{"id":22485,"date":"2024-11-13T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T10:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=22485"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:54:04","slug":"announcing-our-first-mba-guest-lecture-and-business-soundbite-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2024\/11\/announcing-our-first-mba-guest-lecture-and-business-soundbite-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing our first MBA Guest Lecture and Business Soundbite speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Join us for our combined MBA Guest Lecture and Business Soundbite hybrid event focused on sustainability, taking place on Wednesday 4 December from 12.30 &#8211; 14.00 (GMT). You can join us in the dedicated MBA Suite in the Sibson building at Canterbury Campus or online via Teams from wherever you are in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This interactive hybrid event will be\u00a0led by Sustainability Scholar,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/mba\/our-mba-community\/1452\/ashish-mahadeo-thakre\">Ashish Mahadeo Thakre<\/a>,\u00a0Chevening Scholar,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/mba\/our-mba-community\/1434\/miarizaka-fabien-randriamananjara\">Miarizaka Randriamananjara<\/a>, and Higher Degree Apprentice and\u00a0Deputy Director (Estates, Facilities and Capital Projects)\u00a0at Moorfields Hospital,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/mba\/our-mba-community\/1322\/paul-cartwright\">Paul Cartwright<\/a>,\u00a0who will each give a short introduction on what they do and how they drive sustainability in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>After this, we will be joined by our special guest speakers, the first being\u00a0Evan Rocheford, Co-Founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/nutramaize.com\/\">NutraMaize<\/a>, a Purdue University-affiliated AgBioScience company on a mission to transform the world\u2019s largest staple crop \u2013 corn \u2013 into a platform for delivering better nutrition on a population-wide scale. NutraMaize specialises in the development of orange corn hybrids, which get their vibrant colour from significantly enhanced levels of antioxidant carotenoids. To date, NutraMaize has secured over US$3 million in non-dilutive federal grant funding (SBIR\/STTR) and is in the process of scaling its first commercial F1 hybrid to supply feed to organic egg producers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Better health starts with the seeds we plant. Better eggs start with better feed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our organisers alongside\u00a0MBA Director,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/people\/senior-leadership-team\/2401\/kemp-debbie\">Debbie Kemp<\/a>\u00a0will welcome a global live audience, bringing together our community of MBA students, alumni, and the broader community of business leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>If sustainability is a subject close to your heart, do join us on Wednesday 4 December and see what this lecture series has to offer. There will be a chance to submit questions to the panel during the Q&amp;As.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>It&#8217;s a free event \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/events.teams.microsoft.com\/event\/440d0e8d-3a78-4a6a-82c4-7ffb28a5c89c@51a9fa56-3f32-449a-a721-3e3f49aa5e9a\">register your place<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Our MBA Guest Lecture and Business Soundbite series runs across the year covering three main themes: Sustainability in November\/December, Diversity\/Women in Leadership in March and Entrepreneurship in May.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/mba\"><strong>Our MBA<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0is underpinned by our high-quality research and informed by the global outlook of our international community. It builds on your current experience to transform you into a responsible business leader.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for our combined MBA Guest Lecture and Business Soundbite hybrid event focused on sustainability, taking place on Wednesday 4 December from 12.30 &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2024\/11\/announcing-our-first-mba-guest-lecture-and-business-soundbite-speaker\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":22486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177066,9875,124],"tags":[19149,170946,263910,957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22485"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22495,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485\/revisions\/22495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}