Conferences / Data Decoded
Data Decoded MCR 2026
Oct 13–14, 2026 · Manchester Central, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Conference
- Data Decoded Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 13, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026
- Venue
- Manchester Central
- Place
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- datadecoded.com
- Recorded
- 52 sponsors · 122 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Second Manchester edition. Free to attend; headline keynote by Formula E CTO Dan Cherow-Brier. Speakers/titles/theatres from the organizer site's WordPress data. Exhibitors (stand number present) listed with tier 'Exhibitor'. Turnkey stand packages (12/18/36 sqm) and sponsorship offered, but prices only on enquiry.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visitor registration | £0 | — | Register free | datadecoded.com |
Sponsors 52
Other 52
- ActiveFence · Exhibitor
- Airia · Exhibitor
- Alteryx · Exhibitor
- Amazon Web Services · Exhibitor
- AMD · Exhibitor
- Astrato · Exhibitor
- Bluestonex · Exhibitor
- Carruthers and Jackson · Exhibitor
- ClickHouse · Exhibitor
- Cloudian · Exhibitor
- Colibri Digital · Exhibitor
- Columbus · Exhibitor
- DAMA · Exhibitor
- Data & AI Literacy Academy · Exhibitor
- dbt Labs · Exhibitor
- Decision Inc · Exhibitor
- Dell Technologies · Exhibitor
- Druva · Exhibitor
- e6data · Exhibitor
- Eden Smith · Exhibitor
- enChoice · Exhibitor
- ETL · Exhibitor
- Fivetran · Exhibitor
- Hightouch · Exhibitor
- iO-Sphere · Exhibitor
- KDR Talent Solutions · Exhibitor
- Lancaster University / székelydata · Exhibitor
- Manuka AI · Exhibitor
- Matillion · Exhibitor
- Megaladata · Exhibitor
- MotherDuck · Exhibitor
- Multiverse · Exhibitor
- Omni · Exhibitor
- Oracle · Exhibitor
- Pentaho · Exhibitor
- Precisely · Exhibitor
- Pro-Manchester · Exhibitor
- Pyramid Analytics · Exhibitor
- Row Zero · Exhibitor
- RSMB · Exhibitor
- Snap Analytics · Exhibitor
- Softcat · Exhibitor
- Strategy · Exhibitor
- Streambased · Exhibitor
- Supermetrics · Exhibitor
- Teradata · Exhibitor
- Tilores · Exhibitor
- Tugger · Exhibitor
- Veeam · Exhibitor
- Western Digital · Exhibitor
- Witboost · Exhibitor
- Zoho · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 122
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Blackman | Bentley Motors | Keynote | Fireside Chat: Cars and Coffee – Fuelling Data Foundations for the AI Age | — |
| Andrew Daniels | Betfred | Keynote | PANEL: Mirage or Oasis | — |
| Andy Cotgreave | — | Keynote | Keeping Humans on Top in the Age of AI Analytics | — |
| Andy Grant | NVIDIA | Keynote | Agentic AI Comes of Age: Examples of Open Models for Agentic Workflows Advancing UK Science | — |
| Caroline Carruthers | Carruthers and Jackson | Keynote | Data Maturity through an AI lens | — |
| Caroline Grant | Slalom | Keynote | PANEL: Mirage or Oasis | — |
| Chris Chambers | Government Property Agency | Keynote | Panel: Transforming Public Services Through Purpose Led Innovation | — |
| Chris Platt | Mamas and Papas | Keynote | PANEL: How Data and AI Technologies Are Fixing the Modern Challenges of the Retail Industry | — |
| Dan Cherowbrier | Formula E | Keynote | HEADLINE KEYNOTE – Electrifying Data: How Formula E Uses Data to Drive Innovation in Elite Motorsport | — |
| Danny Woodruff | Mars Global Services | Keynote | PANEL: How Data and AI Technologies Are Fixing the Modern Challenges of the Retail Industry | — |
| David Jerrim | Teradata | Keynote | Closing the Context Gap: Your AI Knows Your Data But Not Your Business | — |
| David Savage | Harvey Nash | Keynote | PANEL: Beyond the Numbers: Data, AI, and the Human Edge in Sport | — |
| David Savage | Harvey Nash | Keynote | PANEL: Mirage or Oasis | — |
| Dominic Jordan | Twelve Football | Keynote | PANEL: Beyond the Numbers: Data, AI, and the Human Edge in Sport | — |
| Dr Kate Gill | BAE Systems | Keynote | PANEL: Creating a Data Led Culture | — |
| Dr Peter Appleby | Autotrader | Keynote | PANEL: How Data and AI Technologies Are Fixing the Modern Challenges of the Retail Industry | — |
| Dr Rachel Gawley | Pentaho | Keynote | PANEL: How Data and AI Technologies Are Fixing the Modern Challenges of the Retail Industry | — |
| Elif Tutuk | Tableau | Keynote | PANEL: Mirage or Oasis | — |
| Emily Holloway | Formula E | Keynote | PANEL: Beyond the Numbers: Data, AI, and the Human Edge in Sport | — |
| Fay Churchill | ITV | Keynote | Leading Through the Hype: Data Science Leadership in the GenAI Era | — |
| Fiona Sweeney | Women in Data | Keynote | Panel: Transforming Public Services Through Purpose Led Innovation | — |
| Jason Foster | Cynozure | Keynote | PANEL: Creating a Data Led Culture | — |
| Kevin Parry | Information Commissioner’s Office | Keynote | Panel: Transforming Public Services Through Purpose Led Innovation | — |
| Leslie Lambert | Bank of England | Keynote | Panel: Transforming Public Services Through Purpose Led Innovation | — |
| Matheus Guimaraes | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | When Software Is No Longer Scarce, Data Becomes the Differentiator | — |
| Mike Ferguson | Intelligent Business Strategies | Keynote | Always On, Agentic Data Governance – The Move towards a Data Governance Command Centre | — |
| Prashant Singh | Costa Coffee | Keynote | Fireside Chat: Cars and Coffee – Fuelling Data Foundations for the AI Age | — |
| Rachael Dale Kemp | Defra | Keynote | Panel: Transforming Public Services Through Purpose Led Innovation | — |
| Rosanne Werner | XcelerateIQ | Keynote | PANEL: Creating a Data Led Culture | — |
| Steve Mills | PwC | Keynote | Fireside Chat: Cars and Coffee – Fuelling Data Foundations for the AI Age | — |
| Tom Shaw | — | Keynote | HEADLINE KEYNOTE – Electrifying Data: How Formula E Uses Data to Drive Innovation in Elite Motorsport | — |
| Will Morgan | Rajasthan Royals – IPL Cricket | Keynote | PANEL: Beyond the Numbers: Data, AI, and the Human Edge in Sport | — |
| Yannick Misteli | Roche | Keynote | PANEL: Creating a Data Led Culture | — |
| Alex Patient | PatientMind | Speaker | You Were Hired To Solve Problems. Now You’re The Problem | — |
| Alexa Berard | Parity Technologies | Panelist | PANEL: Privacy in the Algorithmic Age: Web3, Tokenisation, and Protecting the Digital Citizen | — |
| Andrew Newman | Open Data Institute (ODI) | Speaker | FIRESIDE CHAT: The Importance Standards Based Data Infrastructure For AI | — |
| Andy Bell | Precisely | Speaker | Why AI Fails Without Trusted Data: Closing the AI-Readiness Gap | — |
| Ashwinth Solomon | Zoho | Speaker | Transformative Power of Agentic Analytics | — |
| Ben Clinch | Clinch Data Services | Speaker | Never Mind the Hubris – The Smart Way Companies Are Cutting Through the AI Noise and Managing AI Risks by Design | — |
| Carly Davies | Co-operative Group | Speaker | From Ticket Factory to Strategic Partner: Transforming Data Culture Through Value-Led Delivery | — |
| Caroline Carruthers | Carruthers and Jackson | Speaker | The Fluidity of Ethics | — |
| Chris Mundy | RSMB | Speaker | Is Your Data Connected Enough for Better Planning, Insight and AI? | — |
| Chris Simpson | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Modern Data Foundations in the Agentic AI Era | — |
| Colin Bird | Evri | Speaker | My History of Data Through 30 Years – From Centralised Flat-File Stores to the Modern Data Platforms | — |
| Cynthia Akiotu | Accenture | Speaker | From AI Adoption to Agent Sprawl: Governing the Enterprise Agent Estate | — |
| Dan Keeley | Rebura | Speaker | Code in the Dark: What Voyager 1 Teaches Us About Designing Resilient Data Pipelines | — |
| Danielle Lopes | BAE Systems | Speaker | Data Management: AI’s Dark Knight | — |
| David Jerrim | Teradata | Speaker | The Missing Layer: Why AI Fails Governance and What Context Does About It | — |
| David Jerrim | Teradata | Speaker | The Missing Layer: Why AI Fails Governance and What Context Does About It | — |
| David McDwyer | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust | Speaker | Diving into the Data Lake: Building an NHS Data Platform That Actually Delivers | — |
| David Olodort | Snowpack Data | Speaker | Tools of Abstraction: Creating Leverage Now with Agentic Engineering | — |
| David Rice | Snap Analytics | Speaker | The Rise of the Context Engineer – Why AI is making context more valuable than coding | — |
| Dominic Jordan | Twelve Football | Speaker | As Easy as ABC? A Practical Framework for Evaluating Third-Party Data, in Football and Beyond | — |
| Dr Anelia Kurteva | — | Speaker | FIRESIDE CHAT: The Importance Standards Based Data Infrastructure For AI | — |
| Dr Mohamed Reda | Pact Accountancy Ltd & FluxTech360 | Speaker | Beyond Full Automation: When AI Needs a Human in the Loop | — |
| Dr Rachel Gawley | Pentaho | Speaker | Data Sovereignty: From Constraint to Strategy | — |
| Duncan Boyne | Boyne Business Intelligence | Speaker | MEETUP: Power BI & Fabric Manchester User Group | — |
| Ed Gummett | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Modern Data Foundations in the Agentic AI Era | — |
| Eleanore Beard | Brabners | Speaker | Implementing AI Responsibly: what works, what doesn’t and what we have learnt | — |
| Eleanore Beard | Brabners | Panelist | PANEL: Privacy in the Algorithmic Age: Web3, Tokenisation, and Protecting the Digital Citizen | — |
| Gemma Williams | Pets at Home | Panelist | Panel: The Culture Advantage That Drives High Performing Data Teams | — |
| Geyv Kathoke | Accent Group | Speaker | FIRESIDE CHAT: Turning Data Into Better Outcomes For Homes, Customers And Communities At Accent Group | — |
| Gus Reyes | NowSkills | Speaker | From Skills to Trust: Operationalising Data Governance for Real Business Impact in the Age of AI | — |
| Haider Raza | Microsoft | Speaker | AI Runs on Trust: Why Data Governance Is Fundamental to Enterprise AI | — |
| Hanna Earls | University of Oxford | Speaker | Speaking Finance: From Data Strategy to Business Priority | — |
| Henri De Bruine | Decision Inc | Speaker | Mad how everyone panics when they realise no one’s got a scooby what anything actually means | — |
| Jack Kelly | RAC | Speaker | The Best Model Is the One That’s Live: A Framework for Shipping Imperfect Data Science into Live Operations | — |
| James George | Provocative Human Ltd | Speaker | Fireside Chat: Knowing isn’t doing: why data rarely changes the decision | — |
| James George | Provocative Human Ltd | Speaker | The risk nobody’s priced: critical minerals and the limits of data governance | — |
| Jason Foster | Cynozure | Speaker | FIRESIDE CHAT: Turning Data Into Better Outcomes For Homes, Customers And Communities At Accent Group | — |
| Jeremiah Chienda | Information Commissioner’s Office | Speaker | You Are the Governance Layer: Six Practices for Agent Builders | — |
| Jon Cooke | Nebulyx AI | Panelist | PANEL: Privacy in the Algorithmic Age: Web3, Tokenisation, and Protecting the Digital Citizen | — |
| Jovita Tam | — | Speaker | The AI FOMO Bill Comes Due – Where is my ROI? | — |
| Julian Tait | Open Data Manchester | Speaker | FIRESIDE CHAT: The Importance Standards Based Data Infrastructure For AI | — |
| Katy Gooblar | Rebel Hive | Panelist | PANEL: If AI Is Changing The Work, What Must Change In Us? | — |
| Lee Larter | Dell Technologies | Speaker | Accelerating Outcomes with the Modular AI Factory | — |
| Leo Pasta | Snowflake | Speaker | MEETUP: Snowflake Manchester User Group | — |
| Lewis Whitfield | Alteryx | Speaker | Delivering Trusted AI: Papa Johns’ Recipe for Reliable Financial Results | — |
| Liji Saji | Royal London | Panelist | Panel: The Culture Advantage That Drives High Performing Data Teams | — |
| Lucy Goudie | VodafoneThree | Speaker | Data in the Era of Not Knowing: Engineering for Signals That Expire | — |
| Lydia Monnington | Panelist | PANEL: If AI Is Changing The Work, What Must Change In Us? | — | |
| Mac Harasymiw | Virgin Media O2 | Speaker | The 4Vs of Business-Ready Data: Visibility, Velocity, Value and Validation | — |
| Manish Kumar | Microsoft | Speaker | AI Runs on Trust: Why Data Governance Is Fundamental to Enterprise AI | — |
| Martin Mahler | Astrato | Speaker | 5 Foundations for Self-Service Analytics with AI at Scale | — |
| Matheus Guimaraes | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | When Should You Use an Agent? Architectural Trade-Offs in Agentic Systems | — |
| Matt Brown | Brabners | Speaker | Implementing AI Responsibly: what works, what doesn’t and what we have learnt | — |
| Matt Knott | NTT DATA | Speaker | Changing lives with health data | — |
| Mehdy Vaezi | Decision Inc | Speaker | Mad how everyone panics when they realise no one’s got a scooby what anything actually means | — |
| Nicholas Deveney | Eden Smith | Panelist | PANEL: Privacy in the Algorithmic Age: Web3, Tokenisation, and Protecting the Digital Citizen | — |
| Nick Lea-Trengrouse | Columbus | Speaker | AI and Automation: The Build vs. Buy Dilemma | — |
| Owen Badham | Supermetrics | Speaker | Chaos is Not a Strategy: Giving AI Freedom Without Losing Control of Your Data | — |
| Paul Brook | Dell Technologies | Speaker | Turning Data into AI outcomes | — |
| Paul Gray | Preventx | Speaker | MEETUP: Snowflake Manchester User Group | — |
| Paul Johnson | Snap Analytics | Speaker | The Rise of the Context Engineer – Why AI is making context more valuable than coding | — |
| Phil Gardner | COLLIERS | Speaker | Fireside Chat: Knowing isn’t doing: why data rarely changes the decision | — |
| Phil Parry | Bupa | Speaker | I Just Wanted to Work With Data…and Accidentally Became a Leader | — |
| Richard Jenkins | The Very Group | Speaker | How The Very Group Is Building an Open Data Foundation for Analytics and AI | — |
| Rob Sewell | Zure | Speaker | MEETUP: Power BI & Fabric Manchester User Group | — |
| Roman Petrochenkov | Carwow | Speaker | What We Learned Scaling AI At Carwow and Some Mistakes We Made Along The Way | — |
| Rory Hewson | Fivetran + dbt Labs | Speaker | How The Very Group Is Building an Open Data Foundation for Analytics and AI | — |
| Rosanne Werner | XcelerateIQ | Speaker | AI and The Future of Human Thinking | — |
| Rukayat Balogun | UK Public Sector | Speaker | The Decision Advantage: Why the Best Organisations Think Differently | — |
| Ryan Boyd | MotherDuck | Speaker | Who Operates the Data Stack When the Agent Builds It? | — |
| Sachin Shah | — | Speaker | What Scale-Ups Build That Enterprises Spend Years Trying to Retrofit | — |
| Samantha Crossley | Breedon Group | Panelist | PANEL: If AI Is Changing The Work, What Must Change In Us? | — |
| Sara Ludlam | Brabners | Speaker | Implementing AI Responsibly: what works, what doesn’t and what we have learnt | — |
| Sarah Rooney | Lloyds Banking Group | Panelist | Panel: The Culture Advantage That Drives High Performing Data Teams | — |
| Shabina Poolanathil | AXA | Panelist | Panel: The Culture Advantage That Drives High Performing Data Teams | — |
| Shachar Meir | — | Speaker | Data Teams Won’t Survive 2027 (in Their Current Form) | — |
| Stephen Nwoye | NHS England | Speaker | Practical AI for Legacy Data Platforms | — |
| Tamanna Haque | Jaguar Land Rover | Speaker | From Vision to Vehicle: What It Really Takes to Deliver AI Products Customers Love | — |
| Tim Payne | Alteryx | Speaker | Delivering Trusted AI: Papa Johns’ Recipe for Reliable Financial Results | — |
| Tom Bruce | Snap Analytics | Speaker | The AI-Augmented Data Team: Scaling Delivery Without Scaling Headcount | — |
| Tom Scott | Streambased | Speaker | Beyond the Lakehouse: Why AI Is Killing ETL | — |
| Tripti Anil | Kellanova | Speaker | Data Delivery to Decisions with AI: The Kellanova Success Story | — |
| Tristan Burns | — | Speaker | From Analytics to Influence: Leading Data Teams in the Age of AI | — |
| Uba Nnamani | University of Salford | Panelist | PANEL: If AI Is Changing The Work, What Must Change In Us? | — |
| Victoria Instone | Women in Data | Panelist | Panel: The Culture Advantage That Drives High Performing Data Teams | — |
| Vishnu Vasanth | e6data | Speaker | Agent Traces: Build and Defend Your Proprietary Intelligence Advantage | — |
| Will Savage | Omni | Speaker | BI became dashboards. Now it’s becoming intelligence again | — |
| Will Taite | Snap Analytics | Speaker | The AI-Augmented Data Team: Scaling Delivery Without Scaling Headcount | — |
| Yannick Misteli | Roche | Speaker | From Pharma Commercial Data Foundations to Agentic AI | — |