Low Carbon Solent is pleased to launch its new programme of support aimed to assist small businesses to launch their Clean Growth innovations, through a series of fully funded innovation focussed webinars. These innovation focussed webinars will run over a course of 5 weeks and are designed to help businesses understand the role and components of pitch deck creation to help facilitate future opportunities, such as tendering opportunities, collaboration or funding requests.

What will I learn?

The sessions will be broken down into 5 weekly webinars via Zoom, each focussing on specific areas of an innovative pitch deck solution. These include:

• Communicating the problem and highlighting the innovative solution

• Customer focussed innovations and product launches

• Strengths and weaknesses via an Innovation Model Canvas

• Highlighting major blind spots such as Intellectual Property Protection

• Creating a strategic analysis to maximise the market positioning.

• Introduction to 3-way forecasting

• Do’s and don’ts of financial statements

• Showcasing the team involved and what happens next

Who should attend?

These webinars are free for members of the Low Carbon Solent Project, who are currently developing Clean Growth innovations that will have a positive impact on the environment and future societies. Any businesses that meet the EU definition of an SME are welcome to register their interest in these events.

Session 1: Wednesday 27th July: 11:00-12:30 - Showcasing the problem and the innovative solution

Session 2: Thursday 4th August: 09:00-12:00 - Sustainable Innovation

Session 3: Wednesday 10th August 09:00-11:00 - Innovation Modelling

Session 4: Wednesday 17th August: 09:00-11:00 - Positioning your innovation in the market

Session 5: Wednesday 24th August: 09:00-10:30 - Innovation pitch deck development session

Essential Information:

Session 1: Showcasing the problem and the innovative solution – Monika Dabrowska (1.5 hours)

Purpose: Understand the role and components of a pitch deck; showcase the project problem and innovative solution.

Content:

• How to build a successful pitch deck to showcase your Clean Growth innovation

• The purpose of the pitch,

• The components of successful investor pitches.

• The story telling – how to begin,

• The problem and innovative solution giving enough information to make it understandable to those outside of the industry.

Session 2: Sustainable Innovation – Dr John Richardson (3 hours)

Purpose: Understand why new products & innovations fail by focussing on Customer Focused Innovations and ensuring the innovative solution fits with the customer needs.

Content:

• Knowledge of the market,

• Analysing competitive products,

• Execution of product launch,

• Product strategies.

Session 3: Innovation Modelling – Clive Bonny (2 hours)

Purpose: To successfully communicate the key activities which allows for successful outcomes for the innovative solutions being presented.

Content:

• Summarising strengths and weaknesses on an Innovation Model Canvas,

• Communicating enterprise vision and values,

• Communicating ESG standards,

• Covering Intellectual property blind spots and what is needed,

• Data room requirements such as cash flow management, competitors & suppliers.

Session 4: Positioning your innovation in the market – Adrian Price (2 hours)

Purpose: To develop the strategic analysis to best place the Clean Growth innovation in the competitive market.

Content:

• Introduction to three-way forecasting,

• Defining the unmet need of the innovative solution,

• Highlighting the ten key areas to focus on for strategic analysis,

• The do’s & don’ts of managing accounts and financial statements.

Session 5: Innovation pitch deck development session - Monika Dabrowska (1.5 hours)

Purpose: Showcase the team and investment in the pitch deck; presentation techniques.

Content:

• Partners and resources

• Project landscape, milestones, what is needed and what for

• Funding opportunities – grants, crowdfunding, multiple investors

• Pitching presentation techniques - useful hints and tips

• Pitch deck do’s and don’ts

• Supportive documents: Business Plan and Application for new shares