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Date: Thursday October 24th | Time: 09:30 – 12:30 | Location: Create Studio STEAMhouse
Future Talent Pitch
This event brings future talent to the heart of Birmingham Tech Week. The tech sector is booming, offering incredible career opportunities for business-minded, talented, and technically skilled graduates. This event is designed to equip university students with the tools, knowledge, and connections they need to thrive in this exciting industry – through a unique Pitch Competition.
Students will:
- Learn how to come up with ideas and build them into a business
- Learn unique presentation approaches to get your ideas across
- Get invited to the region’s top tech event – meeting young entrepreneurs, investors, businesses, experts and agencies that might be useful to your future
- Meet peers from other Universities and enjoy the opportunity to share and grow experiences
Bringing Future Talent
What’s Involved?
Build your initial idea
- It should think about the use of Tech
- Built around the theme of Tech in the most human of places – you might want to think about the environment, social mobility, engaging with young people, supporting change to services, giving voices to underrepresented audiences or something related to inclusion and sustainability
Create a business model canvas
An overview of your business idea and how it can be developed – your local teams will help with this.
Join the mentoring event
- Birmingham 15th September 2024 – The Exchange, Birmingham
- University of Warwick 16th September – The Climb, The Junction, University of Warwick
The Finale
Selected teams will be picked to enter for the final judging competition on 24th October
Our Mentors
Grace Olayinka
Technical Product Lead
Craig McVoy
Founder & CEO
Charlie Blakemore
CEO
John Cooke
Entrepreneur in Residence
Clare Norton
Business Consultant
Our Judges
Pam Sheemar CCIB JP
Regional Accelerator Director, Midlands
Jim Shirley
Founder
Cliff Dennet
Associate Commercial Director
Vernon Hogg
Business Finance Specialist
Clare Streets
Founder