First ever Digital City Festival steering panel revealed

The highly-regarded steering panel members all bring with them decades of experience in their respective fields. Panel members from MIDAS, Tech Manchester, PwC, Siemens and Pro-Manchester and others will gather for their first meeting over dinner at the Radisson Blu Edwardian in Manchester on Thursday September 5th.  

The aim of this week’s meeting is to set an agenda for the week-long festival and outline what should be achieved throughout the programme, including partnerships at fringe events, hot topics for events and ways in which the festival will help the region. 

Who’s on the DCF 2020 Steering Panel?

• Patricia Keating, Executive Director of Tech Manchester

• Naomi Timperley, Co-founder of Tech North Advocates

• Herb Kim, Founder & Curator of TEDxManchester, TEDxLiverpool and TEDxNewcastle

• Katy Leeson, Managing Director of Social Chain

• Stuart Clarke, Festival Director of Leeds Digital

• Karen Burns, Events Manager at BJSS

• Martin Balaam, Managing Director of Pimberly

• Sam Booth, Chief Executive of pro-manchester

• Paul Addison, Head of PR and Government Affairs at Siemens Digital Industries UK

• Jude Holmes, Head of External Relations and Marketing, Made Smarter

• Tanya Grady, Head of Partnerships at Enterprise City

• Aine McTiernan, North Lead of PwC Scale 

More steering panel members will be announced in the future…

Over the coming months, Prolific North will be speaking to the steering panel members individually to find out more about them and why they’re getting involved with Digital City Festival.

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To find out more about the Steering Panel, click here.

To be a part of Digital City Festival 2020, visit the official website or contact the team.