Turing Fest will return to Edinburgh this year with a formidable lineup of speakers from some of the world’s leading software businesses.

Hosted at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on 28th-29th August, the 2019 event boasts a new format and will host more than 3,000 attendees. A programme of keynotes, panels, parties and fringe events will feature at the event, along with an expo featuring some of Europe’s most exciting startups.

Turing Fest will be divided into three separate tracks, which include:

• Build: Engineering, product management, design & user experience and data
• Grow: Marketing, Growth, revenue and customer success
• Lead: Culture, strategy, scaling and leadership

The two-day conference aims to bring together everyone involved in building and scaling high-growth, high-impact technology businesses.

Turing Fest CEO Brian Corcoran commented: “We’re making cross-functional collaboration the cornerstone theme of Turing Fest, and taking a holistic view of how great products and tech businesses are built.

“Attendees can expect a diverse mixture of specialist tactical insight, strategic wisdom, and ‘war stories’ from tech veterans, all designed to help our community get better at what they do – building great technology and great tech companies.”

Corcoran added that this year’s conference will feature a new format that aims to deliver “an even more expansive range of content and viewpoints, while maintaining the unique sense of community and intimacy that makes Turing Fest so special”.

2019 Speakers

The first group of speakers for Turing Fest 2019 includes:

• Hana Abaza, Director of Marketing at Shopify
• Erin Platts, incoming Head of EMEA at Silicon Valley Bank
• Maria Gutierrez, Director of Engineering at Intercom
• Danae Shell, Chief Marketing Officer at Care Sourcer
• Fred Destin, venture capital investor and Co-founder of Stride.VC
• Kieran Flanagan, VP of Growth at HubSpot

Across the two days, more than 60 speakers will take to the stage at Turing Fest 2019, with additional speaker announcements expected to follow.

This year will also see the return of Turing Founders, an invitation-only founder/investor summit on Tuesday the 27th August. This event will connect 250 ambitious startup founders and executives with 75 of Europe and North America’s most forward-thinking early-stage investors.

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Previous participants at the Turing Founders even have gone on to raise more than £35 million in new funding since 2017.

To find out more about Turing Fest 2019, visit: www.turingfest.com