Below is the link to the video of the first webinar in Series 2 on the topic of ‘hunkering down or opening up new horizons for SMEs post-Covid’. https://youtu.be/kzCQ9Af4KjQ
Our excellent panel considered the challenges for small businesses during the pandemic and beyond, with discussion on:
- the resilience of small business entrepreneurs to cope with the challenges of lockdown;
- the ingredients needed for survival and recovery post-Covid; and
Webinar 2: Business start-up in corona times and beyond
The pandemic offers an opportunity for a new spirit of entrepreneurialism and how the nature of business start-up may change as a result. How will digitalisation, connectivity and personal health security affect entrepreneurial opportunities? Will new ventures focus on community, meaning and wellbeing as a result of the virus, or on the virtual economy? Will the future enable more new ventures to start up at scale and with ambition?
Panel members include:
- Danson Muchemi, Chief Executive Officer, JamboPay, Kenya
- Nyree Ambarchian, Co-founder, Jack & Grace, UK
- Jane Otima, Regional Director, Market Systems and Entrepreneurship, Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter, Habitat for Humanity, Kenya
- Tom Cooney, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Technological University Dublin and Academic Director of the Institute for Minority Entrepreneurship, Ireland
- Andrew Atherton, Professor of Enterprise, Global Director of Transnational Education for Navitas, UK/Australia
Date: 18th June 2021
Time: 2.00pm to 3.30pm UK time
Register here: https://bit.ly/2RLhnJj
See the attached short briefing note on the themes for Series 2 which focuses on the entrepreneurial small business.
We look forward to seeing you at our next webinar.
