{"id":5753,"date":"2017-07-19T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2022-05-21T21:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:57:40","slug":"kent-business-school-alumni-london-event-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2017\/07\/kent-business-school-alumni-london-event-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Business School Alumni London Event Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Nearly a year after the previous gathering, Kent Business School&#8217;s loyal almuni community came together in June to catch-up with old classmates and academics.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the evening, former Institute of Directors (IoD) Chief Economist, James Sproule, entertained the audience with his interpretation of statistics surrounding the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>As described by Kent Business School&#8217;s Business, Advancement and Enterprise Officer, Floortje Hoette:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>&#8220;It was fantastic to see our alumni again, and to hear how they are faring in life. It was delightful to hear that there are a growing number of entrepreneurs amongst them. Everybody had a great time and many stayed on until the early hours. Illustrator Giannina Delpino made wonderful cartoons of many guests and is still recovering from her draw-marathon!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"btn-kent btn btn-block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/kentbusinessschool\/3C898H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the photos<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">At Kent Business School we are already looking forward to our next alumni event in London in 2018. If you are a Kent Business School alumni, please contact us with your ideas for a venue and programme. To keep up-to-date with Kent Business School make sure you are signed up to receive our Alumni Newsletter. If you have not yet signed up please <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.kent.ac.uk\/page.aspx?pid=191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update your contact details<\/a> and you will receive in the next edition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>If you wish to be involved in our activities and enhance your network across the world <a href=\"mailto:kbsalumni@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">then enquire about being a KBS Ambassador<\/a>. Work with us to build our Kent Business School alumni community, both in Kent, London and across the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year after the previous gathering, Kent Business School&#8217;s loyal almuni community came together in June to catch-up with old classmates and academics. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2017\/07\/kent-business-school-alumni-london-event-success\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40044,"featured_media":5761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,9889],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753"}],"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\/40044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15740,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions\/15740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}