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SUMMARY:Immersive 101: Drive Sales\, savings and skills with immersive tools
DESCRIPTION:Discover how immersive tech can boost sales\, cut costs and upskill faster. Join Immersive 101 and unlock growth for your business. \nImmersive 101 is a practical workshop and networking session designed specifically for SMEs in Greater Manchester that are looking for cost effective immersive solutions to:\n– Improve sales & marketing impact\n– Reduce training costs\n– Attract and retain talent\n– Increase engagement with customers\n– Differentiate your business in crowded markets \nYou’ll see live demonstrations and real-world applications that businesses like yours can deploy now. \nThe Challenge Facing SMEs Today\nSmall and medium-sized businesses across Greater Manchester are under pressure:\n– Rising operational costs\n– Harder competition for customer attention\n– Increasing recruitment and training challenges\n– Slower sales cycles\n– Growing demand for innovation \nAccording to PwC\, immersive technologies (AR/VR/XR) could contribute £1.4 trillion to the global economy by 2030\, with significant productivity gains for early adopters. \nResearch from Deloitte shows immersive training can improve knowledge retention and engagement compared to traditional methods — while reducing long-term training costs. \nWhat to expect on the day:\n– Expert talks setting the context and showing real-world immersive use cases\n– Live demonstrations you can try yourself\n– Industry-leading partners including VIVERSE and Vertical Realities Limited\n– Practical tools to help you introduce immersive tech into your organisation\n– Networking with local SMEs and innovators\n– Complimentary networking lunch \nLimited Places Available – To ensure meaningful demonstrations and high-value networking\, places are limited. Registration closes on 19th March 2026. \n\nOriginal event page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/immersive-101-drive-sales-savings-and-skills-with-immersive-tools-tickets-1983084572339
URL:https://digitalcreatorsnetwork.com/event/immersive-101-drive-sales-savings-and-skills-with-immersive-tools/
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SUMMARY:Immersive Storytelling for Business: Turning Legacy into Spatial Experience
DESCRIPTION:A Practical Workshop for Turning Brand Legacy into Immersive\, Budget Ready Experiences\n\n\nHow do you transform decades of brand heritage into immersive experiences that audiences can step into\, feel\, and remember? \nFor many creative teams\, the challenge isn’t creativity — it’s framing the project\, defining the scope\, and understanding what’s realistically achievable within a budget. \nThis full‑day\, hands‑on workshop gives creative producers\, agency directors and in‑house marketing teams the tools to turn organisational heritage\, archives and identity into client‑ready immersive concepts\, using AI\, game engines and spatial storytelling. \nDesigned for teams responding to brand and heritage briefs\, the Lab focuses on practicality\, clarity and commercial application — not just inspiration. \n\n\nWho This Workshop Is For\nThis session is designed for professionals who create stories for brands\, audiences and clients\, including: \n\nCreative directors & producers in agencies\nIn‑house brand\, marketing\, design and communications leads\nAnyone tasked with unlocking the value of organisational legacy\n\nIf you’ve ever needed to answer: \n\n“What would an immersive experience of our brand look like — and what would it cost?” \n\nThis event is for you. \n\n\nWhat You Will Learn\nBy the end of the day\, you will walk away with: \n\nA clear framework for immersive heritage projects: How to turn archives\, identity and brand stories into experience‑ready ideas.\n\n\nAI‑to‑3D workflows for rapid visualisation: See how old photographs\, documents and assets can become living spatial objects.\n\n\nHands‑on Unreal Engine prototyping: Collaboratively build simple immersive scenes to test concepts fast.\n\n\nUnderstanding of immersive deployment formats: 360 projection\, XR\, interactive environments — what each requires\, and when to use them.\n\n\nA budget & scope template for your own project: Learn how to build realistic cost structures\, timelines and scoping documents.\n\n\nA draft concept you can pitch internally or to a client: Leave with something tangible\, visual\, and commercially presentable.\n\n\n\nWhy This Matters\nHeritage‑driven brand storytelling is growing — but most organisations and agencies lack: \n\nA clear production framework\nThe language to explain immersive concepts to stakeholders\nAn understanding of what costs what\nTools to prototype ideas quickly\nA way to turn legacy into strategic value\, not nostalgia\n\nThis workshop solves those problems by bridging creativity\, technology\, and commercial clarity. \n\n\nWhat You Leave With\nBy the end of the workshop\, you will have: \n\nA draft immersive heritage concept\nA visual prototype or mood board\nA structured scope of work\nA clear budget framework\nA deployment recommendation\nThe confidence to pitch immersive concepts with clarity and costed structure\n\nReady to Turn Legacy Into Experience?\nIf your organisation — or your clients — have rich heritage\, deep archives\, or powerful brand stories\, this workshop will show you how to turn that into immersive\, interactive value. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent link
URL:https://digitalcreatorsnetwork.com/event/immersive-storytelling-for-business-turning-legacy-into-spatial-experience/
LOCATION:HOST Salford\, MediaCity UK\, Salford\, England\, M50 2ST\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:XR
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SUMMARY:Listen / Do / Play - A Practical Day for Immersive Makers
