Events Archive

We’ve joined forces with some of the most experienced, innovative and creative minds in social media to bring you a day covering everything from advertising to influencing to Generation Z and everything in between.

Taking place on June 9^th within the stunning Ouseburn Valley, this unique, multi-venue festival aims to uncover and showcase the best emerging talent from the region and beyond drawing in crowds of up to 2,000 people.

Generator is proud to present the region’s largest music industry conference in celebration of the 10th annual Evolution Emerging Festival.

In partnership with Invest South Tyneside, we bring you our digital breakfast & panel event, which looks at how you and your business can break in to new sectors, markets and turn leads into sales.

Back by popular demand, we welcome Jon McNestrie from Agile North East for a day long workshop that includes a structured introduction to agile principles, Scrum and other complimentary tools and techniques.

Join us for a rare one-off masterclass from Marty Longstaff (The Lake Poets). He will share his unique insights into the often mysterious art of the song, exploring a myriad of topics from getting that original spark to what apps can help songwriters.

Do you need funding to help get a new venture started, or to take your business to the next level? Do you know about the different funding opportunities that are available for creative, craft, cultural, and heritage businesses and organisations?

SWITCH is a fully funded, 8 week talent development course for early stage and beginner electronic music producers from the North East (aged 16-24). It is part of Generator’s Tipping Point talent development programme.

Employee productivity is crucial to any organisation. One of the ways to build it is by addressing issues of wellbeing, team dynamics and constructive change.

Always in huge demand, Generator’s Digital Marketing Masterclass features insight and practical advice from special guest Tom Packer (Director) and Rob Nancollas (Digital Marketing Manager) at Motive Unknown.

Generator is pleased to bring you the first of our Digital Debates: Digital Diversity. With just 17% of tech roles in the UK being filled by women and only 7% of female students taking computer science A-level courses, it is vital that we do everything we can to balance this out.

Understanding the sales cycle and how using it effectively boosts your sales.

As part of our commitment to members and the creative, digital and tech sectors in the North East, Digital Union will release its first Manifesto on Wednesday, 25th April 2018.

How would you cope if disaster struck your business? Around 43% of cyber-attacks are aimed at small enterprises. Do not ignore the threat. Come along to our free event and find out more about the effect cyber attack could have on your business, how to respond and how to prepare.

Whether you agree or not the music industry is essentially a rights business. When you by a CD or stream a track, someone must pay the rights holder to use that content. You are essentially buying a copy of the recording and it’s more often than not that the record label owns the rights.

A day-long event discussing all workings of the modern day record label in 2018; from distribution to publishing, streaming to synchronization, and the art of the release, we’ll leave no stone unturned.

Digital Union are working in partnership with sponsors Ward Hadaway to deliver 1-1 sessions for businesses who want more advice on getting GDPR ready.

We invite strategic Business Owners and Directors, who are looking to improve the way they recruit, and retain staff, to a fast paced, interactive FREE workshop that will give you the strategies needed to attract and engage the best people.

So you’ve heard about SEIS and R&D. Perhaps you even know what the letters stand for. More than likely, you don’t want to know, but you should.

Garry Stone of B2B North / Transmit Consulting is a bid specialist who has helped secure tens of millions of pounds in contract wins for businesses across the North East.

We believe that there is a lot more that can be done to address the issue of mental health in digital work places. By working together to promote and support existing initiatives and developing new ideas, we can make a significance difference to the health and well-being of people working in the digital sector.

With GDPR’s deadline day just two months away, it’s time to begin incorporating better data protection and privacy practices into your workflows.

The success of the fintech sector has helped build the UK’s digital credibility massively over the past 5 years. And while most of this activity has taken place in London, increasingly we are seeing fintech success stories around the country.

Whether it’s creating a tailored PR & Digital marketing campaign, writing code for some emerging technology or providing HR and legal advice, you can have an exciting career in the North East.

Kick-starting a career is hard. Kick-starting a career in the arts can be even harder, but all is not lost – Ladders Sunderland 2018 begins in February.

Generator and Digital Union are pleased to announce another installment of the Make Video Work For You Masterclass series, supported by Business & IP Centre Newcastle!

In this third iteration of the Music Masters series we will be focusing on PUBLICITY 101 as well as linking up with our WECREATE project.

Looking for investment now or in the future? Know you need to produce some forecasts but unsure how or even what they are? Come along to our cashflow forecasting session and find out!

As part of our commitment to members and the Creative, Digital and Tech sector in the North East, Digital Union will release our first Manifesto in April 2018.

Digital Union are proud to announce our next Digital Networking Breakfast Event, in conjunction with Sunderland Software City.

In the second installment of the Music Masters series, we proudly present ‘GET THE GIGS’, a day-long event tailormade for artists, managers and promoters who aspire to make their mark in the music industry live sector in 2018.

Whether it’s creating a tailored PR & Digital Marketing campaign or managing a company’s brand online, MA News Journalism Graduate, Jon, is an expert at creating dynamic content that connects.

From digital giants Orange Bus to government departments making waves in UX such as DWP & HMRC, come and hear about the fantastic work going on at the forefront of UX design and how important collaboration is to advancing the subject.

What better way to celebrate Christmas, than with a crowd of fellow Creative and digital business from around the region.

Following on from our Start Up Advice Day, the final Thinking Digital Sessions of 2017 we’ll be featuring tech startups and scaleups and learning about their innovative business models and their plans to survive and thrive in 2018 and beyond.

This event is aimed at early stage creative and digital businesses and will be showcasing the support available from both Generator/Digital Union, and that of our Digital Union members.

Generator is pleased to present a special Pricing Strategy Masterclass aimed at helping creative and digital businesses in the North East focus more effectively on their pricing and gain essential insight into the art of selling the right product to the right customer at the right time.

Does your team have big ideas, but no time to explore them? Or maybe your business has a challenge but you haven’t had time to develop a solution yet?

Our bimonthly Digital Networking events are open to anyone with an interest in the sector. They will be held in different venues across the North East and will have themes for each event.

We invite strategic Business Owners and Directors, who are looking to improve the way they recruit, and retain staff, to a fast paced, interactive FREE workshop that will give you the strategies needed to attract and engage the best people.

Positive Psychology & Coaching: Mike Cockburn, MD of Sogno will deliver two sessions in this masterclass focusing on using Positive Psychology & Coaching techniques in your Business.

With VR and AR developments being the hot topic of the moment, we’re happy to announce our next Thinking Digital Session will be dedicated to exploring what’s trending locally and nationally on this exciting subject.

Are you looking for business finance to help you start or grow your creative business ? What alternatives are there available to start up or scale up in the north east and nationally ?

Is your business ready for the next phase but not quite sure of how to get there? Our Digital Scale Up Programme is designed for those businesses that are at a critical stage in their development, past the start-up phase and progressing toward becoming more established.