Friday 28th October 2022
17:00: Arrive at Bayes Business School & Registration
18:00: CityStarters Weekend Starts
Welcome and Agenda Review by Aurore Hochard, Head of Entrepreneurship Programmes, Bayes Business School
18:15: Entrepreneur Story: Dhruvin Patel, Optometrist & Founder of Ocushield
18:45: Food & Networking: Meet fellow participants, share ideas, start pitching
19:15: The Magic of 60 seconds: Pitch your business idea in 60 secs or less
20:15: Voting: Attendees vote for the top pitches
20:30: Teams creation: Teams start forming and discuss ideas
Saturday 29th October 2022
Part 1: Evaluate Your Business Opportunity
09:30: Arrive at Bayes and register
10:00: INTRO TALK by Stephen Hampson, Investment Director at Oxford Capital
SESSION GOAL: What is the problem that you’re trying to solve? Discuss with your team if the problem actually exists and if so, how your product or service is going to solve the problem.
10:45: Begin work in teams with help of mentors
12:45: Working Lunch
13:45: After lunch log in, check-in, status reports, call for help
Part 2: Build MVP / Customer Development
14:00: INTRO TALK by Zoe Peden, Serial Entrepreneur & Partner at Ananda VC
SESSION GOAL: Now that you know your product or service is needed in the market, take the time to define and build your product or service. Along with your product, you should also build a plan to acquire customers.
14:45: Back to work in teams with the help of mentors
18:00: End
Sunday 30th October 2022
Part 3: Acquire Customers (Marketing)
09:30: Arrive at Bayes and register
10:00: INTRO TALK by Samantha Stallard Steele, Managing Director at National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI
SESSION GOAL: Now that you’ve built your product or service, it’s time to sell. How are you going to reach your customers? Remember, the old adage ‘build and they will come’ doesn’t work anymore.
10:45: Work in teams with the help of mentors
12:45: Working Lunch
13:45: After lunch log in, check-in, status reports, call for help
Part 4: Pitch for Investment
14:00: INTRO TALK by Dr Ruben van Werven, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School
SESSION GOAL: Your idea is solid, you’ve built your product and you know how you’re going to get customers to pay for your product. Now it’s time to raise investment. Pitch your idea to investors.
14:45: Continue work in teams
15:00: Presentation prep & practice (have presentation slides ready by 4.45pm)
17:00: Final Presentations
18:30: Judges Evaluation
18:45: Awards & Wrap up, followed by Drinks