Tuesday 6 October 2026 · MediaCity, Salford
Just announced · Thursday 8 October · MediaCity, Salford
With Marie Franc, Teleshopping and a secret artist. Stage curated by Chris Hawkins (BBC 6 Music) x SXSW.
Get Tickets £39.85The first ever UK edition of Billboard's 40 Under 40 debuts at the 2026 Opening Lunch, honouring the music industry's rising stars and future leaders. Nominations are open now.
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Four days of Summits, keynotes, workshops and networking, from the opening-night film premiere to The Creative Industries AI Summit. Timings, briefs and speakers for every session are on the day by day programme.
See the day by day programmeTue 6 Oct
18:30 – midnight
Opening night and film premiere
Wed 7 Oct
09:30 – 18:00, then evening events
Opening day
Thu 8 Oct
09:00 – 18:00, then evening events
Day two
Fri 9 Oct
09:30 – 17:45
The Creative Industries AI Summit and closing day
Label presidents, trade body chairs, managers, A&Rs, politicians, entrepreneurs, artists and broadcasters, the first wave of the 2026 conference line-up. The Summits, keynotes and timings announced so far are on the day by day programme.
Tommas Arnby // Stacey Tang // Bev Craig // Tom A. Smith // Dr Jo Twist OBE // The Anchoress // Tom Gray // Nazir Afzal OBE // Sophie Jones // Nina Nesbitt // Daudi Matsiko // Catherine Martin & many more
A 24th anniversary premiere, with a keynote from Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan.
Three days of summits, keynotes and The Creative Industries AI Summit. Convened by Andy Burnham, and taken forward by Ian Murray MP, Bev Craig (Mayor of Greater Manchester) and DCMS.
Everyone who makes creative work has a moral and material claim on it: a right to be credited, and a right to be paid.Read more
The first global summit where every content industry agrees a position on AI, built around four anchors: licensing, provenance, attribution and enforcement.
Convened by Andy Burnham, and taken forward by Ian Murray MP, Bev Craig (Mayor of Greater Manchester) and DCMS. Grounded in a simple principle: art is a human right.
More on the AI Summit →Andy Burnham · BTM 2024 · credit Kyle Roczniak
ALT BLK ERA // Bawo // GANS // JayaHadADream // The Slow Readers Club // Tom A. Smith
BEX // Cody Frost // Cutscene // GETNER // JD Cliffe // Lady Ice // Mouth Ulcers // OneDa // SILVERWINGKILLER // The Small Fortunes // SpaceAcre // Superlative // walt disco // The Wran // The Zangwills
Another Country $$$$ // Bloodworm // Boo Kickz // Bruise Control // Che3kz // cruush // Ewan Sim // Freya Beer // Gen and the Degenerates // Georgian // Hana Lili // Holly Head // Lei Hope // LIINES // Loren Heat // Marie Franc // Naomi Kalu // Nessa May // Nico Harmony // Roukaya B // RTB Showcase // Ruby Duff // Sweet Gene // Swivel // Tana // Teleshopping // Third Kulture // Treehouse MCR Cypher // Treks // Venkappa // Yetti Tabai
+ more to be announced
View the full lineupBuilding fairer ways for the music and content industries to work and grow.
What it means, who owns it, how to join.
Inclusive on and off stage, with a diverse lineup and Pay It Forward access for all.
Year-round programme connecting young people aged 16 to 25 across Greater Manchester with the creative industries.
Our creative-rights principle and the AI questions it raises.
Civic positioning, social-change heritage, Salford centenary tie.
One of the UK's most impressive industry events.
