Young professionals hold a debate about the challenges ahead for their city

Birmingham Future will be inviting its members to debate the city’s capability to weather the storm caused by the current economic climate in the first of a series of Open Forum Debates for 2009 The event will take place at Bevan Brittan at Interchange Place in Edmund Street, Birmingham on Thursday 28th May commencing at 6.30pm. Representatives of the political, academic and business and media world will be part of the panel assembled by Birmingham Future’s Debates Committee. On the panel will be Edgbaston MP, Gisela Stuart, Birmingham city councilor and prospective parliamentary candidate, Deirdre Alden, Professor of International Business Strategy and Economics David Bailey of Coventry University Business School (formally of Birmingham Business School) and Head of Business at the Birmingham Post, Alun Thorne. The motion to be debated by the panel with interaction and views from the floor will be; Are Birmingham’s Young Professionals right to be confident about the city’s ability to weather the current financial storm?” Commenting on the forthcoming debate Birmingham Future’s Paul Fielding, who chairs the Debates Committee said; “We are delighted that we have secured such high profile guests to take part in our debate. This will enable us to explore how confident we should be about the city’s ability to face the current challenges from a political and business perspective. “Clearly Birmingham Future’s members of young professionals have committed their future to the city both professionally and personally and so have a vested interest in the city’s strategy to cope with the current economic crisis. I am sure our members will enjoy both hearing from and debating with our guests.”

Tickets for the Open Forum Debate are available at a cost of £20+vat from Laura Bayliss at the Birmingham Future office on 0121 632 2201 or online at www.birminghamfuture.co.uk.

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FURTHER INFORMATION FROM: Tim Rudman at Urban Communications on 0121 237 6016 or email; tim@urbancomms.com Date of issue: 19th May 2009.

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