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Birmingham Tech Week 2026

Birmingham Tech Week is the UK’s largest regional tech festival and conference, convening a complete innovation ecosystem, bringing together technology creators, adopters, investors, policymakers, international delegates and skills providers in one place.

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20Speakers
57Sponsors
0On the bill · sessions
68Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Birmingham, in alphabetical order.
Alex Zarifeh
Founder · ATLP Future Readiness
Andy Hague
CEO · TechWM
Charlie Smith
Executive Director · IBM UK & Ireland
Cian Galvin
Head, TechFirst and Cyber Skills Team · Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Emily Stubbs
Head of Policy · Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
Joanna Birch
Founder · Growthinnk Associates
Karen Newman
Founder · BOM
Karen Rodkin
Operations Director · Netcom Training
Katie Obi
Chief People Officer · OneAdvanced
Kellie Kwarteng
Founder · Halzak | Elevate Women in Tech
Leon Butler
Chief Executive · IBM
Lucy Dimes
Former Non-Executive Director · Babock plc
Nikki Christie
Deputy Director, Creative, Digital, Finance and Business · Skills England
Prashant Aggarwal
Exited Founder · MoneyHero Group
Praveen Jayaraj
Vice President · Goldman Sachs
Prof Roya Rahimi
Professor of Marketing and Leisure Management · University of Wolverhampton
Rachel Moore
Learning and Development Director · OneAdvanced
Richard Billingham
Chief Operating Officer · Aston University
Richard Parker
Mayor · West Midlands Combined Authority
Sara French
Director Trade and Growth · London & Partners
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
6 DegreesSponsor
AccenturePatron
Advanced
Agilyx
AgylixSponsor
ArupSponsor
Aston UniversityPatron
b13Sponsor
BCUSponsor
Birmingham City University
British Business BankSponsor
Create CentralSponsor
CroweSponsor
CrunchSponsor
Crunch Digital Media
Cyber Q GroupSponsor
Goldman SachsPatron
Good GrowthSponsor
Gowling WLGPatron
HCRSponsor
HCR Law
HSBCSponsor
IBMHeadline Sponsor
Intercity TechnologyPatron
JenstenSponsor
Marks ClarkSponsor
Marks & Clerk
Midlands InnovationSponsor
Millennium Point
MPSponsor
NatwestSponsor
NatWest
Netcompany
Net CompanySponsor
Netcom TrainingPatron
One AdvancedSponsor
P2AVSponsor
Pinsent MasonsSponsor
Pure StorageSponsor
QASponsor
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 68 companies show up — and 7 bet on three roles at once?

68 companies. seven are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
7All threespeak · spons · exh
49Sponsoringsponsor only
12Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

OneAdvanced·Aston University·Goldman Sachs·IBM·Netcom Training·University of Wolverhampton·West Midlands Combined Authority

Speakers by seniority

85% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite420%
  • Founder / Owner525%
  • VP-level15%
  • Director / Head of735%
  • Marketing / Brand15%
  • Other roles210%

Of 20 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01OneAdvancedSp·S2V
  2. 02Aston UniversitySp·P1V
  3. 03Goldman SachsSp·P1V
  4. 04IBMSp·H1V
  5. 05Netcom TrainingSp·P1V
  6. 06University of WolverhamptonSp·P1V
  7. 07West Midlands Combined AuthoritySp1V
  8. 086 DegreesSp·S
  9. 09AccentureSp·P
  10. 10AdvancedSp
  11. 11AgilyxSp
  12. 12AgylixSp·S
  13. 13ArupSp·S
  14. 14b13Sp·S
Sponsors by tier
headline sponsor1
2% of 57
patron12
21% of 57
sponsor31
54% of 57
unspecified13
23% of 57
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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