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• Sales & Marketing

Monday Morning Marketing - A marketing workshop designed for everyday SMEs

A marketing workshop designed for everyday SMEs.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

The Power of Partnerships

Accelerate Growth Through a Strategic Technology Partnership with Sharp Business Systems UK

• Sales & Marketing

Guaranteed Brilliant: How to Stand Out Comfortably and Fix Your Marketing in 60 Minutes

This energetic, practical session gives West Midlands businesses a simple way to improve their marketing immediately, in a way that feels comfortable and sustainable.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Diversity of Drones

An overview of the wide and varied ways drones can be used in all different types of clients and scenarios, from HDR ( High Dynamic Range) Video and Photograpy, to creating digital twins.

• Finance & Professional Services

Meet the Investor

Hosted by Dan Corcoran in collaboration with Future Planet Capital and Barclays Eagle Labs, expect real-world advice, networking opportunities and actionable takeaways to accelerate your growth journey.

• Business Development & Networking

Accelerate your Business Growth

This free one-day event is aimed at inspiring early stage dynamic small/micro businesses that have the potential and ambition to scale rapidly.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Technology Supply Chain: Innovation Awards 2026 Launch

As our region continues to thrive as a hub for cutting-edge ideas, we are proud to launch the Innovation Awards 2026 - now in their sixth year - bringing together past winners, current trailblazers and future innovators.

• Business Development & Networking

CW Chamber Networking

Whether you're looking to grow your network, share ideas, or collaborate on new opportunities, this event is the perfect place to connect in the heart of Coventry.

• Business Development & Networking

Supply Chain in Industry

Join Dudley MBC for a jam-packed morning or regenration news, meet the buyer opportunities and networking refreshments.

• Business Development & Networking

From Chaos to Clarity: How to set effective business goals that actually stick

Help drive genuine business impact across the West Midlands, with this workshop that tackles one of the region’s biggest productivity challenges: ineffective goal-setting.

• Business Development & Networking

Think Local, Grow Local - Powering Business Growth in our City (Local Roots to Lasting Impact)

Large events with inspirational business expert panel members and break-out rooms with offers from wide range of businesses providing business growth expertise.

• Social
• Cultural & Diversity

Mental Health Means Business: The new workplace KPI

An interactive workshop which will examine poor mental health and its impact in the work environment.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Stand out or Blend in: How Your Personal Brand Can Make You Impossible To Ignore

Join Tribera for a fast-paced, inspiring panel exploring how AI is transforming marketing - not by automating originality out of existence, but by scaling the best of human creativity.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Leading Through the AI Shift: How leadership must evolve in a rapidly changing world

An interactive session, where we’ll explore the critical leadership capabilities needed for 2026 and beyond.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Practical HR and Employment Law for SMEs

Bitesize HR will cover how to recruit, onboard and induct your employees

• Skills & Recruitment

Simplifying Graduate Recruitment

Thinking about hiring a graduate or taking on an intern?

• Retail & Nightime Economy

Built to Grow: The Hospitality Showcase

Attendees will enjoy guided beer and wine tastings, meet local producers and hear short talks.

• Business Development & Networking

Managing Change with a Growth Mindset

This interactive session is designed for West Midlands business owners and managers who want to lead with confidence in times of uncertainty.

• Business Development & Networking

Sandwell Networkers

The group will bring together entrepreneurs, founders, and community leaders for a Festival event of connection, collaboration and opportunity.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Ignite West Midlands

Attendees can discover how to harness innovation and digital tools to take their business to the next level whilst bringing their community with them.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Beyond Small Talk: Conversations that fuel growth without limits

Drawing on insights from CAPE’s forthcoming book (launching in May 2026), we’ll reveal how small talk isn’t small at all when it comes to building cultures of curiosity, connection and accountability.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Building Resilliance into your Supply Chain

This event will ultimately aim to empower SMEs across the region to strengthen their cyber resilience and safeguard their place in national and global supply chains.

Growing International Partnerships for West Midlands Businesses

This event brings together West Midlands businesses, trade specialists and innovation leaders to explore how international partnerships can drive growth and competitiveness.

• Business Development & Networking

Startup Social West Midlands

No sales pitches, no corporate fluff - Just founders in their first 1–3 years and an industry speaker offering real, actionable wisdom.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Scaling Foundations: Building the base for growth

A workshop designed by BCHG to help small business owners strengthen their operations and ensure they have the right foundations in place before scaling.

• Social
• Cultural & Diversity

Climate Action from Grassroots Approaches

This half-day event brings together business leaders, innovators, and sustainability professionals to explore how businesses in the West Midlands are tackling the climate crisis through innovation.

• Business Development & Networking

Employee Benefits: Empowering growth, through engaged teams

A focus on the importance of regularly reviewing your organisation’s employee benefits proposition to support engagement, retention and overall business growth.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Your 7-Step Road Map to Building a Sustainable Business

This 1.5 hour session will take you through the Wylde 7-Step Sustainability Staircase, a clear progression model that helps businesses move from unprepared and exposed to recognised sustainability leaders.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

AI for SMEs

Discover how it is reshaping industries, improving decision-making and how to lead your organisation through digital transformation.

