Founder Momentum Day: A Sister Event

Join us for a hands-on day of specialist expertise and interactive sessions, designed to help you move your business forward.

Sister’s Founder Momentum Day is back! Following the success of our inaugural event, our one-day interactive gathering returns on October 6th as part of The University of Manchester’s Innovation Festival.

This time we’re bringing you expanded workshop tracks, new specialist experts, and even more opportunities to learn, collaborate and gather practical takeaways.

From Finance and Investment to Product Development and Marketing Strategy, join top-tier facilitators and a powerful network of peers to tackle the topics that matter most to founders and early-stage business leaders.

Why attend?

• Learn from specialist expertise: There’s no generic, one-size-fits-all content here. Get tailored advice directly from subject-matter specialists across finance, legal, marketing, communication, product and strategy.
• Gather practical tools & immediate takeaways: Forget passive lectures, this is an opportunity to participate in hands-on, workshop-style sessions where you leave with tangible outputs.
• Become a more well-rounded leader: Expand your knowledge and learn about topics that may be outside your comfort zone in a relaxed, welcoming environment.
• Build your founder community: Meet fellow founders and start-up business leaders on a similar journey, share ideas and experiences, and build genuine connections that extend beyond the day.
• Get a clear action plan: Walk away empowered to build your own roadmap, aligned to your business priorities, and feel confident to move it forward.
• Enjoy free admission & catering: Attendance is complimentary (and limited!) so register quickly and secure your free space and lunch.

Workshop themes

Across the day you’ll take part in focused sessions that help you build concrete outputs, not just collect ideas. You’ll get clearer messaging, practical next steps, and tools you can use immediately.

A detailed speaker lineup and session synopses will be announced closer to the event.

Workshop topics include:

• Messaging & storytelling: Tighten what you say and how you say it

• Grant searching & writing support: Find relevant opportunities and strengthen your applications

• Funding & investor readiness: Tools to improve and tackle the funding landscape
• Product development: Learn how to build smart from day one and go from Idea to MVP and beyond
• Legal foundations: Safeguard your business in the AI era
• Financial decision-making: Learn how to use accounting as a decision tool rather than a compliance chore
• Marketing strategy: Build a foundation for your sales & marketing that truly delivers returns

Whether you're just starting out or scaling up, this event is your chance to gain fresh insights, swap stories, and build progress.

Come with ideas. Leave with momentum.

Who it’s for:

• Early-stage founders and leaders who want to build momentum
• People looking for practical outcomes

• Anyone preparing for pitches, funding conversations, partnerships, or growth

Tickets / capacity:

Spaces are strictly limited to keep the sessions hands-on and interactive.

Accessibility:

If you have access needs, please tell us when you register and we’ll do our best to accommodate.