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Chancellor and iconic world figures at IFB2016 launch

THE International Festival for Business 2016, the world’s biggest business festival has opened today (Monday June 13) with a keynote address from the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

The three-week festival featuring a programme of speakers, business networking and more than 80 events launched with a flurry of world leaders and former heads of state, arriving at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool to attend the inaugural Horasis Global Meeting, which is being held in the city as part of the three week festival.

Speakers at the Horasis Global Meeting include former South African president and Nobel Peace Laureate F W de Klerk, and the director general of UNESCO Irena Bokova.

The event is just one of 80 taking place during the festival, with each week is clustered around a specific theme: manufacturing, creative and digital, and energy and environment.Read More