Enterprise Nation

If you’ve been directed to the site today from the feature in The Sunday Times offering 5 readers a chance to win a free ticket to the Enterprise Nation Conference, you’ll be wanting to know a little about what to expect and who you’ll be meeting.

The UK’s first ever Home Enterprise Day

The conference is being held on Friday 20th November to celebrate the fact it’s the first ever Home Enterprise Day. It’s a day to encourage more people to start a business from home and support existing home businesses to grow.

The Enterprise Nation conference is being staged at BT Centre in London. We have a sell-out audience and a roster of great speakers. On the day we’ll be launching the 2009 Home Business Report and announcing winners of the 2009 Home Business Awards.

Here’s the programme for the day:

9.00am: Registration

9.30am: Welcome to BT Centre – Andrew Campling, General Manager, BT Regions

9.40am: Welcome to Home Enterprise Day and launch of 2009 Home Business Report – Emma Jones

10.00am: Keynote on sales & marketing - Doug Richard (former Dragon & CEO, School for Startups)

11.00am: Coffee and cake break

11.20am: Sites that changed the home business world – panel chaired by Dan Wagner (Founder, Venda.com) with eBay (Mark Lewis, head of eBay UK), MyEhive.com (Louise Campbell, Founder) and BT Tradespace (Ivan Croxford, Head of Digital Marketing Services BT Business)

11.50am: Building a global business from my home – Christian Arno, Founder, lingo24.com and Mike Hollands, Founder, Toniks and 2008 Home Business of the Year winner

12.20pm: Make Me Famous! - media panel chaired by David Parsley with Daryl Willcox (DW Publishing), Jenny Culshaw (Working Lunch) Lisa Sykes (Features Editor, Country Living) and Jimmy Leach (Head of Digital, Independent)

1pm: Lunch

1.40pm: Interview with Mark Dixon (CEO, Regus) by David Parsley, Parsley Media

2.20pm: Panel – the future of business support – panellists Patrick Elliott (CEO, Business Link for London), Professor Colin Mason (Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde), Dawn Whiteley (Chair, National Federation of Enterprise Agencies) and Andy Hudson (Director, BT Local Business)

3.00pm: Keynote from Mike Finnigan, Mr Motivator

3.40pm: A few words from Scott Cain, Deputy Chief Executive, Enterprise UK

3.50pm: Announce winners of 2009 Home Business Awards

4.00pm: Conference close with champagne reception   

With thanks

Thanks to our report sponsor and conference host:
• BT

And thanks to event supporters:
• Staples
• Regus
• HP
• Intel
• PayPal
• Business Link

And:
• Global Entrepreneurship Week UK 2009 

See you there? 

If you are one of the 5 lucky Sunday Times winners, we look forward to seeing you there!