Jun 26, 2020

The Leicester Startup Friday Digest - big events today

Leicester Startups News and Events

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Two big events happening, right now!

The World Tour heads to Nigeria

The Leicester Startups World Tour heads to Nigeria tomorrow! Meeting ‘Bosun Tijani, one of the leaders of tech on the African continent.

This lunchtime, Leicester is taking a Zoom trip to Nigeria, to meet 'Bosun Tijani.

He’s both an entrepreneur and leader of entrepreneurs. Bringing a new perspective and spearheading the newest and most exciting internet and tech market: the 1.3billion citizens across Africa who are coming online.

He has quite the CV (below), but trust us on this, you don’t want to miss this massive tech leader.

Register for free here, and we’ll see you today at 1pm, Friday 26th!

University of Leicester Innovation Hub: Innovation Friday

The other big event this week is the third anniversary of the Innovation Hub. Celebrating with the biggest ever online Innovation Friday.

From 10:15, today, Friday 26th June. Register for free here.

Looking to the future

Use University experts, talent and resources to bring innovation to your business.

The slowdown of lockdown is coming. The ecomony needs to get back on its feet. Its time to look to the future.

The world has changed

There is only one thing for certain. Covid-19 has brought a lot of change. All the customers were at home. Find out what is coming next and how you can plan for the future.

Develop new partnerships and innovative ideas

You are invited to join us for ‘Innovation Friday’ online networking. Join in the chat by using #LeicInnovation to talk to businesses, entrepreneurs, experts, researchers and students.

Talks include

Citizens of Change - How the University can work with business
Innovation and responsiveness in a time of Covid
What the future brings
Twitter Q&A #LeicInnovation

From 10:15 today, Friday 26th June. Register for free here.

See you next week!

The Leicester Startups team

A weekly P.S. Twitter account of the week.

Each week, a featured twitter account for startups and business in Leicester that you should be following - this week, the University of Leicester Innovation Hub takes the spotlight. Follow for all the local news on great ideas, innovation, and partnerships between enterprise and academia.