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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