Exclusive Leadership Breakfast - Birmingham Tech Week

Birmingham Tech Week opens with its strategic session for senior leaders at The REP, 08:30 to 12:00. This one is invite-only. TechWM says so on its own event page and there is no public registration link, so you need an invitation from the Birmingham Tech Week events team to get in. Arrival and networking from 08:30. Lucy Hedges hosts the official kick-off at 09:30, followed by Richard Parker, Mayor of the West Midlands, and Andy Hague, CEO of TechWM, with a State of the Nation address on the region's position. At 10:25 a panel called Mind the Gap takes on what the West Midlands has to get right over the next decade, with Steve Rigby, CEO of Rigby Group, Julie Nugent, CEO of Coventry City Council, and Kit Windows-Yule, Alan Welby and Jacqueline De Rojas. Edwina Dunn gives the keynote at 11:20. The programme sticks to AI adoption, industrial transformation, investment, talent and infrastructure, with a West Midlands lens on advanced manufacturing, mobility and clean energy. There is no ticket price. Why go: this is where the region's tech policy and investment agenda gets set for the year. Best for founders, investors and executives who need to be in that conversation rather than reading about it, and who can get an invitation.