THE TRAIN CHALLENGE: Team Building on Track A fast paced and highly interactive, immersive workshop targeted at improving individual and team performance through collaboration and innovation. Uniquely bringing together behavioural preferences, a VR escape room set on a train and a team that needs to work together. Teams are formed with a mixture of behavioural preferences. Competing teams work to be the first to prevent an out-of-control VR train from hurtling into a terminus. This can only be done by solving diverse puzzles in the VR train.

Whether you’re pitching to clients, funders, accelerators, or investors - your pitch needs to land. This session helps creative businesses articulate the value of their work in a way that cuts through. Delivered by Albi Lamaj and Elida Dode, who bring deep expertise from Coventry University’s innovation and commercialisation ecosystem who run the flagship DigiSpin programme.

If you struggle to clearly explain what you do (or why your idea matters), you’re not alone - especially in the createch space where creative, digital and tech-based services can be hard to describe quickly. This hands-on Value Proposition Workshop is designed to help creative freelancers, early-stage founders and small businesses sharpen their messaging, define their unique value, and communicate confidently to customers, partners, funders, and investors.

Come along and join our network of like-minded, creative individuals to collaborate, share and learn from industry experts and peers. We’re delighted to welcome renowned photographer Lorentz Gullachsen, celebrating 50 years behind the lens. Throughout a remarkable career spanning half a century, he has worked from a Birmingham studio to major creative centres including London, Paris, and New York, before returning to his roots in Warwickshire.

Warwick's annual creative symposium. A streamlined symposium designed for today’s fast-paced creative lives. Building on the successful pilot in 2025, this dynamic half-day event brings together thought-provoking presentations, hands-on demonstrations, and meaningful networking opportunities.