Digital City Festival 2020 | Digital City Festival | 9 March 2020 | Manchester Central, Ashton New Rd, Manchester M11 3RR, UK

Bringing together the leaders, creators and change-makers who are shaping the future of digital

What to Expect from Digital City Festival?
• Inspiration and Insight - Curate your own journey across two packed days of keynotes and masterclasses at Digital City Expo. Hear from big names in your industry, discover the very latest innovations, and head back to the office full of new ideas.
• Diverse Content - Explore the Festival’s wider Fringe events programme for more opportunities to learn, grow and collaborate. Groups across the region will shape the agenda by hosting partner events – focusing on the impact innovation can have on growing your business and transforming society as a whole, for the better.
• Meaningful Connections- There’s nothing like the connection that comes from a face-to-face conversation – the Festival’s flagship event, Digital City Expo, is designed with exactly that ethos in mind. It will bring together thousands of brilliant people working across Marketing, eCommerce, Tech, Retail and Media to share ideas, challenges and experiences. Ready to meet your next industry partner, mentor or hire?

2020 Speakers

Imtiaz Adam
CEO, Founder and Director, Machine Learning
Deep Learn Strategies

Noha Amin
Information Security Architect, KEC Engineering Consulting

Namrata Murlidhar Anand
Director of International Marketing, LinkedIn Learning

Nick Band
Co-founder, Pimento People

Georgia Barry
Strategy Consultant, Vaimo

Liam Bateman
CTO and agency co-founder, Silverchip

Caroline Beesley
Head of Digital Marketing, Co-op

Jon Bezalel
Digital Strategist, Accord Marketing

Nigel Bridges
CEO, Beacon

Andy Burton
Group Chief Technology Officer, The Very Group

Sean Connell
CEO, Verse

Chris Conway
Head of Ecommerce, Co-op

Darren Goldie
Chief Strategy & Product Officer, Modo25

David Espley
Chief Product and Technical Officer, Radius Payment Solutions

Dave Ferguson
CCO, Verse

Andre de Gaye
Strategic Partnership Manager, PureClarity

Carly Giltrap
Senior Sales Enablement Manager, AdRoll

Craig Griffiths
Client Partner Manager, Zenloop

Claire Hennah
Global Beauty & Personal Care eCommerce Director, Unilever

Gem Hill
Senior Tester for Voice + AI, BBC

Ben Irons
UK Sales Director, Microsoft Advertising

Rob Jones
CEO, Qbase Data Services Ltd

Rich Jones
Chief Strategy Officer, twentysix

Annette Joseph
Agile Coach/Delivery Manager, Co-op

Stephen Knight
Founder & CEO, Pimento

Natasha Kosoglov
Mobile Performance Lead, Google

Gavin Laugenie
Consultant, dotdigital

Katy Leeson
Managing Director, Social Chain

Mike Longfellow
Chief Customer Officer, Modo25

Sherin Mathew
Founder & Analytics and AI Lead, AI Tech North & IBM

Conor McIlduff
Business Development UK, Channable

Adam Oldfield
Managing Director, Force24

Liam Patterson
CEO, Bidnamic

Chris Purcell
Product Marketing Manager, Episerver

Maria Noel Reyes
Marketing Director, Digital Products, Bauer Media

Neil Robinson
Head of UK Market, LeadFamly

Liz Scott
Head of Entrepreneur Engagement, Tech Nation

Matthew Soakell
Senior PPC Trainer, Mabo

Sarah Willcocks
CEO, Screen Pages

Ben Young
Commercial Director, Digital Media Team

2020 Sponsors, Partners and Exhibitors

HEADLINE PARTNER:
• Capita

LEAD SPONSORS:
• BJSS
• dotdigital
• Silverchip

SPONSORS:
• AdRoll
• Adzooma
• Dept
• EY
• GC Business Growth Hub
• LiveArea
• MiQ

EVENT PARTNERS:
• Adyen
• Pimento
• Sync
• Vaimo

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• GMCC

FESTIVAL ADVISORS:
• Leeds Digital Festival
• Made Smarter
• MIDAS
• Pimberly
• pro-manchester
• PwC UK
• Siemens
• The Landing
• University of Salford

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• BIMA
• Digital Agency Network
• Marketing Manchester
• Payments & Cards Network
• PRCA
• Tech Nation

EXHIBITORS:
• 101 Ways
• Accord
• Beacon
• Bidnamic
• Business Driver
• BWP Group
• CDS
• Channable
• Colewood
• Digital Media Team
• Don't Panic
• Essential Promotions
• Force24
• ICG
• Imageco
• Klaviyo
• LeadFamly
• Mabo
• Modo25
• Multiprint Solutions
• OneTrust
• Parcelhub
• Peek & Poke
• Pimento People
• PPL
• PRgloo
• ProCo
• Prolific North
• PureClarity
• Qbase
• Quantcast
• Ruler Analytics
• Screen Pages
• Seven Video Productions
• ShipStation
• Smithfield
• SoAmpli
• Standby Productions
• The Manchester Tennis & Racquet Club
• The Storage Place
• Threekit
• Thrive Media Group
• Total Processing
• twentysix
• Verse
• Woven
• WP Engine
• YouGov
• zenloop