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Simon Holden

Group Chief Operating Officer - CityFibre

Rob Doepel

UK&I Energy Market Leader - EY

Georgina Knockton

People Change and Transformation Director - EY

Michael Taylor

Head of regional Affairs - Manchester Metropolitan University

Mick Grace

Director - Turner and Townsend

JAMES MASON

Chief Executive - Welcome to Yorkshire

Richard upton

Chief Executive - U&I

Cathy Parker

Co-Chair - Institute of Place Management

Kayley Worsley

PR Consultant

Vimla Appadoo

Co-Founder and Director of Culture Design - Honey Badger

claire mccolgan

Director - Culture Liverpool

Afiya Amesu

Co-Founder - She Leads for Legacy

Jon Geldart

Director of General - IoD

Craig Burton (Suttle-Burton)

Founder - Friends of Dorothy

Ngunan Adamu

Broadcaster and Entrepreneur

Jake Berry

MP & Chair of Northern Research Group

Katherine Richardson

Deputy Director - UK Regions - DIT

Hannah Plumb

Culture and Talent Director - The Alchemist

Daphne Doody-Green

Head of Northern England - CIPD

Praveen Shankar

UK&I Media and Telecommunications Market Leader - EY

Graeme Ferguson

Investment Director - AMP Capital

Stephen Church

UK*I North Markets Leader - EY

Ken Norbury

UK & Europe Built Environment MD - MottMacdonald

Shaun Hinds

CEO - Manchester Central

Shelina Begum

North West Business Editor - TheBusinessDesk.com

James Collins

Head of IR - ITM Power

Stephanie Corking People Director - Laws of Attraction

People Director - Laws of Attraction

Victoria Betts, CCO Hotter Shoes

Chief Commercial Officer - Hotter

Martin Stow

Director - Nexus

Tim Newns

Chief Executive - MIDAS

Beth Houghton

Partner - PPE

Sophie Walker Dsposal

COO & Co-founder - Dsposal

Susan Hinchcliffe

Chair - West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Abigail Scott Paul

Director of External Relations - Leeds 2023

Annette Bramley N8 Research Partnership

Director - N8 Research Group

Tom Bloxham MBE

Chairman & Founder - Urban Splash

Paul Hallett

Founder - Vet Al

Sarah Storey

Active Travel Commissioner - Sheffield City Region

Roger Marsh

Chair - NP11

Jo Lappin

Chief Executive - The Cumbria LEP

Tom Davies

CEO - Robiquity

Collette Roche

Chief Operating Officer - MUFC

Andy Burnham

Mayor - Greater Manchester

Ben Houchen

Mayor - Tees Valley

David Harland

CEO - Eden Project

Sacha Lord

Nightime Economy Advisor for Greater Manchester & Co-Founder of Warehouse Project & Parklife

Jamie Driscoll

Mayor - North of Tyne

Stewart Haworth

Director - Oaknorth

Neil Murray

CEo - IDM

Dan Jarvis

Mayor - Sheffield City Region

Furqan Alamgir

Founder & CEO - Connexin

Simon McCabe

Chief Executive - Scarbourough Group

Isobel Sheldon

Chief Strategy Officer - Britishvolt

Iain Finlayson

Director of Estate - Liverpool One

Warrick Dent

Safety & Ops Director - LNER

Lakshmi Kaul

Head & Representative - Confederation of Indian Industry

Irene Afful

Founder & Director - Ametrine & Professional Liverpool

Sheona Southern

Managing Director - Marketing Manchester

Curtis James

Delivery Lead and Chair of REACH - Co-Operative Bank

Barry White

Chief Executive Officer - Transport for the North

Grant Peggie

Director - NPIF

Victoria Merton Peel NRE

Director of Corporate Affairs - Peel Protos

Alex Turner

Managing Director - TheBusinessDesk.com

Karen Smart

Managing Director - MAG

Shaz Sulaman

Founder - Solid Bond Capital

Chris Hulme

Director - Influential

Kerry Thomas

Head of Marketing - Blackpool Cluster - Merlin Entertainments

Matthew Moulding

CEO & Executive Chairman, THG

Gary Woodhead

CEO and Co-founder CurveBlock

Ben Ormsby

Yorkshire Editor - TheBusinessDesk.com

Polly Taylor-Pullen

Business Development Manager

David Aspin

CEO - Munroe K

George Lodorfos

Dean - Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University

Sarah Coll

Head of Procurement - Leeds Beckett University

Tom Riordan

CEO - Leeds City Council

John Boehner

Senior Strategic Advisor - Squire Patton Boggs

Sally Selorm Juliet PenniMBE

Founder - Women in the Law UK

Jim O'Neill

Vice Chair - Northern Powerhouse Partnership

Paula Widdowson City of York Council

Executive member for Environment and Climate Change - City of York Council

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Complete Connected Capital solutions

AD:VENTURE

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Leeds Business School

Bringing Learning to Life Through Practice

Munroe K

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Wakefield First

Investing in the Wakefield District

Leeds City Council

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Laws of Attraction

Cultural Optimisation specialists

Scarborough Group International

Developing exceptional award-winning places

Institute of Directors

Institute of Directors

TheBusinessDesk

Regional business news for the North

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Nexus, University of Leeds

A community of innovators

Turner & Townsend

#makingthedifference

Robiquity

Intelligent Automation. Done

Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership

Cumbria: The place to live, work, visit & invest

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Creating knowledge and insight from Big Data

EY

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Squire Patton Boggs

Local Connections. Global Influence

Mott MacDonald

Opening opportunities with connected thinking

Northern Powerhouse Partnership

Powering the North's ambition

Kirklees Council

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Welcome from Rt Hon. Grant Schapps MP

Welcome from Rt Hon. Grant Schapps MP