DEPT® partners with Manchester’s Digital City Festival

DEPT® is gearing up for a city take over a campaign aiming to drive widespread brand awareness across Manchester. With the message ‘Accelerate Your Digital Reality’, DEPT® is provoking Mancunians to step up their game in design and technology. The message is communicated in a creative way, captivating peers in the industry and enabling them to experience the many dimensions of DEPT®.

Brian Robinson, Managing Director of DEPT® UK, said: “Manchester is establishing itself as a global hub for tech innovation. It’s an exceptional city to accelerate business and DEPT® is committed to driving the industry forward, through laying the foundation for future growth. We’re proud to be part of Digital City Festival; it combines creativity, technology and data seamlessly, similarly to the approach DEPT® leads as an integrated digital agency.”

The core of DEPT®’s campaign is centered around the agency’s involvement in the Digital City Festival with various activities planned between March 9th and 13th of this year. 2020 marks the first year of the festival, combining three flagships events into one with ambitions of becoming the top UK’s industry showcase.

In a Prolific North article published about the event, DEPT® was referred to as the Digital City Champions for the agency’s mass involvement. 

“Digital City Festival provides a platform for DEPT® to give back to the industry by sharing knowledge in our talks and events, as well as connect skills and resources on a local level. DEPT® is stepping forward in a big way that showcases our global brand philosophy of encouraging people to enjoy what they do, work hard and celebrate success, said Jake Welsh, Creative Director of DEPT® in the UK.

Throughout the festival, DEPT® is exhibiting in the eCommerce Zone at Digital City Expo with an experience-led stand that’s sure to be a crowd-pleaser. And also within the expo venue, DEPT® is sponsoring the central bar, a 360-degree meeting point which will feature a DJ all day on both days. Here, DEPT® will also host the official exhibitors’ drinks at the end of the expo’s first day. Later that evening, DEPT® has organised a free afterparty – Cross The Line – at Manchester’s coolest new venue, Viadux, just a couple of minutes’ walk from the Convention centre with delicious food from the True Reds BBQ truck to enjoy alongside some bevvies and sounds of the Kultura Collective DJ sets.

As the Digital City Champions, DEPT® is running two fringe events. The first is ‘Architecting the modern digital experience’, held on March 10th at DEPT®’s office in Manchester, and covers how headless will be the foundation of modern digital experiences. The second, hosted on March 13th, is the official Coffee4Craig brand launch.