Start Up Events and Networks You Should Know
Ben Davies
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There are a lot of start-up events. If you go to all of them, you’ll get very little actual work done.
However, events are an important part of start-up life.
It’s a great way to put yourself on the map, meet investors, connect with other founders, and start making a name for your business.
Start-up events for 2025 for Northern Founders🔗
Here are some of the big events that you’ll see a lot of start-ups attend.
It’s up to you to see if they’re right for your business.
- DTX (Manchester) – 2-3rd April
- Ecommerce Conference (Manchester) - 24th April
- Connected North (Manchester) – 23-24th April
- Digital City Festival (Manchester) – 20-22nd May
- BioAI Summit (Cheshire) – 20th May
- London Tech Week (London) – 9th June
- BioFocus (Newcastle) – 11th June
- Pro Manchester Trailblazing Tech (Manchester) – 20th June
- ClimbUK (Leeds) – 2-3rd July
- Leeds Digital Festival (Leeds) – 22nd September-3rd October
- Slush’d Liverpool (Liverpool) – September
- Sifted Summit (London) – 8-9th October
- Data Decoded (Manchester) – 21st-22nd October
- Web Summit (Lisbon) – 10th-13th November
- Slush’d (Helsinki) – 19th-20th November
Start-Up, Innovation and Investment Networks You Should Know🔗
Here we’ve listed some of the start-up networks that are active in the North of England.
This is not an exhaustive list, but a good start. You can use these networks to find smaller events or activities that might suit your business.
- Accelerate ME
- Barclays Eagle Labs
- Bionow
- BusinessCloud
- The Business Desk
- ClimbUK
- DTX
- fhunded
- Health Innovation Manchester
- Innovation Super Network North East
- Insider
- Investor Ladder
- Leeds Digital
- Manchester Digital
- Manchester Tech Festival
- Pro Liverpool
- Pro Manchester
- Prolific North
- Sifted
- Start Up Grind
- Tech Climbers
- techUK