At a recent entrepreneurial business event in London, there was no doubt that the speech of the event was that by 'the man who changed the world', Sir Bob Geldof.

Sir Bob, who lives in Kent and runs several successful businesses, presented at the 800 delegate seminar along with other highly successful entrepreneurs, including football's first woman, Karren Brady and the infamous (and very funny) Gerald Ratner who now runs a highly successful online jewellery company.

Chris Meaden, Managing Director of Essential Business Technologies explains, "The build up to Sir Bob's speech was very much focused on his life-transforming actions of the starving in Africa showing various archived TV footage including the LiveAid event which I remember as clearly now as I did 25 years' ago. His presence on stage was something I've never seen before. His speech was intense, passionate and hugely inspiring on so many levels; quite simply it was the most extraordinary speech I've ever heard.

He spoke from the heart about his difficult childhood and of his music ambitions and his immense anger and frustration of the starving in Ethiopia which drove him to take action and do something about it. He truly is a remarkable entrepreneur"

Fellow director, Linzi Cooper, was totally inspired by all the speakers. "What we are living through as business owners in this economy is unprecedented in living memory. By investing our time and money in attending this event, we took away the strength, the belief and the determination to succeed as entrepreneurs regardless of what economic conditions we are in. As Karren Brady said "We need to champion our own careers" and I agree with that statement one hundred per cent".