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12 noon, Monday 21 May 2012 - 2pm, Tuesday 22 May 2012

B2B Expo 2012

The FSB, in conjunction with the Coventry Evening Telegraph and the Belgrade Theatre are hosting a B2B Expo 2012 at the Belgrade.

One of a series of Webinars for members of the WBS Technology Professional Network

Recommended Cloud Services for Start-ups & Small Businesses with Stuart Turner, Founder and Director of Sapien.IT

During this webinar, Stuart will share about some online web-services that every early stage business should be aware of, not just Google Apps, Wordpress and VOIP but Syncplicity, Dropbox, Zoho, Mailchimp, Survey Monkey, Evernote, Xero, Podio, Lastpass and the rest.

6 - 7pm, Tuesday 22 May 2012

Creative Education as a 21st Century Imperative

This Inaugural Lecture will define creativity, ethical innovation, problem based learning and collaboration as 21st Century imperatives that are essential to the survival of the planet and the species. . .

1.30 - 3pm, Wednesday 23 May 2012

Joan MacNaughton, CB HonFEI

The Warwick Global Energy MBA and the Warwick Global Priority Programme for Energy invite you to a lecture to be given by Joan MacNaughton

"International policies driving change
in the Energy Industry"

Registration for the lecture is free. Please register your interest in attending by sending an e-mail to: Energy.Seminar@wbs.ac.uk

2 - 4pm, Wednesday 23 May 2012

IRRU Seminar - Ed Heery

'From industrial disorder to market failure: pluralist industrial relations in an era of neo-liberalism'

3.30 - 5.30pm, Thursday 24 May 2012

Patient Admission and Scheduling under Multiple Resource Constraints

We consider a patient admission problem to a hospital with multiple potential bottlenecks (e.g. beds and OR). While there is an uncontrolled arrival process of emergency patients, the hospital has the freedom to postpone or even reject the admission of non-emergency patients. We model the control process as a Markov Decision Process and suggest price-directed heuristics.

6 - 7pm, Thursday 24 May 2012

Pitch Yourself - Effective Personal Marketing

Whether you are a full-time, modular or executive MBA student or an alumnus ...

whether you are in a job, looking for one, or just want to change ...

book your place on this webinar and find out how to take charge of your destiny with fresh thinking and hard advice.

Summer webinars are only £10 ...

7 - 10pm, Thursday 24 May 2012

WBS Midlands event - Venture Capitalists - Shark or Dolphin?

Octopus Ventures - have £125M available to invest in entrepreneurial businesses over the next 3 years.

Luke explains how, when, why, who and what a successful marriage should look like!

1 - 2pm, Monday 28 May 2012

Becoming a Non-Executive Director

Are you interested in becoming a Non Executive Director? Do you have what it takes to become one?

Join us for this interactive webinar to understand more about the challenges you may face and discover how to build your career portfolio towards becoming a non-executive director.

Summer webinars are only £10.

6.30 - 8.30pm, Tuesday 29 May 2012

Bletchley Park and After

Join three fabulous speakers for an early evening event exploring Bletchley Park and its legacy. Imagine a world where the Nazis won WWII and computers had never been invented... and then thank Bletchley Park for its codebreaking efforts and its legacy.

2 - 3.30pm, Wednesday 30 May 2012

Finance Group Seminar Series

Ekkehart Boehmer

4.30 - 6pm, Thursday 31 May 2012

Politics, Religion and Finance

Alok Kumar is the Gabelli Asset Management Professor of Finance at the School of Business Administration of the University of Miami. Inter alia, a graduate of Cornell, Yale and Dartmouth College, Alok is author of over 20 papers in a range of 4* US journals. Highly creative and broad ranging in his research interests, Professor Kumar is also an engaging and highly entertaining speaker. We are very privileged to have him visit WBS.

5.30pm, Thursday 31 May 2012

Warwick South Africa Alumni Network Event

Event for all Warwick alumni and DL students living and/or working in South Africa.