Join CityCo, Manchester’s city centre management company, to hear from our expert panel of speakers who will highlight fascinating greening initiatives taking root in Manchester and across the UK.

John Darlington: Director for the North West, National Trust will unveil plans for a new Manchester Gardener in Residence.

Kate Hofman: CEO and Co-Founder of “London’s most innovative urban farm” GrowUp, will discuss how they are making urban farming a reality.

Iain Taylor: Partnerships Director, Peel Holdings and Atlantic Gateway, will talk through Peel’s major new strategy to use landscape, place and sustainability to unlock the potential of the Lower Mersey Basin.

Paul Lincoln: Director of Policy & Communications, The Landscape Institute, will take us behind the scenes of their outstanding Highline for London Competition.

For full speaker biographies please click here.

The conversation will be chaired by Steve Connor, CEO and Co Founder of Creative Concern, Chair of Manchester’s Climate Change Steering Group and Trustee of the Community Forests Trust.