Connect with Business Leaders, Discover New Opportunities & Collaborate with Emerging Talent, Hosted By, University of Leeds & Business TV

🚀 LEEDS BUSINESS LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS SUMMIT 2026

Businesses and Students Working Together for Real Opportunities!

Are you a business owner, entrepreneur or student looking to build connections, develop new skills and explore business opportunities?

Join us at the Leeds Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs Summit, bringing businesses and students together to share ideas, build relationships and explore opportunities for collaboration.

💼 Introducing the Business Pipeline Engine

A practical business development system designed to help businesses find potential customers, build relationships, follow up contacts and create new opportunities.

Through this initiative, students can gain valuable real-world business experience while businesses benefit from fresh ideas, emerging talent and new ways to support growth.

What can you expect?

✅ Connect with business owners and entrepreneurs

✅ Explore student and business collaboration

✅ Discover the Business Pipeline Engine

✅ Learn how video content can showcase your expertise

✅ Build relationships and explore new opportunities

🎤 Meet your hosts

Shaz Aziz — Founder of Business Pipeline Engine and Business TV Channel

Michael-Don Smith — Founder of the P2P Pressure to Performance Forum

Professor Mohammad Faisal Ahammad — Head of International Business Department, CIBUL, Leeds University Business School

📅 Thursday 3 December 2026

🕓 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM

📍 Esther Simpson Building, University of Leeds

Location: Room 1.01, Esther Simpson Building, Lyddon Terrace, Leeds, LS2 9LA

Event Schedule:

16:00 – 17:00

Esther Simpson Café

Refreshments and networking session.

17:00 – 19:00

Esther Simpson Lecture Theatre (LT 1.01)

Main event / evening programme.

Organised by the University of Leeds and Business TV Channel.

Are you a business owner or student interested in being part of this initiative?

Register your interest and join us in building stronger connections between business and educat

Photography and video notice

Please be aware that photography and video recording will take place during this event.

Photographs and recordings may be used by the event organisers for event documentation, reporting and promotional purposes, including websites, social media and Business TV Channel content.

By attending, you may appear in photographs or recordings. If you have concerns about being photographed or filmed, please speak to an event organiser when you arrive so that your preferences can be discussed.

Where required, the organisers will provide further privacy information and obtain appropriate permissions for identifiable interviews or other featured recordings.

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