November, 2008

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.

Focusing on links with education, intellectual property and the role of the internet, Gigbeth's 2008 conference attracted many music industry influencers to Birmingham where the city's music community was strongly represented.

Mohammed Zahir, Creative Business Manager and organiser of the Creative City Awards talks about this years ceremony which will be held at the ICC on 29th November. Biztv will be there to record the presentations so come back to see who the winners are.

Alex Clarke, Project Manager, Photonics Cluster, talks about the wide-ranging applications of photonics and the region's growing focus and expertise in this work.