Tech Wednesday

Tech Wednesday is our monthly Campus meet-up for Birmingham’s technological and entrepreneurial community. Each month we hear from a number of tech start-ups and individuals within the region, they present and demo innovative projects to the group for feedback and discussion. Please get in touch if you're interested in taking a speaker slot!

We meet at 5.30pm within Innovation Birmingham’s iCentrum building. You can find us in the atrium, however if you’re struggling to locate us our friendly reception staff will point you in the right direction. New faces are always welcome!

Agenda:

05:30pm Registration, drinks and networking
06:00pm Welcome
Speaker 1: Callum Faulds, Repair Wins
Speaker 2: Saroj Bains, ThinkGrowSales Ltd
Speaker 3: Zaynab Sohawon, Emotion Dysregulation in Autism
07:00pm Pizza, drinks & networking
08:00pm Close

Talk 1:
Callum's talk will cover some of the interesting things he has had the opportunity to fix and how I could have done them faster / more efficiently with the knowledge I now have. He will talk about why repair is important, before covering what we can all do to be more sustainable when it comes to technology.
Callum will also cover what YOUR options are when your device(s) break, the simple things you can try before sending them to be fixed and some interesting ways to give a second life to our older devices.

Talk 2:
With over 20 years’ experience in TECH selling software and services, Soraj now helps technology companies that sell B2B with business strategy, sales training, advisory, mentorship and speaking.

Talk 3:
Emotion Dysregulation in Autism (EDA) is a mental health charity for autistic young people. Their vision is to see a world where autistic young people no longer self-harm from their emotion dysregulation difficulties.
Hear about the 'why' for EDA and how this informs the mission and vision. Zeze will be talking about the lived experience ED have which catalyses the change we need to see in services that support autistic young people with mental health needs.

Please note that photography will be taking place at this event, please either notify a member of the events staff on the day or email Stefanie.eynon@bruntwood.co.uk if you would like to be omitted from any shots.

See you there!