From Manchester with love: supporting innovation, investment and growth
15:00-15:30 | Tuesday 9th June
The panel will feature founders building transformational companies in Greater Manchester discussing how the city-region has developed a distinctive model for tech growth… one rooted in place, powered by devolution, and designed to last.
The session will;
- explore what ‘Manchesterism’ really means in practice: a place-first philosophy that puts long-term, sustainable growth ahead of short-term noise.
- unpack how devolved government has created conditions that national policy often can’t
- discuss how strategic planning and joined-up skills pipelines form a genuine dialogue between industry and civic leadership
- explain how a deliberate cluster model has produced world-class specialisation across AI and cybersecurity, and why diverse talent chooses to live, work and stay in the city region
- unpick what Good Growth looks like, what makes it durable
- reveal why the next generation of world-changing tech companies might just be built in Manchester.