Exciting week planned for Tauranga entrepreneurs

1 November 2012

Exciting week planned for Tauranga entrepreneurs

Tauranga Chamber of Commerce and Priority One today announced a series of co-hosted events and activities to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, which runs from 12-18 November.

Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. Its purpose is to inspire people through activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.

Chamber CEO Max Mason said, “We are delighted to be co-hosting Global entrepreneurship week with Priority One as both organisations are involved in different, but complementary aspects of the entrepreneurial encouragement and support process.”

Some of the activities planned include a ‘What’s On The Horizon,’ future business opportunities seminar where industry experts predict the trends and opportunities available to Bay firms in the next one to three years.

There will also be a follow up event to the highly successful Tauranga Startup Weekend held last month, consisting of the launch of the Plenty of Innovation group organised by Angel Investors. The guest speaker will be international angel capital authority Nelson Gray.

Each morning Chamber and Priority One contacts will receive an inspirational video clip with messages from some of the world’s top entrepreneurs to reinforce messages of innovation and aspiration.

A competition to find Tauranga’s favourite business person will be open to the whole community, and the week concludes on Friday 16 November with a multimedia celebration of Steve Jobs life and legacy.

Priority One CEO Andrew Coker said the success of the week would be enhanced by participation, and people getting behind the main message that entrepreneurial thinking and activity is vitally important to our economic growth and development.

He said, “Entrepreneurship is particularly vital to Tauranga because we need more high value businesses that don’t just depend on population growth to be successful. We need to encourage new sectors that sustain employment and the

creation of wealth when there are economic downturns which impact sectors such as building and retail.”

“Local business leader Peter Farmer of Farmer Autovillage has kindly accepted the role of patron of Global Entrepreneurship Week in Tauranga. Peter is a true embodiment of what entrepreneurship means, having built up a very successful business and is a role model here in Tauranga,” announced Max Mason.

The GEW initiative was launched in 2008 and has since grown to 125 countries—with 24,008 partner organisations planning 33,846 activities that directly engage millions of participants every year. Activities in Tauranga can be viewed on the GEW website http://nz.unleashingideas.org/

If members of the public or business community have any events or activities to include in Global Entrepreneurship Week they should contact the Chamber or Priority One.

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