Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2012

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Every business journey starts with an ambitious first step. Within every brilliant enterprise is a start up that wants to get better. Within every successful entrepreneur is the will to be first, to be number one.

In March Liverpool and the Global Entrepreneurship Congress will provide a festival for business where the potential of people, passion and potential can be celebrated, inspired and accelerated. The day will be united by the central themes of who dares wins, who cares wins and who shares wins.

On March 13, entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders will be taken on a journey through three sessions, of speeches, panel discussions and debates

00:14:30		HOSTS WELCOME: UNLEASHING THE WILL TO WIN Jonathan Ortmans, Chair, Global Entrepreneurship Congress Max Steinberg, Chief Executive, Liverpool Vision Councillor Joe Anderson, Leader of Liverpool City Council George Kirk, Director of Smart Cities, ScottishPower Generation Holdings Ltd.
00:48:10		SCREW IT, LET’S DO IT Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Mike Southon, Liverpool Entrepreneur-in-Residence (moderator)
01:25:00		WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group *with Virgin Media Pioneers & GEW Startup Open winners
01:34:20		ANNOUNCEMENT OF LIVERPOOL’S GREAT ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE 2012 SCHOOL WINNERS Max Steinberg, Chief Executive, Liverpool Vision * Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group, to present the awards
01:40:00		INTERMISSION
01:56:40		THE WINNER WITHIN: THE MINDSET OF SUCCESS Sir Terry Leahy, Former CEO, Tesco
02:41:50		SPOTTING THE OPPORTUNITY AND GOING FOR IT: THE HAYMARKET STORY Lord Michael Heseltine, Founder, Haymarket Group
02:41:50		PRESCRIPTION FOR SUCCESS: A COMMON MAN WITH UNCOMMON VISION Benno Schmidt, Interim President, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
02:57:05		A CHAT WITH THE CHIEFS: UNLEASHING THE WILL TO WIN Sir Terry Leahy, Former CEO, Tesco Steve Felice, Chief Commercial Officer, Dell, Inc. Katherine Corich, Founder & Director, Sysdoc Mike Southon, Liverpool Entrepreneur-in-Residence
03:24:31		WHAT DO WE MEAN BY INNOVATION? Ashok Rao, Chairman & CEO, Whodini, Inc. and Chairman, Global Board of Trustees, TiE
03:32:55		WINNING STARTUP SOCIETIES Mark Prisk MP, UK Minister for Business and Enterprise Robert Litan, Vice President of Research & Policy, Kauffman Foundation Bernard McKay, Chief Public Policy Officer & Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Intuit Inc. (moderator)
04:07:30		SUPERCHARGING GROWTH THROUGH WORKFORCE INNOVATION Steve Felice, Chief Commercial Officer, Dell, Inc. Ashok Rao, Chairman & CEO, Whodini, Inc. and Chairman, Global Board of Trustees, TiE Mark Gerhard, CEO & CTO, Jagex Ian Ayre, Managing Director, Liverpool Football Club
04:33:58		THE FARMER, THE FOX & THE KITCHEN Martha Lane-Fox, Co-founder, Lastminute.com & Lucky Voice Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, Founder, The Black Farmer Paul Lindley, Founder, Ella’s Kitchen Michael Hayman, Co-founder, Seven Hills (moderator)
04:55:30		YOUR MONEY AND YOUR LIFE John Maltby, Managing Director, Lloyds TSB Commercial
05:02:19		SHOW ME THE MONEY Jalak Jobanputra, Senior Vice President, New York City Investment Fund Paul Kedrosky, Founder, GrokSoup John Maltby, Group Director, Commercial at Lloyds Banking Group Doug Richard, Founder, School for Startups (moderator)
05:33:20		RACE TO THE TOP: GLOBAL STARTUP COMMUNITIES Horacio Melo, Assistant Director, Start-Up Chile Marc Nager, Director and CEO, Startup Weekend Nick Seguin, Manager of Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation (moderator)
06:07:31		THE POWER OF WE Lara Morgan, Founder, Company Shortcuts Deborah Leary, Founder and CEO, Forensic Pathways Will King, Founder, King of Shaves Martha Lane-Fox, Founder, Lastminute.com & Lucky Voice
06:26:43		FUTURE CITIES, SMART CITIES George Kirk and Alex Clayton of ScottishPower will discuss how developing Smart Cities will drive economic growth, creating huge opportunities for innovation and new thinking to develop enabling technological and business solutions, with Dr Chris Luebkeman Director for Foresight and Innovation – Arup. Moderated by Rex Northern.
06:48:56		GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONGRESS 2013 Jonathan Ortmans, Chair, Global Entrepreneurship Congress *with representative of GEC 2013 host organization
06:55:13		RED SOX & KOPITES: THE BUSINESS OF LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB Ian Ayre, Managing Director, Liverpool Football Club John Bishop, Stand Up Comedian
07:17:52		CLOSING REMARKS Jonathan Ortmans, Chair, Global Entrepreneurship Congress Max Steinberg, Chief Executive, Liverpool Vision

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The Global Entrepreneurship Congress is an inspirational gathering of entrepreneurs, thought-leaders, economists and policy-makers from more than 100 countries and anyone of any age or background who ever had a dream of running their own business.