marketingSHOWCASE Birmingham

A free half-day martech event at Edgbaston Stadium, 10:00 to 14:00, built around a format the organisers call 5inTwenty.

Speakers are given twenty minutes and challenged to deliver five genuine strategic takeaways, with product promotion explicitly ruled out. Around the sessions is The Marketplace, set up as a consultation hub rather than an exhibition hall, where you can take a specific technical problem to vendors and specialists one to one. Framework Media expects more than 200 marketing professionals, mostly in-house teams from across the Midlands. Free.

Why go: the time limit is the point, and it makes this denser than most free vendor-funded events. Best for in-house marketers with a concrete martech problem and half a day to solve it.