We are excited to be sponsoring Manchester Tech Festival (MTF) this year.
This event is a major highlight in Manchester’s tech calendar, bringing together a diverse array of tech enthusiasts, professionals and companies.
MTF includes a variety of activities over a period of two weeks designed to foster learning, networking, and community engagement.
Dive into a world of tech possibilities and take part in the events taking place throughout the festival.
MTF:
Date: 29th October 2024
Location: Friends Meeting House, Manchester
Join round 2 of women in tech for a raw and authentic discussion tackling all subjects creating barriers to women working in tech, regardless of how difficult the topics may be to talk about.
Don’t miss Julia Bellis from the Equal Experts network speaking live on stage at the Women in Tech (unfiltered) ????
Talk Title: Uncertainty in software development. How to live with it and flourish.
We live in an uncertain world yet humans struggle with uncertainty. I discuss how an open ended discovery project forced me to confront uncertainty in Agile software delivery, and review the techniques that can help us embrace it and flourish.
Cyber Security
Date: 30th October 2024
Location: DiSH, Manchester
Companies are striving to keep ahead of the game with innovative security solutions. At the MTF Cyber Security event you can hear from experts on these critical topics and network with like minded peers.
Date: 31st October 2024
Location: Friends Meeting House, Manchester
With AI being such a hot topic within the tech world MTF are now hosting the AI conference, designed specifically to offer a deep dive into the artificial intelligence landscape, including recent advancements, AI use cases, ethics and governance and much more. If you have a passion for AI this part of the conference is a day not to be missed.
Date: 1st November 2024
Location: DiSH, Manchester
This is a spin-off event in the MTF Fringe Week bringing together HR and technical leaders with Parallel Minds to explore Neurodiversity in Tech. This half day session will be full of informative, practical and interactive sessions that aim to help you demystify Neurodiversity in the workplace, address the challenges you face as technical and HR leaders, and equip you with an actionable toolkit that will help you create effective and practical changes
Date: 4th November 2024
Location: Hotel Voco, Manchester
The leadership day is a great day full of inspiring talks by industry experts and interactive networking opportunities. This day offers tech leaders the chance to gain valuable insights into effective leadership strategies. Whether you’re a seasoned executive or an emerging talent, the leadership day is designed to elevate leadership expertise and drive your professional growth to new heights.
Don’t miss David Cox from the Equal Experts network speaking live on stage at the Leadership Day????
Talk Title: Organisations starve on a diet of low-hanging fruit
When making priority decisions, are you in danger of pursuing the wrong thing, in the wrong way, for the wrong reason? Or, to put it another way, is this piece of low-hanging fruit quite as delicious as it looks?
D&I and Tech4Good
Date: 5th November 2024
Location: DiSH, Manchester
This track of the MTF event is designed to share how our community is achieving inclusive practice and discuss what can be done to better inclusivity across the tech industry.
Main Festival
Date: 6th – 7th November 2024
Location: Victoria Baths, Manchester
Join our main festival days full of tech talks, panels, and fireside chats that cover the most urgent tech topics currently impacting the tech community. The Tech Expo gives you the opportunity to meet and network with a variety of industry-leading tech businesses. Combined with evening socials, the festival offers the chance to wind down at the end of the day and catch up with speakers and attendees from the day.
Don’t miss Matt Ballantine and Peter Petrovics from the Equal Experts network speaking live on the main stage at the Main Festival ????
Matt Ballantine – Day one
Talk Title: Hacking Apophenia
The human brain has a remarkable ability to make sense of random data, and so in this session Matt will explore this phenomenon, known as apophenia, and provide some simple tools that you can take away and use to unlock new ideas and budge stuck conversations.
Peter Petrovics – Day two
Talk title: GenAI in the enterprise: Lessons learned from building Europe’s largest GenAI Conversational FAQ
The critical questions about GenAI for enterprise business leaders are around security, scaling, and measurable success. How can GenAI enable real large-scale innovation? In 2023, one of Equal Experts’ customers successfully launched Europe’s largest GenAI-driven conversational FAQ service, for a multinational enterprise organisation with more than 50 million customers in 30 countries, setting a new standard in customer support.
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See below a list of social events leading up to MTF, or click here for full details.
MTF Mixer – 24th October (DiSH MCR)
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