Manchester Tech Week 2024 | Imago Techmedia | 21 May 2024 | Manchester Central Convention Complex, Windmill St, Manchester M2 3GX, UK

This event brings together tech leaders from all sectors to help answer tomorrow’s questions today – join us and share insight on how to help your organisation embed innovation, turn data into actionable customer insight, build products that excite, be risk smart and enable your team to collaborate from any place.

As the anchor event of this event, this remains the largest gathering of enterprise IT and digital professionals that the North has ever seen. 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.

2024 Speakers

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Paralympian & Crossbench Peer, House of Lords

Ciaran Martin
Founding Chief Executive, National Cyber Security Centre, Former Head of Cyber Security, GCHQ & Chairman CyberCX UK

Denise Dourado
Director of Data & AI and App Innovation, Microsoft

Derren Brown
Britain’s Leading Psychological Illusionist

Detective Inspector Dan Giannasi
Head of Cyber and Innovation, North West Cyber Resilience Centre (NWCRC)

Dr Fran Darlington-Pollock
CEO, Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity

Friedemann Kurz
Head of IT, Porsche Motorsports

Heather Lowrie
CISO, University of Manchester

Jo Drake
CIO, The Hut Group (THG)

John Hobson
CIO Europe, Kellanova

John Hudson
CTO, MAG

Julian David
CEO, TechUK

Malcolm Lowe
CIO, Transport for Greater Manchester

Mark Worden
Cora Strategy & Innovation Lead, NatWest Group

Matthew Skelton
CEO, Conflux | Co-author of Team Topologies

Michelle Shaw
Architecture Director – BCB & CIB, Lloyds Banking Group

Neil Owen
Collaboration and Communication lead, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Paul Simpson
Chief Executive, Derby City Council

Phil Swan
Director of Digital, GMCA (Greater Manchester Combined Authority)

Rachel Hardwick-Cox
Group Technical Program Manager, Core Platforms, Booking.com

Rob Black
Tech Director, Beauty Bay

Sherelle Fairweather
Digital Strategy Lead, Manchester City Council

Steven Fry
Director of Digital & Customer Services CDO, Salford City Council

SPEAKERS:

Aaron Burns
Life Insurance Specialist & Diversity & Inclusion Consultant, Bespoke Health

Adam Freestone
Engineering Lead, Lloyds Banking Group

Adam Lindsey
VP Operations, Groupon

Alan Kinsey
Regional Sales Manager UK & Ireland, Opengear

Alex Martin
Director of Cyber Services, Trust Hogen

Alex Moore
Technology Director, Lloyds Banking Group

Alexandria Morgan
Digital Inclusion Officer, Trafford Council

Alistair Kennedy
Director & Co-founder, The Rybec Group

Alistair Macrae
Senior Global Solutions Consultant, Sophos

Amelia Bampton
Engagement Manager, Equal Experts

Amy Lemberger
Group Security Director, Gamma UK

Andrea Cullen
CEO & Founder, CAPSLOCK

Andy Norton
Senior Engineering Manager, Prolific

Ann Williams
Programme Director, Liverpool5G

Anna Aitchison
Senior DevOps Engineer, CallCare

Anubhav Khanna
Partner Engineering Lead, Financial Services, Publicis Sapient

Arash Ghazanfari
Chief Technology Officer, UK, Dell Technologies

Ashley Ramrachia
Co-Founder & CEO, Academy

Beckie Taylor
Founder & CEO, TechReturners

Ben Barnard
Country Manager, UK & Ireland, Avixa

Ben Pain
Head of Audio-Visual Resources, Royal College of Physicians

Ben Whitmore
Customer Engineer Manager, Patch my PC

Binita Jilka
Head of BT Digital Work Adoption Services, BT

Bola Rotibi
Chief of Enterprise Research, CCS Insight

Brad Freeman
Director of Technology, SenseOn

Carol Morris
Head of Public Cloud SRE & Service, Lloyds Banking Group

Chris Lofthouse
Commercial Director, Ometis

Chris Marks
Principal Outbound Product Manager, Parallels

Christoffer Lydahl
Business Development Director for Client Managed Services, Dell Technologies

