Topic “Advantage West Midlands”

The city region has its visitor expertise and quality at the 2008 Excellence in Tourism Awards ceremony held recently at the ICC Birmingham. Biz TV was a proud category sponsor and was there to record a host of quality winners.

Wolverhampton Development Company previewed the vision for the City at The Lighthouse Media Centre to an audience of developers, property consultants and the media. Find out what lies in store for one of the UK's newest Cities through to 2030

The magnificent Town Hall Birmingham was the setting for the Excellence in Tourism Awards and provided an appropriately splendid stage for the regions tourism star- see who they are.

The first phase of public consultations on the update of the West Midlands Economic Strategy is now concluded. Over 500 people attended six events which took place around the region to air their views on what should be included in the updated strategy. Between July and September 2007 individuals and groups will be consulted on the draft strategy and in September the updated strategy will be launched. Take a look at our special feature to view more videos about this story. For more information please visit http://www.advantagewm.co.uk/wmesreview.html

Both Keele and Staffordshire Universities celebrate as winners of the West Midlands leading Innovation Awards, the Lord Stafford Awards. Clinching both the Development and Achievement categories, the Universities from Staffordshire were joined by The University of Warwick for the best "Spin out" company.

The West Midlands IT Association brings together a wide range of IT companies and the regional organisations associated with the industry to discuss major issues affecting IT and provides an exhibition opportunity for these companies at a day long event at Millennium Point in Birmingham. WMITA is supported by Adavntage West Midlands (AWM). www.wmita.co.uk

The MAS service team for the West Midlands are joined by the Minister for Industry and representatives from the manufacturing sector and other MAS offices across the UK. They joined together to celebrate the success of the first full year of the Service providing specialist, high quality advice and support to manufacturers. The event, which had previously been scheduled to be held at the National Motorcycle Museum, took place in the impressive setting of Hangar One at RAF Cosford. www.mas-wm.org