Event details

>>	Prepare Your Product for Take-OFF
>>	Portsmouth Technopole
>>	24th April 2008

Start time:	1700
End time:	2030
Cost:	Free

Summary:
Prepare Your Product for Take-OFF

This informative and inspiring event will provide an insight into the challenges and rewards of developing a successful product for market.

With presentations on product development and the issues surrounding intellectual property, this event is intended for people thinking of or in the early stages of developing their own product.

The key note presentation from Tycoon winner Iain Morgan, will provide an interesting insight into the challenges he has faced developing his own award winning product.

The evening is designed to provide advice on how to exploit and develop ideas, how to protect them, ways of reaching your target market and maintaining a market advantage.

Programme:

5:00pm Tea & Coffee

5:30pm Welcome & Introduction
Karen Tyrrell - Portsmouth Technopole

5:40pm Innovation & Commercial Success
David Maddison - Maddison Design
In today's world of innovation we all aim for success. After a
long product development journey it's satisfying to see ideas in
the market place, bringing benefit to users and commercial success to the innovator. So how can innovators best ensure
their ideas succeed?
www.maddison.co.uk

6:00pm IP & Product Development
Mark Barber - Business Link South East
www.businesslink.gov.uk/southeast

6:20pm Key Note Speaker
Iain Morgan - Bladez Toyz
Tycoon winner Iain Morgan will deliver an interesting insight
into the challenges he has faced since winning the ITV entrepreneurial TV show starring serial investor Peter Jones
www.bladeztoyz.co.uk