Rai Yatim is part of AIESEC, a youth development organization providing a platform for young people to discover and develop their potential through international exposure. AIESEC Warwick is one of the 35 local offices in the UK, working with companies in the Warwickshire region. Rai’s main area of work is around facilitating exchanges of undergraduates into local businesses and companies all over the world through AIESEC’s Global Source Programme.

David Parrish is the author of the book “T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity”, which draws on his experience of leading and managing creative enterprises. David’s knowledge and experience has been used internationally to help creative enterprises to become even more successful through specialist training and consultancy projects. These training and consultancy projects, together with the information on his website, add value to clients’ organisations by transferring great ideas and effective techniques across national and cultural boundaries. David is also working with UNESCO on a creative industries project to share best practice internationally.

Johanna Walker is Director of the Global Social Venture Competition at London Business School, working with talented people starting up all kinds of social enterprises all over the world. One of their key tenets is ‘connecting social entrepreneurs with resources’ - for the vast majority of ventures that doesn’t mean money, but contacts who might become valuable mentors, board members or even customers.

I am VP of Business Development for Viadeo UK and Ireland, I am passionate about the internet, social networks, networking and generally building partnerships, meeting and connecting with people. As a connector, I think it is important to think about building a valuable business network from the day we start out on our careers because we now have the knowledge and technology to access a wealth of contacts, information and opportunities that we would otherwise not realize or be lost. As the old saying goes ‘It’s not what you know but who you know!’ Having joined Viadeo since 2007, Viadeo is one of the world’s largest business social networks with over 1.6 million members across Europe and allows you network in 7 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese). The network is free to join and members use Viadeo to find clients, suppliers, business partners, jobs and employees from all over the world online. Viadeo also allows you to post ads, participate in business forums and to organise and manage offline networking events. Originally founded in 2003 by 200 high-flying entrepreneurs in France, Viadeo started as a private network of business people who realised that they could share …