If it’s fantastic quality of life and a great sense of community you’re looking for, Birmingham is the place to be, according to the panel of speakers at last night’s leg of the Tech Nation tour.
The tour is an opportunity for Tech City UK to share the findings of its Tech Nation report with the technology communities of some of the UK’s key regions. Last night was the Midlands leg, held at iCentrum in Birmingham.
The report shows that four tech clusters in the region (Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Worcester and Malvern) employ over 87,400 people in digital tech jobs. These people were responsible for generating an average GVA of £2.91bn from 2013-2015 (that’s the amount of value generated after the sector’s cost of operation is deducted)....