• Sales & Marketing

Protecting What Makes You Unique: Your brand, creativity & innovations

Join the Intellectual Property Office for a practical, jargon-free online event designed to help West Midlands businesses understand how to safeguard and develop the assets that drive growth.

• Sales & Marketing

PR Masterclass: Showcasing the effectiveness of PR to help boost business reputation

A focused and insight-rich evening hosted by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Midlands, created to show the real, measurable value of PR in building reputation and driving organisational success.

• Business Development & Networking

Walsall High Growth Business Forum 2026: Unlocking Support for High-Growth Businesses

Join Walsall Council, Innovate UK and Oxford Innovations for a high growth conference - Invitation Only Event

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Smarter Business: Practical ways for SMEs to boost efficiency and growth

An invitation to understand and apply Artificial Intelligence to improve productivity, efficiency and competitiveness - from simple tools to advanced sector-specific solutions.

• Business Development & Networking

Export Simplified

Helping businesses to explore new overseas markets and the simplification of the export process.

• Business Development & Networking

Black Country Chamber Expo powered by Hashtag Event

Discover new opportunities, share ideas and build connections to support your business.

• Business Development & Networking

Solihull North Business Forum

A conference to bring together local businesses to network, share insights and build meaningful partnerships.

• Sales & Marketing

Grow your Sales: Master Customer-Obsessed Selling

Using proven techniques, you’ll learn how create your ideal customer profiles, as well as learn from real-world case studies to show you how they work in practice.

• Social
• Cultural & Diversity

Unlock Your Teams Potential: Harness the Power of Art for Workplace Wellbeing and Cohesion (A Strategic Session for Modern Leaders)

Art at the Heart invites you to an inspiring event where creativity meets corporate wellbeing to unlock your team’s full potential.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

People Power: Building a talent strategy that fuels SME growth

Ideal for SME owners, senior leaders and HR professionals looking to future-proof their business and make every people decision count.

• Finance & Professional Services

The B.A.L.A.N.C.E Framework: A transformational financial literacy and well-being programme

A series of workshops focused on practical strategies for financial empowerment, money mindset transformation and business resilience.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Leadership Matters

An interactive 90 min workshop led by Clare Roberts-Molloy “What Kind of Leader Are You? Developing Your Leadership Mindset & Harnessing Diversity of Thought for Creative Problem Solving”.

• Business Development & Networking
• Finance & Professional Services

Next Level: The Business Growth Exchange

An open networking session with drinks and nibbles, hosted by Talbots Law.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Peer Advisory Taster Session

The event is designed for small business leaders such as CEOs, MDs, founders and owners who want to develop their leadership skills and benefit from collective insight.

• Sales & Marketing

Back to Marketing Basics: Stop the Scattergun and Start an Omnichannel Strategy Approach

This practical and engaging workshop will help you step back, refocus and build an omnichannel marketing plan that truly connects.

• Sales & Marketing

Planning for Sales Success

If your business sells B2B and you’re looking to uncover new opportunities and drive growth, this session will give you the essential building blocks to get started.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

SME Cyber Quest

Join us for an immersive Cyber Escape Game designed for SMEs eager to strengthen their cyber security awareness.

• Sales & Marketing

What Hurts, Sells: Build a social presence that attracts leads

If you’re ready to turn casual scrolling into real enquiries and attract clients who feel truly understood, this is the place to begin.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Leading Yourself and Others Through Change

Through guided exploration, business leaders are invited to reflect on the People and Culture aspects of leading effective change.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Plan. Launch. Grow. Expo

The day will feature a dynamic mix of workshops, expert-led sessions and networking opportunities tailored to help attendees take their business ideas or ventures to the next level.

• Sales & Marketing

Start Up & Grow

The event will showcase Bloxwich Launchpads Incubation space and Digital Access programmes, which start up businesses will be able to hire and use.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Microsoft’s: Productivity Mixtape

Step into the Office music vault, crank your synths, and get ready to moonwalk through Microsoft’s greatest productivity hits.

• Social
• Cultural & Diversity

The Business Case for Wellbeing: Why Mental Health is a Growth Strategy

This interactive 90-minute workshop delivered by Mindful Monday explores how prioritising mental health in the workplace can drive business growth, boost retention and foster innovation.

• Sales & Marketing

The Birmingham Effect: What Really Makes Brummies Engage Online

Join Lindi Mngaza, Managing Director of Explode Social Media, to explore what makes Birmingham’s online behaviour unique and how businesses can use this understanding to build trust and genuine engagement.

• Social
• Cultural & Diversity

Unlock Your Teams Potential: Harness the Power of Art for Workplace Wellbeing and Cohesion (A Strategic Session for Modern Leaders)

Art at the Heart invites you to an inspiring event where creativity meets corporate wellbeing to unlock your team’s full potential.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Turning Tension into Teamwork: A Practical Guide to Managing Workplace Conflict

Improve organisational culture and performance, this workshop tackles a universal challenge: conflict that slows teams down.

