19.00 – 21.00       

Informal drinks reception (nibbles and drink), partners room (8th floor)

Welcome from Professor Rob Wilson (KITE) and 
Professor Jeremy Phillipson (CRE)

15th June

09.00 - 11.00     

Registration in Reception of the Business School (Ground floor)

09.30 - 10.00 

Opening welcome

10.00 - 10.30

Plenary Professor Sally Shortall: "Rural entrepreneurship and women"

10.30 - 11.00     

Coffee break (partner room)

11.00 - 12.30     

Parallel track sessions

• Entrepreneurship farming and the natural enviroment
• International dimensions of rural entrepreneurship: farming and finance
• Rural Social Entrepreneurship (1)

12.30 - 13.15     

Lunch (Partner room)

13.15 - 13.45

Early-career plenary Shingo Yoshida: "Determinants of Farm Diversification Strategy"

13.45 - 15:15     

Parallel track sessions

• Innovating the Rural Supply Chain
• New approaches in rural theory
• Rural Social Entrepreneurship (2)

15.15 - 17.30

Cultural tour of Newcastle / Networking time 

18.30 - 22.00     

Gala dinner: Blackfriars Medieval Banquet hall (city centre)

16th June

08.00 - 9.00       

Breakfast sponsored by INNOGROW (Partner room)

09.00 - 10.30     

Parallel track sessions

• International dimensions of rural entrepreneurship: finace and leadership
• Rural Development, Innovation and Universities - INNOGROW

10.30 - 11:00    

Coffee break (partner room)

11.00 - 12.30     

Parallel track sessions

• Opportunities and challenges for rural development
• Rural Tourism and Hospitality Entrepreneurship

12:30 - 13:15    

Lunch (partner room)

13.15 - 15.30     

Workshop on Rural enterprise and the Industrial Strategy