Event Details

We'll be talking to three young entrepreneurs who have shown resilience, embraced problems and turned them into opportunities by creating new businesses and products that meet customer needs in the new emerging era.

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What happens when you have a plan but the world has other ideas?

We'll be talking to three young entrepreneurs who have shown resilience, embraced problems and turned them into opportunities by creating new businesses and products that meet customer needs in the new emerging era.

Our Panel

Nathan Shoesmith, Director of The Speaker Media Limited and winner of the Diana Award in 2021.

The Speaker Media Limited is an impartial, online political news platform with a mission to inspire the next generation in politics. The platform features opinion-based articles and analyses of current political events and issues. Currently free at the point of access, articles are written by Nathan and a network of young people, mainly university students, with an interest in politics and political writing. They also now offer an educational subscription resource for schools https://speakerpolitics.co.uk/

In 2021, The Speaker Limited released its first book 2020 As it happened written by Nathan Shoesmith and co-authored by Calum Paton.

Looking back on the truly unprecedented year of events that saw lives and the world change like never before, this is 2020, as it happened. Featuring adapted reporting and analysis from directors of The Speaker - a youth-driven impartial news media company on a mission to inspire the next generation in politics.

You can purchase a copy by clicking here.

Aditya Kadam & Maharani Hariga are the directors of Adirani Digital Solutions and are also Entrepreneurs in Residence at Lancaster University.

Adirani Digital Solutions specialise in web & mobile app development along with digital strategy. When it comes to digital solutions, it’s more than just plugging in social media, data analytics and effective software to an existing business model. It’s all about creating a robust model that integrates digital technology.

You can find out more about their work by clicking here.

Please note that some sessions have capacity limits, and you may be put on a waiting list - sign up early to avoid disappointment, and as always, if you can no longer make a session, please email workinprogress@lancaster.ac.uk to let us know so we can offer your place to somebody else.

This event is part of the U Start project which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Northern Powerhouse scheme.