What's happening: Week of 20 April 2026
The Northern Tech Awards — produced by GP Bullhound — is the annual gala recognising the fastest-growing tech companies across the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Dinner, ceremony…
Manchester Digital's flagship Demo Nights returns to PwC Spinningfields, showcasing the most exciting emerging technologies coming out of the Manchester tech ecosystem. Founders and innovators deliver 5-minute pitches on their…
Casual pub-format meetup for data engineers and AI builders. Bring your terminal — show your agent setup, automation pipeline, or janky prototype that works in production. For people who've been…
The Northern Tech Awards — produced by GP Bullhound — is the annual gala recognising the fastest-growing tech companies across the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Dinner, ceremony and the best-attended room of founders, CEOs and investors north of Birmingham all in one night at IWM North.
Techcelerate's flagship monthly networking coffee for tech founders, investors and senior managers. Two hours, no presentations — just meaningful conversations between people building and backing tech companies. Session 72 of Manchester's most established founder-investor breakfast meetup.
Exchange hosts a fireside chat with Harry Panter, CEO of Housr, covering the founder journey from product-market fit through fundraising to scale. Part of Campfield's growing founder programme — small-room, high-signal, and deliberately unvarnished.
DTX Manchester is the anchor event of Manchester Tech Week — two days of expert talks, live demos and interactive sessions across digital transformation, cloud, data, AI and cybersecurity. Manchester's…
Found Up North kicks off Manchester Tech Week with a full day programme for founders, recovering founders and soon-to-be founders. Workshops, unconference sessions, introductions, and the honest conversations founders usually…
The launch event of Manchester Responsible AI Network (MRAIN) — a new city-wide initiative bringing together researchers, policy people, founders and operators working on the practical side of responsible AI.…
Found Up North kicks off Manchester Tech Week with a full day programme for founders, recovering founders and soon-to-be founders. Workshops, unconference sessions, introductions, and the honest conversations founders usually only have in private. Relaxed format at Campfield.
techUK's Scaling in... Retail session, hosted at Gateley in Manchester, brings retail-tech founders, scale-ups and investors together for a working afternoon on the growth questions that matter at Series A-B: margin, unit economics, and cross-border expansion. Part of Manchester Tech Week.
CONEXEN's monthly Manchester mixer brings together biopharma, life-sciences and health-tech founders, investors and researchers. Hosted at Squire Patton Boggs in Spinningfields as part of Manchester Tech Week.
Venture Café Manchester's Thursday Gathering lands squarely on Manchester Tech Week evening with a themed programme on regional innovation — what the North's model actually looks like, who's investing, and what the next three years need to look like. Weekly format, free, open to anyone.