LIFT – Lancashire’s annual innovation and technology festival – will take place on 11th June at Burnley Football Club’s Turf Moor stadium.

LIFT 26 will feature speakers from London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Cumbria, Cheshire and Sunderland.

Among them are Alex Heerema, an investment manager at VC firm Ascension; Sarah Barber, managing partner at Jenson Funding Partners; serial entrepreneur James Butcher, a founding member of Lancashire’s Fhunded Angel network; Jane Theaker, a life sciences investment consultant from SpinXperts; Toby Biollo, a tech investment specialist from HSBC Innovation Banking; and rock guitarist-turned-music tech founder, Hazel Savage, who sold her Musiio AI business to SoundCloud in 2022 and currently heads up the Leeds Angels syndicate in West Yorkshire.