Accountex 2017 opens this week

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Accountex 2017 opens this week

Accountex – the UK’s biggest accountancy exhibition and conference, is set to welcome over 6,500 attendees when doors open at ExCeL London later this week, on 10-11 May.

Many of the country’s top accountants working in business and industry, banking and financial services, education, and the public sector will be packing the aisles checking out the latest new products, services, insights and working solutions on offer from 200 exhibitors.

Thousands of finance directors, MDs, accounts managers, tax professionals, bookkeepers, sole practitioners and smaller accountancy firms, plus senior decision makers from leading practices, such as PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, Grant Thornton, BDO, RSM, Moore Stephens, Saffery Champness, Mazars, UHY Hacker Young, Haines Watts, Wilkins Kennedy, Menzies, Buzzacott, Crowe Clark Whitehill, Kingston Smith, TaxAssist Accountants, PKF Francis Clark, Kreston Reeves, haysmacintyre, Armstrong Watson, Old Mill, Larking Gowen, Barnes Roffe, SRLV, Silver Levene, Gerald Edelman, Beavis Morgan, Critchleys, Goodman Jones, RDP Newmans, Grunberg & Co, and MHA Macintyre Hudson, have also re-registered to visit.

“From our speakers and exhibitors to the visitors themselves – the who’s who of the accountancy world will be at the show doing business.  It’s going to be a very busy and productive two days,” says Zoe Lacey-Cooper, event director of Accountex.

200 innovative exhibitors

New exhibitors for 2017 include KPMG Business Technology, Canon (UK), FUJITSU, Citrix ShareFile, ProForecast, Companies House, and Tesla.  They join returning big names like Microsoft, Sage, Wolters Kluwer, Exact Cloud Business Software, Xero, IRIS, TaxCalc, QuickBooks, FreeAgent, My Digital Accounts, Receipt Bank, Nomisma Solution, and Thomson Reuters.

The full exhibitor list is available online at www.accountex.co.uk/exhibitor-list.
For the latest exhibitor news, please visit www.accountex.co.uk/exhibitor-press-releases.

180+ CPD accredited Keynotes, seminars & workshops

Over 150 speakers – across 14 theatres – have been confirmed for 2017.  Full timings and seminar summaries are available at www.accountex.co.uk/conference.  Highlights include:

  • Anita Monteith, technical lead & senior policy adviser at ICAEW
  • Justin Urquhart Stewart, head of corporate development and co-founder of Seven Investment Management
  • Gary Turner, co-founder & managing director of Xero
  • James Ashford, founder of GoProposal & author of ‘Selling to Serve’
  • Alan Laing, managing director of Sage UK & Ireland
  • Dominic Allon, VP Europe at Intuit QuickBooks
  • John Stokdyk, global editor of AccountingWEB
  • Paul Aplin OBE, vice president of ICAEW
  • Jenny Strudwick, tax product manager at IRIS
  • Steve Checkley, commercial director at TaxCalc
  • Wendy Rowe, head of commercial at Wolters Kluwer
  • Ed Molyneux, CEO of FreeAgent
  • James Akrigg, head of technology for partners at Microsoft
  • Jonathan Cobb, director at KPMG
  • Graeme Brand, regional digital eagle at Barclays
  • Mark Wickersham, chartered accountant, public speaker, author
  • Richard Wild, head of the tax technical team at The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT)
  • Helen Cockle, managing director of FUTRLI
  • Steve Cox, chief evangelist at IRIS

For further information about the show – including its 200 exhibiting companies and 180+ CPD accredited conference sessions – the 2017 online Show Guide is now available to view at www.accountex.co.uk/accountex-show-guide.

To register for a free ticket to attend, please visit www.accountex.co.uk and use priority code ACX103 (direct link: https://registration.n200.com/survey/01tyd1rdcvlg1?actioncode=ACX103).  Advance visitor registration closes at midnight on Tuesday 9 May, after which a £25 door charge may apply.


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Media enquiries & press pass requests:
Please apply for press accreditation via this link: https://registration.n200.com/survey/1sg0aadcgdvmz  (advance press registration closes on Tuesday 9 May.  Press passes are not guaranteed on the day).
Emma-Louise Jones, Head of PR
t: +44 (0)1273 645134
e: [email protected]
Website: www.divcom.co.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DiversifiedUK

Pam Johns, Group Marketing Manager
t: +44 (0)1273 645151
e: [email protected]
Website: www.accountex.co.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Accountex
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Accountex

Sales, sponsorship and speaker enquiries:
Zoe Lacey-Cooper, Event Director
t: +44 (0)1273 944459
e: [email protected]

Notes:

Logo: www.accountex.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Accountex17_logo.jpg

High res images are available on request:
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Diversified Communications UK Ltd (Diversified UK) is a fast growing trade event organiser and publisher based in Brighton, Peterborough, and Nailsworth.  Diversified UK’s event portfolio includes Accountex; SITS – The Service Desk & IT Support Show; British Tourism & Travel Show; Casual Dining; lunch!; Commercial Kitchen; Natural & Organic Products Europe; Nordic Organic Food Fair & Natural Products Scandinavia in Malmö, Sweden; GEO Business; Ocean Business; MARELEC Marine Electromagnetics conference; Euro Bus Expo; and Coach & Bus UK.  For more information, visit: www.divcom.co.uk. 

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