DESCRIPTION:A one-day practice exchange for people actively building immersive experiences across the North (and beyond). Listen / Do / Play is built for working reality – prototypes\, pipelines\, touring challenges\, audience flow\, technical constraints\, production fixes. This is not a talk-heavy event. The centre of gravity is practical: demos you can try\, workshops you take part in\, case study videos on rotation\, structured encounters that turn “nice to meet you” into real follow-up. Features four workshops including Decode – Pivoting Towards Innovative Technology\, The Future of Immersive Innovation\, Steal Like a Pro – Innovative Techniques for Expanding Audiences and Business Aims\, and Give the North a Voice – Local Issues for Immersive Companies in Greater Manchester. For studios\, start-ups and independent practitioners working in immersive experience\, researchers looking to connect practice beyond the university\, creative technologists and digital practitioners\, venues and cultural organisations developing interactive\, spatial or immersive work. \n\nOriginal event page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/listen-do-play-a-practical-day-for-immersive-makers-tickets-1982780922113
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SUMMARY:Spatial Audio Exploration Day: From Broadcast to Immersive Installation
DESCRIPTION:Explore how spatial audio is used in broadcast\, XR and live events\, with live demos\, industry talks and studio sessions at HOST\, Mediacity. Spatial audio is moving beyond experimentation. It’s now shaping advertising\, live sport\, immersive installations\, games\, music\, theatre and broadcast. This full-day exploration brings together producers\, technologists\, audio specialists and immersive creators to examine how spatial and immersive audio is being used commercially\, and how you can apply it. You will move between talks\, lab spaces and live technical demonstrations inside HOST and MITIH’s specialist facilities. Morning: Industry Insight & Sector Direction (10:00–12:30) – Hear directly from practitioners deploying spatial audio across: Advertising & TV (Gary Hilton – Gas Music)\, VR/Immersive Storytelling (Mark Roscoe & Bernie Steer)\, Immersive Installation (Andrew Brooks & Simon Connor – Oden)\, TV Sports Broadcast (Rob Oldfield – Salsa Sound). Lunch + MITIH Labs Tour (12:30–1:30) – Tour of HOST facilities\, visit to the Spatial Audio Lab\, experience immersive audiovisual work inside Igloo. Afternoon: Hands-On Spatial Audio Environments (1:30–4:30) – Rotate through three live working environments: Installation-Based Immersive Sound (Igloo)\, Ambisonics & 7.1.4 Production (Spatial Audio Studio)\, Live Immersive Audio Systems (Echo Chamber). \n\nOriginal event page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spatial-audio-exploration-day-from-broadcast-to-immersive-installation-tickets-1983875369635
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SUMMARY:Build an AI Workflow That Saves You Time as a Founder
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to use multiple AI tools together to produce business materials faster\, from research and proposals to media and product conceptAs a founder\, you probably do not need another introduction to AI. You need a dependable way to use it inside the work you already do. This session is built around a simple question: how do you move from an early idea to pitch-ready materials without losing days to fragmented tools and half-finished outputs? Over the workshop\, we will take a shared business challenge and work through an end-to-end workflow that founders can reuse. You will see how to move from idea framing to research\, then into structured writing\, then into pitch content\, then into supporting assets. The goal is not to “learn tools” in isolation\, but to understand how outputs from one stage can become inputs for the next. You will leave with a clearer process for turning thinking into materials you can use: proposal language\, positioning\, pitch structure\, and content building blocks you can adapt to your business.This session would be led by Simon Benson from Talent for Tech\, a specialist technology consultancy who help to augment your business with their world-class expertise\, helping you to safely navigate the ever-evolving world of technology and deliver your project with confidence. What you will do in the sessionDuring the workshop\, you will work through a guided sequence that covers:Turning a rough idea into a clear problem\, audience\, and outcome statementProducing a first draft of positioning and value proposition languageGenerating a structured outline for a proposal or pitch narrativeTranslating that narrative into a pitch deck structure and slide copyCreating supporting content formats (one-pager\, web copy outline\, short-form content angles)Understanding how to move between tools without breaking the workflowSpotting where AI is useful\, and where founder judgement is still essentialThis is a working session with guided prompts and live build-throughWhat you will leave withA repeatable “idea-to-pitch” workflow you can apply to your own businessA set of structured templates and prompt patterns that support each stageDraft materials created during the session that you can adapt immediatelyClearer confidence in selecting tools for specific tasks.Who should attendThis session is designed for people who are actively building and need materials that help them sell\, fund\, partner\, or hire:Bring a business challenge (e.g. “We struggle to explain X / get people to care about Y”).Experience a curated set of examples across different settings and sectors.Map what could work for your organisation (with guided prompts and discussion).Identify what’s realistic now vs later.If selected for the next step: your brief can be taken to a team of artists to create a rapid demo concept.What you’ll leave withBy the end\, you’ll have:Founders\, co-founders and business ownersProduct-led service businesses and digital product teamsEarly-stage to scaling businesses based in Greater ManchesterPeople with decision-making authority inside their organisationThis is a guided workshop for Greater Manchester founders to turn ideas into pitch-ready materials using a connected AI tool workflow  funded by MediaCity Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub. Register NowIf this sounds familiar:You’ve tested ChatGPT and other AI tools\, but they’re not part of your daily workflowYou’re still starting from scratch on proposals\, content\, and planning docsYou know AI could save time\, you just haven’t made it practical yet…then this session is built for you.
URL:https://digitalcreatorsnetwork.com/event/build-an-ai-workflow-that-saves-you-time-as-a-founder/
CATEGORIES:AI,In person
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