The Midlands Economic Summit 2024 - Highlights

Collaboration is the key to connecting opportunity and investment to unlock growth and prosperity. By bringing together public and private sector decision-makers, innovators and experts in their fields, the Midlands Economic Summit is a crucible for thought leadership, motivating the action in partnership that will lead to a strong, inclusive and growing regional economy.
The Summit explored six major themes:
1. Midlands devolution recognises that local leaders are best placed to make local decisions. How can we leverage this opportunity to build stronger public-private investment partnerships?
2. Midlands collaboration is powerful and committed to achieving more together. How can connecting collectively with even greater ambition, urgency and scale accelerate growth and investment?
3. Midlands innovation has a rich heritage that that continues today in the form of world-leading R&D. How can we capitalise on and commercialise this to drive investment back into the region?
4. Midlands places matter to our communities, businesses and economies. How can we deepen and connect collaborative and transformational placemaking to drive inclusive growth?
5. Midlands businesses are resilient in the face of challenge but hungry for growth. How can we empower our private sector to thrive by creating the best conditions for investment and growth at scale and speed?
6. The Midlands Economic Summit will consider these and many other thought-provoking questions as we work together to tackle barriers and capitalise on opportunities to drive investment and power growth.