BUSINESSES from across the South joined together at the Business South Annual Conference.
Celebrating ten years of the organisation’s Champion Programme, the 2017 event took place at Hilton at The Ageas Bowl, near Southampton, with 180 businesses from across the region in attendance.
Speakers from both the private, public and educational sectors delivered the clear message – in current times of economic and political uncertainty there must be a willingness from the business community to adapt and do things differently, and at the heart of this lies collaboration and learning from each other.
Christine Ourmières-Widener, chief executive officer of airline Flybe, was the keynote speaker and spoke on the theme of prosperity.
Other speakers included Alastair Welch of Associated British Ports, Gemma Lacey of The Southern Co-operative, and Barry Naisbitt, chief economist at Santander.