It’s been more than ten years since the BCO was last in Birmingham and I’m sure, like me, you’ve been struck by the remarkable change since then.

Over the past decade, this city, famously known as the ‘workshop of the world’ has lived up to its name, quietly delivering a number of sizeable new developments, including 103 Colmore Row, Enterprise Wharf, the Paradise regeneration project, and Snow Hill; no doubt catalysed by the substantial redevelopment of New Street Station in 2015 and I’m pleased to say the conference programme will offer opportunities to tour a number of these schemes.