altNEW London Mayor Boris Johnson (pictured) will make his first major speech on the 2012 Olympics at the Business Summit next month, it was announced today.

 

He will talk about the opportunities for entrepreneurs at the London Games.

 

It follows hot on the heels of the Entrepreneurs’ Summit debate on the topic.

 

The message from the audience then was that the bureaucracy and paperwork involved in providing products or services for the Olympics was crippling.

 

Johnson will be joined by James Caan, who’s on the hunt for his “Golden Entrepreneur", and all the other key figures involved in London 2012, including Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell, LOCOG chairman Sebastian Coe and Olympic Delivery Authority Delivery chief executive David Higgins, at the summit to be held at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square, on June 11.

 

Richard Lambert, director-general, CBI, said: "The London 2012 Games are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

 

"The Games could bring more than £10 billion of contracts to UK businesses.

 

"And come 2012, the eyes of the world will be on London.

 

"In this global economy, that represents a great opportunity.

 

"The 2008 CBI Business Summit brings together all the central players in the London 2012 project for a practical and unmissable day."

 

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