Thursday 18th September 2008

A 2008 McKinsey report has found that companies who have more women on their boards, more higher status women (CFO/CEO), and more women on the senior executive team, on average, outperform their sector in terms of return on equity, operating result and share price.

A report for Intellect, the IT Trade Body clearly shows that there is an equivalent case for gender diversity in the IT sector.

In this Merit Event, Gillian Arnold, Chair of the Intellect Women in IT Forum will discuss the business benefits of including women in your IT organisation, and the ways in which you can attract women to your business to be part of your successful organisation.

Gillian has twenty-eight years experience in the IT industry, the last eighteen being with IBM. She has broad experience in customer facing technical, sales, business development, strategic marketing and consultancy roles.

She proved her expertise in managing and establishing teams for new products and teams with cross-industry and cross platform experience across EMEA and the UK and is currently a Technical Manager in IBM Systems Group.

Gillian Chairs the Intellect ‘Women in IT Forum’, sits on the board of Directors for the UKRC for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology, and contributes IT women’s groups, such as the BCS Strategic Forum for women.

Register for this event on the Merit website.

Registration
11:00am - 11:30am

Presentation
11:30am - 12:30pm

Lunch/Networking
12:30pm - 13:30pm

Venue

ICDC Lecture Theatre
Liverpool Innovation Park
2nd Floor, Faraday House
360 Edge Lane, Liverpool
L7 9NJ

World-renowned artist collective Artists Anonymous are offering local businesses a unique chance to promote themselves at this year’s Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.

The Biennial attracts over 400,000 visitors, many of whom are visiting the city for the first time, and with Liverpool as incumbent European Capital of Culture, the number is set to increase this year.

Artists Anonymous’ exhibition, Communication and Association, is to be held at an impressive converted warehouse on Greenland Street, owned by the Biennial founders A Foundation. The building will also play host to the Biennial opening party and the public talks programme, as well as several high profile exhibitions. Communication and Association will contain a number of TV screens upon which local businesses are being offered the opportunity to advertise their products and services.

As part of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce’s initiative to promote Liverpool based companies and organisations through arts sponsorship during 2008 and beyond, your promotional video will be a central part of the impressive installation in A Foundation’s amazing 730m2 Furnace exhibition space.

Liverpool has a proud history of cultural philanthropy, from Lord Leverhulme, to Sir Henry Tate to the Moores family. The city’s current status as European Capital of Culture makes 2008 the perfect time to join this famous lineage. Artists Anonymous bring with them an impressive roll call of previous supporters including Bacardi, Blackberry, Deutsche Bank, Pioneer, Red Bull, Samsung, and Vanity Fair. Why not add your name to the list?

For a small sponsorship commitment of £500 or £1000, your company, through its video advert, will become part of what will be an exciting and unique public forum. From the opening party on the 19th September and for the following ten weeks of the Biennial, your video will be shown over five hundred times.

Communication and Association is also supported by Arts Council England, The Contemporary Art Society and Goethe Institute London

For £500 your Company’s video will be included in this impressive exhibition.
For £1000 a double length or twin video presentation will be included plus the following benefits:

• Banner/board on display
• Inclusion in publicity material and press releases

Spaces are limited and time is short so contact A Foundation as soon as possible to obtain more details and secure your company’s place in this high profile cultural event.

Please contact James Hutchinson at jamesh@afoundation.org.uk or 0151 706 0600 for more details.

12pm - 4pm 23 October 2008

What’s the carbon footprint of your company? If like most companies, you don’t know, come along to this workshop organised by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Groundwork Merseyside, which is designed to empower you to measure and reduce your carbon footprint.

How will it benefit my business?

The main benefits associated with carrying out a Carbon Footprint Assessment are:

-    Cost savings identified as a result of improving business resource efficiency
-    Improved company image & improved corporate social responsibility credentials
-    Accessing new contracts
-    Achievement of stakeholder demands
-    Integration with existing Environmental Management System
-    Improved supply chain management

What is a Carbon Footprint Assessment?

A Carbon Footprint Assessment is a method of calculating the direct impacts your business has on greenhouse gas emissions. The Carbon Footprint Assessment Tool (CFA) devised by Groundwork Merseyside looks at the following aspects of your business:

-    Staff Travel
-    Business Travel
-    Energy use
-    Water use
-    Waste production

The Carbon Footprint Assessment will then produce a reading specific to your business, enabling you to measure what your current impact is, benchmark that impact and set in place an action plan to minimise your impact over time. The CFA report will include information on carbon offsetting, renewable technology and green energy supplies.

Cost

This seminar gives you the tools to calculate your own carbon footprint, and costs only £7:50 to cover administration

Please come prepared!

In preparation for the Carbon Footprint Assessment Workshop please ensure that you bring the following information:

12 monthly bills for the following (if applicable):
-    Electricity
-    Gas
-    Fuel oil
-    LPG
-    Waste Transfer Notes
-    Waste for recycling
-    Water

In addition to the above we need information on staff and business travel.  Forms for this will be provided on registration.

This information is essential to the accuracy of the carbon footprint calculation and will enable you to carry out an accurate Carbon Footprint Assessment during the workshop.

You can also come prepared by downloading and completing these two forms to help us assess your travel costs.

Business travel records

Staff travel records

Book your place

You can book via the Chamber’s main website or by contacting Esther in the Policy department on 0151 227 1234 or by emailing esther.sumner@liverpoolchamber.org.uk