Chamber webinars

Women in the economy

At this event we had an update from Liz Mayes the Chair of the Chamber’s Women’s Leadership Forum on the work the group have been doing.

Quarterly Economic Briefing

Join the Chamber, and QES assoc. sponsors Durham University Business School to hear the results of the latest survey.

What can businesses do to reduce violence against women?

This webinar is looking at what businesses can do to support their teams and help to reduce violence against women.

An introduction to mindfulness for productivity, decision making and focus

In this session, Mark Sidney from Mindful Impact  introduces techniques you can use to improve your productivity, decision making and focus at work.

Chamber Transport Forum

In this virtual forum we have a presentation from the team behind Go-HI mobility as a service app being rolled out in Scotland followed by a discussion around how to share information with passengers in the North East.

Quarterly Economic Briefing

Join the Chamber, and QES assoc. sponsors Durham University Business School to hear the results of the latest survey.

Intelligent Customer Acquisition to Drive Performance

In this workshop, Mediaworks explained how you can use data to identify and optimise spend towards the most valuable customer types, supercharging your return on investment through profitable customer acquisition across relevant and measurable platforms.

How to find and win tender opportunities

In this webinar, you’ll hear:

• Where to go to find opportunities with local council, NHS and government clients
• How to find the most relevant opportunities
• The components of a successful bid
• How public sector contracts can play a key role in business growth

Opportunities in the renewables sector

Following on from COP26 this webinar will be looking at the North East’s renewables sector and opportunities for businesses both in the region and abroad.

Un- Sustainable Development Goals

Global challenges ranging from climate, water and food crises, to poverty, conflict and inequality all need solutions that businesses can deliver. These solutions offer a growing market and opportunity for business innovation.

COP26 – implications for the North East

Our panel discussed the outcomes from the conference, what needs to be done in the region to support a green recovery and the role that businesses in the North East can play.

Recruitment, immigration and Right to Work checks

Customer Experiences. Digital Design for A Lifetime of Loyalty

In this workshop, our expert panellists from Mediaworks explained how you can use data, creativity, and the latest technologies to create a future proofed digital experience

The Power of Brand. Creating and Communicating Your Future Legacy Online

Mediaworks explained how you can supercharge your brand propositions by identifying your weaknesses, discovering new audiences, launching new channels, and exploiting gaps in the market.

Quarterly Economic Briefing

Join the Chamber, and QES assoc. sponsors Durham University Business School to hear the results of the latest survey.

Harnessing your Digital Intelligence to Fuel Future Growth

In this workshop, our expert panellists from Mediaworks discussed how to embrace digital to transform and drive performance beyond today.

Chamber AGM 2021

The Chamber AGM is one of the region’s largest networking opportunities with representatives from all sizes and sectors of businesses.

Working North East: Improving attainment and opportunity

The panel looked at what the barriers are to educational attainment in the region and what we can do to ensure that all young people, irrespective of background, can reach their full potential and enter high quality employment.

Connected North East: Access to digital

East debate explored the digital divide impacting the North East.

COPT26 Business Briefing

This webinar with the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) will highlight what COP26 means for businesses in the North.

Responding to a global pandemic – lessons from the NHS & Dame Jackie Daniel

In this session, Dame Jackie Daniel, Dr Sarah Platt and Teri Bayliss of Newcastle Hospitals will share how they approached the pandemic.

HR Seminar – The future of work

During this event, Alexander Millward from BHP Law gave an update on four key legal topics for HR professionals

Has the pandemic changed customer loyalty?

The pandemic has changed how customers interact with businesses. Whether you’re in a B2B or B2C marketplace, chances are you’ve seen a lot less of your customers and clients face to face, and you’ve had to find new ways to interact with them.

Putting Yourself in Your Customers Shoes

As a follow up to Veronica Swindale’s successful 5 Reasons to Review Your Marketing Right Now, she explained the value of Customer Journey Mapping for your external as well as internal customers

Workplace wellbeing – the best way to look after yourself and your colleagues

The session will cover physical and mental wellbeing

Driving Leads Through Digital Marketing

Emma Crowe from Social Plus speaks about driving leads through digital marketing.

Expert help to source the right funding finance to grow your business

Julie Skevington explains the types of funding and finance available for businesses.

Medium Member Business Leaders’ Briefing

The guest speaker is Dame Irene Hays DBE DL of Hays Travel, a well known figure in the region now leading Hays Travel, the largest independent travel retailer in the UK, headquartered in Sunderland.

Economic Briefing

As an organisation that campaigns to make the North East the best possible environment for business, understanding our members’ experiences of the regional economy is vital.

HR Seminar – Supporting your colleagues

This is an event about supporting your colleagues through return, re-training or redundancy.

The simple truth about R&S tax credits

Suhail Aslam from Teesside University and Nicola Bellerby from Clive Owen LLP share what they have learned during that last 10 years of working together, qualifying and submitting claims.

First steps towards a sustainability and environmental management strategy

A webinar sharing advice on how to get started on a sustainability and environmental project on your business.

