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This is the festival for those shaping what's next. The festival where bold minds meet, big ideas spark, and change gets real.About this Event
This June, it’s festival season, and we’re throwing one too - just ours happens to be for transformation leaders.
DifFest 2026 — limited to 50 senior leaders — is a three-day, Inside–Out experience built around Intelligent Transformation, set in the heart of Sheffield. This isn’t your normal conference. It’s an immersive reset. It’s about the real work:
- Winning commercially without losing socially
- Designing tomorrow without a blueprint
- Building advantage in an AI-accelerated world
- Leading when certainty has expired
- Creating performance that outpaces disruption
- And, yes, it will have energy, food, coffee, music, conversation, creative contributors, and more.
A festival feel, with substance at its core. You can move in and out as your diary demands:
- One day will sharpen you.
- Two days will deepen the thinking.
- All three will give you the full arc.
If you’re shaping what comes next — not just managing what is — this is the tent you’ll want to be in.
Day 1 - 29 June
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Arrival and lunch
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Kick-off: welcome to DifFest
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Keynote: Building advantage in an AI accelerate world
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Collaborative session: the co-ordination problem
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Break
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Breakout session: AI and transformation - failures and design
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Reflections and day 1 closure
🕑: 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Networking - drinks, food, and entertainment
🕑: 09:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Let's see where the night takes us...
Day 2 - 30 June
🕑: 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Attendee optional activity
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Welcome back!
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Keynote: Winning commercially without losing socially
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Collaboration session: Control, influence, and letting go
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Breakout: High performance, organisation design, and strategy under uncertainy
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch and activity
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Welcome back and afternoon set-up
🕑: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Rotating Breakouts: AI labs and transformation case studies
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Break
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Sum up and day 2 closure
🕑: 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Networking - drinks, food, and entertainment
🕑: 09:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Let's see where the night goes...
Day 3 - 1 July
🕑: 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Optional attendee activity
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Welcome back and reflections
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Panel: Designing organisations for the next decade
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Collaborative session: How to do things differently (creating new neuropaths)
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Breakouts: Commitments, priorities, and collaboration
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Closing summary from Dave King
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Scrannery, 1 Concourse Way, Sheffield City Centre, United Kingdom
Tickets
GBP 0.00
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