Venturefest Yorkshire 2008 – Where Great Ideas Flourish!

For the fifth consecutive year Garbutt & Elliott were silver sponsors of Venturefest Yorkshire. Russell Turner, Business Advisory, Director and Director of Venturefest Yorkshire explains, 'Venturefest Yorkshire is the largest event of it's kind in the region designed to connect knowledge and technology entrepreneurs with everything they need to know to give them the best opportunity for success. At the 2008 event there were numerous successful pitches for investment and millions of pounds of business changed hands.

Garbutt & Elliott were proud to be sponsors of two of Venturefest Yorkshire's prestigious competitions, the Investment Competition and Innovation Showcase Competition.

There was a series of high profile speakers, informative seminars, numerous commercial exhibitors, an "Innovation Showcase" area as well as exciting and vibrant areas for students in schools and universities from around the Yorkshire region. It was a day not to be missed.

Venturefest Yorkshire is free to delegates, to find out more about next years event to be held at York Racecourse on Wednesday 11 February 2009 please visit www.venturefestyorkshire.net