As part of shaping the approach to creating a Healthy Food City in Birmingham, the Public Health Division is looking to commission a series of targeted focus group conversations about food and nutrition with communities that are rarely heard. The findings from these conversations will help influence the development of the Healthy Food City action … Continue reading Healthier Food City: Seldom Heard Food Conversations
BusinessCloud is looking to crown the most exciting tech companies across the UK with a series of regional ranked lists, and IAWM's Iain Mansell is on the Midlands' panel! But your vote is needed too... The Tech 50 rankings will shine a light on the companies of all sizes who are doing amazing things with technology. … Continue reading Introducing Tech 50: Your chance to rank UK’s most exciting firms!
‘Just 16% of female respondents surveyed by PwC report they’ve had a career in technology suggested to them.’ To wrap up Venturefest, Hillary Leevers, Chief Executive of Engineering UK presented on the importance of developing a more productive, competent and diverse technology workforce. The UK tech sector is worth £180bn (up by £10bn since 2017) … Continue reading Venturefest Blog Series: Part 13 – Building a Skilled and Diverse Technology Workforce
The WM Science and Innovation Audit, published in 2017, conclusively showed that future mobility is one of the West Midlands’ key market strengths. We are a centre of transport innovation, as evidenced by the development and presence of the National Automotive Innovation Centre, Manufacturing Technology Centre, Advanced Propulsion Centreand HORIBA MIRA,to name but a few. … Continue reading Venturefest Blog Series: Part 12 – The Future of Mobility
Below are details on our upcoming Innovation Policy and Practice Breakfast: 'How large and small companies can collaborate to innovate' - hope to see you there! You can find information on our previous events here. An important part of the innovation ecosystem is how larger companies can draw upon the innovative potential of SMEs, and … Continue reading IAWM Event: Innovation Policy and Practice Breakfast
As part of a hefty investment in the testing and trialling of 5G technology, the Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport chose the West Midlands region as the UK’s first multi-city 5G test area, launching technology in a variety of industries ahead of a nationwide rollout. West Midlands 5G, in partnership with Birmingham … Continue reading Event: 5G Demos – Transforming the West Midlands
This workshop was run by Torquil Goodwin, the Principle Business Adviser for CUE Business Solutions. “CUE aims to make people aware of the business support that is available, but more importantly, simplifying it to make it easy to access and to let them get the maximum benefit from it.” Torquil started the workshop by explaining that … Continue reading Venturefest Blog Series: Part 11 – How to Develop a Growth Strategy – Support for Ambitious Entrepreneurs
Birmingham is one of the top Meetup hubs in the UK – connections based on Software development and Data science means that there is a lively informal tech scene in the region. Birmingham Tech Week is a collaborative series of events taking place across the City (and wider Greater Birmingham Region) between October 7th– 13th2019. … Continue reading Event: Birmingham Tech Week
Event: Big Data Corridor - Industry and Policy: Development through Data Date: Wednesday 25th September Time: 10am - 2pm Location: iCentrum, Innovation Birmingham Campus, 6 Holt Street, Birmingham, B7 4BP You can register for the event here. Description Big Data is the rising star of the technology industry and it provides a rich source of innovation and … Continue reading Event: Big Data Corridor – Industry and Policy: Development through Data
UK Research and Innovation has announced the launch of the first tranche of competitions in the £98m Healthy Ageing Programme funded by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The first two competitions that will go live are for Investment Accelerator (opening for applications from 19 August – 6 November) and the Research Director (opening for applications from … Continue reading News: Healthy Ageing Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Update