Accountex – Europe’s #1 accounting and finance conference and expo – opens its doors this week over 1-2 May, meaning thousands of accountants and finance professionals will flock to London ExCeL for the two day showcase of the best the industry has to offer.
A compelling line up awaits them when doors open at 10am – with over 220 exhibitors, including the biggest and newest names in the business, plus the show’s education programme which boasts more than 200 CPD-accredited Keynotes, seminars and panel discussions across 12 theatres.
Almost 8,000 attendees are expected, including many of the country’s top accountants, finance directors, accounts managers, tax professionals, heads of IT, bookkeepers, and sole practitioners (working in practice, industry, and the public sector).
Among the pre-registered visitors (to date) are representatives from organisations as diverse as Alliance Healthcare, American Express, Asda, Aviva, Bank of England, Barclays, Barnardo’s, BP, BT, Burberry, Burger and Lobster, Centrica, Citi, Deloitte, Emirates Airline, Ernst & Young, HMRC, HSBC, Informa, Jamie Oliver, Johnson & Johnson, KMPG, Metro Bank, Ministry of Defense, Mixcloud, NHS, Post Office, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Tesco, The Body Shop, Totaljobs, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, Toyota, University of Oxford, Vodafone, and Wells Fargo Bank.
“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 productive two days,” explains Zoe Lacey-Cooper, event director of Accountex.
200 innovative exhibitors
New exhibitors for 2019 include Travelex, Reed, Soldo, SmartVault, Funding Options, RSULT, Countingup, Funding Circle, Swoop, Modulr, PROBVAT, HansaWorld, Clearly Cloudy, Lightyear, Frontier Software, Spreadsheetsoftware.com, Fresh Business Services, One Paper Lane, QuickFile Accounting Software, Workiva, Payzaar, Confirmation, Quantuma, CIEX, Accountests, Clockwork IT and Doshi Outsourcing.
The show will also welcome the return of many big name exhibitors, including Intuit QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, IRIS Software Group, FreeAgent, TaxCalc, Wolters Kluwer, Thomson Reuters, Receipt Bank, Compleat Software, BrightPay, FUTRLI, Silverfin, Go Cardless, Cashplus, Super Records, Clear Books, blueQube, Practice Engine, Abbey Tax, Access, AccountancyManager, APtimise, Mercia Incorporating SWAT, Virtual Cabinet, CaseWare, SAP Concur, RDvault, AdvanceTrack Outsourcing, AutoEntry, BTCSoftware, Chaser, Pleo, Docusoft – CloudFiler, Ad Valorem, Capium and Worldpay.”
The full exhibitor list is available online at www.accountex.co.uk/london/exhibitor-list/.
200+ speaker sessions in 12 theatres
An impressive programme of over 200 CPD-accredited Keynotes, seminars and workshops – across 12 theatres – will run over the two days. Full timings and seminar summaries are available at https://www.accountex.co.uk/london/seminar-timetable/. Highlights include:
• Theresa Middleton, director – Making Tax Digital for Business at HMRC
• Caroline Miskin, technical manager of ICAEW’s Tax Faculty
• Jennifer Warawa, Sage’s executive VP of partners, accountants and alliances
• Nick Williams, head of business development at Intuit QuickBooks
• Steve Cox, chief evangelist of IRIS Software
• Mark Purdue, Product Manager – Tax Products at Thomson Reuters
• Ed Molyneux, founder and CEO of FreeAgent
• Richard Asquith, VP of Global Indirect Tax at Avalara
• Dr Michael Willis, programme director of Cambridge Master of Accounting (MAcc) at University of Cambridge Judge Business School
• Neil Robertson, executive chairman of Compleat Software
• Darren Shirlaw, founder of BoB Group
• Richard Brewin, managing director of ProgressBB
• Amanda C. Watts, MD of TwentyTwo Agency
• James Ashford, CEO of GoProposal
• Alastair Barlow, founder & partner of flinder
• Martin Bissett, founder of The Upward Spiral Partnership
• Rob Brown, founder of BD Academy
• Warren Cass, international speaker & author at Achievers International
• Alex Falcon Huerta FCCA, founder of Soaring Falcon Accountancy
• Carl Reader, entrepreneur, author & small business champion
• Joshua Riffe, chief FUN officer of FUNancial Services
• Andrew Van De Beek, director & founder of Illumin8
“Accountex is a really great space to meet your peers, customers, partners and suppliers and reinforce relationships. It’s also a great way to take the temperature of the industry – what are people talking about, what’s causing a buzz,” says Jennifer Warawa, executive VP of partners, accountants and alliances at Sage.
“This is the only industry event which provides unparalleled access to thought leaders, vendors and peers who can assist accountants with their evolution,” says Steve Cox, chief evangelist of IRIS Software.
Accountex returns to London ExCeL on 1-2 May. For further information, and to register for a free ticket to attend, please visit www.accountex.co.uk/london and use priority code ACX103.
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