Wales Enterprise Day takes place on or around 18 Nov of every year. It grew out of the Menai Science Park's World Intellectual Property Day celebrations in 2021, The theme that year was "Taking your Ideas to Market". The topic was so large that the science park decided to hold two events, one focusing on startups on Word Intellectual Property Daty and another on scaleups in autumn. Emily Roberts suggested that the Autumn event should be called Wales Enterprise Day and the name stuck. Last year Aberinnovation and Tramshed joined our celebrations. This year we shall invite organizations, communities and individuals throughout Wales and beyond to take part in the day.
The main celebrations will be a hybrid online and in-person seminar on 18 Nov between 12:00 and 14:00. We have some star speakers such as Antony Craggs of Shoosmirths, Geraint McGrath of the Foresight Group, Tom Burke of Haia and Streams+ and I shall chair the event. Antony was one of the speakers at the Cambridge IP Law Summer School and he gave one of the best presentations on IP strategy and enforcement that I have ever heard. I signed him up to deliver a similar talk to Wales Enterprise Day before he left the conference hall. I met Geraint at the St David's Day Dinner at the Guildhall in March. He will discuss the Investment Fund for Wales and the massive opportunities it offers to Welsh businesses. Tom has co-founded several of M-SParc's tenant companies and he is now the Innovation Manager of M-SParc. We recently collaborated on the Convergent Content Scaler Programme on 25 Sept 2024 at which I discussed IP rights. We have invited several other distinguished speakers and everybody in the audience will be invited to participate.
For those who want to attend in person, the seminar will take place in M-SParc's boardroom. The event is free and readers can reserve their places by booking online. Anyone wishing to discuss this article may call me on 020 7404 5252 during office hours or send me a message through my contact form.
