Sponsors
We Are Delighted to Announce our 2026 Sponsors
If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, then reach out to our team.
Headline Sponsor
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We are a Birmingham-based collective harnessing unified expertise to deliver bold ideas, challenge convention, and drive transformative change across communications, public affairs, business consultancy and marketing. Our vision is to become a one-stop shop for business growth. The group consists of West Midlands News, Life Sciences Week, the Technology Supply Chain and Walk Through Walls.
Diamond Sponsor
Starting Point Recruitment (SPR) are proud of their unique approach that breaks the mould of traditional recruitment agencies. They donate 100% of their profits to charity and are driving the responsible recruitment revolution. Since 2003, they have been transforming lives, businesses and local communities through their socially conscious recruitment experience.
Diamond Sponsor
The Technology Supply Chain is a membership organisation for manufacturing, technology and life sciences companies and the businesses, universities, and organisations that support them. We help our over 5,000 members to innovate and grow by connecting them with new opportunities, new ideas, new customers, new suppliers, innovation support, grants and finance.
Diamond Sponsor
Walls! We all face them. We face more walls today than at any other time.
Walk Through Walls believes the most unscalable wall becomes no obstacle at all, just by finding the door. Even the smallest door is more powerful than the tallest wall.
Walk Through Walls – Helping businesses walk through walls.
Diamond Sponsor
University College Birmingham (UCB) works with a diverse range of businesses and organisations, providing access to student talent, delivering excellent industry links and accreditations and access to our state-of-the-art, industry level facilities.
Businesses regularly engage with the University on a variety of projects and development of our programmes, designed to shape the future of education and training in our region. To find out more about industry partnerships and working with University College Birmingham contact the team.
Gold Sponsors
With around 29,000 students from 100 countries, Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to study. We put students at the heart of everything we do, giving them the best opportunities for future success.
BCU has put £270 million into the regional economy and support thousands of jobs in the area. We’re investing £340 million in our estate, including a major expansion of our city-centre campus at Eastside, providing students with an enviable range of facilities.
Allow us to introduce you to Hotel du Vin’s distinctive collection of 19 boutique hotels across Great Britain. Each of our hotels is unique and brimming with character, offering stylishly comfortable rooms, exquisite dining and curated wine experiences.
From the historic cobbled streets of Cambridge to vibrant bridges of Newcastle, Hotel du Vin provides the perfect blend of traditional charm and modern luxury, making it a leading choice in quintessentially British hotels.
Engaging a legal firm can be daunting and the fear of being overcharged or confused due to not understanding the language used by solicitors is a real barrier for some potential clients who require support.
At Talbots we are different.
Our tone is conversational and our aim is to avoid legal jargon wherever possible. We showcase our expertise not through long words, but by communicating technicalities clearly and simply.
West Midlands Life Sciences Week 2025 is a pioneering programme designed to bring together professionals, researchers, and businesses shaping the future of life sciences. Running from September 15 to 19, this week-long initiative will explore the latest advancements, medical breakthroughs, and innovative technologies. This is your opportunity to discover cutting-edge advancements and connect with top professionals, researchers, and businesses at the heart of the UK’s growing life sciences sector.
News on business, tech, science and sport in the West Midlands and beyond. Connected to, and helping connect, business and political leaders.
WM News offers fresh insights on politics and world affairs and portrays the West Midlands, Britain’s main economic engine outside London and the South East, in a positive light with a focus on tech, business and life sciences.
Millennium Point is a landmark public building and multi-award-winning conference and events venue in the east side of Birmingham city centre. We’re owned by the Millennium Point Charitable Trust with profits from our commercial activity being invested in projects, events and initiatives which support the growth of science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) in Birmingham and the wider region.
Millennium Point Trust have given more than £40m back into the local region.
Sky is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and is part of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company that connects people to moments and experiences that matter.
Sky Business is the business-to-business division of Sky, keeping businesses connected and secure with a range of powerful connectivity, cybersecurity and advanced networking solutions.
Sky Business is a trusted partner to many UK businesses, always striving to deliver better for their customers.
MHA, UK member of Baker Tilly International, are a firm of Chartered Accountants, Auditors, Tax and Business Advisors. We are proud to be a sponsor of the Innovation Awards 2026.
MHA work with business owners and entrepreneurs advising and guiding them as they grow their business. We have a proud history of supporting and working with manufacturing and engineering businesses and are deeply involved in representing this sector and delight in seeing their innovative work flourish. MHA – Now for Tomorrow.
Millennium Point is a landmark public building and multi-award-winning conference and events venue in the east side of Birmingham city centre. We’re owned by the Millennium Point Charitable Trust with profits from our commercial activity being invested in projects, events and initiatives which support the growth of science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) in Birmingham and the wider region.
Millennium Point Trust have given more than £40m back into the local region.
Partners
Pathway Group is a skills and workforce solutions provider that partners with employers to recruit, develop and retain talent. We focus on employer‑led, flexible programmes—such as funded training, skills bootcamps and recruitment support—to close critical skills gaps and support long‑term business growth in regions including the East Midlands, West Midlands and Greater London. Our services cover scoping vacancies, preparing candidates, onboarding new hires and upskilling existing staff.