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2-13 February 2026
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With over 100 events to choose from across two weeks, discover ideas, connections and inspiration to help your business grow. Browse by theme, date or location and start building your personalised schedule.
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- 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.
Beyond Small Talk: Conversations that fuel growth without limits - Book now
- 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.
Building Resilliance into your Supply Chain - Book now
- Business Development & Networking
Next Stop Europe: International Partnerships for Creative Tech Innovators
Whether you’re looking to expand your business, find collaborators or gain insider knowledge of European opportunities, this event is a must-attend for creative tech innovators ready to take the next step.
Next Stop Europe: International Partnerships for Creative Tech Innovators - Book now
- 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.
Startup Social West Midlands - Book now
- 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.
Scaling Foundations: Building the base for growth - Book now
- 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.
Climate Action from Grassroots Approaches - Book now
- 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.
Employee Benefits: Empowering growth, through engaged teams - Book now
- Social, Cultural & Diversity
From Social Value to Real Impact: How construction firms can engage underrepresented communities
This session explores how construction companies can deliver meaningful and measurable social value by engaging with underrepresented communities and tapping into overlooked talent across the West Midlands.
From Social Value to Real Impact: How construction firms can engage underrepresented communities - Book now
- 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.
Your 7-Step Road Map to Building a Sustainable Business - Book now
- 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 for SMEs - Book now
- 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.
Protecting What Makes You Unique: Your brand, creativity & innovations - Book now
- Sales & Marketing
Rank Higher in Google Local Search Results
Join us for a insightful webinar on how to rank higher in Google local search results.
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