Book Your Place at Fife Business Week
4th to 8th November 2024

Our Fife Business Week events remain focused on current key topics that may be affecting Fife entrepreneurs, business start-ups and employers alike.
This year’s programme of events is focused on current key priorities in Fife’s Economic Strategy: Supporting Businesses to Grow, Investing in Business Premises and Infrastructure, Adapting to Agile Business Models, and Delivering Skills, Training and Fair Employment.

Business Improvement Programme -Training that Boosts the Bottom Line!

The world is changing quickly and organisations need to innovate to stay competitive. Participants on the highly-successful Business Improvement Programme gain knowledge and skills they apply in their organisation, delivering ongoing innovation that increases productivity and boosts competitiveness.
This 45-minute workshop presents an overview of the flexible Business Improvement Programme and the practical application of the skills and knowledge learned in companies of all sizes in the private, public and third sectors.
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Succession Planning: Bridging the Gap Between Ageing Workforce and Apprenticeships

This workshop will help you understand the importance of succession planning in the context of an ageing workforce and learn strategies to retain and utilise the experience of senior employees.
You will also explore effective methods to attract and integrate young talent through apprenticeships and discover tools to help you develop a succession plan tailored to your organisation's needs.
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Rapid Prototyping Centre Demonstration & Social Event

Join us for an exciting afternoon at the newly opened Rapid Prototyping Centre in Guardbridge during Fife Business Week!
This event offers an exclusive tour of our state-of-the-art facilities and a chance to see how the Rapid Prototyping Centre can support your business in designing, building, and testing innovative prototypes.
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Fife College of the Future

Join us at Carnegie Conference Centre to explore the exciting training and development opportunities of the future at Fife College. Utilising new and exciting techniques and technologies, Fife College is well-placed to suit your current and future business needs.
Whether you are in Care, Engineering, Science, Business or any other sector, discover how we can meet your needs.
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How to develop a strategy that’s right for your business

This online workshop will help you develop a strategically-led approach that can turbo charge business growth, identify the core growth strategies that are right for your business and develop an action plan.
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Marketing Your Business

In this webinar, you will identify what your customers need and want, decide what type of marketing you will use and calculate the cost, identify reasonable adjustments to your products or services, work out what the price of your products or services should be and plan how you will present your product or service to customers.

By the end of the webinar you should have a realistic marketing plan designed to increase your sales.
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Tourism St Andrews, Visit North Fife, and Visit East Neuk

Tourism businesses across Fife are invited to take part and attend our Fife Tourism Showcase events as part of Fife Business Week 2024, this is an exclusive event dedicated to celebrating and promoting the vibrant tourism industry within Fife.
This event is designed to connect tourism businesses, share innovative ideas, and foster new collaborations that will help us elevate Fife as a premier destination for visitors from around the world. Whether you’re an established enterprise or just starting out, your participation is vital in shaping the future of our local tourism landscape.
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Fife House Builders Forum

Join us at the Fife House Builders Forum — an exclusive gathering for the house building industry to unite, engage in constructive discussions, and explore the latest developments and prospects in Fife.
This forum is a must-attend for anyone involved in the house building sector in Fife, from builders and developers to policymakers and investors. Don't miss your chance to be part of these crucial discussions and shape the future of housing in Fife.
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Meet the Buyer 2024

The Meet the Buyer 2024 event allows local suppliers to discuss contracts, as well as supply chain and sub-contracting opportunities, with public and private sector buyers.
Suppliers attending will also have the chance to hear about requirements for bidding with buyers across a wide range of sectors.
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Supporting Fife's Workforce Health Safety & Wellbeing - Together

Join Fife Workplace Team, Fife Health Promotion Service and their partners Working Health Services Fife and Access to Work to hear how to support workforce health, safety and wellbeing.
Each service will be explained to attending delegates, and there will be an opportunity for questions and answers too.
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Health and Safety - the Essentials for Business Owners

An outline of the essentials regarding health and safety in the workplace.
We will educate attendees on the legal framework that applies, roles and responsibilities, what essential documents are required and give some pointers as to training.
We can also signpost to further help and funding available, both for health and safety consultancy and training.
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Cool Tools for AI Success

Generative AI is here to stay, but there’s more to it than just ChatGPT. Join Gary from NSDesign as he gives a whirlwind tour of other free and affordable Gen-AI tools you could be using for business purposes.
From marketing presentations and product prototyping to image manipulation and video translations, this practical session will suggest more tools for the AI toolbox to call upon when needed.

Optimising Productivity in Your Business

Productivity is a hot topic. We are constantly seeing messages that we need to improve productivity to give the country a competitive edge in the global markets, increase GDP etc. True, but what can we do at that high level? Let's focus on what we can control – our own business.
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Hydrogen Opportunities for Fife Businesses

Hydrogen Scotland promotes and develops Scottish expertise in hydrogen technologies in a sector that is anticipated to create significant job opportunities, potentially creating thousands of jobs in Scotland and also helping businesses decarbonise.
At this event, we will hear about other local projects, the regional supply chain development opportunities that hydrogen may suggest and how one local business is transitioning from the design, manufacture, assembly, and testing of equipment for the subsea industry to use their expertise to support the development of a green hydrogen production facility and integrate green hydrogen into their operations.
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