The eighth annual Leicester Business festival kicked off inside the new extension to the Morningside Arena, home of the Leicester Riders basketball team.
A couple of hundred members of the city’s business community turned out for the breakfast launch event which featured speakers including Leicester Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby and East Midlands Chamber chief executive Scott Knowles.
Richard Osborn, regional director at Excello Law and a director of the community interest company that runs the festival, said it was now the biggest business festival in the region and one of the biggest in Britain.
