Tech Wednesday

Tech Wednesday is our monthly Campus meet-up for Birmingham’s technological and entrepreneurial community. Each month we also have ‘Show ‘n Tells’, where a number of tech start-ups and individuals within the region present and demo innovative projects to the group for feedback and discussion. Please get in touch if you would like to present.

We meet at 5.30pm within Innovation Birmingham’s multi-million-pound 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:

17:30 Registration and drinks reception
18:00 Gurpreet Sidhu: Co-founder at easyFood and Cross Border VAT
18:15 Shammi Raichura: Regional Cities Lead, Uber
18:30 Talha Ghannam: Founder & CEO at Quran Club
18:45 Mark Woolaston & Rebecca Clarke: Democratising TV Advertising, ITV
19:15 Food, drink & networking
20:00 Close

We meet at 5.30pm within Innovation Birmingham’s multi-million-pound 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.

Speakers:

• Gurpreet Sidhu: Co-founder at easyFood and Cross Border VAT

easyFood is all about a fair deal for restaurant owners and their customers. No more commissions for restaurant owners and no more service charge for customers. Launching in Birmingham with 200 restaurants and takeaways, order your food online and expect to pay real prices with real discounts. We will empower restaurants by giving them the freedom to market directly to their customers through their own website and brand.

• Shammi Raichura: Regional Cities Lead, Central UK, Uber

Now in this third year at Uber, Shammi started at the company during its early stages of expansion in the UK. He is currently the Regional Cities Lead for Central UK, spending his time working with regulators and policymakers to help them use technology to improve urban mobility in cities. As Uber continues to play an ever increasing role in helping get us from A to B, it continues to diversify its business into new areas. From McDonalds delivery to flying cars, hear what is next for Uber in addition to what the company's ultimate mission entails.

• Talha Ghannam: Founder & CEO at Quran Club

Quran Club is the first digital community for Muslims, bringing people together by asking them to read, reflect and complete the Quran together. With a market scope of over 1.6bn Muslims worldwide, we service a global community with specific needs, carving a niche within the social media space.

• Mark Woolaston & Rebecca Clarke: Democratising TV Advertising, ITV

ITV Plc are currently flying high with exceptional commercial growth and record-breaking viewing figures. However the business has to innovate and change will always be around the corner. The ITV Business team are a start-up of nine people created within the broadcaster to develop and grow the TV advertising product of the future. The task: to democratise TV advertising for SMEs, from the smallest start-up or one man band to the more established medium-sized businesses. The selected marketplace is the UK's Central Region (East & West Midlands) - the most entrepreneurial outside of London. The ITV team will share the rationale behind this innovation, their learnings from the first two months of operation, discuss the product itself and it's potential impact on the media industry, all from the perspective of a start-up within the UK's best-loved broadcaster.