DTX Manchester 2022 | Imago Techmedia | 26 April 2022 | Manchester Central Convention Complex, Windmill St, Manchester M2 3GX, UK

No matter where you are on your transformation journey, DTX Manchester (previously IP EXPO) provides inspiration and confidence to your next steps. Making IT easier for you. The exhibition alongside fringe events and socials offers endless opportunities for you to discover the latest solutions, connect with your peers and learn from industry trailblazers.

With the world spinning faster than ever, we’ll keep you ahead of the game.

This event is covering all the technologies that you need to prioritise now. Our agenda covers the biggest challenges and opportunities that IT Teams are facing today. Don't miss 11 stages of mastermind level content across core technology areas. Gain insight from the masters in IT strategy, tactics, implementation, and adoption.

2022 Speakers

Michael Adjei
Senior Regional Systems Engineer, Illumio

Fahim Afghan
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Egress

Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Theoretical Physicist & Host, The Life Scientific, BBC Radio 4

Sameena Ali-Khan
TV and News Presenter

Sharon Amesu
Director and Consultant, SA Consulting

Dr Fahad Anwar
Director of Technology, Access Pay

Tom Arbuthnot
Principal Solutions Architect, Modality Systems

Amelia Bampton
Managing Consultant, Infinity Works

Liam Bateman
Chief Technology Officer, Silverchip

Julia Bateson
Head of Apprenticeships, TechUK

Amul Batra
Chief Operating Officer, NorthCoders

Gary Bennion
Managing Director, CloudM

Nick Blundell
Head of Research & Development, AppCheck

Martin Boam
Architect - Centre of Excellence, Microsoft

Sam Booth
CEO, ProManchester

Charlotte Brady
Software Developer, Arup

Tom Bragg
Infrastructure Automation Architect, KPMG

Jon Burt
Lead Enterprise Architect, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

John Burton
Data Science Chapter Lead, Brambles

Chris Butcher
Lead Specialist, TimeXtender

Sarah Canning
Partner Marketing Manager, TimeXtender

William Cappelli
DevOps Strategist, Splunk

Chris Chamberlain
Head of Technology Service Management, Appreciate Group

Jaz Chana
Technology Director, Cinch

Graham Cluley
Host, Smashing Security Podcast

Andy Cocallis
Head of Information Security, UK Biobank

Tom Cock
Security Architect, Incident Response, Varonis

Mark Cockbill
EMEA, Sales Engineering Manager, OneLogin

Nicholas Cooper
Global Head of Cyber Security Operations & Threat Intelligence, Bupa

David Cox
Director, European Cyber Resilience Centre, Mastercard

Daryl D'Cruz
Founder & Director, Hexdon

Erin Davies
Agile Lead, Wongdoody

Erin Davies
Lead Agile Coach, WongDoody

Josh Davies
Product Manager, Alert Logic

Nick Dicksee
Avaya International CPaaS Specialist Lead, Avaya

Graham Donoghue
CEO, Sykes Cottages

Jo Drake
CIO, The Hut Group

Alexandru Dumitru
Machine Learning Scientist, Booking.com

Helen Duncan
Managing Director, MWE Media Ltd

Ernest Edem Edifor
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the DTS apprenticeship, Manchester Metropolitan University

Sara El-Hanfy
Head of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Innovate UK

Stephane Estevez
EMEA Director of Product Marketing, Observability & IT Markets, Splunk

