StartupCafe

The International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference is next week, 2-4 Sept. at Heriot-Watt. Hilary Singer, Launch.ed intern and StartupCafe BFF, shares the details with us here:

The Scottish Institute for Enterprise is helping to organise the event. They’re looking for volunteers to help staff the conference. Volunteers would get free food and drink throughout the day, and would get to hear some cool speakers/go to cool workshops.

Some of the sessions include “Ethical Dilemmas for the Entrepreneur” and “Four Ways to Find Enterprising Ideas”. You can see the full schedule here. This is a way to get into the event for free (though there will be some work involved!).

We’re specifically looking for anyone who is available at the following times (though I’m sure volunteers could stick around longer if they wanted to see a particular speaker):

9am – 2pm on Wed. Sept. 2*
9am – 11:30 am on Fri. Sept. 4**

All interested parties should email Anthony Ives of SIE at a.ives@sie.ac.uk.

*Kate and Jess’s birthdays!

**StartupCafe party that night at Vodka Rev, join us!

IEEC 2009: Advancing Enterprise Education

Enterprise Educators and the NCGE are delighted to announce this year’s International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference will be held at the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh from 2nd-4th September. The Principal Sponsor for IEEC 2009 will be Informatics Ventures at the University of Edinburgh.

This year’s Conference theme is ‘Advancing Enterprise Education’. Within that, there are several broad themes: ‘raising awareness’, ‘enterprise in context: teaching methods’, ‘pollcy in action’ and ‘pathways for learning’.

Confirmed speakers include:

Jim Mather MSP, Minister for Enterprise Energy and Tourism
Professor Phil Race, UK Expert in Learning and Teaching & HEA Senior Teacher Fellow http://phil-race.co.uk
Doug Richard, former TV Dragon and founder of School for Startups http://www.schoolforstartups.co.uk
Professor Chandra Embuldeniya, Uva Wellassa University on establishing an entrepreneurial university in Sri Lanka
Gill Westaway, British Council Country Director, Sri Lanka

PLUS

This year we will have more educator sessions than ever before – over 40 interactive workshops and papers showcasing enterprise education across the UK, Europe and China.

International delegates from over 20 countries have already booked to attend.

Exhibitors include SIMVENTURE; Speakeasy4Schools; NACUE & EPIGEUM; Stock Market Challenge. More exhibitor spaces available from: emrys@enterprise.ac.uk