Mr Sam Gardner

Sam has spent nearly a decade engaging companies in development activities, initially through skills development and more recently through innovation and R&D activities.

Sam is currently the marketing lead for the Product and Process Innovation project which provides grants to small businesses to enable innovation.

In Sam's experience, innovation is widely misunderstood - Sam will explain why every company at Venturefest could benefit from this new fund - and why an everyday household object is stopping companies from their innovation potential.