Birmingham is the youngest city in Europe yet it produces the most inventions per year, with nearly 65% registered from the across the region. Not to mention the West Midlands has nearly 6,000 tech companies employing a diverse workforce of over 38,000 people – our region is home to some serious talent.

Birmingham Tech Week is the UK’s largest regional tech event - over 5,000 people attend over 100 events - highlighting a number of innovative topics. Last year we had over 250k social media impressions and 1 million views through our national media campaign.

Speakers from previous years are from some of the world’s best tech brands: Microsoft, Wayra, Amazon, Uber, IBM and Google. Birmingham Tech Week is run by Birmingham Tech CIC, a not-for-profit organisation (community interest company limited by guarantee), ensuring all money raised through sponsorship goes towards helping build the West Midlands tech ecosystem.

In the last two years we have:

• Created a ScaleUp Accelerator to help local tech businesses achieve more (this is part-funded and run in collaboration with the WMCA) - raised over £2.5m
• Engaged 1,000’s of young people through the Inspire Series - an initiative to encourage 16 - 24 year olds to embark on a career in tech/digital

Our sponsors and partners help make Birmingham a prominent Tech Hub and somewhere technology companies of all shapes and sizes are proud to call home.