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Join The Economist for the Innovation Awards Ceremony streamed live from BAFTA, London next Thursday, November 15th

Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist will take to the stage and announce the 2012 Innovation Award winners of our 8 categories. Our winners will share their stories and reveal the Eureka moment that led to their success.

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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.

Our panel consists of four Beauty and Fashion Video Bloggers that have sucessfully grown their channels and managed to monetize on their passion through YouTube. With 40 + Million views combined the panelists join us for a discussion and Q&A discussing the business of YouTube and all things Social Media, Beauty and Fashion as well as what they have learnt through their individual journeys.

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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.

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

Learn 4 Words to Grow Your Business - Learn over Lunch Join us for a webinar on Nov 13, 2012 at 12:30 PM GMT.

Register now! https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2452598470895638528

Learn over lunch with me on Tuesday at 12.30 pm. Learn 4 Words to Grow Your Business and turn more of your contacts into clients.

Giving you Business Growth Tactics on Tuesday!

This One Hour Online Workshop will empower you to: