Agenda revealed for landmark Invest Midlands 2022 conference
The agenda for next month’s Invest Midlands conference has been revealed for the first time, alongside more great speakers for this landmark online event.
This year’s Invest Midlands event will take place on Friday March 25 and is being curated by TheBusinessDesk.com and its sponsors becg, the University of Birmingham, Millennium Point and Phoenix Group.
We can now exclusively reveal this year’s packed agenda, which features high-profile speakers and panellists discussing everything from devolution to funding, and the war for talent to the Midlands towns and cities of the future.
The full-day conference will be packed with insight, analysis and original research that will make it an inspiring and informative event that can’t be missed by anyone investing, working or innovating in the Midlands.
Ben Dorks
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Invest Midlands has a great line-up of speakers which is being added to all of the time. Confirmed speakers include:
– Ben Dorks, CEO, Ideagen
– Lorna Pimlott, Phase 2 Sponsorship Director, HS2
– Rob Darby – Co-founder – 200 Degrees Coffee
– Dr Nik Kotecha OBE – Founder and Chairman of Morningside Pharmaceuticals
– Ian MacLeod – Director for Planning, Transport & Sustainability – Birmingham City Council
– Anita Bhalla – Chair – Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP
– Sajeeda Rose – Corporate Director for Growth and City Development – Nottingham City Council
– Nick Gibb- Deputy MD – Willmott Dixon
– Rob Groves – Regional Development Director – MEPC
– Tom Huffsmith – Project Delivery – The Island Quarter
Natalie Gasson
– Kevin Harris – Chair – Leicester & Leicestershire Local Enterprise Partnership
– Kenny Oke – Head of Development – Watkin Jones
– Maria Machancoses – Chief Executive – Midlands Connect
– Kevin Whitmore – Director – Head of North & Midlands – BECG
– Professor Gino Martini – Managing Director – Precision Health Technology Accelerator (PHTA) for University of Birmingham and Birmingham Health Partners
– Abbie Vlahakis, CEO, Millennium Point
– Paul Faulkner – Chief of Staff – RCL Associates
– Becky Valentine – Co-owner – Spenbeck
– Dr Tom Burr – Chief Scientific Officer – Source BioScience
– Jane Theaker – CEO – PBD Biotech
– Faye Summers – HR Director – UK Flooring Direct
– Dean Jackson, Owner, HUUB
– Charmaine Morrell, MSc MIEMA, CEnv – Head of Sustainability – Nottingham Trent University
– Natalie Gasson-McKinley – Development Manager – Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire, FSB
– Dave Hodgetts – Chief Executive – Talbots Law
Anita Bhalla
View the agenda for Invest Midlands 2022 here
For the first time the conference is being complemented by the Invest Midlands dinner at Millennium Point in Birmingham on March 16, with a guest list featuring our speakers and some of the biggest names in Midlands business. Guest speakers at this event include Adam Tickell, vice-chancellor at the University of Birmingham – with more to be announced soon. What’s more, anyone who buys a ticket for our dinner on March 16 will receive a free place at the online conference.
Turn pixels into plates and kick-off the conversation in person with some of the Midlands’ leading business figures at Millennium Point next month.
