Invest Midlands 2022: Inward investment – how the Midlands wins the FDI race

Anita Bhalla and Kevin Harris

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.

Today, we take a look at what is sure to be another fascinating session: Inward investment – how the Midlands wins the FDI race.

Attracting the next big inward investment has never been more vital if the Midlands town and city are to thrive again, post-pandemic. We ask a panel of vastly experienced professionals how we go about it – and speak to the companies who have invested in the region.

Our panel includes:

  • Kevin Harris, Chair, Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership
  • Anita Bhalla, Chair, Greater Birmingham and Solihull Enterprise Partnership

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.

To grab your tickets for this not-to-be-missed event, please click here.

A full list of speakers is available 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 and Councillor Ben Bradley MP, leader of Nottinghamshire County Council.

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.

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