North East Annual Area Review

Our Annual Area Review events looks back at Chamber and business community activity over the last year. In previous years this event has focused on the separate counties across the north of our region. This year we’re delighted to combine all three events to review across the North East LEP area

Roundtable: The role of the Arts & Culture sector in recovery

In this webinar, the Chamber in partnership with Sage Gateshead will be considering how the arts & culture sector can work with businesses, authorities and the local community to aid in economic and social recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic as well as what support they might need to succeed.

Inspiring Females Online

We have brought the popular Chamber Inspiring Females Seminar online and in this webinar we hear from Suzanne Barbour from Barbour Coaching.

Framing the Future – The Future of Urban Transport

This ‘Framing the Future’ session will discuss ‘The Future of Urban Transport’, focusing on topics including current North East transport patterns, the impacts of COVID on how we move between places and future innovations in transport technology and solutions.

BBC Tees interview with Arlen Pettitt

Gary Philipson’s BBC Tees interview with the Chamber’s Arlen Pettitt on his Future of the Workplace Report and relocating to the North East.

Linking Business with Education

The aim of this webinar is to support existing work to drive up the quality of careers education to ensure that all young people have access to meaningful encounters with employers, work experience opportunities, and impartial advice on the many career opportunities available in the North East.

The Future of an Ageing Population

This webinar looks at the future of an ageing population with the National Innovation Centre for Ageing.

5 reasons why you should be looking at your marketing right now

We are living in the most disrupted world for a lifetime – and there is no normal. Doing what you have always done will not get you the same results.

Veronica Swindale, MD of nesma, will be challenging us with five reasons why we should be looking differently at our marketing.

Digital Roundtable: digital leadership in businesses

This webinar will focus on the importance of digital leadership within businesses, how we can encourage digital transformation and embed it in those who have the power to shape their businesses.

Business Sustainability Strategy

This webinar will look at what the UN’s sustainability goals are, how businesses can incorporate these into their strategies, the benefits of these strategies for businesses and how to measure progress.

Poverty Proofing in Business

The pandemic has highlighted inequalities in the North East. This webinar will look at how businesses can remove barriers through Poverty Proofing to allow more people to access opportunities in the North East.

Framing the Future – The Digital Divide

This webinar will take a look at the UK’s digital divide, and the impact digital exclusion through an inability to access technology and an internet connection and a lack of digital skills has on those from disadvantaged backgrounds in the North East.

Quarterly economic briefing – one year on from the first national lockdown

One year on from the first national lockdown, join us as we explore the results of the latest Chamber Economic Survey and what effect the last 12 months have had on the regional economy.

Inspiring Females Online: IWD 2021

Monday 8th March is International Women’s Day. The Chamber celebrated with our popular Chamber Inspiring Females Online. This event aims to inspire and connect women in business across the North East.

Tees Valley Annual Review & AGM

The Chamber annual review is traditionally one of our flagship events in the Tees Valley and an opportunity to connect with members of all sizes and sectors from across the Tees Valley, to look back at what’s been going on in the Chamber and regional business community in the previous year, and what there is to look forward to in the coming year. Making this year’s event a particularly interesting one!

GB-NI Trading

A webinar focussing on Northern Ireland trading changes, challenges and best practice for trade between Great Britain & Northern Ireland.

Using Microsoft Team – tips and new features

Remote meetings are now the norm for many of us, but are you getting the most out of them?

In this training webinar, Microsoft trainer Lara Mellor will help build your confidence and ability in attending and running meetings using one of the most common platforms, Microsoft Teams.

Framing the future: Fixing the housing system

In this webinar we will take a look at central problems facing the UK model of housing and explore how those issues could be fixed

Living wage

Business beats Cancer with Cancer Research UK

As Cancer Research UK ambassadors in the region, Business Beats Cancer board members support ground-breaking science by raising funds and awareness of Cancer Research UK’s work locally.

Healthy business, healthy region?

The Coronavirus pandemic has brought public health to the top of the national agenda.

What can you do in your business to play your part and to support your employees? For the North East to recover from this crisis, we’ll need to address the long term public health inequalities which left us as one of the most vulnerable regions in the country.

Evolution or extinction? The time for digital transformation is now

This webinar will explain the commercial, technical and practical aspects of how to grow your digital presence.

Experts from Mediaworks will discuss what impact the pandemic has had on commerce, consumer behaviours and the acceleration of digital behaviours.

The future role of offices in the Tees Valley

As we look with more confidence towards more normal times, what future is there for the traditional office?

What’s on the people agenda for 2021?

This year has been unprecedented in the pressure it has put on businesses and their workforces. Teams have had to deal with every-changing restrictions, altered workplaces to enable Covid-secure working and the disruption of remote or displaced teams and the furlough schemes.

A new beginning with the Euro Chambers

While we don’t yet have full answers, there are still steps business can take to mitigate against, understand and thrive through the challenges ahead.

Partner & Corporate Member Insights

Exclusively for our Partner & Corporate members, the Chamber are delighted to bring a new series of short 30 minute recordings every other month, ‘in conversation with…’ giving an insight for senior leaders from some of the largest and most influential businesses across the region.

Career talk with Iain Herdman