Venture Crawl 2022

 On 9th March, the University of Wolverhampton Business School (UWBS) took part in the Venture Crawl 2022 event. This year, the event was hybrid allowing for university students outside of London to be able to participate remotely, by clicking on the interactive map and attending live online sessions throughout the day. There were talks and activities from a range of businesses and universities, including De Montford, Loughborough, King’s College, Greenwich, Birkbeck, Brunel, London Metropolitan, Durham, Huddersfield as well as an enterprise skills session from myself and Joshua Whale from the University of Wolverhampton. Talk topics ranged from tips on starting a business, sustainability, investing, technology, digital skills to marketing and side hustles. There were guest appearances from international universities too such as George Washington University in the USA, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, The University of Sydney and The University of Melbourne in Australia and Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.

 

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The keynote speaker this year was Sharmadean Reid, a Wolverhampton-born British Jamaican entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of The Stack World. Ms Reid talked about her mission to create economic and social empowerment for women through technology and media. This was timed perfectly as this event fell in the same week as International Women’s Day. You can find out more about Sharmadean at https://sharmadeanreid.com/

The event was an opportunity for our students to immerse themselves in the world of entrepreneurship and innovation and where the entrepreneurial ecosystem meets talent nurtured by universities. There were opportunities to connect with businesses such as Gymshark, Mindful Chef, RedGrid, Ella’s Kitchen and Café Nero amongst others. Students and colleagues who took part can join the other participants on LinkedIn via this link https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13799306/

We were very honoured to part of such a fantastic event and to be able to bring this wealth of knowledge, networking opportunities and entrepreneurship activities to our UWBS students.

Bring on Venture Crawl 2023!

Lisa

Lisa Burbidge-Brown is a lecturer in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at the University of Wolverhampton Business School. Contact L.Bubidge-Brown@wlv.ac.uk or www.twitter.com/LisaClaireBB