Tech Events by Manchester NatWest Accelerator

A demo day run inside NatWest's Manchester Accelerator hub, where a hand-picked group of entrepreneurs pitch to a panel drawn from the Manchester ecosystem, NatWest's own team and founders who have raised before. The panel gives live feedback on each pitch: structure, delivery, the questions that get asked and the ones that trip people up. The afternoon runs 14:00 to 17:30 at the hub on Spinningfields Square, with networking during and after. Free, and open beyond the pitching cohort, so you can come to watch. Why go: watching four or five founders get picked apart kindly, in order, teaches you more about your own deck than a week of reading will. Best for pre-seed and seed founders in Greater Manchester about to start raising, and anyone who wants to see what investors in this city actually ask.

Sixth and last workshop in the NatWest Accelerator's 12-week Sales Accelerator, at the Manchester hub at 1 Spinningfields Square, 09:45 to 12:00. Founders pull the earlier sessions together into one sales playbook using the programme's DEAL framework: customer insight, funnel, metrics and pitch in a single structure. The session also has real founder stories and a Growth Lab on sales resilience. Individual workshops are open to people who haven't done the full programme. Why go: it's the session that turns the series into a working document. Best for early-stage founders who have customers but no repeatable sales process.

An afternoon social for the NatWest Accelerator community at the Manchester hub in Spinningfields. Free, no speakers or agenda published.

The December drop-in coffee morning at the NatWest Accelerator's Manchester hub in Spinningfields, open to accelerator members and local founders. Free, one hour, no speakers or agenda published.

The NatWest Accelerator Manchester community's end-of-year celebration at the Spinningfields hub. Free, no speakers or agenda published.

A ninety-minute workshop at the NatWest Accelerator's Spinningfields hub for business owners and leaders who know AI matters but have not worked out where it fits in their own operation. The session explains the technology in plain English, walks through ways it is already being used in ordinary businesses, and then works with attendees to identify where it could save time in theirs. It is a working session rather than a keynote, and it runs over lunch, which keeps it to a single slot in the diary. Part of the Accelerator's Catalyst Events programme, open beyond the accelerator cohort. Why go: most AI sessions in Manchester are either vendor demos or deep technical talks, and this is neither. Best for owner-managers and senior leaders at non-tech companies who want a shortlist of candidate use cases they can act on.

The fifth workshop in the Manchester NatWest Accelerator's 12-week Sales Accelerator, on organising and tracking business data well enough to make sales decisions from it. The session covers why a CRM matters, how to structure one so it tracks leads, customers and performance, which sales metrics are worth measuring, and real founder examples of data changing a sales strategy. It closes with an Action Lab where you set up or improve your own CRM. Coffee and networking from 09:30, intro and key concepts at 10:00, a CRM implementation case study at 10:30. Free, at the NatWest Accelerator hub in Spinningfields. Individual workshops can be taken without joining the full programme. Why go: practical CRM hygiene rather than sales theory, and the Action Lab means you leave with something actually configured. Best for early-stage founders still running sales themselves with no system behind it.

The monthly drop-in coffee morning at the NatWest Accelerator's Manchester hub in Spinningfields, open to accelerator members and local founders. Free, one hour, no speakers or agenda published.

Join us for an interactive workshop designed to help discover the key financial metrics that make your business fundable.

She Scales is the NatWest Accelerator's monthly female founders connection and co-working morning, run across every Accelerator hub in the UK and here at the Manchester hub in Spinningfields. The standing format is a dedicated space for women building and growing businesses to share experience and work alongside each other. This month's session is an interactive workshop on cyclical energy and sustainable performance, drawing on women's health research to look at how hormonal changes across the menstrual cycle affect focus, motivation and response to stress, and what to do with that rather than work against it. Ninety minutes from ten, with co-working either side. Why go: the regularity is the value here, this is a standing room rather than a one-off, and the Accelerator cohort is a useful network to be inside. Best for women founders in Greater Manchester at any stage.