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Senior-level thought leadership
Hear directly from practitioners and leaders confronting today’s Fire & Safety challenges.
New event announced
International Fire & Safety Journal
A New Leadership Forum for the UK’s Fire & Safety Community
For the first time, International Fire & Safety Journal brings its Leaders platform to the United Kingdom — creating a new invitation-led forum for senior fire and life safety professionals from major organisations across the UK.
A place to share experience. Challenge thinking. Build relationships. And discuss the issues shaping the future of Fire & Safety.
Thursday 24 June 2027
The Manchester Deansgate Hotel, Manchester
When
Thu 24 June 2027
Confirmed
Venue
The Manchester Deansgate
Deansgate, Manchester, UK
Programme
In development
Speakers announced soon
Attendance
Register Your Interest
Invitations and registration updates
Leadership. Knowledge. Influence. Relationships.
This isn’t a traditional trade show built around exhibition footfall.
It is a carefully curated, invitation-led forum designed around senior-level conversation, peer-to-peer learning and meaningful relationships.
It’s not about how many people we can put in a room. It’s about putting the right people in the room.
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A New UK Fire & Safety Leaders Community
Launching June 2027
Where Leaders Learn From Leaders.
Fire & Safety leadership is changing. New technologies. New energy systems. Increasingly complex buildings and infrastructure. Emerging risks. A changing regulatory environment. Organisational resilience. And growing expectations around the protection of people, property and operations.
Why we are launching this
The people responsible for managing those challenges need opportunities to learn from others facing them.
That is why we are launching Leaders in Fire & Safety — Manchester: an intimate, senior-level environment where fire and life safety leaders can spend meaningful time with their peers, discuss the issues affecting their organisations and learn from the experience of others.
The programme is editorially driven and developed around the challenges, responsibilities and opportunities facing today’s senior fire and life safety professionals — shaped around the issues occupying the profession rather than the products being sold to it.
Register your interest
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A Proven Leaders Philosophy
New to UK Fire & Safety
New to UK Fire & Safety.
Built on an established model.
Manchester is the first Leaders in Fire & Safety event in the United Kingdom. The Leaders philosophy behind it is already well established within Centurian Media.
The Leaders philosophy is already established across Centurian Media’s international event portfolio, where we have demonstrated our ability to identify, engage and bring together high-calibre senior professionals in premium, invitation-led environments.
Our established SJUK Leaders in Security event in Manchester, now with three successful years behind it, has demonstrated that this approach works in the UK market. Senior leaders value an environment where they can genuinely engage with their peers, without an exhibition floor or a supplier-dominated programme. Commercial partners value it for exactly the same reason.
150+
Senior fire and safety leaders we aim to convene in Manchester
98%
Would attend again or recommend — previous Leaders in Fire & Safety edition
70%
Director level and above — typical Leaders audience profile
We don’t chase footfall. We curate audiences.
Quality over quantity.
Access over footfall.
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Why Manchester
Manchester, UK
Manchester isn’t simply where our first UK event takes place.
It’s where we intend to begin building our UK Fire & Safety community.
Choosing the home of our first UK Leaders in Fire & Safety event mattered. We wanted a city capable of bringing together a national audience.
Somewhere that would feel relevant and accessible to fire and safety leaders from across the United Kingdom, rather than being associated with one particular region or industry. Exceptionally well connected, with easy access from across the North and Midlands and direct rail links from London, Manchester provides a natural meeting point for senior leaders travelling from across the country.
But connectivity is only part of the story. As the largest city-region economy outside London, Manchester sits at the intersection of many of the industries facing today’s most complex fire and life safety challenges — environments where leadership increasingly requires more than technical compliance. It requires strategy, judgement, innovation and resilience.
Manchester also gives IFSJ something important for a first UK event: an established foundation. Centurian Media has run SJUK Leaders in Security in Manchester for three years — proof that our invitation-led philosophy attracts senior British decision-makers to this city.
A national audience. A world-class city.
A new fire and safety community.
Manufacturing & High-Hazard Industry
Major industrial, chemical and high-risk environments across the North West.
Energy & Utilities
Generation, renewables, storage and distribution serving the wider region.
Transport & Critical Infrastructure
Airports, rail networks and nationally important infrastructure.
Healthcare & NHS Estates
Hospitals, healthcare estates and complex clinical environments.
Data Centres & Digital Infrastructure
Some of the UK’s fastest-growing, most business-critical facilities.
Corporate & Public Estates
250,000+ businesses and a £100bn city-region economy.
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Who Should Attend
Audience development underway
Created for the people leading Fire & Safety.
We are building the audience organisation by organisation and individual by individual, identifying the people we believe should be part of the conversation. Senior responsibility matters more to us than job title — if you influence Fire & Safety strategy, standards, operations or investment within your organisation, we’d like to hear from you.
We don’t chase footfall.
We curate audiences.
01If your responsibilities include
- Fire & Life Safety
- Corporate Fire Protection
- Fire Protection Engineering
- HSE
- Emergency Management
- Life Safety
- Fire Risk Management
- Risk & Resilience
- Building Safety
- Competence & Compliance
- Corporate Risk
02And you work within sectors including
- Energy
- Critical Infrastructure
- Data Centres
- Manufacturing
- Aviation & Aerospace
- Transport & Logistics
- Healthcare & NHS Estates
- Pharmaceuticals
- Facilities & Estates Management
- Commercial Property
- Retail
- Hospitality
- Major Venues
- Government & Public Estates
- Universities & Education Estates
- Chemical & Process Industries
The room we are building
The people you
want to learn from
— and meet.
