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Get closer insights into university tech startups and hear from three University of Birmingham entrepreneurs about their experiences starting a business from scratch. This is a collaborative event between the UoB Startup society and the enterprise team at the University of Birmingham.

This event is aimed at anyone who is interested in starting a business – hear about the successes and challenges encountered in the early stages, get tips from our speaker panel and be inspired to start up your own tech idea.

Join the University of Birmingham’s Startup Society and B-Enterprising for this talk from our very own budding student entrepreneurs! Our three panellists will recount the journey of their startups across different stages of development. With a diverse and young panel, expect a fascinating Q&A session and learn from their top tips.

SPEAKERS

Oyinkansola Adebayo runs a multi-faceted organisation called Niyo enterprise, a company that specialises in using creative tools such as hair, beauty, tech and community development to economically empower black women. This organisation currently has two brands: Niyo Hair and Beauty and Niyo Network. Niyo Hair and Beauty is a technology-driven mobile afro hair and beauty service that services 350 clients across the midlands whilst economically empowering hairstylists. Niyo Network exists to economically empower black women to pursue their business ideas and career aspirations. She is currently empowering 50 black women to become full-stack developers through the “black codher” bootcamp project, one of the projects under Niyo network. Her work has been recognised in BBC News, The Voice, Metro, Black Beauty and Hair Magazine, Nottingham Post and many more. She has a BA in Economics and Management from Nottingham Business School and an MSc in Development Economics. She is particularly passionate about addressing poverty especially amongst black women and using disruptive and high-value tools to transform the lives of black women across the world through helping black women secure employment opportunities that would have been just a dream without the skills and tools we would have provided them.

Olaoluwa Dada is the Chief Marketing Officer of Niyo Enterprise. As a creative leader Laolu has developed and overseen numerous marketing campaigns and projects targeted at young adults within the Midlands and across the country. Her experience working with local authorities to expand the reach and awareness of various public sector organisations is the drive behind her passion to build brands that have a strong social impact but also appeal to niché customer groups. In her time as a marketer, she has worked alongside large organisations to increase online brand engagement and awareness by 40%. She has consulted for East midlands local government THINK tanks working to improve digital innovation and digital skills amongst citizens. Laolu spent 3 years working in marketing roles before joining Oyin to build Niyo Enterprise as Co-founder.

Harriet Noy, a final year student at the University of Birmingham, is cutting her entrepreneurial teeth with an exciting new venture, Hazaar, an app which will give every British university their own zero-waste marketplace. Hazaar allows each student to trade preloved popular items directly with each other. Harriet began her journey into sustainable solutions by co-founding ‘Plastic-free UOB' during her second year at university, leading a canal cleaning and litter pick programme in the local area, whilst working with the university to ensure new buildings on campus are designed to be plastic-free. Harriet is a highly driven young woman who is on a mission to make a sustainable lifestyle accessible for students!

John Sewell has made it his mission to help artists sell their work for a fair price, and to make it easier for people to buy it. His love for art goes back a long way, but having taken his first steps into the commercial art world as a History of Art student whilst at the University of Birmingham, he realised the traditional commission model was not working for artists and buyers alike so set up online art marketplace Eazyl. Hear more about his journey to make the art world fairer for everyone, whether you're an artist, a buyer, or just interested in art.