The inaugural SheffEX business exhibition took place on Monday 3rd June at Ponds Forge, designed “as a place to do business by Sheffield City Region businesses people for Sheffield City Region businesses people.”
And it was a great success – with exhibition stands sold out, over 1000 delegates, and, in the words of co-organiser Tony Carroll, the venue “absolutely buzzing with people making contacts, doing deals and forming new partnerships.”
I’d been excited when I first heard about the event – and had interviewed Tony Carroll on my Business Live radio programme on Sheffield Live back on Friday 2nd May to talk about his plans.
So I attended SheffEX on the 2nd of June to find out what the buzz was all about. Whilst there, I interviewed exhibitors, delegates and speakers, and broadcast these interviews on the Business Live radio programme on Sheffield Live on Friday 6th June.
You can listen to the interviews here:
SheffEX – 1
SheffEX – 2
Who is in the interviews?
In the first set of interviews (SheffEX 1) you can hear:
1. David Watkins, FORTAY Media
2. Faye Smith, Keep Your Fork
3. David Robinson BDO Accountants
4. Amanda Drake, Sheffield Chamber
5. Nic Rotton, Sterling Capital Reserve
6. Joel Kruithof, Osborne Translation Services
7. Austin Macauley, Real Ale Trails
8. Mick Heard, Business Crime Reduction Centre
9. Jess Culbert, You Say Social
10. Sam Cook, Cathedral Archer Project
11. Mark McCormick, SheffEX & Cafe Moco
In the second set of interviews (SheffEX 2) you can hear:
1. Becky, Magna
2. David Toft, Westfield Health
3. Andy Hanselman
4. Claire Thompson, Mercury Taxis
5. Kiley Tan, Wosskow Brown
6. Carla Davis, Hart Shaw (in an extended interview with advice on international trade)
7. Nigel Short, VOOT
8. Donna Wingell, Accountability
9. Martin Abonyi, Sugarcane
10. Martin Ross, HR Media
11. Catherine Beatty, Aizlewood Business Centre
12. John Baddeley, Wake Smith Solicitors
13. Sarah Brown Inspire2Aspire
14. Tony Carroll, SheffEX (in an extended interview talking about the organisation of the event)
There’s more information about my Business Live radio programme here and also on the Sheffield Live website (including links to podcasts of the last few shows) here.
The SheffEX organisers and their partners Fortay Media and Fish Eagle Films have also just released a film with interviews with a number of SheffEX exhibitors…you might be able to spot me in it!
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