Global chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton headlines this year's Bruntwood NRB Debate. Host Thom Hetherington explores what fired this Northern chef to global success.

Lucy Noone-Blake, this year’s guest chair, discusses how restaurants and businesses build brand loyalty and ensure their share of the marketplace with an expert marketing panel.

NRB19 will host the prestigious Kuits NRB Top Fifty, the power list of the most significant and influential hospitality operators in the North. The 2019 awards, when announced on 19 March at 3pm, will once again represent this charismatic and dynamic industry.

A unique new networking initiative to introduce the North’s hottest hospitality entrepreneurs to its leading professional advisors from law, insurance, banking, training, property, management consultancy and recruitment. NRB Future is designed to ensure that the region’s most talented young operators achieve their full potential.

The NRB19 cocktail competition with Ms Better’s Bitters is offering one talented bartender the opportunity to travel to Canada with guest shifts in Montreal and Vancouver.

Hosting industry events, meetings and networking in the centre of the show. Including Tony Naylor in Conversation with Lyndon Higginson, 'Join the House of Food Tech at NRB' and the Kuits NRB Top Fifty.

Special offers including 50% off at Beastro, Hawksmoor and Wood, special menu at Adam Reid at The French, and industry only parties at MOJO and Science + Industry.