together technology provider and application developer companies keen to exploit new opportunities in M2M, sensor networks, ambient intelligence and remote monitoring for applications such as supply chain management, logistics, telehealth, assisted living, transport, gaming entertainment, security and smart grids.

Participants will be encouraged to make new contacts leading to commercial partnerships to address theses new markets, and consortia to bid for funding opportunities such as Framework 7 and Horizon 2020.

AGENDA

10:00 Coffee and registration
10:30 Event introduction and introduction to the EEN
10:45 Internet of Things Keynote – Usman Haque, Pachube
11:05 Introduction to funding calls – Peter Walters, UK FP7 National Contact Point
11:25 Tea and coffee
11:40 Speed dating session 1
13:10 Networking lunch
14:00 Speed dating session 2
15:30 Tea and coffee
15:40 Wrap up and discussion
16:00 Close

This event is free to attend, but delegates must register in advance.
Places are limited so early registration is advised
For registration assistance please contact nancy.moore@npl.co.uk 

We are running a webinar to show businesses, how they can access and search this database to find prospective partners and make an expression of interest for potential collaboration projects they might find interesting.

Our next webinar will be held on Wednesday 18th July 2012 at 11.00am and will walk you through the functionality of the website and how to access the database.

The webinar should take no longer than 30 minutes.

Places on this webinar are limited, with registration through our event booking form to reserve your place.   

We are running a webinar to show businesses, how they can access and search this database to find prospective partners and make an expression of interest for potential collaboration projects they might find interesting.

Our next webinar will be held on Wednesday 4th July 2012 at 11.00am and will walk you through the functionality of the website and how to access the database.

The webinar should take no longer than 30 minutes.

Places on this webinar are limited, with registration through our event booking form to reserve your place.  

Nucleus Innovation Centre, Dartford

This morning networking event gathers key local experts to help you expand your company's PR and marketing strategy to better exploit the expanding world of social media, as well as offering techniques for better networking, more effective presentations at trade shows and how to market your technology to Europe for free.

9:00     Registration, networking, refreshments

9:30     Introduction

Paul Toben
Enterprise Europe South-East, High Growth Kent

9.40     Overview of how to use social media in your business

• What is social media – where should you start?
• What is the difference between broadcasting and engaging?
• What are the main platforms of social media?

 Sian Murphy, The Ruby Marketers

10:00   Marketing to Europe

• The best free technology marketing tool you've never heard of
• The value of networking events

          Dr Andy Hebb, Enterprise Europe South-East

10.20   How to work a room

• Why you would network and what is networking?
• What to expect, timescales to get business, and how could you benefit from face to face networking?
• Being prepared with your 40 second slot and elevator pitch
• Maximising your networking efforts by continuing the conversation online

                 Sian Murphy, The Ruby Marketers

10.40   How to exhibit effectively at trade shows

• Making the right impression
• On the day
• Making the most out of your attendance

         Emma Batt, CFA Group

11.00   Question and Answer Session

11:15   Coffee and networking 

We are running a webinar to show businesses, how they can access and search this database to find prospective partners and make an expression of interest for potential collaboration projects they might find interesting.

Our next webinar will be held on Wednesday 13th June 2012 at 11.00am and will walk you through the functionality of the website and how to access the database.

The webinar should take no longer than 30 minutes.

Places on this webinar are limited, with registration through our event booking form to reserve your place.  

We are running a webinar to show businesses, how they can access and search this database to find prospective partners and make an expression of interest for potential collaboration projects they might find interesting.

Our next webinar will be held on Wednesday 30th May 2012 at 11.00am and will walk you through the functionality of the website and how to access the database.

The webinar should take no longer than 30 minutes.

Places on this webinar are limited, with registration through our event booking form to reserve your place.  

ENVIRONORD www.salon-environord.com,   the environmental trade fair, attracting over 250 exhibitors and 7000 professional visitors

European Congress on “Eco-technologies for the Future”, www.eco-technologies.org with more than 100 international speakers and 3000 participants

300 companies from 30 countries (Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Italy, UK, Germany, Finland, Russia, South Africa…)  are expected to attend the B2B meetings on 12 and 13 June so do not miss this opportunity to meet potential partners at pre-arranged 30 minute one-to-one meetings with other companies, laboratories & research organisations, green investors,  environmental clusters to:

• Find new partners (commercial, technological, European research..)
• Promote and sell your products, know-how & technologies
• Find ideas, expertise and technologies and boost eco-innovation

Sectors include:  recycling & renewable materials, water treatment, soil & sediment, renewable energy and energy efficiency, construction and eco-materials, air & noise control,…

Programme and Side events:

Monday 11 June:

Visits of innovative cleantech companies in Northern France

Tuesday 12 June:

09:30–11:30 Inaugural conference of the European Congress on “Eco-technologies for the future” with among other speakers Nobel prize winner Jean Jouzel with GIEC in 2007, a representative from European Commission on Eco-Innovation Action Plan...

12:00  Awards of the European Eco-innovation contest (7 different prizes and applications closing on 15^th May 2012 for non-French companies)

14:00 – 17:30 International B2B match-making meetings (individual 30 minute meetings with potential partners and clients) in partnership with European Enterprise Network

18:00  International Networking Cocktail

Wednesday 13 June:

09:30 – 12:00  International B2B match-making meetings (individual 30 minute meetings with potential partners and clients) in partnership with European Enterprise Network

13:00 – 18:00  Free visit to Environord and/or attending special workshop of European Congress on clean technologies such as recycling & waste management, eco-building, water treatment, energy innovation...(several workshops in parallel)

13:00 – 18:00  International workshop for Environmental Clusters, networking and exchange of best practices, in partnership with GCCA – Global Cleantech Cluster Association

Thursday 14 June 2012

Free visit to Environord and/or attending special workshop of European Congress on clean technologies such as recycling & waste management, eco-building, water treatment, energy innovation...(several workshops in parallel)

If you have invented an innovative technology, service or made a successful transfer in environment filed in the last 3 years, you can enter the European Eco-Innovation Contest to win one of the 7 prizes being awarded on the 12June at Environord trade fair at Lille (the deadline is 15 May for non-French companies and laboratories).

Special Workshop for Cleantech CLUSTERS : international networking and best practices exchange for environmental Clusters on the 13 June from 13:00 to 18:00

Participation is only for environmental stakeholders (cleantech companies, laboratories, universities, local authorities, green investors, business angels, environmental clusters)  and is free of charge (for the whole programme) but registration is compulsory no later than 25 May 2012.  Email h.anis@cd2e.com, Tel: +33 (0)3 21 13 06 83

The B2B meetings are organized by the French environmental cluster CD2E, in partnership with Enterprise Europe Network and GCCA (Global Cleantech Cluster Association) and UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization)

This 2 day market visit will include the following:

⇒ Visits to the ports of the South West of the Netherlands

⇒ Visits to several Dutch logistics & supply chain management companies

⇒ B2B networking sessions & opportunities to meet new Dutch & Flemish business contacts

The visit is aimed at Kent businesses in the logistics sector or those wishing to make contacts with ports, logistics and distribution companies in the Netherlands.

Places are limited and the 2 Seas Trade partners will determine the final list of participating companies based on a set of selection criteria. Return coach travel will be organised from Kent.

Register your interest at: www.2seastrade.eu/events

Further info: international.affairs@kent.gov.uk  or 01622 694046

2 Seas Trade is an EU funded Interreg IVA project which aims to help small businesses from Kent, East Flanders, West Flanders and the SW of the Netherlands to trade within these regions.