Cristan Massey
Head of Service Management, Pearson

Damiete King-Harry
Solutions Architect, Cloudflare

Dan Westley
Director of Cloud Engineering, Oracle UK

Darius Toomer
Head of Product, Agilisys

Dave Atkinson
Founder & CEO, SenseOn

Dave Pearce
CTO, Wigan Council

David Dunbar
Head of Digital Workspace, DWP

David Hicks
Co-Founder & CEO, XM Coach

David Igoe
Group CTO & Modern Engineering Practice Lead, The S&A Transform Group

David Mareels
Senior Director of Product Management, Sophos

David McKenzie
Co-Founder & Director, Damn Good Security

David Price
IT Director, Curtins

David Skinner
Head of Architecture, APIs and Platform, JLR

Des O’Connor
GenAI Strategy Lead UK, Dell Technologies

Drew Perry
Chief Innovation Officer, Ontinue

Ed Tucker
Cybersecurity CTO, Telefonica Tech

Emma Garratt
Head of Data Governance, Frasers Group Financial Services

Emma Grant
Head of Programmes, Manchester Digital

Emma Green
Managing Partner, Cyber Data Law Solicitors

Emma-Louise Fusari
Founder, In-House Health

Erin Nicholson
Global Head of Data Protection and Privacy, Thoughtworks

Farhana Khan
Software Engineer, Prolific

Gareth Johns
Managing Consultant, 4C Strategies

Gaven Smith
Former CTO, GCHQ

Greg Jones
Vice President of Business Development, EMEA, Datto

Guy Kirav
Chief Technology Officer EMEA, Infinidat

Hannah Hammonds
Service Delivery Lead, Prolific

Harriet Carr
Customer Success Manager, Gamma

Heather Bedson
Head of Information Security, BPP

Helen Wilding
Head of Digital Policy, (GMCA) Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Humza Ismaiel
Solutions Engineering UKI, Netskope

Ian Taylor
Chief Technology Officer, Techgiant

Ilana Lassman
Sustainability and ESG Lead, EMEA, Dell Technologies

Jack Bramhall
Head of Technology, ASOS

Jack Cooke
Channel Development Manager, Datto

Jack Peters
Customer Solutions Architect, M247

James Mason
Enterprise Cybersecurity, Qinetiq

James Tromans
Senior Manager, UK Services Presales, Dell Technologies

Jason Welch
Divisional CTO, Travel Innovation Group

Jennifer Williams
Managing Director, Secarma

Jo Standfield
Co-Chair, BCS Women

John Wallworth
Information Security Officer, System C Healthcare

Jon Abbott
CEO, ThreatAware

Jon Burt
Head of Enterprise Architecture, Manchester City Council

Jon Howard
Executive Product Manager, BBC

Jonathan Eeley
Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Commercial Officer

