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Applications are now open for the 2013 Brand Amplifier Competition! Please apply online at www.brandamplifier.co.uk.

Win a chance to be mentored by some of London’s most innovative women in business!

Brand Amplifier is an exciting initiative aimed at encouraging and assisting emerging female-run companies in Lambeth. The idea of Brand Amplifier is to allow enterprising young females to have access to successfully established business women, and pick up tips on how to best visualise, promote and enhance their business.

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If you want to be ahead of the curve on the latest flavour and menu trends, talk to Helena. Having joined Mintel on the Leisure team in 2005, Helena Spicer is now Mintel's Senior Foodservice Analyst with her areas of expertise extending including the restaurant industry and the UK pub market. Helping Mintel's clients understand the latest foodservice trends and what they mean for their businesses, her analysis is regularly called upon by both national and international media covering the foodservice sector. Just click here to enter the competition: http://www.getlunched.com/mintel

As Principal Trends Analyst at Mintel, Richard manages Mintel’s Inspire, Mintel’s team of trend experts, who analyse changes in culture and society and spot trends, globally. Richard has made presentations for the Media 360 and Financial Services Forum conferences and written on consumer trends for many publications including Argent and Viewpoint. Most recently he has worked on Mintel 2015, providing invaluable insight into the UK consumer in 2015. To win a free business lunch with Richard, just click here: http://www.getlunched.com/mintel

Young & Connected aims to bring together young professionals, entrepreneurs, graduates and students from across the UK to broaden their networks and meet like minded people in a relaxed atmosphere. We believe in the importance of networking and create an environment where new and experienced networkers can feel at ease with meeting people, leaving understand the benefits of having a strong diverse network.

Youth Business International, Restless Development and War Child have commissioned ODI to conduct a study on ‘maximising the impact of youth entrepreneurship support in different contexts’. Our goal is to engage and review a broad range of evidence and experience to produce a user-friendly framework for guiding and prioritising youth-entrepreneurship interventions in different contexts.

The success of TED, the Khan Academy and MIT Open Courseware has demonstrated how technology can disrupt education as we know it - bringing lectures from world class speakers into your front room.

But despite technology-enabled solutions, big educational challenges still exist:

Britain has the rather dubious honour of leading the developed world in Educational Disadvantage: the inequalities in educational outcomes that arise as a result of children's socio-economic background. Thousands of young people leave school without basic literacy and numeracy.

Joining Mintel almost 10 years ago, Matt heads up Mintel’s Leisure, Tourism, Technology and Media team and has a breadth of knowledge across these sectors. As well as managing the team, Matt is heavily involved supporting key clients. Matt has a broad research background having initially worked in the Market Intelligence team researching the fmcg industry before graduating to the leisure industry.

Just click here to enter the competition: http://www.getlunched.com/mintel

Who Are You and What Are You About?

To start, a business owner should define what their business is (and is not). This session will give participants some ways to help them define their business’ purpose and structure. They will also consider their role as an owner and what that really means.

Getting Your Product Together

In this session, participants will look at different aspects of product management, including inventory management, the value chain, outsourcing, and quality control.

Building a Corporate Brand

Urbano Network is London's most innovative business network, combining a diverse calendar of business networking events with unique online networking tools.

Urbano's networking breakfasts events are stripped down conferences and explore themes common to all companies regardless of size and sector: Business (strategy, management and growth), People (Employees, recruitment & training), and Finance (investment, funding & profit).

Before becoming Director of Research for the EMEA region in July 2012, Toby had been Head of Finance Intelligence at Mintel. He is a self-confessed geek when it comes to research and, in particular, using research to understand the often dysfunctional relationship that people have with their financial services partners. Toby is a key spokesperson for Mintel, and can often be heard pushing for a better understanding of the consumer at industry and client events. To win your lunch with Toby, just click here: http://www.getlunched.com/mintel

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