Young Entrepreneur Round Tables
Are you a business owner under 35? To come and share your ideas about starting and running a business there is a Sutherland Shire event for you on April 8. 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.
Hosted by Industry & Investment NSW on 08 Apr 2010 from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM at Lecture Theatre, University of Wollongong Loftus Campus, 1 Pitt Street Loftus, 2229
Maximum attendees: 40. This event is free of charge.
The MC will be Jack Delosa, recognised as one of the top young Entrepreneurs in Australia at 'Anthills 30 under 30' Awards.
For information and registration details: http://events.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au/Events.aspx?eventid=1658
Showcase your business in Southern Sydney at Sylvania Waters
The Business Enterprise Centre – St George & Sutherland Shire (BEC) is proud to announce we have partnered with Doltone House and Rendezvous in Business to present “Think Business” on Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd April 2010 at Doltone House, 223 Belgrave Esplanade, Sylvania Waters.
Think Business is aimed at all Businesses within Southern Sydney across all industries and sizes as well as those wanting to increase their presence in the area. It will be the largest combined expo, corporate functions and workshops ever held in Southern Sydney. Think Business provides you and your business with a unique opportunity to showcase your products and services, build brand awareness and network with other businesses.
This exciting event offers a range of options for those of you seeking high level brand exposure via any of the three major sponsorship opportunities Lunch, Cocktails or Breakfast (all three include naming rights & exhibition booth) or by becoming an Alliance Partner. Other businesses may like to consider being an exhibitor.
Think Business has assembled internationally renowned speakers for each of the three major functions. Lunch features the Peter Fitzsimmons speaking on "Applying the Lessons of Sports Champions and Famous Historical Figures to Business Success"”. Cocktails features Justin Herald speaking on “How to Grow Your Business without Spending a Single Cent (The Attitude Story)” and Iggy Pintado will entertain Breakfast guests with “The Power of Connection for Business”.
Visitors to “Think Business” are encouraged to visit the exhibition space where over 30 exhibitors will be displaying their products and services over the two day event as well as attend complimentary BEC workshops on a range of topics from networking, franchising, capital raising, innovation and commercialisation.
Think Business provides a unique opportunity for businesses that service Southern Sydney to showcase your products and services, access world class speakers and network with other businesses to extend your customer bases and your supply chain. This is a must attend event for anyone focussed on business growth.
To ensure you make the most of this opportunity confirm your sponsorship, exhibition spaces or attendance at major corporate events now by going to Think Business website. Contact: Maria Cook, Executive Officer, BEC- St George & Sutherland Shire; Ph: 9545 5900; Fax: 9545 5988; Email: info@thinkbusiness.org.au; Web: www.thinkbusiness.org.au
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
Sutherland Shire’s Smith takes waste management reins in NSW
Ron Smith has been elected unopposed to head the NSW branch of the Waste Management Association of Australia (WMAA), replacing outgoing president Mike Ritchie who served his maximum two terms. Currently waste manager for Sydney’s Sutherland Shire Council, Smith said he wants to encourage greater networking between key stakeholders in the industry, especially local councils and private sector service providers. “We’ve got to get the message out there to all local government… we’ve got to be seen as the ‘go to place’ if someone wants to know something [about waste],” he said at WMAA’s NSW branch meeting last week.
In handing over the reins, Ritchie highlighted the importance of having someone with a background in local government stepping up to the top job. He pointed out councils make up 40% of the association’s members and are a “significant contributor” to any debate about industry issues.
Outside the WMAA circles, Tony Khoury of the NSW Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association has also congratulated Smith on the appointment.
“It’s both great to have local government in that role, and a great choice because [Smith] has knowledge across a lot of issues,” said Khoury.
For more on this story go to: http://www.insidewaste.com.au/StoryView.asp?StoryID=1109580
Hear about Sustainable Resource Processing
Stevan Green, CEO, Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing, (CSRP) will be outlining what the Centre does at a meeting of the Illawarra branch of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy on Thursday April 22. Venue: Engineering Building 4 at the University of Wollongong. Time: 5.30pm for the Annual General Meeting, drinks and finger food, followed by the presentation at 6pm. Visitors are very welcome. For more details contact Ray Tolhurst (rayt@uow.edu.au) or Roderick Haselden (Roderick.Haselden@douglaspartners.com.au)
The aims of the Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing are to:
• Create new methods to produce minerals and metals in a way that benefits the community, the environment and industry.
• Achieve sustainable minerals processing and metals production: satisfying the global material needs of society with significantly reduced ecological impacts.
• Find technical solutions for progressively eliminating waste and emissions in the materials cycle, while enhancing business performance and meeting community expectations.
Local companies that have been involved with the Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing include ANSTO, BHP Billiton, BlueScope Steel, GHD, Hatch, One Steel and Xstrata. Sustainable resource processing is a key issue for Illawarra’s mining and metallurgical industries. Local projects to achieve this include:
• Coal gas drainage to achieve safety and generate electricity
• Multi-seam coal mining
• Industrial minerals extraction to sustain Sydney’s building industry
• Australia’s largest zinc recycling plant
• The proposed BlueScope Steel co-generation plant
• Materials applications of nano-technology
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