Expert 121 with Ryan Davies, Innovation & Growth Specialist

Are you looking to develop innovation within your business?

Book a free 45 minute online 121 session with Ryan Davies, Innovation & Growth Specialist from Innovate UK Business Growth, for an initial conversation.

Choose from a selection of dates and times to suit you. Once you've registered, we'll pass on your details (name and email address) to Ryan, who might contact you with some questions prior to your session with him.

Ryan can help you with:

• Sourcing Finance and Funding
• Developing business plans
• Identifying new market opportunities – connecting to partnership opportunities across UK and Internationally
• Exploiting business innovation: Developing a commercial strategy and building a team to deliver it; protecting & harnessing your IP; improving innovation management & accessing the innovation ecosystem globally

Expert biography

Ryan is an Innovation & Growth Specialist for Innovate UK Business Growth. Ryan has spent the last decade supporting high growth, innovative SMEs across the South East of the UK to identify their barriers to growth and supports them through their growth Journey. Support has included accessing finance and funding, developing business plans and models, taking products to market, and developing partnerships across businesses, SMEs and public organisations.

Innovate UK Business Growth is a funded support programme for innovative, high-growth SMEs. It provides businesses with a range of services to suit specific needs, helping them to grow and scale. Support is tailored to meet the requirements of the business and can include commercialising R&D, accessing funding and finance opportunities, and entering new markets both in the UK and internationally. The service is delivered through 1:1 sessions from an Innovation & Growth Specialist, experienced at understanding the challenges faced by business owners and how to overcome the barriers to growth. This is backed by a team of specialists with wide ranging expertise across most business sectors, providing access to specific knowledge when needed.

Note

The adviser is an independent professional and is not an agent or employee of the Council, nor the Library. They will be regulated by their own professional body and they will be able to provide you with details of that organisation.We will not be aware of any advice that is given to you by the adviser when you consult them in the 121 session and we do not verify or approve their advice. We therefore take no responsibility and make no representations regarding the relevance, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or otherwise of any such advice or information. Any views expressed by the adviser are their own views and not those of the Council.

This session will be held online. Once you've registered, you will receive the video call joining instructions from the business expert prior to your session.

Following the session, the expert will send you a feedback form which we would be grateful if you could complete to allow us to monitor the success of our offered expert 121s.

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I mportant

All our expert one-to-one meetings on offer are free, but places are limited as our business expert partners are giving their valuable time to the BIPC and to you for free while fitting these sessions into their busy schedule. Therefore, if you need to cancel the session, to give a chance for others to still book it, please give at least two working days’ notice when possible via:

• email to bipc@brighton-hove.gov.uk, or
• cancelling your booking on Eventbrite, or
• email/call to the business expert.

Please note down the experts' contact details when they get in touch with you prior to the session.

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FAQs

What is your cancellation policy?

The majority of our events are free, but places are often limited - especially for in-person events, therefore please make sure you cancel your place, if you are unable to attend. You can cancel through your Eventbrite booking or emailing bipc@brighton-hove.co.uk.

Can I attend if I'm not a member of the library?

Absolutely! Any Sussex based business/ person with a business idea is welcome. Though we always recommend joining the library as it's free and will make accessing our databases, books and publications much easier.

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