Smarter Business: Practical ways for SMEs to boost efficiency and growth

Join us on Thursday 5 February for a dynamic, hands-on event designed to help SMEs understand how they can use Artificial Intelligence to boost efficiency and growth, streamline operations and enhance productivity.

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Hear from Andy Hague, CEO of Tech WM, who will open the event with powerful insights into how businesses across the West Midlands are adopting AI to stay competitive.

Explore a series of interactive, expert-led AI Clinics, each offering simple, practical tools you can apply immediately in your business.

Suitable for SMEs and influencers and organisations supporting SMEs, this event will:

• Demystify AI for SMEs – Explore what AI means in practical business terms – from admin automation to smart data use. By utilising SMEs and experts that can demonstrate how simple applications can start to transform change and efficiency.
• Demonstrate live case studies across all sectors (with some focus on Automotive, Construction, Advanced Manufacturing, Digital) showing how AI is already improving operations and outcomes.
• Connect Regional Strengths – Link AI adoption to local innovation, training, and business support ecosystems within Coventry and Warwickshire and the West Midlands.
• Encourage Collaboration and Innovation – Bring together businesses, educators, and regional partners to share ideas, experiences, and opportunities for future growth through digital and AI innovation.

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Part of the West Midlands Business Festival, this event is brought to you by Coventry College – the lead partner of a four FE college collaboration for the Innovate UK project to help SMEs across Coventry and Warwickshire and the wider West Midlands,  understand and apply Artificial Intelligence to improve productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. The other Innovate UK partner colleges are North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, Warwickshire College Group and Stratford-upon-Avon College.