Here are the videos from our Launch Event that kicked off GEW 2009 held at the British Library on Monday 16th November

In this first video we have the marvelous opening performance from a band called 'Fanfara' - an 8 piece brass band playing music from the village brass bands of Moldavia and Macedonia. We then have the welcome from the Chair, Simon Jack, BBC Correspondent. Next is the address from the Host, Dame Lynn Brindley, Chair of the British Library. Then there are the opening words from Miles Templeman, Institute of Directors, followed by the GEW 2009 Launch video and the Senior Minesterial Address by Lord Mandelson, First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills.

For our second video, we have Carl Schramm, CEO of the Kauffman Foundation with a talk entitled "Driving a Global Movement of Entrepreneurs", followed by Jim O'Neill, Head of Global Economic research at Goldman Sachs, talking on "The Challenges and Opportunities of Our Times". Then we have a video from our GEW host in Brazil, Karen Kanaan, on Global Entrepreneurship Week…Brazilian style!

In the third video, we move to the theme of 'Entrepreneurs and Change'. Here we have talks by:
Matt Brittin, MD, Google UK, talking about "Technology driving change" (and a Video Clip of the Google history)
Emma Harrison, A4E
David Wei, CEO, Alibaba.com - China’s biggest internet-business - on "Uncovering entrepreneurial potential worldwide"

In our last video we have a panel discussion with the theme 'Inspiring Entrepreneurship' which included:
Lord Davies, Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Small Business
Peter Jones, Entrepreneur and Chair of Enterprise UK
Julie Meyer, Chief Executive Ariadne Capital
Duncan Goose, Chief Executive, Global Ethics
Priya Lakhani, Founder of Masala Masala
Dame Lynne Brindley, CEO, British Library