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 Architecting Manchester meetup returns to Bonded Warehouse with a session on what it actually takes to build and run AI-powered systems at scale — architecture patterns, trade-offs, the unglamorous parts. Follow-up to March's sold-out session.
A full day programme from Stribe on building and measuring DEI inside tech organisations — practical frameworks, case studies from Manchester employers, and facilitated working sessions for People leads, founders and HRBPs in the tech sector.
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.…
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.
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 largest tech gathering, co-located with UCX, Creator Economy Live and IR B2B at Manchester Central.
UCX Manchester runs alongside DTX at Manchester Central, covering unified communications, cloud telephony, contact centres, CX, AV and the AI layer that's now reshaping all of them. Co-located with DTX Manchester — one badge, four events.
Creator Economy Live lands in Manchester for two days at Victoria Warehouse — the UK's #1 influencer-marketing conference, bringing together brands, creators, agencies and platforms. Strategy, measurement, partnerships and the hard commercial questions behind creator-led growth.
CloudGuard and BCN team up for a Manchester Tech Week happy hour — short tactical talks on cloud, security and AI, then drinks. Deliberately informal, deliberately early-evening, and deliberately focused on the people doing the work, not the people selling it.
Power BI Manchester (PBIMCR) runs a recap session from Microsoft's FabCon 26 conference on Microsoft Fabric — what actually matters for Manchester-based data teams, which of the new features are production-ready, and what's still a wait-and-see. Hosted at Slalom's Marble Street office.
with Steve Wade (Kubernetes Ambassador, DevOps Society)
DevOps Society's Manchester Tech Week evening with Steve Wade (Kubernetes Ambassador) on how high-performing engineering teams actually communicate. Pattern-level, practical, and directly applicable on Monday morning. Colony King Street.
Manchester's flagship design and digital conference returns for its 14th year at RNCM, with Rachel Coldicutt (Careful Industries), Rochelle Gold (NHS England), Laura Yarrow (GOV.UK Design), Dan Hett, and nine…
A rare chance to get clarity on the legal essentials for AI-enabled startups — covering data protection, IP, contracts, and what investors actually expect. David Gardner, TLT Partner and Head…
Manchester’s data science and analytics community meets at DiSH. Rioch Brewer, Head of Data Insight at AJ Bell, shares lessons from delivering their first production data science models — covering…
Hyperact brings together product professionals to share candid lessons from integrating AI into real product development lifecycles — covering what actually works, what doesn't, and how teams are building genuine advantages rather than just experimenting. Lunch provided.