Baroness Floella Benjamin
Announcing Brighton Summit: Unite’s first keynote speaker: Baroness Floella Benjamin
This year’s Brighton Summit: Unite on 29 April is all about teaming up, collaborating and helping each other – which epitomises everything that the Brighton business community is about.
Offering unrivalled opportunities to connect, communicate and combine with like-minded businesses, Brighton Summit brings together more than 300 businesses from across our city’s diverse business community. It’s for everyone in and around Brighton who wants to evolve and grow their business. Whether you’re a big business CEO, a not-for-profit, an entrepreneur or an employee, the Summit is for you.
You’ll get inspiring speakers, expert-led workshops and energising discussions, with plenty of time for networking built in at every turn.
Leave with fresh perspectives, new approaches and ways of working. Skills and techniques to help your company thrive. The tools, confidence and inspiration to do things differently.
Our first keynote: Baroness Floella Benjamin
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who embodies the word ‘Unite more than Floella Benjamin. Dame, author, actress, politician, campaigner and Playschool presenter, she’s on a mission to make a better world.
Floella has been a member of the House of Lords since 2010, speaking out about diversity, equality and women’s issues, advocating for the wellbeing, care and education of children across the globe. And, this year she’s also celebrating 51 years in the entertainment industry.
At Brighton Summit: Unite, Floella will share her story of coming to Britain as a schoolgirl, the huge culture show she experienced, and how her resilience, humour, social conscience, and Playschool, have helped her to become one of the most influential women in the UK.
Brighton Summit: Unite is run by Brighton Chamber.
Date: 29 April
Time: 8.30am-6pm
Location: The Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts
With thanks to Headline sponsor Cardens Accountants, Sustainability sponsor Paper Round, and Event sponsors A-plan Insurance, EMW Law, EQ Investors, Ingenio Technologies, Psydro and University of Sussex.