Judge for 2025 UK Operation Excellence Awards
Jul 11, 2025
Location
Awards Ceremony held at Park Plaza London Riverbank on 9th September 2025
Description
I am delighted to join a prestigious lineup of judges from industry and academia to support the 2025 UK Operation Excellence Awards that will be held in Park Plaza London Riverbank.
The Operational Excellence Awards UK celebrate organisations and individuals setting new standards for operational excellence. Building on four years of successfully recognising operational excellence in Ireland, this UK-based programme celebrates those driving business transformation through process improvement, technology adoption, and enhanced customer experience. The Operational Excellence Awards UK provide a platform to showcase achievements and inspire others to unlock efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve performance through data-driven strategies.
Teaching and Learning Conference 2025: Future-focused education: Ensuring successful student outcomes for all
Jul 1, 2025
Location
The Wave, University of Sheffield
Description
Inspiring the next generation of young entrepreneurs to make a positive social impact, through the adoption of an experiential learning approach.
Our interactive workshop explores how experiential learning fosters entrepreneurial mindsets, sustainability, and social impact. It will discuss best practices from the Young Enterprise (UK) Start-Up Programme across the four UK universities (Salford, Liverpool, Hertfordshire and Manchester Metropolitan) and through ideation-centred modules. The interactive workshop will invite academics, researchers and students from other educational institutes from across the UK to engage in activities like "Creating the Enterprise" and "Ideation Simulation” and hear student success stories through video testimonials. Learn how to embed entrepreneurial thinking, inclusivity and sustainability within higher education curricula. Gain actionable frameworks to prepare students for impactful careers, addressing global challenges while advancing economic resilience and advance HE’s mission.
It will focus on how experiential, entrepreneurial education fosters inclusivity and equal opportunities for all students, including those from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds. The workshop aims to provide a practical understanding of how to design and implement curriculum frameworks that build student capabilities in ideation, strategic decision-making and sustainable business development.
The workshop was held on campus aiming to bring together researchers in ERIC and informatics. The workshop highlighted NERC and EPSRC funding and presentations from researchers that facilitated conversations around collaboration.
Young Enterprise NW Regional Final 2025
Feb 26, 2025
Location
The Young Enterprise (UK) NW Reginal final was hosted by the University of Liverpool.
Description
The Young Enterprise start-up competition recognises and rewards the next generation entrepreneurs who are paving the way in innovation and pioneering business concepts, with teams pitching their ideas to a panel of esteemed industry judges for a place in the coveted UK final, followed by the European final.
On the 26th February 2025, just fifteen student teams from a starting line up of over one hundred and fifty teams from across the North West regions universities. These #nextgen young entrepreneurs students were bidding for the individual prizes, team prizes, learn from the discussions with industry Judges from some major UK companies and professional institutions, as well as the opportunity to network with peers.
