West Midlands

Birmingham Design Initiative Awards
Awards for Environmental Architecture (categories: Conservation, Landscape, Interior and Building) and Product Design (categories: Domestic, Industrial/Office and Transport). This event is invitation only.
Date: 31 October
Time: 7.30 onwards
Venue: The Banqueting Suite, The Council House (opposite Birmingham Art Gallery), Birmingham
Contact: Keith Dunton, Business Link Birmingham 0121 607 1797 kdunton@birmingham.businesslink.co.uk

From Concept to Prototype
A real-time practical demonstration, against the clock, of how new technology can help small and medium companies make a prototype from using only the concept.
Date: 1 November
Time: 9.00 until 5.00
Venue:  The Hothouse, Webberley Lane, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 7AN
Contact: Donna Frosdick, Staffordshire and Black Country Business Innovation Centre 01785 226 598 donna@thebic.co.uk
www.thebic.co.uk

Successful New Product Development: the 'No-option' Option for SMEs
To show companies how to use proven methods that reduce the cost, reduce the risk, and increase the chances that the outcome will be a successful, profitable new product development programme.
Date: 1 November
Time: 7.30 until 9.30am
Venue: Business Link Birmingham, 75 Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3BU
Contact: Keith Dunton, Business Link Birmingham 0121 607 1797 kdunton@birmingham.businesslink.co

Innovative Learning Environments
This event combines case study presentations, speakers and discussion, for public/private education sector focused on innovation in their building design projects: sustainability, inspiring design, life-long learning, investment in education.
Date: 1 November
Time: 9.30 to 2.30, includes lunch
Venue: WS Atkins, Auchinleck House, 6th Floor Conference Room, Broad Street, Five Ways, Birmingham B15 1DJ
Contact: (from 3 October) Julia Bennett, WS Atkins 01452 412121 jmbennett@wsatkins.co.uk
www.wsatkins.co.uk

Cafe Invent
Cafe Invent is at the heart of the exhibition area at the CBI National Conference and is the result of a partnership between the CBI, Hewlett-Packard and the Design Council.
Dates: 5 - 7 November
Times: Please check with CBI for opening times of exhibition
Venue: CBI National Conference, The ICC, Broad Street, Birmingham
B1 2EA
Contact: CBI Special Events Department, 020 7395 8218 caroline.young@cbi.org.uk
www.cbi.org.uk