Introducing Up North 2025 – connective3’s marketing festival is back

We’re so excited to announce that we’re back with Up North for 2025. Our one-day marketing festival will be happening in the heart of Manchester at Victoria Warehouse on June 19, 2025. We’re excited that we’ll be joined by speakers from F*ck Being Humble, Expedia Group, Thursday, CLOUD NINE, TikTok, Google – it’s set to be an event to remember!

connective3’s heritage in marketing events

We attend, plan, and host an array of digital marketing events and it’s something we are so passionate about. Over the years we’ve been to hundreds of marketing events, and we’ve run everything from conferences for thousands of people to small seminars, breakfast events, marketing meet-ups, and everything in between.

Over the past three years we’ve hosted Supper Clubs for marketing leaders, seminars and countless Digital Bites’ events across Leeds and Manchester, creating a community of over 1500 marketers and welcoming over 70 new speakers to the stage.

Our first Digital Bites event in Manchester, September 2022

Digital Bites comes to its new home at the Everyman Cinema in Manchester

A one-of-a-kind digital marketing festival

We felt there was a gap in the market for a northern marketing event that’s both informative and inspirational, too. We wanted to create something different, something that brings together leading marketers, inspirational thinkers, and entrepreneurs for a one-of-a-kind event with inspiring and innovative content that not only helps you with your day-to-day but inspires you for your next five years. And that’s where the concept for Up North was born.

What to expect

Up North is not your average marketing event. Up North is a full day marketing festival with 30 speakers and two stages with content on all things digital marketing, business strategy and personal development. Talks that will help you think bigger, work smarter and inspire you to get more from your marketing strategies.

We’re working tirelessly behind the scenes to bring our vision for this event to life and are curating a killer speaker line-up and can’t wait to reveal more for what we have planned for the day.

Event details

Now the important part, the event will be taking place on Thursday 19th June at Victoria Warehouse. Victoria Warehouse is a truly stunning venue and we knew it was the only venue to host Up North from the moment we walked through the doors. Set a stone’s throw away from Old Trafford, the former cotton store is a uniquely designed event spaces, perfect for a gathering of Northern marketers. Expect plenty of exposed brick and dramatic lighting – throw in a few stages and 450 digital marketers, and we’re sure to have one hell of a day.

 And the best part? Tickets are completely free. Register for free here.

Meet our sponsors and event partners

Print.com

We’re over the moon to have the team over at Print.com join us as sponsors. They’ll be sponsoring the after-party, providing you all with a much needed post-event drink. They’ll also be exhibiting so you can have a chat with them and grab some of their wonderful merch! You can use the code: C3UPNORTH  for 10% off anything you purchase from their site.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs are sponsoring teas and coffee during the first break of the event, so you have them to thank for the morning caffeine hit!

Meet the Up North Organisers

Put simply, Up North is a passion project, created by the connective3 marketing team. With over 8 years of events experience under our belts, myself (Frankie Bisi) and Charlie Harris came into 2023 with an ambition to bring back a big marketing event to the north.

Career wise, SearchLeeds was an incredible shared experience, that allowed us to bring together over 2000+ marketers across the north for a day of networking and sharing. We both loved it, and we miss it.

Up North was born out of the same passions and motivations that made SearchLeeds so great. We have been to 100s of marketing events across the world, and we’re excited to take our collective experiences and use these to build what we hope will be our best event yet.

We are so excited to host this event for the second, and we have so many great things planned that we can’t wait to share with you over the next few weeks. If you don’t already, make sure you’re following us on LinkedIn for the latest updates.