Birmingham Tech Week: AI Symposium 2026

About Birmingham Tech Week: AI Symposium 2026

Birmingham Tech CIC organizes Birmingham Tech Week 2026: AI Symposium, an in-person event in Birmingham, United Kingdom, from Monday, October 19 to Friday, October 23, 2026. The audience listed includes founders, business leaders, investors, students, international delegates and sponsors.

The official site lists 42 speakers, among them Robert Bilsland, CTO and Head of AI Enablement at Coco Software, Kit Windows-Yule, Director of Innovation at the University of Birmingham, and David Geale, Executive Director for Payments and Digital Finance at the FCA.

Location

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Audience

• Founder
• Business Leader
• Investor
• Student
• International Delegate
• Sponsor

Speakers

• Robert Bilsland
  CTO & Head of AI Enablement, Coco Software
• Kit Windows-Yule
  Director of Innovation, University of Birmingham
• David Geale
  Executive Director, Payments and Digital Finance (FCA)
• Neil Howells
  ROCU Protect Officer, West Midlands Regional Cyber Crime Unit
• George Hall
  Growth & Engagement Manager, Good Growth
• Isaac Harvey MBE
  Disability Advocate, Speaker & Content Creator, I Am Isaac Harvey
• Kelly Kwarteng
  Founder & Director, Elevate Community & HW Solutions
• Bruce Asbestos
  Artist
• Eloise Singer
• Lara Jeetley
  Researcher, The Alan Turing Institute
• Mhairi Aitken
  Research Leader in AI Ethics, Our AI Collective
• Alan Welby
  Managing Director,, Connected Places Catapult
• Alex Zarifeh
  Founder, Futures Readiness
• Alice Whorley
  Vice President of Operations, British Esports
• Andrew Griffiths OBE
  Commander Armed Forces Recruiting, Ministry of Defence
• Claire Owen
  CEO & Co-Founder, Pupil Power
• Csaba Berenyi
  Managing Director, Sponge Hammer Games
• Dan Harris
  Founder & CEO, Neurodiversity in Business
• Darren Hodson
  Corporate Finance Partner, PKF Smith Cooper
• Elena Gaura
  Professor & Senior Research Lead, Coventry University
• Henrietta Brealey
  Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
• Jacqueline De Rojas
  Chair, Bletchley Park Trust
• Jenny Millar
  Founder & CEO, Untapped Pricing
• Kirti Desai
  FinTech Expert

Social

• linkedin
• youtube

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