London, 13th February: Entrepreneur Country is announcing that Barclays will be the headline sponsor for this year's February Forum at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on the 21st February. The event champions the efforts of entrepreneurs, SME owners and investors from across Britain and Europe.

The Entrepreneur Country Forum is a Bi-Annual event which sees some of Britain's leading entrepreneurs and market innovators, who have created game changing brands, products and offerings, offer advice and expertise to the entrepreneur community. With the UK's Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox, BBC Online Dragon's Den star Julie Meyer and Founder of 2011's Hyper-Growth success story Ella's Kitchen Paul Lindley in attendance, this Forum will continue this rich tradition.

The Forum is held on the 21st February starting with morning coffees from 8am and finishing the same day at 5pm.

With over 400 entrepreneurs, SME owners and market leading professionals, the fully catered event in the heart of London treats attendees to a series of keynote speakers, panel debates, entrepreneurial pitches and networking opportunities.

Past entrepreneurial pitch participants, in association with Barclays, have secured invaluable funding, connections and clients from their sessions, such as Pete Boswell, Founder of PIXsurance.

“Attending and pitching at the Entrepreneur Winter Forum provided a unique opportunity to meet and be inspired by some of the UK’s most successful business entrepreneurs. The event itself is very motivating and it’s clear that inspiration is a highly contagious state of mind!” said Boswell.

“As a direct result of the pitch made at the winter forum last year we have made some amazing progress with PIXsurance. We have received investment proposals from two Business Angels with due diligence underway. We also have a marketing proposal from a major mobile VAD network.”

This Forum is set to be the biggest to date and Entrepreneur Country and Barclays look forward to welcoming Britain's brightest to a day of debate, insight, networking and innovation.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Caroline Rowland - Credited by The Observer as being one of the ten most influential people in London’s Bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, Caroline Rowland is Founder and Executive Creative Director of New Moon, the company thought to have redefined the role of film in campaigning to win major sporting, cultural and business contracts.

• Martha Lane Fox - Martha Lane Fox is the UK's Digital Champion. She has founded the Race Online 2012 campaign and she co-founded Lucky Voice.

• Julie Meyer - Julie Meyer is the Founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, the Managing Partner of the ACE Fund, and the author of Welcome to Entrepreneur Country, to be published by Constable and Robinson in April 2012.

• Paul Lindley - In 2004 he gave up his job to follow his dream and almost 2 years to the day after leaving Nickelodeon, he - together with his daughter Ella – proudly saw their Ella’s Kitchen products on supermarket shelves for the first time.