Lancashire Innovation Festival 2023

Our fourth year of running the successful Lancashire Innovation Festival, supported by the British Business Bank.

We are looking to show how Lancashire businesses engage with innovation and how they implement it.

This year we have two themes to the day – eco and energy, followed by money – how to fund your innovation.

Starting at 9.30am with an address from Professor Graham Baldwin – Chairman of the Lancashire Innovation Board, outlining what has happened over the last year and what is to come.

Followed by 4 sessions on eco innovation and energy – more details to follow once we have confirmed names.

Break for lunch and the opportunity to take tours around AMRC and see the various innovative things they are working on.

After lunch at 1.30pm we have an introduction to the session by the British Business Bank's Delyth Edwards who will outline what they can support you with and how they work with Lancashire based businesses.

We then have other sessions hosted by Innovate UK and the Lancashire Funding Hub who will chat about other means of funding innovation and introduce businesses who have got funding through them.

Throughout the day, we will have other support organisations available as well as the opportunity at the end of each session to catch up with the speakers and exchange contact details or simply ask questions.

The hashtag for the event is #LANIF23

The bus route 59 from Preston to Blackburn provides a drop-off stop at the venue.