DATA DECODED MCR: 21-22 October 2025, Manchester Central
Data Decoded is more than an event; it’s a movement challenging the status quo of impersonal, profit-driven conferences. Born from a desire to unify the data world, Data Decoded brings together a dynamic community of data leaders and practitioners focused on real-world impact. This high-energy gathering isn’t just about knowledge-sharing; it’s about empowering every business function to harness data for growth and efficiency, no matter the company’s size or structure. Data Decoded stands for democratized data — insights accessible to everyone, not just the upper echelons of business.
It’s data for all.
Unlock the value in your data
- Meet and engage with the influencers and buyers.
- Allow our audience to compare and contrast your products and services with ease.
- Position and build your brand with technical and line of business decision makers.
- Educate audiences how to harness and make use of data through stand engagements, seminar sessions, workshops, roundtables and meet-ups.
Easy to source data solutions & services
Attendees
World class vendors & Start-ups
Seminar sessions
Roundtables
Workshops
Pre-event VIP dinner
Session topics covered
- Data Engineering
- Data Governance, Risk & Storage
- Data usage in line of business functions
- Modern Data Stack
- Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Data & AI Strategy
- Gen AI
- AI Data & ML
- DataOps & Observability
- Data Platforms
- Data Culture
- Leadership
Inspiring & educating data decision makers
We want to help data professionals to stay ahead of the curve, get inspired, share ideas, and overcome common challenges. Our program aims to be relevant to the entire community through 5 theatres.
Why Manchester?
Manchester has the UK’s largest economy outside of London
Digital and Tech Firms in the Northwest
Committed investment as part of the Digital Blueprint initiative
STEM students in the city
Main Data regions: Manchester, Salford, Pendle, Liverpool and Bolton
Main data heavy industries
Creating a data community hub
We aim to build a community consisting of strategic and technical decision makers, a network of expert consultants and analysts as well as a community for data users within line of business functions who wouldn’t normally attend a traditional IT event, nor would they attend an industry specific event.
Data Leader
Heads of, Directors of, Chiefs of, VP’s
Operational & Change Influencer
IT, Finance, HR, Service Desk, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Procurement, Customer Experience, Change Management, Business Intelligence
Data Planner
Data Manager, Data Lead, Analytics Manager
Data Technician
Architect, Engineer, Analyst
Target industries
- Financial services
- Retail
- Real Estate
- Public Sector & Defense
- Professional Services
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Education
- IT & Communications
- Transport
- Utilities
- Construction
- Media
- Creative & Arts
- Advanced Engineering
- Science
- Agriculture