Manufacturing and Starting Business

NSW Manufacturing Week

NSW Manufacturing Week aims to inspire and encourage manufacturers to be innovative and to develop their ideas. It offers a wide range of workshops, seminars and site visits designed to inform small to medium enterprises of the latest ideas to grow and evolve their businesses.

Events will be held in Sydney, Western Sydney, Central West NSW, the Hunter, the Mid North-Coast, the Riverina and South-East NSW.

The Program: NSW Manufacturing Week 2010highlights best practice techniques, strategies and case studies. It will identify and discuss some of the major opportunities available to manufacturers from:
• marketing and communications
• logistics and supply chains
• human resources and upgrading skills; and
• sustainability and innovation.
Topics presented by industry experts during NSW Manufacturing Week include:
• manufacturing business performance
• the future of technology
• lean manufacturing
• future directions for Australian industry
• managing fatigue risk
• the global economic outlook
• can your product be exported?
• women in manufacturing
• and much, much more.

Site visits: Site visits are an opportunity for you to inspect some of the more interesting businesses contributing to the manufacturing sector in your region, examine how they become successful, and to identify potential strategic alliances.

More information and registration details: For a complete list of events and site visits, information and registration details: visit: http://smallbiz.e-newsletter.com.au/   
phone: 1300 661 539; 1300 661 539; email manufacturingweek@business.nsw.gov.au 

Young Entrepreneur Round Table Series

Are you a business owner under 35? To come and share your ideas about starting and running a business there is a Newcastle/Hunter event for you on April 12. The half day Round Tables being held across NSW will be a forum for enthusiastic young business owners to share ideas and issues about setting up and running a business in NSW.
The MC will be Jack Delosa, recognised as one of the top young Entrepreneurs in Australia at 'Anthills 30 under 30' Awards.
Hosted By: Industry & Investment NSW on 12 Apr 2010 from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM at Ray Watt Oval Pavilion, University of Newcastle, Wirra Crescent Newcastle.
Maximum attendees: 40. This event is free of charge.
For information and registration details: http://events.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au/Events.aspx?eventid=1621

Publicity for an Event?

If you want publicity for your business or technically related event, contact Colin Seaborn on 4254 0200 or 0419 841829 or click here->
We welcome stories and photos. With the YOC electronic magazine now going out monthly you will need to send your story by the end of a month to get publicity for an event in the following month in this Clipboard column.