London networking event - Urbano Business Networking event with Hetan Shah

Urbano Business networking breakfasts give company directors, business owners, entrepreneurs and innovators a chance to make connections, build associations, and learn from some of the UK's most informed and successful entrepreneurs, business people and cross-sector specialists.

Urbano speaker breakfasts are stripped down conferences, featuring great speakers, allowing attendees to discuss the issues featured in the guest presentation and plenty of opportunity to network with the speaker and the other attendees, drawn from across a range of sectors and specialities.

About our speaker
Hetan Shah is Executive Director of The Royal Statistical Society and is responsible for the strategy and management of the society, the UK’s learned and professional society advancing the science and application of statistics.

Previously, he ran the national charity ‘Think Global’ and held senior roles at The New Economics Foundation, Social Enterprise Partnership, Equality Trust and other think tanks.

He has written extensively on public policy issues and his co-authored publications include ‘Behavioural Economics: seven principles for policymakers’ and ‘A New Political Economy’.His interests include evidence based policymaking, international development, sustainability and measures of progress. 

Hetan will look at the diverse uses of statistics and big data in business, examining recent research across all sectors, including implications for finance, employment, health and customers.

Format

8:00am – Registration, informal networking over coffee & pastries

8:30am – Presentation by Hetan, followed by Q&A

9:15am – Networking
10.30am

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* Non-member price quoted on the event page is the discounted rate for a company's first visit. The price quoted on the actual payment page (£28 - £45) is the price relevant for you and the events your company has attended. Non-member companies are allowed to attend up to a maximum of three Urbano networking events. before joining. Details on membership: Membership