Future Faces hosts BYPY alumni event
The Future Faces division welcomed Birmingham Young Professional of the Year awards alumni to a special event on Wednesday, where attendees had the chance to reminisce and share experiences on past awards, as well as discuss the upcoming awards this year.
The event was held on Colmore Row with Rewired PR, hosted by Ruth Pipkin and Nicola Fleet-Milne, with a wide range of past award winners in attendance such as Michael Shepherd, Anthony McCourt and Laura Thursfield.
Speaking about the event, Nicola Fleet-Milne said: "Winning at BYPY had such a tremendous impact on my career, opening doors across the city and region. I would encourage young professionals to apply and enjoy the process; there is nothing quite like this event and the subsequent recognition."
This year, the Greater Birmingham Young Professional of the Year awards will be held at the Eastside Rooms on 22 September. The renamed awards reflect the BPS network, Birmingham Future, merging with the young professionals division of Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce back in 2020.
Anthony McCourt, CEO of Court Collaboration said: “'It was fantastic to attend the Chamber Future Faces Greater BYPY Alumni event last week.
“To catch up with so many faces and even more, to see the fresh energy and enthusiasm that exists for Greater BYPY to be such a huge success this year and onwards in the Birmingham calendar. It 's great to see the BYPY legacy in such good hands with Future Faces ”
The deadline for award entries is 24 July 2023, and the shortlist for the awards will be announced on 21 August.
The 14 awards categories are:
- Change and Sustainability Young Professional of the Year
- Creative Arts and Culture Young Professional of the Year
- Engineering and Manufacturing Young Professional of the Year
- Finance Young Professional of the Year
- Greater Birmingham Apprentice of the Year
- Legal Young Professional of the Year
- People and Wellbeing Young Professional of the Year
- Retail and Hospitality Young Professional of the Year
- Sales, Marketing and Communications Young Professional of the Year
- Start-ups, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Young Professional of the Year
- Technology and Innovation Young Professional of the Year
- Third Sector Young Professional of the Year
- Training and Education Young Professional of the Year
- Future Faces Ambassador (committee decision)
One of the category winners will be crowned the overall Greater Birmingham Young Professional of the Year.
Sophie Poduval-Morrell, Future Faces Manager, said: “The BYPY Alumni event was a great opportunity to hear all about how the awards impacted the careers of so many of Birmingham's leaders, the fun they had and the network and community that they built. The BYPY Alumni are so excited and supportive of the Greater BYPY and the opportunity it offers our young professionals."
Pictured (L-R): Tom Bower, Sophie Poduval-Morrell, Ruth Pipkin, Kasim Choudhry, Nicola Fleet-Milne and Anthony McCourt