{"id":28,"date":"2024-01-09T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/?p=28"},"modified":"2024-02-09T16:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:28:42","slug":"kent-invicta-chamber-of-commerce-chamber-connections-networking-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2024\/01\/09\/kent-invicta-chamber-of-commerce-chamber-connections-networking-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce\u00a0Chamber Connections Networking Event\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The University of Kent Conference and Events team hosted the first Kent Invicta Chamber event of the new year on Thursday 4 January. The venue for the networking event was the modern Darwin Suite in Darwin College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It was the perfect mild sunny January morning to welcome over 110 guests, with the luxury of allocated parking arranged by our campus security team.\u00a0Sandra Heyworth, Sales Manager, for Conferences and Events at the University of Kent, said, \u2018Just four days into the New Year, it was fantastic to see so many businesses experiencing our hospitality and enjoying an amazing networking buzz, making connections<span class=\"x_white-space-pre\">\u00a0and collaborations<\/span>\u00a0to kick start the new year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">During the morning there were many new Chamber Members who presented their companies.\u00a0Victoria Galvin, Membership Development Manager at Kent Invicta Chamber said, \u201cA huge thank you to<span class=\"x_white-space-pre\">\u00a0<\/span>staff at the<span class=\"x_white-space-pre\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/university-of-kent\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Funiversity-of-kent%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CA.Hythe-oram%40kent.ac.uk%7C59b26eee09db4ab7187e08dc28966570%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638429873641017827%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=duDnPxuu99LS5YzUd3qTS9bhqEzExPD8sa4Y9j1iqmw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"1\">University of Kent<\/a><span class=\"x_white-space-pre\"> for your outstanding hospitality, I am in awe of the venue and facilities\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">After the event, over 20 businesses joined a campus walking tour to see our\u00a0<b>Sibson<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Woolf\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>KITEA\u00a0<\/b>venues.\u00a0<span class=\"x_comments-post-metaname-text\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAO3JfsBjZ5mKy1sJkDeuafJoo1Tf1j3EuY. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2FACoAAAO3JfsBjZ5mKy1sJkDeuafJoo1Tf1j3EuY&amp;data=05%7C02%7CA.Hythe-oram%40kent.ac.uk%7C59b26eee09db4ab7187e08dc28966570%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638429873641028984%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=4WaMiE7JoI%2FPiigTR%2BAvsu8h359Q6Pq4tM976xmeWLo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Melissa Dizon\u00a0from\u00a0<span class=\"x_comments-post-metaheadline\">Martello Building Consultancy &amp; KPO Architecture<\/span><\/a>\u00a0said, \u201c<\/span>Super thanks, I really enjoyed the walking tour; it made me feel like I was back in university again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2024\/01\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2024\/01\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We cannot wait to host lots more events throughout the year ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent Conference and Events team hosted the first Kent Invicta Chamber event of the new year on Thursday 4 January. The venue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2024\/01\/09\/kent-invicta-chamber-of-commerce-chamber-connections-networking-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78153,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291562,112,9666,1],"tags":[5349,291428,112,9666,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}