Our ambition for the inaugural Manchester event is to bring together 150+ carefully selected senior Fire & Safety professionals. Not simply registrations. Not simply numbers. The right people.
Audience development has already begun, and as speakers and participating organisations are confirmed we will introduce them here. Those who register their interest will be among the first to hear about confirmed speakers, programme developments and the opening of formal registration.
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Opening soon
Registration
Delegate terms and invitations are released to the priority invitation list first.
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Audience development underway
Networking & community
Time built into the day for senior leaders to meet, talk and build relationships that continue beyond the event.
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Being curated
Speakers & programme
Built with our editorial team and an advisory group of UK fire and safety leaders.
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In development
Agenda & timings
The running order for the day, from opening keynote through to close.
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What Will We Talk About
Programme in development
The conversations facing Fire & Safety leaders now.
The programme will be editorially led and developed with senior practitioners, experts and industry leaders. No endless succession of sales presentations — instead, keynotes, leadership panels, interviews, case studies and candid peer-to-peer discussion.
Building Safety & the Evolving Regulatory Environment
Fire Risk Management
Competence & Accountability
Fire Engineering & Design
High-Rise & Complex Buildings
Lithium-Ion Battery & Energy-Storage Risks
EV Fire Safety
Suppression & Detection Technologies
Digitalisation & Intelligent Fire Systems
Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Industrial & High-Hazard Environments
Skills, Recruitment & the Future Workforce
Not simply talking about Fire & Safety.
Bringing together the people leading it.
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What To Expect
One day in Manchester
One day. A carefully curated community.
From the moment you arrive, the day is designed to make it easy to meet people, exchange ideas and have conversations that wouldn’t necessarily happen elsewhere.
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Peer-to-peer discussion
Learn what other major organisations are doing — what is working, what isn’t, and what they have learned.
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Meaningful networking
Time deliberately built into the day to meet and talk with fellow leaders.
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Carefully selected industry partners
Engage with a limited number of organisations bringing relevant expertise, technologies and solutions to the community.
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A relaxed senior environment
No sprawling exhibition floor. No chasing footfall. No fighting through thousands of visitors to find the people you came to meet.
Quality over quantity.
Conversation over footfall.
Be there at the beginning.
Every established industry event had a first year. Every successful community began with people and organisations who saw the opportunity before it became established.
On Thursday 24 June 2027 we will bring together the first Leaders in Fire & Safety community in the United Kingdom. Our ambition is to build something that grows in quality, seniority and influence year after year.
A trusted annual meeting place where the UK’s senior Fire & Safety leaders learn from one another, where important industry conversations take place, and where a carefully selected group of partners can connect with the people shaping the future of the profession.
Leadership.Knowledge.Influence.Relationships.
Registration of interest
Interested in attending?
Attendance at Leaders in Fire & Safety Manchester will be carefully managed to protect the seniority, relevance and quality of the audience.
Senior fire, safety, risk and resilience professionals interested in joining us can register their interest now to be considered for an invitation.
Registration is not yet formally open. Those expressing an interest now will be among the first people we engage.
Attendance by invitation
Delegate places are valued at £395 + VAT. Qualifying senior Fire & Safety practitioners and end-user professionals may be invited to attend as guests of IFSJ, with the delegate fee waived. All registrations are subject to approval.
Commercial attendance is handled separately. A strictly limited number of attendance-only places are available to suppliers, manufacturers, consultants and other commercial organisations — speak to us about partnership.
You’re on the list
Thank you — we’ll be in touch.
You will hear about the programme, the speakers and the opening of registration before any of it is announced publicly.
If partnership is also of interest, the founding partner conversation is open now.
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Two Leaders Communities
One Manchester week
Two distinct events.
Two senior communities.
One Manchester destination.
Wednesday 23 June 2027
Our established UK leadership forum, three years in, bringing together senior security decision-makers from across the country.
Visit Leaders in Security (opens in a new tab)Thursday 24 June 2027
A dedicated senior leadership forum for the UK’s Fire & Safety community.
This event
Each remains a distinct event with its own audience, programme, editorial identity and commercial community. Across two days, Centurian Media convenes the senior professionals responsible for protecting the UK’s people, property, organisations and infrastructure.
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For Industry Partners
Founding partner places open
Be part of the community from the beginning.
For organisations providing technology, products, services and expertise to the Fire & Safety sector, visibility alone is rarely the biggest challenge. The real challenge is gaining meaningful access to senior decision-makers.
Access to senior professionals responsible for fire protection strategy, technology, operations, procurement and investment across some of the UK’s most important organisations and industries.
Commercial participation will be deliberately limited. We don’t want a room dominated by suppliers. We want a small number of relevant organisations whose technology, expertise and solutions add value to the community. A limited number of Founding Partner opportunities are now available for organisations wishing to join the event in its first year.
It’s not simply about having your brand in the room. It’s about being part of the conversation.
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Meet senior Fire & Safety decision-makers
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Demonstrate expertise and thought leadership
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Participate in relevant industry conversations
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Strengthen existing customer relationships
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Become a Founding Partner from the first year
Commercial partnerships
Speaking opportunities
Manchester · 24 June 2027 · The Manchester Deansgate Hotel, Manchester