Agenda Highlights

Whether you're looking to expand, innovate, or navigate uncertainty, the Business Growth Studio Conference will provide the tools, connections, and confidence to achieve your business objectives.

The day will be split into four inspiring and informative sessions:

🛠 Growth Context: The Big Picture – Understand key market trends, economic shifts, and the global outlook for business. Featuring an inspiring keynote and a high-profile panel of experts.

🚀 Growth Mindset: Seizing Opportunities – Explore disruptive forces shaping the business landscape, from AI to sustainability, and gain strategies to turn them into growth opportunities.

🏛 Unlocking Growth: The Role of Government – Discover the funded support available for your business and how key policy developments impact your business, with insights from government leaders and policymakers.

📈 Scaling Growth: Taking it to the Next Level – Learn from successful entrepreneurs who have scaled and exited their businesses, sharing invaluable lessons on what they wish they’d known when starting out.

Agenda

  • 09:30 - 10:00 Arrival & Registration
  • 10:00 - 10:10 Opening Remarks

Growth Context: The Big Picture:

  • 10:10 - 10:30 Keynote 1 - Maxine Laceby, Co-Founder, Absolute Collagen
  • 10:30 - 11:15 Panel 1
  • 11:15 - 11:30 Break

Growth Mindset: Seizing Opportunities:

  • 11:30 - 11:50 Keynote 2 - Piers Linney, Former Dragon & Co-Founder, Implement AI
  • 11:50 - 12:15 Panel 2
  • 12:15 - 12:30 Interactive Exercise
  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Opportunity to Visit the GBB Expo

Unlocking Growth: The Role of Government:

  • 13:30 - 13:50 Keynote 3
  • 13:50 - 14:30 Panel 3
  • 14:30 - 14:45 Break

Scaling Growth: Taking It to the Next Level:

  • 14:45 - 15:00 Keynote 4
  • 15:00 - 15:35 Panel 4
  • 15:35 - 15:50 Interactive Exercise
  • 15:50 - 16:00 Close

Please note, the Conference will take place at the same time as the Greater Birmingham Business Expo. Delegates will have the opportunity to explore the Expo during scheduled conference breaks. Find out more about the Greater Birmingham Business Expo here.