Tech Events at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham

A short practical workshop at Birmingham Rep on using AI to work more efficiently and open up new ways to earn, run by AND Capital Projects.

A Birmingham Tech Week afternoon at The REP built around what young people want from the organisations shaping technology, 13:00 to 16:00. It is deliberately not a conference or a careers fair. Young people and emerging talent are the ones on stage: sharing experiences, showing ideas, putting questions to industry and giving their view on skills, inclusion, wellbeing and access. Leaders from across the region's tech economy are in the room to listen and respond rather than present. Free. Why go: if you are hiring, designing apprenticeships or building early-career pipelines in the West Midlands, this is unmediated feedback from the people you are trying to reach. Best for employers, educators and anyone running talent programmes in the region.

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.