SheChain Live - Where Lancashire business meets opportunity

SheChain Live comes to the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Thursday 1 October, bringing together hundreds of female founders, business leaders and the organisations that want to buy from them, invest in them, collaborate with them and help them grow.

Because ambition isn't the problem. Access can be.

Access to buyers. New markets. Supply chains. Finance. Knowledge. Ideas. Introductions. And people who have already navigated some of the challenges that come with growing a business.

Your next opportunity could already be in the room.

Meet buyers and organisations including Booths, Ryman, United Utilities and Holiday Inn Group, with more than 30 speakers sharing experience, insight and ideas across the day.

Explore Meet the Buyer, Pitch Me Quick, The Growth Lab, Discovery Stage, Confidence on Camera, finance and investment, procurement, retail, collaboration and business growth.

See who's already in the room. Who do you want to do business with?

SheChain Live is a women in business event, with allies very welcome. If you want to buy from, work with, invest in or create opportunities for women-led businesses, you belong in the room too.

And for Lancashire businesses, there's another opportunity. We're bringing a national business audience to Blackpool. Let's make sure they discover what Lancashire has to offer.

Thursday 1 October 2026 | 9.30am - 4.15pm* | Winter Gardens Conference Centre, Blackpool

Come to grow. Come to connect. Come to be inspired.

Your next customer, collaborator, buyer, idea or opportunity could be in the room.

Let's show them how Lancashire does business.

* VIP Reception 4.30 to 5.50pm

Karen Millen OBE - One of Britain’s best-known fashion entrepreneurs, sharing the lessons, risks and realities behind building an internationally recognised brand.

Emma Jones CBE - Entrepreneur and UK Small Business Commissioner, championing small businesses and helping them access opportunities to grow.

Maxine Laceby - Entrepreneur who started a business at 50 and built it from her kitchen table into one of the UK’s pioneering collagen brands.

Jaxx Nelson - A leading advocate for supplier inclusion, connecting women-owned businesses with corporate buyers and opening pathways into global supply chains.

Lee Chambers - Award-winning business psychologist and gender equity advocate, helping organisations turn allyship and inclusive leadership into meaningful workplace change.

Lucy West - Award-winning broadcast journalist and Head of News at ITV Granada Reports, helping business leaders communicate with confidence and make their story count on camera.

For the full list of speakers go to https://wib360.com/shechain-live