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Dorset Business Festival Conference to take place in October
Headlining the event, which takes place in Bournemouth on 9 October, are Benita Matofska and Lord Matthew Elliott.
A global climate change consultant and a social entrepreneur will be headlining the Dorset Business Festival Conference which takes place on 9 October in Bournemouth.
Benita Matofska will be joined as keynote speaker by political analyst and president of The Jobs Foundation, Lord Matthew Elliott.
Meanwhile, broadcaster Declan Curry will host the conference, which also includes panel debates, question and answer sessions, networking and presentations.
The theme of the conference will be ‘business as a force for good’.
It is part of the Dorset Chamber-organised Business Festival which runs from 30 September to 10 October.
Ian Girling, Dorset Chamber chief executive, said: “We are thrilled to secure Benita as a keynote speaker.
“She is a world-leading orator, change maker and climate change consultant who has worked with some of the world’s most forward-thinking businesses.”
Benita, the author of the book ‘Generation Share’, helps businesses navigate economic, social and environmental changes.
She is described as a ‘sustainability innovator, conscious leadership and future business consultant’ who is driven by a passion to ‘create global change and transform business into a force for good’.
Matthew Elliott has worked on UK public policy for nearly 25 years, including overseeing two national referendum campaigns, founding four high profile pressure groups and convening policy commissions.
The Jobs Foundation is a registered charity that champions the role of business as a force for good. It is building a broad coalition of business leaders across the country to tackle poverty and advance social mobility.
Panels at the conference include: Embedding Environmental and Social Responsibility for Growth; Sustainable Business: Where Profit and Planet Align; Leadership and Innovation: Business as a Problem Solver, and Gen Z, Gen Alpha and Beyond: Their Future in our Hands.
This year’s Dorset Business Festival includes a Festival Expo on 2 October, the conference on 9 October and the Dorset Business Awards on 1 October – all at the Hilton Hotel in Bournemouth. There will also be a festival breakfast on 30 September at Rick Stein’s restaurant at Sandbanks.
The festival is supported by Premier Festival Partner Lester Aldridge and Festival Partners Blue Sky Financial Planning, Bournemouth and Poole College, Dorset Council, ElectriX and YMCA Bournemouth.
For more information visit the Dorset Chamber website. Tickets to the festival cost £99+VAT for members of the Chamber and £120+VAT for non-members.
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