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Buy Yorkshire builds on £48million economic impact

Buy Yorkshire 2017

The Buy Yorkshire Conference, the largest business-to-business event in the North, will return to the region for a seventh year when it brings more than 5,000 delegates, 185 exhibitors and a super-charged line-up of 20 speakers to the Royal Armouries Hall in Leeds from 16 – 17 May.

Reporting a conservative economic impact of more than £48m, the Yorkshire Mafia, the organisation that is responsible for the event, expect that this will be the most heavily-attended business exhibition in the region during 2017.

Announcing the first four speakers to the much-anticipated line-up, the event will welcome Dr Alan James, Head of VP Worldwide Business Development for Hyperloop One; Gordon Black CBE, Black Family Investment; Ian Massingham, Chief Technology Evangelist for Amazon and Maz Nadjm, Forbes Global Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers.

Dr Alan James will explain how the Hyperloop transportation solution could transform the way that people travel to radically enhance their economic competitiveness. With the ongoing debate about high speed travel, former Project Director for HS2, James will visit Leeds during his global tour to showcase Hyperloop and what it could achieve.


Gordon Black CBE, former Chairman of Peter Black Holdings and the supplier of Nutribullet to supermarkets throughout the UK, will explain how a small Yorkshire based business became a £300m organisation with 3,000 employees before selling to Chinese trading giants Li & Fung for £48m.

Maz Nadjm, founder and CEO of SoAmpll, an award-winning employee advocacy enterprise platform, is one of the world’s top 50 power influencers (Forbes) with an impressive collection of accolades. He will address delegates to share his experience and insight into social media and how he has used relevant platforms to shape his business.

Ian Massingham, Chief Technical Evangelist for Amazon, will take to the stage to share his journey which includes using cloud technology to generate $2.6bn in revenue during the first quarter of 2016. He will share his thoughts on current tech trends and what the cloud revolution could mean to businesses in the audience.

Further speakers will be added to the programme over the coming weeks, each covering the business topics that matter most to companies within the Yorkshire region and beyond.

The unquestionable credibility of the event has attracted thousands of people and millions of pounds in business done since its launch in 2001. Growing from a one-day exhibition the format of the two-day programme has evolved to include the Billion Pound Panel and Think Yorkshire.

For further details please visit www.buyyorkshire.com or follow @BuyYorkshire.