Thursday 19 November, 10am to 4pm | No. 1 Circle Square, Manchester

What Will You Get From the Day?

This isn’t a day of sitting through presentations, collecting business cards and going home with a notebook full of good intentions.

It’s about taking something useful back to your business.

• Strengthen your brand. Discover how to make your business more distinctive, relevant and ready for its next stage of growth.

• Work smarter. Identify the repetitive tasks eating into your working week and discover how automation could give you that time back.

• Find fresh opportunities. Gain new perspectives from experts and business owners who understand the challenges of growing a business.

• Make valuable connections. Meet founders, business leaders, potential clients, collaborators and members of the EVAS community.

• Leave with actions. Practical ideas and next steps you can begin putting into practice straight away.

Whether you’re starting out, scaling up or leading an established business, the aim is simple: leave with something you didn’t have when you arrived.

Global Entrepreneurship Week: Building Together

There couldn’t be a more fitting theme. Because very few successful businesses are built entirely alone.

Behind the growth are customers, colleagues, mentors, suppliers, collaborators, advisers and the people who challenge us to think differently.

Building Together is about making more of those connections count.

Three masterclasses. Three opportunities to think differently.

We’ve invited experts to share practical knowledge, challenge assumptions and help you spot opportunities you might otherwise miss.

Angela Soudi | Founder, Soudi Automation

The Art of Automation

How AI Can Transform Your Business and Give You Back Your Life

How many hours a week are you losing to repetitive admin, customer enquiries, bookings and follow-ups? And what is that time actually costing your business?

Join Dubai-based entrepreneur and business strategist Angela Soudi for an interactive masterclass that will help you identify where your time goes, discover what AI could take off your hands and create a practical plan to work smarter.

Through Angela’s Invisible Employee Audit, you’ll calculate the real cost of repetitive tasks and identify one change you can make within seven days.

You’ll leave with a personalised workbook, practical action plan and fresh ideas for getting your time back.

No technical knowledge needed. No jargon. Just practical ideas you can put to work.

Book your morning or full-day ticket by 12 November to guarantee your printed workbook.

More masterclass announcements coming soon.

Programme and timings may be subject to change.

Then we Celebrate: Celebrating With Excellence

Meet the women behind the achievements. And the people helping businesses grow.

After a morning focused on building what’s next, we’re taking time to recognise what’s already been achieved.

Celebrating With Excellence brings together our Enterprise Vision Awards 2026 Winners, finalists, sponsors, judges, partners and women from across the wider business community.

It’s an opportunity to meet women who are building successful businesses, leading teams, creating jobs, developing innovative products and making a difference in their industries.

What can you expect?

• Hear from an EVAS alumna about the decisions, challenges and opportunities behind her success.

• Meet experienced entrepreneurs and business leaders from different sectors.

• Make introductions that could lead to future collaborations, customers, suppliers or valuable advice.

• Reconnect with familiar faces and widen your network beyond your usual circle.

• Celebrate the women making remarkable things happen in business.

You don’t need to be an EVAS winner, finalist or entrant to join us.

Come for the celebration. Leave with new connections and perhaps the start of your next big opportunity.

Choose How You Join Us

Morning: Build Together

10am–12.30pm | £50 Three practical masterclasses, breakfast, networking and takeaways you can put to work in your business.

Bring a Colleague Why not bring the person who manages your diary, inbox, bookings or customer enquiries? They’ll get just as much from the automation masterclass as you do, and you can put what you’ve learned into practice together.

Afternoon: Celebrating With Excellence

12.30pm–4pm | £60 Lunch, drinks reception, an inspirational speaker, celebration of the EVAS 2026 Winners and the community of Sponsors, Finalists and supporters and opportunities to connect with the wider business community.

Full Day: Build and Celebrate

10am–4pm | £90 Get the complete experience. Start with practical masterclasses, enjoy delicious food and spend the afternoon making connections and celebrating success.

Why choose between learning and networking when you can do both?

Who Should Attend?

The morning is for women who want to move their businesses forward.

Whether you’re a founder planning your next stage of growth, an established business owner looking to work smarter, or a senior leader exploring new opportunities, our masterclasses are designed to give you practical ideas, useful tools and actions you can take back to your business.

The afternoon is open to everyone who wants to celebrate success and make valuable connections.

Join us for Celebrating With Excellence, bringing together EVAS Winners, Finalists, Sponsors, Judges, business leaders and supporters from across the wider business community. Whether you’re looking for new clients, collaborators, suppliers or simply want to meet inspiring people doing remarkable things, there’s a place for you.

You don’t need to have entered the EVAS to join us, and you certainly don’t need to be a winner!

Different sectors. Different stages. Shared ambition.

There could hardly be a more appropriate place to talk about building together.

Home to global brands, start-ups and businesses working across creative digital technology, AI, IoT, blockchain, Web3, AR and VR, cloud computing and energy technology, Circle Square is an innovation community built around connection and collaboration.

Part of the Bruntwood SciTech network, the campus brings together businesses, talent, funding, expertise and wider innovation communities to help ambitious companies form, scale and grow. Right outside is Symphony Park, surrounded by cafés, restaurants and bars in the heart of Manchester.

Circle Square is approximately five minutes’ walk from Manchester Oxford Road station.

Accessibility

Circle Square offers step-free access from the surrounding public realm into the building, with automatic or power-assisted entrances. Accessible lifts serve the building and accessible toilets are available on the ground floor and upper office levels. The event space includes wheelchair provision and accessible entry, while Blue Badge parking is available in the adjacent Circle Square multi-storey car park.

Manchester Oxford Road station is approximately a three-to-five-minute flat, step-free walk away.

If you have specific access requirements, please contact us before the event and we’ll be happy to help.

Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place from 16–22 November 2026, bringing people together around the world to celebrate entrepreneurship and support business growth.

Our theme, Build Together, reflects something we believe strongly at WIB360: businesses grow when people share knowledge, open doors and create opportunities for one another.

We’re also marking Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, recognising the extraordinary contribution women make to economies, communities and industries around the world.

Build Together. Celebrate Together.

This is an opportunity to position your organisation alongside women who are actively building and growing businesses, while demonstrating your expertise through something genuinely useful.

Your organisation will be woven into the experience before, during and after the event, with visibility across WIB360 and the Enterprise Vision Awards, the event programme, marketing content and the room itself.

If your organisation believes businesses grow stronger through collaboration, we’d like to talk.