Edson Ferreira
Director of Engineering and Delivery, Experian

Gary Fildes
Cyber Security Inspector, Office for Nuclear Regulation

Leanne Fitzpatrick
Director of Data Science, Financial Times

Amy Flynn
Digital Product Journey Manager & Digital Bee, Co-Op Bank

Lisa Forte
Partner, Red Goat Security

Becky Franks
Head of UX & Optimisation, Co-Op Bank

Mick Gallagher
Key Account Manager, Roke

Randeep Gill
Principal Sales Engineer, Exabeam

Vasso Giovitsits
Expansion Account Manager, CloudFlare

Emma Grant
Head of Talent & Skills, Manchester Digital

Jon Greatbatch
Head of DevOps Enablement, PwC

Catherine Gull
Consultant / Board of Advisors, Cellnex Telecom / UK5G

Michael W Hansen
Alliance Director, TimeXtender

Colin Hardy
Head of Security Operations & Host, Deliveroo / Infosec Real Podcast

Russell Harpham
Business Development - Bose Work, Bose

Jason Hart
Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, Rapid7

Nathen Harvey
Developer Advocate, Google

Tom Hassall
Head of CPG & Manufacturing Data Science, Peak.AI

Cian Heasley
Threat Consultant, Adarma

James Heggs
Chief Technology Officer, TechReturners

John Hobson
VP & CIO, Kellogg Europe, Kellogg Group

Martin Hodgson
Regional Sales Manager - Northern Europe, Paessler AG

Simon Horton
VP of Sales, International, Sangoma Technologies

Christina Howell
Exec for Cloud Engineering, AND.Digital

Greg Hudson
Head of Technology, M247

Alison Hughes
Assistant Director ICT, Digital & Customer, Liverpool City Council

Samantha Humphries
Head of Security Strategy, EMEA, Exabeam

Peter Jackson
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Exasol

Marta Jasinska
Chief Technology Officer, Bloom and Wild

Ben Jenkins
Director, Cybersecurity, ThreatLocker

Theo Johnson
Security Analyst, Auden

Nigel Jones
Sector Specialist, Tech, Digital & Creative, Department for International Trade

Stephen Joyce
Director of People & Culture, Sykes Cottages

Steve Joyner
Vice President - UK & Ireland, Avaya

Adela Kacperska
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Zahraa Kadri
Senior Consultant, Infrastructure Advisory, Arup

Jon Kane
Senior Director - Partnerships - Northern EMEA & Benelux, Cybereason

Rosemary Kay
Project Director, Liverpool 5G Create, E-Health Cluster Limited

Katherine Kearns
Senior Manager of Cyber Security, PWC

David Keebles
Security Operations Manager, Auden

Rob Kelsall
VP of Sales, Resolve Systems

Dr Amna Khan
Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

Alan Kinsey
Regional Sales Manager, UK & Ireland, Opengear

Victoria Knight
Strategic Campaigns Director, BAE Systems

Nick Latocha
Data Execution & Innovation Lead, Brambles

Robin Lennon Bylenga
Human Factor Performance Lead, Scoutbee

Tom Liptrot
Data Scientist, Ortom

Karrie Liu
Analytics Consultant, Hypatia Analytics

Gareth Lockwood
Head of Product, CyberHive

Yesmean Luk
Senior Consultant, STL Partners

Chris Maguire
Executive Editor, Business Cloud

Nilmadhab Mandal
Global Data Science Lead, Mondelez International

Ruby Matobhoy
Innovation Lead, Plexal

Dr Beverly McCann
Principal Cyber Analyst, Darktrace

Scott McGready
Founder, Beer Farmers

Alison McGurk
IT Director - Architecture, Data & Intelligence, Astra Zeneca

Simon McNamee
Security Technology Lead, Secure Impact

Neil Miller
Head of Systems Engineering, EMEAR, Cisco ThousandEyes

Manisha Mistry
Portfolio Director - Digital Culture & Collaboration, R2 Data Labs, Rolls Royce

