Thursday 10 October 2019

Birmingham Tech Week

Jane Lambert


























Birmingham Tech Week is taking place right now. The Tech Wek's website described it as a collaborative series of events across the city and city region between 7 and 13 Oct to highlight Birmingham’s tech scene and focus on a number of innovative topics. The events taking place this week are listed here.

The topics to be discussed include;
  • artificial intelligence
  • autonomous vehicles
  • 5G (mobile communications technology)
  • FinTech (financial services technology)
  • health tech, 
  • IOT (internet of things)
  • VR (virtual reality), and
  • women in technology. 
Speakers are from The Alan Turing Institute, Amazon, Barclays, BBC, Deliveroo, IBM Watson, National Express, NatWest, PWC, Salesforce and Uber.   Readers can listen to some of the presentations on YouTube,

My chambers have recently opened an annexe at 2 Snow Hill which hosts some of the leading law firms in Birmingham.  One of them held a reception earlier today which I attended with several of my London colleagues, our Chief Executive and one of our clerks.  One of the topics we discussed was Birmingham Tech Week as well as the tech sector in the West Midlands in general, its needs and how we could assist its businesses and investors.  I see a lot of opportunities there.

Anyone wishing to discuss this article or any of the topics mentioned in it is welcome to call me on 020 7404 5252 during office hours or send me a message through my contact page.