Agenda
08.00 - 08.50 - Registration, Breakfast & Networking 08.50 - 08.55 Welcome by Sam Booth, pro-manchester CEO 08.55 - 09.05 Trailblazing Tech at the heart of Greater Manchester Anthony Morrow - OpenMoney 09.05 - 09.35 Debugging the Buzz Words - Metaverse and Web3 - and what they mean for business John Toon - Beever and Struthers, Vlad-Andrei Porumb - University of Manchester, Clair Wescott - Fresh Digital, Dapo Ajisafe - Spac3d-VR 09.35 - 09.55 Digital Marketing - Who Controls the Data? Paul Knight - Mills & Reeve 09.55 - 10.25 Talent in Tech - Recruitment Robots and Interviews with an Algorithm Zoe Wallace - Agent Academy, Amul Batra - Northcoders, Ruby Melling - GSI, Graham Donoghue - Sykes Cottages 10.25 - 10.50 Coffee Break 10.55 - 11.25 Tech for Good - A Greater, Greener Greater Manchester Rachel Kenyon - University of Manchester, Alex Colman - HGF, Toby Nolan - Candle, Paul Jepson - Ecosulis, Azhar Quaiyoom – Q Sustain Ltd, Tom McGillycuddy - Circa 5000 11.25 - 11.55 Retail - Embracing Omni and Multi Channel Martyn Barrow - MID Communications, Sarah Bianchi - Arighi Bianchi, Emma Ford - Asda, Elizabeth Clark - Dream AI, Angela Gaskell - N Brown 11.55 - 12.05 Innovation GM - A blueprint for success Lou Cordwell, Chair of GM LEP - Magnetic North 12.05 - 12.50 Trailblazing Tech Award Final - Live Demos 12.05 - 12.20: Spac3d-VR - Dami Akinbolue & Dapo Ajisafe 12.20 - 12.35: Dream Agility - Elizabeth Clark 12.35 - 12.50: Candle - Toby Nolan 12.50 - 13.45 Lunch 13.45 - 14.15 Fintech - Payment has never been easier, but is it safer? David Gardner - TLT, Gareth Cleverly - Dacxi, Andy Taylor - Payful, Nicola Weedall - Hydr, Laura Pomfret - Financielle 14.15 - 14.35 Can urban innovation districts be more inclusive? Prof. Elvira Uyarra, Professor of Innovation Studies - Alliance Manchester Business School 14.35 - 15.05 Cyber Security - There's no such thing as too much security Chris Maguire - TechBlast & Business Cloud, Ed Hayes - TLT, Daniel Dresner - University of Manchester, Harman Singh - Cyphere, Prof. Elvira Uyarra, Alliance Manchester Business School 15.05 - 15.25 Future of us - where next? Ant Morse - Virgin Media O2 15.25 - 15.30 Trailblazing Tech Award Winner & Close |
Contact us: E: conference@pro-manchester.co.uk
|