Sheffield has had many events over the past few weeks to celebrate Global Manufacturing and Sheffield’s place in that. I was lucky enough to attend the Education and Business Leader Dinner at The Cutlers Hall. It was a fantastic event to help schools and business work together, discuss and plan towards making education and business work hand in hand to get our young people ‘work ready’. It was a really inspiring event and I met some really passionate head teacher’s and business leaders.
More recently I attended the ‘Get up to Speed Event’ at my favourite venue ‘The Blue Shed’. It was an afternoon and evening event that had some world class speakers and demonstrations. Along with Made in Sheffield, designed in Sheffield, Bloodhound SSC and many others, the event was open to the public and had a session particularly aimed at children and parents.
One of the most exciting speakers was the very talented Russ Danzey, I have known Russ for a few years now and even had the pleasure of speaking alongside him at a Pecha Kutach Event. In 2005 Russ won his first Cadet novice race and since then he is one of the UK’s up and coming young drivers KF2 Kart Formula 2, he competed in UK Series and was the youngest competitor to qualify for the European Championships. In 2010 after winning the John Surtees Scholarship Russ took the opportunity to step in to single seater cars and raced in Formula Young Guns taking first podium in only his third weekend of racing. He really is someone to keep an eye on and I caught up with Russ at the event and he told me a bit about his car and sponsors.
The Global Manufacturing Festival is a real platform for Sheffield to really show everyone what we do and why we are world-renowned!
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