{"id":435764,"date":"2026-02-20T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435764\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:22:06","slug":"wolverhampton-ai-and-coding-firms-pride-at-business-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435764\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton AI and coding firm’s ‘pride’ at business award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The founder of a company which teaches computer coding and AI has described getting a business of the year award as a milestone for the firm,<\/p>\n

The School of Coding & AI (SOC) was given the accolade at Birmingham’s Signature Awards, which celebrates businesses.<\/p>\n

The company teaches people on their own, in businesses or in public sector organisations and, in the last year, opened a \u00a32.5m tech lab in Birmingham, redeveloped its Wolverhampton headquarters and launched an international campus in Dubai.<\/a><\/p>\n

The firm’s chief executive and founder, Manny Athwal, said it was a “great honour” to be recognised in the Midlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of a company which teaches computer coding and AI has described getting a business of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-435764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}