Hyphen - joined-up-thinking
Hyphen 4 - Weds 18 March 2009 6 - 9pm
NEW VENUE: Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema
Foster Building, UCLAN
Registration and refreshments from 5.30pm
IP-Advantage
Stimulating, inspiring, provocative, Hyphen is a chain of interactive events designed to help creative businesses exploit new technologies.
If you think your business is built on ideas, think again. Ideas are worthless, intangible and easily stolen. Only when translated into intellectual property (IP) can they be taken seriously as the foundations for a business.
IP law is the alchemy that transforms ideas into assets, innovation into value and inspiration into successful, sustainable enterprises. In short, your business is worthless without it.
Hyphen 4, brought to you in partnership with Own-it, aims to bring clarity to this complicated and crucial issue. With a panel of business leaders and legal experts, this event will help you protect your assets and release the full commercial potential of your business.
Speakers. See below for speaker profiles
David Crowther / MD / Melandra
Richard Stephenson / CEO / YUDU
Legal / IP expert / Halliwells
Bookings
Places at Hyphen events are free, but strictly limited. To book a place at this event, you must first register your details with Own-it at www.own-it.org/north/
then book your place online via the events section.
If you have any queries about this cost hosted event between Creative Lancashire and Own It North please the Creative Lancashire office on 01772 536 600.
Interactive
All Hyphen events are highly interactive. Once you have registered your details with Own-it online, you will then be able to submit your IP related question to the Own-it experts via their advice section.
Please visit www.own-it.org/advice/ for more details. We aim to cover as many questions as possible during the course of the event.
Location and Travel Directions:
Parking is available in the Foster car park, which is on the left hand side of Corporation Street / Adelphi roundabout as you are travelling away from the city centre. The Mitchell and Kenyon Cinema is in the Foster Building.
The Foster car park can be found on the university campus map here (Car Park 8): http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/uclan/how_to_find_us/files/uclan-2d-map-2007.pdf
For SatNav users, use PR1 2HE.
Further maps and directions can be found at: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/uclan/how_to_find_us/index.php
Speaker Profiles
David Crowther - Melandra
Melandra an innovation consultancy that make a success out of doing things for the first time. He knows from first hand experience that breakthroughs arise not from thinking outside the box, but from simultaneously thinking in several boxes.
David co-founded a joint venture that raised $15 million of venture capital prior to its acquisition by the world's third largest software company. He previously managed a $1 billion investment fund.
David is a director of The Simulation Business and regularly delivers learning that sticks to executive decision makers.
Richard Stephenson - CEO, Yudu.com
Richard Stephenson is Chairman, CEO and the majority shareholder of YUDU Media and over the past 4 years has overseen the growth of the company to become the UK market leader and a potent force in the USA. Yudu.com are a globally successful online publishing company with a unique software-based solution for
publishers.
Richard has worked at board level in both public and private companies for the past 25 years. He has been a director of businesses in the UK, USA, Germany, Sweden, France, South Africa, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.
Richard is an Operating Partner with Duke Street Capital, Chairman of Deloro Stellite Ltd and Xafinity Holdings Ltd and President of the Supervisory Board of Navimo S.A., all private equity backed companies in technology, financial services and leisure. Richard has extensive experience in growing innovative technology led
businesses.