The Director of Digital City Festival (DCF) has been selected to join a delegation to India next week that seeks to promote Manchester’s significance as a digital and creative hub.
Martyn Collins will travel to India with other senior figures from Manchester, including representatives from MiQ, Tim Newns, CEO of MIDAS, Jon Corner, Chief Digital Officer for the City of Salford & CEO of The Landing MediaCityUK, and Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester.
Tim Newns and Jon Corner are also on the 2020 Digital City Festival Steering Panel. Find out who else is on the panel here.
The main objectives of the week-long trip are to increase the profile of Manchester to key Indian tech businesses and their audiences, positioning it as the ideal location for investment, and to foster new tech partnerships with leading Indian companies.
Martyn, DCF Director, said: “It’s a wonderful opportunity to promote Manchester’s new Digital City Festival to some of the largest tech players in India.
“The section of the delegation that I am joining is representing Manchester as the UK’s largest creative, digital and technology cluster outside of London. We’ll be meeting senior business leaders in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.”
