Gosport Digital Peninsula Business Support Programme - Everyday AI for Small Businesses
Come along to an interactive workshop on Artificial Intelligence and how it can help your business become more efficient and grow. This workshop combines key insights and practical guidance on using AI in business with an interactive discussion shaped around participants' own experiences (or lack of it) of running a business in today's digital age - so bring along any challenges you would like us to work through as a group.
Discover how simple AI tools can help you save time, improve productivity and streamline everyday business tasks, with easy-to-implement ideas for marketing, administration, customer communications and more.
Speakers
Rich Burn is a dynamic business start-up, digital-skills consultant, bid writer and marketing mentor with over 20 years of experience helping organisations and small businesses unlock their potential. With a career spanning marketing, sales, training, public-sector innovation, business support, and hands-on consultancy, he’s known for turning complex ideas into practical, human-centred solutions that drive growth. Rich has worked in corporate life, been a co-owner of a small retail business and worked across multiple sectors including public and third sector, giving him a wide ranges of experience across many fields. Rich brings energy, empathy and humour to every project. Whether mentoring entrepreneurs, supporting public-sector partnerships or running marketing workshops, his goal remains the same: to make business growth, practical, results focussed and simple - inspiring the business owner with confidence and enthusiasm to make that next step towards success.
Rich has worked in publishing (Financial Times/Pearson), marketing of the arts/film & music (including roles at Earls Court & Olympia, Bournemouth International Centre & Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts). Adding to this he has worked on publicly funded programmes as a business advisor with the creative and digital sectors in Dorset and the South East and been actively involved with creative sector communities including Your Are The Media and The Marketing Leaders Forum