West Yorkshire Innovation Festival – Day 1

Organised by West Yorkshire Innovation Festival

A meeting place for bright ideas

The West Yorkshire Innovation Network is holding the fourth Innovation Festival on 3-7 March 2025. The West Yorkshire Innovation Festival brings together businesses, entrepreneurs, academics and support providers who are making amazing things happen in West Yorkshire.

What is the Innovation Festival?

The Festival celebrates the innovations that are being made today, while inspiring the next wave of innovations for tomorrow. We believe that innovation can come from anywhere – whether or not you already call yourself an innovator. We want to bring everyone into the innovation conversation in West Yorkshire and show you how to turn your big ideas into reality.

Who is involved?

The Festival is presented by the West Yorkshire Innovation Network.

The Network brings together innovation providers serving West Yorkshire to create a culture of innovation across the region. It shares best practice and evidence, routes to access and engagement information to offer the best possible support to innovators. It anticipates future opportunities and challenges for innovators, advocates for innovators with local and national government and fosters a culture of innovation through peer-to-peer networking and evangelism. The Network’s ultimate goal is an interconnected innovation ecosystem where entrepreneurs and SMEs can easily find the innovation partners, opportunities, funding and resources they need to make their ideas a reality.

 

Events:

Big Futures in Small Businesses: Innovation

About this event

Are you a business looking for ways to innovate?

Join us for the Big Futures in Small Businesses event where we’ll be showcasing graduate recruitment and ways to hire the latest technical skills that will bring innovation to your business.

What to expect

  • Hear from a panel of West Yorkshire businesses and graduates on their experiences, best practice and tips for introducing or enhancing an innovation strategy.
  • Find out more about Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire’s graduate programme and how it can benefit your business by hiring the skills you need to innovate.
  • Learn about knowledge transfer partnerships (KTPs), the benefits of partnering with universities and how to offer them to local students and graduates.
  • Network with other local businesses, to share ideas and build strong links in innovation.
  • Breakfast will be provided.

We look forward to meeting you and helping you to increase productivity, expand the skillset of your workforce and widen your client base.

Date: Monday 3rd March 2025 08:30am – 12:00pm

Location: Jacobs, 1 City Walk, Holbeck, Leeds, LS11 9DX

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Developing a Playful Approach to Climate Action

About this event

This playful professional development session will help you to develop a new approach to climate action and communication. Whether a parent, business or educator, there are principles for all to use in climate conversations and eco-action. Delivered at our immersive classroom in Bradley Huddersfield, you will take an active and playful approach to learning using interactive technology and physical games. You can attend one or both sessions.

Date: Monday 3rd March 2025 10:30am – 12:30pm

Location: Posynergi (c/o FileDoc offices), Aspin House, 1 Station Road, Bradley, Huddersfield, HD2 1UT

Speakers

Helen Hill

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Innovation
03rd Mar 2025
8:30am - 12:30pm
Organised by West Yorkshire Innovation Festival
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