Richard Moir
Aruba Networks

Chris Moore
Lead Solutions Engineer, RingCentral

William Morrish
Chief Retail Officer, Performanta

Rob Mukherjee
Director of Transformation, Everycloud

Ben Nadel
Director, Woodhurst Consulting

Gareth Neal
Former Global Chief Information Security Officer, Arrow Global Group

Kerry Newton
Service Designer & Digital Bee, Co-Op Bank

Dr Rois Ni Thuama
Head of Cyber Governance, Red Sift

Andy Norton
Head of Engineering Practice, Cinch

Marie Oldfield
Founder & CEO, Oldfield Consultancy

John Opdenakker
Founder, Beer Farmers

Kirsty Paine
Strategic Adviser, Technology & Innovation, Splunk

Pavan Parshad
Data Science & Analytics Practice Lead, Severn Trent

Kate Pearman
Chief Operating Officer, Plexal

Lindsay Pellow
Data & Analytics Director, Network Digital Marketing

Chris Perks
Solutions Architect (Cloud Data Management), Oliver Wyman

Ashley Pierre
Senior Security Architect & Host, Deliveroo / Infosec Real Podcast

Graham Pollitt
IT Infrastructure Director, MAG (Airports Group)

Ben Potgieter
HR Director, Nottingham City Transport

Romanus Prabhu Raymond
Global Head of Endpoint Management & Security, ManageEngine

Steve Prescott-Jones
Head of Infrastructure & Shared Services, Imperial College

Beena Puri
Digital Innovation & Partnerships Lead, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Deepa Ramadoss
Head of Security Risk Management, TalkTalk

Matt Rider
VP of Security Engineering EMEA, Exabeam

Paul Ridge
Director / Managing Consultant, 4C Strategies

John Roberts
Director of Product and Engineering, Oak National Academy

Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager, Commercial, Software Engineering, Microsoft

Phil Robinson
DevOps Team Manager, Capgemini

Bola Rotibi
Research Director, Software Development, CCS Insight

Rob Scott
Publisher, UC Today

Harish Sekar
Senior Technical Evangelist, ManageEngine

Stuart Sharp
VP, Product Strategy, One Identity

Sara Simeone
CEO and Co-Founder, Digital Oracles

Philip Simpson
Head of Application Support & Development, Horwich Farrelly

Neil Smithies
Head of Digital & IT Architecture, Information Commissioners Office

Mike Somers
Head of Cyber Security, CVS Group

Andy Stewart
Aruba Regional Sales Manager, UKI, Aruba Networks

Ethan Sumner
DevOps Engineer, Mastercard

Phil Swan
Director for Digtial, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Ryan Talevski
Infrastructure Network Engineer, AO

Beckie Taylor
CEO, Tech Returners

Quentyn Taylor
Senior Director, Information Security & Global Response, Canon

Carl Thompson
Senior Product Owner, Teams and Meeting Rooms, Department of Work and Pensions

Mike Thompson
Founder, Beer Farmers

Ian Thornton-Trump
Founder, Beer Farmers

Daniel Tibble
Director of Data Science & Analytics, Wejo

Alina Timofeeva
Associate Partner, Oliver Wyman

Dominic Trott
UK Product Manager, Orange Cyber Defense

Sue Turner
Chief Executive, AI Governance Limited

Greg van der Gaast
Chief Information Security Officer, Scoutbee

Mike Varley
Threat Hunting Specialist, Adarma

Chris Wade
Chief Marketing and Product Officer, Gamma

John Wallworth
Head of Information Security, HCRG Care Group

Lucy Walton
Data Director, Williams Nicolson

Brenna Washington
Associate Product Marketing Manager, Google

Rebecca Waterfield
AV Collective

Ian Waters
Head of Go-to-Market, Cisco ThousandEyes

Holly Grace Williams
Founder, Akimbo Care

Martin Woodford
Software Engineering Manager, William Hill

Nicholas Woods
Chief Information Officer, MAG (Airports Group)

Steve Woodward
Head of Data Engineering, AstraZeneca

Philip Wright
Head of Information Security, Auden

Sean Wright
Founder, Beer Farmers

Jason Wynn
Principal Technology Strategist, Content+Cloud

2022 Partners

• Manchester Digital
• Northern Infosec Leaders
• Socitm
• The AV Collective
• Beer Farmers
• Business Cloud
• GMCA