Monday 2nd - June - Familiarising

Bondholders’ Breakfast including ‘Are you smarter
than a CEO’?

Circle Restaurant, KC Stadium, Hull
The business community took advantage of this early networking opportunity and turned up at the Circle Restaurant en masse. Malcolm Fallen, Chief Executive of KCom; Terry Hodgkinson, Chair of Yorkshire Forward; Carolyn Burgess, Chief Executive of Language is Everything and Colin Brown, Chief Executive of The Deep, put themselves in the firing line by taking on - and losing to - students from Hymers College who proved they were smarter than this particular collection of chief executives.

Institute of Directors’ Luncheon

Ramada Jarvis, Grange Park Lane, Willerby

Entrepreneurial multi-millionaire jeweller Gerald Ratner was far from cr*p when he
gave an honest account of the time he wiped £500m off the value of his company.

It’s the economy, stupid

Kingston Suite, KC Stadium, Hull

Leading economist Professor Peter Spencer issued a stark warning to business
leaders that they must change their ways to survive the current financial climate.
However, he added that the Humber region has cause for optimism.

Yorkshire Passion +

Wilberforce Suite, KC Stadium, Hull

Chair of Visit Hull & East Yorkshire (VHEY), playwright John Godber, was amongst
those encouraging people in Hull and East Yorkshire to become ambassadors for
the region.