The West Midlands is increasingly positioning itself as a technologically advanced industrial economy shaped by AI, digitisation and interconnected operational systems. However, much of the regional technology narrative still underestimates the importance of cyber resilience as a foundational element of economic infrastructure. As manufacturing, logistics and supply chains become more digitally dependent, cyber resilience is rapidly becoming inseparable from industrial continuity, competitiveness and long-term regional economic capability. Welcome to my review of TechWM’s “West Midlands Tech Review 2026 (WMTR26)”