19th October 2023
8:30am – 4:30pm
STEAMhouse, Birmingham
We cordially invite you all to join us during Birmingham Tech Week as we partner up to bring you the ScaleUp Summit.
Join us on the main stage for our keynote speaker, Malcolm Harrold, Scale Up Director at Innovate UK EDGE, and our follow-on panel session ‘Navigating the Innovation Support Ecosystem’.
REGSITER HERE
Meet the panel:
- Ian Vickers, CEO MetCloud
- Helen Maddock, Founder and CSO Inocardia ltd
- Mohammad Nazir, Chair and MD Smartella ltd
Chair: Pam Waddell, Innovation Alliance WM
You’ll also get the opportunity to join the West Midlands Innovation Accelerator projects in the expo arena, where you’ll be able to find out more on support available through this £33 million government funded initiative. Whether you’re working in healthtech, cleantech or any tech between you’ll find advice, networks, grants and a whole range of support available to West Midlands businesses. In addition, you will meet representatives from Business Growth West Midlands, the regions gateway to business support and Innovate UK Edge, sharing their knowledge on the broad spectrum of Innovate UK funding services available to support your scaleup journey.
AGENDA:
09.30-10:00 Innovation support for starting and scaling businesses:
Innovation Alliance WM networks and support – Pam Waddell
Innovate UK Edge Scale-Up Programme – Malcolm Harold, Scale-up Director Innovate UK EDGE
10.00-10.45 Navigating the innovation and business support ecosystem – the business view:
Hear from our panel of entrepreneurs who have started and scaled a business in the West Midlands talking about the support they have accessed to set them on their growth trajectory.
Ian Vickers, CEO MetCloud
Helen Maddocks, Founder and CSO Inocardia ltd
Mohammad Nazir, Chair and MD Smartella ltd
Chair: Pam Waddell, Innovation Alliance WM
All day from 11.00 (15 minutes ‘clinics’ every 30 minutes) Navigating YOUR innovation support ecosystem – getting started:
In the exhibition zone, Simon Spink (Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands) will run a series of ‘clinics’ for up to four companies at a time to help them understand where and how to start to engage with innovation support in the West Midlands.
Find out more here
See you there!
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