Downtown in Business (DIB) will host a further fifty plus events in 2023, which will include conferences, awards dinners, breakfast forums, leaders’ lunches, private roundtable dinners and a new social networking brand.

Awards evenings will take place in Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool. The DIB inaugural ‘Business of Sport’ conference will take place in September at the Old Trafford Cricket Stadium, and the Change Makers Live Summit will happen at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham in October.

Speakers at Downtown events before the end of the year will include Gary Neville, Montell Douglas, Wes Streeting MP, Caroline Simpson, Tom Stannard, Deborah Cadman, Angela Barnicle, Chris Oglesby, Jonny Reynolds MP, Andy Street, Steve Rotheram, Cllr Liam Robinson, Nuala Gallagher, and Steve Reed MP. The new social networking brand ‘Downtown Unplugged’ will also be launched in September.