The team at Business Rocks have been working their socks off for the last two years, putting together what’s promising to be a tech, music and investment conference like no other.
On the 21st and 22nd of April 2016, Manchester will play host to 80 world-class speakers, including Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniac, as well as 5,000 international startup founders, investors and journalists.
The conference will also feature a record-breaking for-good hackathon, a £50k startup pitching competition, and a full after dark entertainment programme that Manchester would be proud to call it’s own.
As keen supporters of our mission to create value and opportunities for all the businesses growing from within our connected collectives; they’ve put together two exclusive offers for our member to take advantage of.
- Jeff Hoffman – Founder Priceline.com – USA
- Mark Masterson – Google, Developer Relations Program Lead; UK, Ireland and the Netherlands at Google
- Gemma Godfrey – Broadcaster (CNBC), Business Leader, Chief Investment Strategist, Board Advisor, Quantum Physicist
- Murray Newlands – Forbes Magazine
- Suranga Chandratillake Partner, Balderton Capital
- Wempy Dyocta Koto, Chief Executive Officer, Wardour and Oxford
- Emma Kaye – CEO – Bozza Media – Africa
- Hugh Campbell – Founding Partner, GP Bullhound
- Big Bad Brad Burton – The UK’s No1 Motivational Speaker & Business Author
- Chris Gledhill – Technologist, Writer, Blogger, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Innovator Tweeting about Banking & Fintech
- Heather Wild – CTO, Mentor, Speaker, Finder of Unicorns (x-NASA, x-Evernote CTO) – USA
- Mark Rowland – CEO / Community Actualizer, Downtown Project Ventures – Las Vegas
- Marta Krupinska – GM & Co-Founder at Azimo
- Susanne Chishti, CEO at FINTECH Circle, Chairman FINTECH Circle Innovate, Co-Founder The FINTECH Book
- Devie Mohan – Marketing at Thomson Reuters
- Diana Biggs – Director of Marketing, UK & EMEA at Bitreserve
- Divinia Knowles – Mind Candy, President and CFO
- Neeta Patel – CEO, New Entrepreneurs Foundation
- Tanya Laird – Founder, Digital Jam (Mind Candy, Wayra, Star Wars, Raindance Film Festival)
- Ian Massingham – Chief Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
- Paul Wilshaw – Lead Creative Consultant at Barclays Bank
- Volker Hirsch – Founder, Advisor, Mentor (x-Director Blackberry)
- Jeff Coghlan – Founder, Matmi
- Diane Young – Co-founder The Drum
- Timothy Hughes, Oracle, Business Development Director, Public Sector, Communications, Media and Utilities
- Mike Bainbridge – Solutions Architect (e-commerce specialist) at Rackspace
- Caspar Schlickum – CEO, Xaxis EMEA
- Tak Lo – Director, TechStars
- Jon Corner – CEO, The Landing Media City
- Jamil Khalil – Founder & CEO, Wakelet
- David Brown – CEO, VE Interactive
- Ben Towers – Multi-Award Winning Serial Young Entrepreneur
- Bruce Walker – Founder & Chief Executive, WeAreTheFuture | Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2014
- Scott Fletcher, MBE – Founder & Chairman ANS Group, Investor: Wakelet, Godel Software
- Louis-James Davis – CEO, VST Enterprises // Ambassador of technology Manchester Metropolitan University
- Paul Stacey – CEO, Fatsoma
- Jim Carrol – CTO, Mobica
- Oisin Lunney – The Economist, Openmarket, Guardian
Two exclusive offers for the businesses growing from within included collectives.
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30% off
Start-up Exhibition Stand + £50k PITCH-BATTLE Entry (For first 10) from Business Rocks – The Global Stage For Tech Innovation
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