BEC Annual Entrepreneurship Conference: Successful Business Showcase

BEC Annual Entrepreneurship Conference: Successful Business Showcase Experience, Discuss and Learn Together from the Real Successful Business!

90% of new businesses fail in the first year of their operation. In this conference, we have selected and featuring 3 businesses from different industries that have been running and growing successfully.

In this conference, we will take a highly interactive approach where each business owner or the corresponding consultant will present the challenges that they faced in the start-up, growing and mature stage. Participants would comment and give their ideas as to what they would do in those situations; in this process, the business owner/consultant will share back their views and the real actions they have taken to successfully overcome those challenges.

Event Information:

Date: Friday, May 16th, 2014

Time: 2:00pm – 5:30pm

Venue: 5/F., Two Exchange Square, 8 Connaught Place, Central

Number of Participants: 70 Event

Price: HKD200

Topic, Business Case, and Speaker Information:

Running a Successful Promotional Gift Business

Mark Basford, Managing Director of Synco Marketing Limited, is a marketing and sales professional with over 25 years international experience, and now Director of Synco Marketing, one of Hong Kong’s fastest growing Promotional Product and Private-Label branded Apparel companies. Synco Marketing is dedicated to providing your company with top quality, cost-efficient branding support through our wide range of bespoke corporate gifts, premiums, giveaways and branded clothing.

Running a Successful IT Business

Phil Aldridge, Founder and Technical Director of FunctionEight Limited FunctionEight is an IT company providing IT Managed Services to hundreds of businesses across Asia. FunctionEight currently has offices and operations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing and New Zealand and can remove the need for an in-house IT technician and provide clients with 24 hour IT and Computer Support that is only a phone call away.

Second Generation Entrepreneur Case Study

Dr Joe Leung, PhD (Warwick), DProf (Middlesex), Principal Advisor, eeVoices Limited will also bring along a second generation entrepreneur who have successfully taken over and run a successful business.

Leung has over 20 years’ experience in business, consulting and training. For the past 10 years, Leung has provided consultancy and training services for over 40 Hong Kong and multinational companies. He has also conducted numerous studies about Hong Kong SMEs and Entrepreneurship. He is a prominent speaker and has delivered various executive training programmes/workshops for over 3,000 Hong Kong and China executives.