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MBA Summit 2025

Our annual MBA Summit, on Friday 21 November 2025, provided current students, alumni, academics and business leaders with the opportunity to join us in our home city of Bradford.

This year's MBA Summit offered attendees the opportunity to learn new skills, share knowledge and network with our MBA and School of Management community, global peers and academics.

Given the current turbulent economic and geo-political climate, we chose Resilience as the theme for the 2025 MBA Summit.

Bright Building in the summer sun

Resilience

Through a range of discussions and activities, attendees enjoyed a programme which looked at resilience from a multi-level perspective.

Sessions demonstrated the importance of resilience by exploring:

  • How personal resilience can help you become a better leader.
  • How you can plan strategic, technologic and supply chain resilience to make your organisation more agile.
  • How to embed different types of resiliency to drive your career, organisation or business forward.
  • Ways of overcoming the volatility of market, industry or geo-political instability.

Speakers from a range of industries spoke candidly and shared their personal experiences of how they handled and thrived after both ups and downs.

Photo of School of Management with 60th Anniversary banner behind landscape in 2023

School of Management, 60th Anniversary Banner on Bright Building

The MBA Summit is great, it's good to have an occasion to meet, see the school, see the buildings and see how it is here in Bradford. It creates a strong feeling of being part of something.

Tomasso Sica, MBA Innovation, Enterprise & Circular Economy Student

Relive the highlights of the MBA Summit 2025

Catch up the following sessions on our playlist: 

Session 1 - Personal Resilience 

Session 2 - Embracing AI – Panel Session 

Session 3 - Entrepreneurial Resilience & Business Turnaround 

Session 4 - Connecting Science & Human Beings 

Session 5 - Annual Management Lecture – Innovation With Love

Explore the photo highlights from the MBA Summit 2025

View images from the MBA Summit 2025.

Two MBA summit attendees sitting beside each other and one person is smiling and speaking to the other.
Two MBA summit attendees in the audience, looking forward and smiling
Four MBA summit attendees looking forward and smiling in the audience
An MBA summit presenter standing at the front of the room and speaking with left hand raised slightly
Four presenters sitting in front of a projection screen with a roomful of seated attendees facing them.
Three panel members, the middle one is speaking with their hands raised slightly, in front of audience members.

MBA Summit 2026 – Save The Date 

The MBA Summit 2026 will take place on Friday 20th November 2026 at our Bradford campus.   

We are currently curating a schedule of industry leading speakers and thought leaders.  

If you’re interested in becoming a speaker, sponsor, or partner for the MBA Summit 2026, please express your interest directly to MBA Director Rachel Shrimpton.

Full details, including the confirmed speaker schedule and the official registration link, will be shared in early 2026. 

We look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be an invaluable day of learning and networking. 

Catch Up: Highlights from Past MBA Summits 

You can also get a taste of previous MBA Summit’s by watching back sessions from the 2024 iteration on our MBA Summit 2024 YouTube Playlist.

MBA Summit Location

The MBA Summit is held on the University of Bradford City Campus in our Norcroft Conference Centre.

Sessions will be delivered on our campus with further details to be confirmed ahead of the Summit. In the meantime you can find out more information about visiting our campus.

Visitor parking is available on our city campus via Tumbling Hill Street, this is offered on a first come, first serve basis.