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Professor and entrepreneur Birgitte Andersen to appear at Buy Yorkshire event

Birgitte Andersen, director of the Big Innovation Centre, will appear at this year’s Buy Yorkshire Conference in a bid to place the UK as a “leader in innovation” by 2025 by sharing her entrepreneurial experiences.

She will appear at the Conference to share her experiences as the managing director of the Big Innovation Centre, and will explain how she has built a platform which can take advantage of emerging technologies and how they can be used to the collective benefit of businesses both large and small.

Birgitte’s appearance will provide delegates with an insight into the open systems that the Centre has put in place to tackle the instinct that companies have when it comes to protecting their innovations and intellectual property.

Birgitte comments: “The Buy Yorkshire Conference is an ideal platform to share my experiences with likeminded entrepreneurs and business leaders.

“I want to show them that there is a source of knowledge available to provide insights, alongside business oriented research that can support enterprise and encourage future business growth.

“As our organisation is not run by public funding the Conference will allow us to get in front of potential businesses that may be willing to invest money and support, and also test out the innovative technologies which we continue to champion.”

Event founder, Geoff Shepherd said: “The Big Innovation Centre brings together sources of information from research centres, to universities and government.

“Having Birgitte speak at the Buy Yorkshire Conference will by association create a more diverse audience, bringing together innovation experts, researchers and spin out companies. It will certainly make for a very powerful and interesting session.”

The Buy Yorkshire Conference is a free to attend event, and those who would like to register should visit http://buyyorkshire.com/register. With more than 180 exhibitors, 7,500 delegates and a collective wealth of more than £600bn in the room across the two days, it is the largest business to business event in the region.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .