Fill your skills gap at an ITWales Business Breakfast

Welsh SMEs are now widely using ICT applications to support day-to-day business processes. Many also see the potential of extending the use of technology to strengthen business development, increase profitability and ensure smart working.

The barriers to expansion are sometimes too great for a small business to overcome: Too little time; too little knowledge; too few resources: dealing with IT issues is often well down the list of priorities for any business.

ITWales is committed to supporting the continued development of technology in SMEs across the Objective 1 areas of Wales, and so has planned a series of business breakfasts to outline just how easy it is to access support to help organisations realise their full potential.

The events will focus on the opportunities and benefits the ITWales placement and project schemes can offer and will include case studies of businesses that have benefited from the programme.

The breakfasts are FREE for SMEs to attend, and are taking place at locations across South West Wales during March, including,

16 March – Sketty Hall, Swansea
21 March – Aberavon Beach Hotel, Neath Port Talbot
28 March – Stradey Park Hotel, Llanelli
30 March – Pembrokeshire College, Haverfordwest

Places are limited so advance registration is essential. Places can be booked by email to info@itwales.com; on the website at www.itwales.com/events, or by phone 01792 295881.



Notes for editors:
At each event, coffee and registration will be available from 7.15am, with breakfast served at 7.45am prompt. Following the breakfast there will be presentations from organisations that have already benefited from the Student Placement and Research & Development Project programmes, and delegates will have the opportunity to discuss their initial ideas with both ITWales and academic staff from Swansea University. The event will finish at 9.15am.

About ITWales
ITWales launched in 1993 as the industrial liaison unit of the Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea. The Department is one of the most distinguished in the UK, being placed in the top 10, and has a growing reputation in research both nationally and internationally.

ITWales now supports businesses across Wales from its headquarters in Swansea, and office in the School of Informatics at the University of Wales Bangor.

ITWales provides practical, accessible support to business, via a wide range of activities designed to nurture and support the Welsh IT industry. ITWales is uniquely placed to identify the technological needs of business, exploiting its links with academia to help companies remain competitive, innovative and ahead of the game.

The ITWales programme is part financed by the European Social Fund.
www.itwales.com

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