Tech Events by Aston Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

with Rosie Ginday MBE (Founder, Miss Macaroon)

Rosie Ginday MBE, founder and CEO of Miss Macaroon, in conversation at Aston's John Cadbury House on Corporation Street, 17:30 to 19:30. Professor Paula Whitehouse, Director of the Aston Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, hosts. Welcome drinks and networking from 17:30, the conversation itself from 18:00 to 18:45, audience questions until 19:00, then networking. Ginday built Miss Macaroon as a social enterprise, training young people out of work or care alongside running a commercial food business, and the session covers the business journey and what running a company with a social mission actually demands. Why go: a founder who has held a double bottom line together for years, in a format with real audience time rather than a stage interview. Best for social enterprise founders and anyone building a business with a mission attached.

A three-hour practical workshop at Aston's John Cadbury House on getting useful work out of ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, 10:00 to 13:00. It is pitched at business owners and leaders rather than engineers. The session covers which everyday tasks these tools genuinely improve, how to get better results from them, and how to spot the opportunities worth pursuing in your own organisation, working through real examples, discussion and hands-on exercises. The emphasis is on leaving with something you can apply rather than a survey of the market. Free, run by the Aston Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. Why go: most AI sessions for business owners are either sales pitches or futurology, and this is neither. Best for owner-managers and team leads who have a Copilot licence and are not getting much out of it.

Structured speed networking for founders and small business owners at Aston University's John Cadbury House. Free.