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SWLEP Game changing innovation in Swindon & Wiltshire Working in partnership with local businesses and Government, we are developing our Local Industrial Strategy. This will set out to Government how The Swindon and Wiltshire Business Growth Summit is a well- established annual conference organised by SWLEP Limited and considered as one not to be missed by business leaders and decision makers across our region. This year it will be held at Cineworld, Regent Circus, Swindon on Thursday 3rd October 2019. Over 300 delegates registered for the 2018 event so don’t miss out, make sure you’ve booked your seat by scanning the QR code or visiting swlep.co.uk/events . Early Bird tickets are available for TBE readers by using the code TBE19 when you book. Headline Sponsors for this year’s conference are GWR and Network Rail and Nationwide are conference sponsors. Sponsorship packages are still available, for further details please email [email protected] or call 01225 713205. Our theme this year is ‘Growth From Resilience’ and speakers include WHSmith’s CEO Stephen Clarke. Don’t miss the next edition of The Business Exchange for an exclusive interview with Stephen. Take your seats at Cineworld Swindon & Wiltshire can help the UK lead the global technology revolution by tackling the four Grand Challenges facing the country. Our Local Industrial Strategy will focus on future-oriented, productive business sectors which are embracing technology and are offering the prospect of a growth in high-value jobs. Does your business have some game changing ideas and technologies? We will be having conversations with businesses in the coming months to test out the ‘big ideas’ that we think will feature in our Local Industrial Strategy and to understand what your ‘big game changing’ ideas are. If you’d like to be involved, please email us at [email protected] THE BUSINESS EXCHANGE 2019 11