• Sales & Marketing

The Power of Inclusive Design: Accessibility Experts on Branding That Resonates

Accessibility experts will sharing insights on how to shape a strong inclusive brand identity.

• Finance & Professional Services

Employment rights bill update

Seminar to provide the latest update on progression and developments of legal changes that will impact upon employers under the Employment Rights Bill.

• Business Development & Networking

Innovation Expo 2026

A follow on from our Innovation Expo in 2025.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Stand Out or Blend in: How Your Personal Brand Can Make You Unignorable in 2026

In today’s noisy world, it’s not enough to be great at what you do - you need to be known for it.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Beyond the Business: Built to Lead, Ready to Evolve

In this interactive workshop, business consultant, coach and TEDx speaker Dave Rogers – The Business Explorer helps established entrepreneurs and business owners step back from the day-to-day and see their business through a new lens.

• Finance & Professional Services

Cyber Security and Data Responsibility: Navigating supply chain threats and the evolving legal landscape

A webinar based workshop session on the issues faced by businesses in relation to cyber attacks on their supply chains and the potential risks such attacks can trigger for businesses.

• Sales & Marketing

Grow Faster in 2026: The Science-Backed B2B Marketing Playbook

Most businesses are operating in a tough, uncertain economy – but the evidence for how to grow has never been stronger. This event is delivered in partnership with the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).

• Social
• Cultural & Diversity

Know Your Responsibilities: The duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace

This briefing is designed to support employers to understand their responsibilities under the Worker Protection Act to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace and to consider how to be compliant.

• Business Development & Networking

We Are Walsall 2040

An outline of the council vision, town regeneration plans and support available for 2040, tailored towards local businesses.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Sandwell Business Ambassadors Round Table: Business Rates and Tax

This event will be a collaborative, discussion-focused event where businesses share insights, explore challenges and help shape solutions together.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Escape the Ordinary: Build stronger teams through VR and insight

A fast paced and highly interactive, immersive workshop targeted at improving individual and team performance through collaboration and innovation.

• Social
• Cultural & Diversity

Why Domestic Abuse is a Workplace Issue

BCWA’s interactive workshop will be led by our highly experienced learning and development team and will incorporate real-life scenarios and case studies, video content and group work.

• Business Development & Networking

Recharge to Rise

This networking event will take the form of speed dating, with participants rotating through stations featuring prompts and questions about integrating mindfulness and wellbeing into management practices.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

AI for SMEs

Discover how it is reshaping industries, improving decision-making and how to lead your organisation through digital transformation.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Protecting the Production Line: Cybersecurity for Resilience in Manufacturing

Participants will gain practical insight into the types of threats currently affecting manufacturing operations and learn how to access the right support to strengthen their resilience.

• Business Development & Networking

Discover Greater Birmingham Chambers: Non-member in person event

Find out what the Chamber can do for your business.

• Finance & Professional Services

Loving Your People: Love Them Madly, Manage Them Wisely

Join Leopard Co and Bevan Brittan for a free session which explores how to build a positive, energising culture while also managing confidently and fairly when things aren’t working.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Driving Business Success in the Black Country

A collaborative event led by Waldrons Solicitors, on behalf of Waterfront Matters promoting local female leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals who are helping to shape and strengthen the wider region’s business community.

• Skills & Recruitment

Ideas to Impact: Design Factory Birmingham Showcase

Join us to network in our creative space, explore our facilities, including our 3D print studio, and experience interactive demonstrations such as VR (Virtual Reality).

• Business Development & Networking

Golf Fore Networking - Hagley

Swing on by for golf networking and build connections with local business professionals on Thursday 12th February at our driving range, with our PGA coaching team.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

The Diary of Serial Entrepreneurs

Future Planet Capital Regional is organising a panel discussion featuring local serial entrepreneurs who have built, scaled, and exited multiple businesses.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Managing Redundancy with Dignity: How to Protect People and Preserve Reputation

When you have to let people go, how do you do it well?

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Business & Research Partnerships for a Sustainable Future

You are invited to an engaging drinks reception that will highlight the many ways businesses can collaborate with the University of Birmingham.

• Business Development & Networking

Sovereign Expo - Lucky 13

A business supplies and services procurement event which highlights innovation, healthier working enviroments and business which can help guide and assit with any part of your supply chain for any business.

• Leadership & Managerial Development

Time to Think: An introduction to an under-utilised development tool for business leaders

Grounded in Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment, this interactive session is designed to spark innovation and elevate team performance to promote business growth.

• AI
• New Technologies & Innovation

Life Sciences Week 2026 Launch

The region’s flagship event celebrating innovation, collaboration, and the future of life sciences. This event will showcase why the West Midlands is a powerhouse for medical research, biotechnology, and healthcare advancements.