SPEAKER
GUIDELINES
WELCOME TO MTF
Thank you for choosing to speak at Manchester Tech Festival! This year we had over 350 applications and after being reviewed by a panel of independent judges from Manchester’s most prevalent companies, we are delighted that your talk was selected!
Bigger than ever, this year’s core festival takes place across two weeks with your talk helping us to showcase the very best of Manchester tech and beyond.
In this guide you will find everything you need to know about speaking at Manchester Tech Festival, but if you have any questions or queries you can get in touch with us by emailing: [email protected] and one of our team will be happy to help!
Key Dates
Leading up to the festival we have a number of dates we ask our speakers to stick to! We are a small team and have over 100 speakers to assist. Sticking to these deadlines helps us out a great deal and we really appreciate your effort to help!
- Thursday 25th July – Speaker Video Day
- Tuesday 30th July – Speaker Video Day
- Tuesday 13th August – Speaker Video Day
- Thursday 22nd August – Speaker Video Day
- Monday 21st October – Slide Submission Deadline
- Tuesday 29th October – Women in Tech [Unfiltered]
- Thursday 31st October – AI Conference
- Monday 4th November – Leadership Day
- Wednesday 6th November – Core Festival Day 1
- Thursday 7th November – Core Festival Day 2
Preparing your talk
Whether you are a seasoned speaker or new to the scene, Manchester Tech Festival offers a unique speaker experience. We pride ourselves on offering our audience authentic and raw content, meaning we want you to be as brutally honest as possible with your talks! To help your talk be the best it can be – we have put together three guides covering all of the key points we ask to you to stick to when crafting your talk!
Promoting Your Talk
Discover how promoting your talk can help you build your network and profile in the tech community!
Preparing Your Slides
Make your talk truly shine by following our top tips to preparing your slides! Don’t forget 21st October is the deadline!
Preparing Your Talk
You know your talk outline but now it’s time to prepare your talk! Here’s our top tips to standing out!
Film a Promo Video
Not booked your place on one of our filming days?
Join us at DiSH Mcr to film a short promotional video for your talk! We’ll use it to build some hype around your talk and the festival across the website and social media!
FAQ's
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Manchester Tech Festival is not a Pay to Play event, whilst our sponsors will be provided a limited number of slots, our speaking and panellists opportunities are mostly available to the community.
Our event is purpose before profit and therefore we will not reimburse expenses to ensure we can reinvest as much money into making our event the best it can be.
Sure! We have capacity to host upto 5 people on stage at one time. However as we need to setup the stage in advance, we ask you keep speakers to a minimum of 2 and tell us in advance!
We understand that life happens! So don’t worry if you can’t make the festival anymore! If you have an alternative speaker who may want to deliver your talk let us know, we can’t guarantee that we will be able to accommodate a replacement speaker but will definitely consider it!
You should have received an email confirming the stage you are speaking on during the festival. It will be in the email with the link to this page!
If you cannot find it, don’t worry simply get in touch with us and we will confirm your stage! Alternatively you can check on our website!
Not got your time slot? Don’t worry, because we are working with over 100 speakers we leave time slots to one month prior to the festival. This is so that we don’t have to keep amending agenda’s if someone drops out of the festival or plans change!