Jonathan Marnoch
Founder & CEO, SuprHmn Ltd

Jonathon Concannon
Head of Information Security, ITS Technology Group

Jonny Mattey
Head of Cyber Security, Sykes Cottages

Josh Davies
Principal Technical Manager, Fortra

Julian West
Senior Manager, UK Services, Dell Technologies

Justin Robbins
Chief Evangelist, 8x8

Kam Karaji
Head of Information Security, Bibby Financial Services

Katherine Kearns
Head of Proactive Cyber Services, S-RM

Keeran Mistry
Software Engineer, Patch my PC

Kevin Hegarty
Technology Lead WM5G and Clusters Lead, UKTIN

Lee Haynes
Head of Digital Enablement & Automation, Derby City Council

Lee Jarvis
Senior Engineering Manager, Booking.com

Lee Williams
Global Services Account Manager, Dell Technologies

Lesley Holt
UKTIN Adoption and Director of Acceleration and Adoption, WM5G

Luke Casey
Co-Founder, Woodhurst

Luke Griffiths
Information Security Consultant, Secarma

Malcolm Zavier
IT Security Leader, Essar Oil

Marie Hamilton
Greater Manchester Region Lead, Microsoft

Martin Boam
Architect - Centre of Excellence, Microsoft

Martin Dolce
UK Regional Director Northwest of England, Oracle UK

Martin Jakobsen
Founder, Cybanetix

Martin Korner
Product & Technology Director, Gamma

Mat Forrest
Solutions Engineer, Okta

Matheus Guimaraes
Senior Developer Advocate UK & Ireland, AWS

Matt Wall
Technology, Architectural, & Cyber Lead, Salford City Council

Matt Watts
Chief Evangelist Officer, NetApp

Matthew Brooks
Network Team Leader, AO.com

Maya Dillon
VP, Head of AI, Cambridge Consultants

Mike Conjoice
Head of Software Development and Architecture, Bupa Dental Care

Mike Somers
Director, Sandinista Consulting

Mokhammed Sagaev
Management Consultant, Woodhurst

Muhammad Khan
Head of Cyber Security, Bridgewater Finance Group

Natasha Barker
Domain Architect, Matalan

Niall Carter
Head of Account Management, RingCentral

Niamh Mullen
System Engineer, Dell Technologies

Nick Farinha
Head of Solution design, Gamma

Nicki Clegg
Technology Industry Stakeholder Relationship Manager, STEM Learning

Oliver Pickup
Founder & Director, Pickup Media

Olly Haywood
Principal Technologist, Pure Storage

Oren Batchelor
Contact Center Specialist, Audiocodes

Paolo Passeri
Threat Intelligence Principal EMEA, Netskope

Paul Jeram
Vice President, Sales EMEA, Aptum

Paul Martin
Interim Director of Engineering, JD Sports Fashion

Paul Ridge
Director / Managing Consultant, 4C Strategies

Philip Wright
CTO, PNGME

Praveen Tomar
Head of Process Digitisation Data and AI, Ofgem

Qaiser Iftikhar
Lead Software Engineer, Lloyds Banking Group

Rachel Hopkins
CIO, ArrowXL

Raja Manickam
Cybersecurity Evangelist, Manage Engine

Ray Manash
Lead - Business Development, Manage Engine

Ray Siripan
Global Enterprise Cloud Architect, Group IT, TUI Group

Ricard Fuertes
Head of Information Security, Transport for Greater Manchester

Richard Bradley
Senior European IT Director, Kellanova

Rob Gregory
Assistant Director Digital Transformation and Intelligence, Wigan Council

Rob Hutchings
Senior Account Executive, Microsoft

Rob Sims
Chief Technologist – Hybrid Platforms, CDW

Rosie Anderson
Head of Strategic Solutions, th4ts3cur1ty.company

Ross Milhench
Technology Strategist, Microsoft

Sam Booth
Chief Executive, Pro-Manchester

Sam Woodcock
Senior Director, Cloud Strategy & Enablement, 11:11 Systems

Samantha Humphries
Senior Director of International SEcurity Strategy, Exabeam

Sandeep Chatha
Concierge Security Engineer 4, Arctic Wolf

Seamus Lennon
VP of Operations for EMEA, ThreatLocker

Sherin Mathew
CEO, AI TechUK

Simon Gurney
CTO, Punk Security

Simon Hodgkinson
Founder and Owner, Terran Consultancy Ltd

Steve Bosarge
Senior Director - Corporate & Enterprise, Dell Technologies

Steve Nash
DevOps Lead, Lloyds Banking Group

Steve Winfield
Senior Sales Engineer, Arctic Wolf

Sue Daley
Director, Technology and Innovation, TechUK

Symran Bajaj
Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

Tom Arbuthnot
Co-Founder, Empowering.Cloud

Tom Crawley
Co-Founder, Neon Mountain

William Rubio
Chief Revenue Officer, CallTower

2024 Sponsors and Partners

SPONSORS:
• Dell Technologies
• Intel
• Oracle
• Sky Business
• Threatlocker
• WeAreDevelopers

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• AI Tech UK
• DevOps Exchange
• GMCA
• Manchester Digital
• Microsoft User Group
• Northcoders
• Northern Azure User Group
• Orbition Group
• Pro-Manchester
• She Does Data
• Software Crafters
• STEM Learning
• techUK
• UK Telecoms Innovation Network
• Women In Tech North

ENTERPRISE PARTNERS:
• Kellanova
• Lloyd's Banking Group
• Natwest
• THG

CHARITY PARTNERS:
• Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity