Manufacturing Leaders' Summit 2026
10 November 2026 – 11 November 2026
Titanic Hotel, Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Manufacturing Leaders' Summit is an invitation-only forum for senior UK manufacturing executives, produced by The Manufacturer (Nineteen Group). Over two days at the Titanic Hotel Liverpool, 200+ delegates take part in closed-door roundtable discussion sessions, alongside keynote presentations and panel debates on topics including AI, data, productivity, supply chain resilience, cyber security and leadership.
47 sessions · 60 speakers
Organiser (1)
Co-Organisers (4)
Sponsors (9)
Informatica · Verizon Business · Veolia · Tata Consultancy Services · Kerv Digital · IFS · Epicor · UKG · Ericsson
Association Partner (1)
Speakers (60)
- Alison Beard-Gunter Summit Chair, Independent Consultant
- Asif Moghal Director, D&M Market & Industry Development, Autodesk
- Philippa Glover Experienced SME MD and Fractional Director
- Razvan Popescu AI Strategy Lead, Johnson Matthey
- Rodrigo Martinez Sr Solutions Consultant, Poka
- Simon Tilley EMEA Process Industries Lead, IBM Confluent
- Chris Greenough Managing Director, Westley Engineering
- Joy Naylor Manufacturing and Recycling Director, Eurocell
- Julie Gledhill Business Excellence Manager, Jaguar Land Rover
- Jeannine Bastard Manufacturing Development Leader, Robust UK
- Christina Wolger Head of Procurement, Siemens Congleton
- James Bye Additive Manufacturing Lead, Babcock International
- Mark Hughes VP UK&I Sales, Infor
- Terry Bebbington Head of Cyber Security UK&I, Atos
- Pramod Wattegedara Principle Engineer, Plessey Semiconductors
- Rashitha Jayasekara Senior Director of Digital & Technology, GSK
- Amit Shabilla Account Manager - UK & Ireland, Velotic
- Andrew Faulkner Tools, Process and Planning Manager, Alstom
- Andrew Kinder SVP, Industry and Solution Strategy, Infor
- Barry Wildhagen Community of Practice Director, Informatica from Salesforce
- Christian Eriksson Sr. Solution Partner 5G / MEC, Verizon Business
- David Strudwick Project Director, Coriolis Consulting
- Derek Newton IBM Automation Specialist, IBM
- Geoff Lloyd Regional Leader - Europe, InspireXT
- Greg Davies Sales Manager, Mitti
- Harmjan Derksen Chief Product Officer, Ultimo - an IFS Company
- Ian Saunders Enterprise Sales Executive, UKG
- James Speer Business Development Leader, Amazon Web Services
- Jasmine Nasser Business Development Representative, Infor
- Jeff Pratt Principal Account Specialist, Informatica from Salesforce
- Jo Cooke Senior Enterprise Sales Executive, UKG
- John Quinlivan TCS Vertical Head. MFG, A&D MMU, UK&I, Tata Consultancy Services
- Jonathan Peedle Head of Production Maintenance, Bentley
- Kallum Welch Head of Manufacturing Engineering IS&S, Airbus
- Kathryn Hipkins Technical Operations Director, Hosokawa Micron
- Kayode Adisa Operations & CI Director, Fine Lady Bakeries
- Lorena Caires-Moreina Lead Engineer, Jaguar Land Rover
- Maggie Slowik Global Industry Director for Manufacturing, IFS
- Mariam Abid Group Demand Planning Manager, Advanced Medical Solutions
- Mark Feathers Senior Principle Product Marketing Manager, Epicor
- Matt Antos-Lewis Director, Global Integrated Marketing, Rhombus
- Matthew Osmond Director of Business Development for Industrial, Water and Energy, Veolia
- Mehdi Quraishi Director Private 5G, MEC & Innovation, Verizon Business
- Mike Barlow Regional Sales Manager, Ericsson Enterprise Wireless
- Neil Gardner EMEA Sales Engineering Lead, Rhombus
- Neil Richardson Head of Development - Industrial Energy, Water and Local Loops of Energy, Veolia
- Nicola Budge Chief Operating Officer, Willerby
- Octave Lapeyronie CEO & Co-founder, Fabriq
- Philip Dewson Head of Manufacturing, Shoplight
- Raluca Hodgson Technology Business Partner Global Operations, CSL
- Rejoy Chayananickal John Solution Advisor, SAP
- Richard Ormandy Director of Operations, Evolito
- Richard Porter Discrete Industry Principal, Velotic
- Richard Sidebottom Former Manufacturing Director, Tata Steel
- Sam Eggar Business Development Manager, Kerv
- Shahriar Saghri Industry Advisor. MFG Business Group, UK&I, Tata Consultancy Services
- Theodoros Panagiotidis Director of Process Engineering and CI, Gen Phoenix
- Victoria Jones Regional Account Director, Fabriq
- Vikram Singla Senior Director, Business Value Services, Oracle
- Wojciech Janusz EMEA Lead Architect for AI and Manufacturing, Dell Technologies
Agenda
- Chair’s Welcome 10 November 2026
- Keynote: From Digital Maturity to Digital Agility 10 November 2026
- Keynote: Precious Elements in Dormant Data: Using AI to Create New Value from Data We Already Hold 10 November 2026
- Keynote: AI Is a Data Strategy You Never Finished 10 November 2026
- Q&A with Speakers and Audience 10 November 2026
- Roundtable Discussion Session 1 10 November 2026
- Panel Discussion with Interactive Audience Poll: Is UK Manufacturing Truly Ready for AI at Scale — or Are We Still Performing Pilots? 10 November 2026
- Keynote: The Intelligent Enterprise: Connecting Data, People and Operations 10 November 2026
- Keynote: From Demand to Delivery: Building an Additive Manufacturing Capability for the Future 10 November 2026
- Q&A with Speakers and Audience 10 November 2026
- Roundtable Discussion Session 2 10 November 2026
- Day One Wrap-Up 10 November 2026
- Chair’s Welcome 11 November 2026
- Keynote: Operational Excellence Is a Daily Habit, Not a Programme 11 November 2026
- Keynote: Winning the Talent and Leadership Challenge in Manufacturing 11 November 2026
- Q&A with Speakers and Audience 11 November 2026
- Roundtable Discussion Session 3 11 November 2026
- Panel Discussion with Interactive Audience Poll: The Productivity Paradox: Why Are Manufacturers Still Struggling to Get More from What They Have? 11 November 2026
- Keynote: When Cyber Becomes Physical: Is Manufacturing Ready for the Frontier AI Era? 11 November 2026
- Keynote: You Can’t Transform a Factory Without Transforming How You Lead – Lessons from Inside Goodwin International 11 November 2026
- Keynote: Building Resilient Operations in an Uncertain World 11 November 2026
- Q&A with Speakers and Audience 11 November 2026
- Roundtable Discussion Session 4 11 November 2026
- Day Two Wrap-Up 11 November 2026
- The Manufacturer MX Awards 2026 Gala Dinner & Ceremony 11 November 2026
- Winning the Talent and Leadership Battle Without Big Corporate Budgets
- Beyond Dashboards: Using Workforce Intelligence to Improve Agility, Productivity and Labour Efficiency
- Building Supply Chain Strength and New Market Access as a Smaller Manufacturer
- Building the Digitally Integrated Enterprise from Design Through Delivery
- Building the Hyperconnected Factory: IoT, Edge Infrastructure and Secure Connectivity
- Energy Volatility Is Not Going Away: How Manufacturers Build Cost and Supply Resilience
- Escaping Pilot Purgatory: Why So Many Smart Factory Projects Never Scale
- Finding the Hidden Factory: How Growth Manufacturers Win Back Capacity They've Already Paid For
- From Security Data to Operational Intelligence: Unlocking New Sources of Visibility Across Manufacturing Operations
- Industrial AI in 2026: Where Is It Creating Measurable Manufacturing ROI Right Now?
- Intelligent Quality: Can AI and Computer Vision Finally Reduce Costly Defects at Scale?
- IT + OT + Engineering: Building One Connected Manufacturing Ecosystem
- Operational Excellence Under Relentless Disruption: How Do You Sustain Performance Every Day?
- Scaling Without Breaking the Business: How Growth Manufacturers Build for the Next Stage
- Smart Digital Investment on a Mid-Market Budget: Where Should SMEs Start?
- The Productivity Imperative: Doing More Without Simply Hiring More
- Transforming Supply Chain Resilience with AI
- Why Do Proven Improvements Fail to Spread Across the Manufacturing Network?
- Why Does Supply Chain Collaboration Break Down When Disruption Hits?
- Why Most Manufacturing Data Strategies Still Fail to Deliver Actionable Insight
- Winning Capital Investment in a High-Cost Economy: Making the Case for Transformation Spend
- AI Decision Support on the Shop Floor: Practical Gains or Another Layer of Complexity?