Culture, technology and space working together.
The North East's first living workplace event. For two days the Boiler Shop becomes a fully working workplace — settings you actually work in, workshops that challenge how you think, talks that change what you ask for, and a live survey reading the room in real time. Free to attend. Registration required.
The office walls that once set the confines of our workaday lives have fallen. Work Beyond Walls brings together designers, thinkers and businesses to look beyond tradition and radically reshape the office — an experience where culture, technology and space meet. You participate. You don't spectate.
Less show, more work. Every chair sat in and every opinion logged becomes shared evidence.
Arrival runs like a shift, not a show. Your badge starts your WorkPulse record and your day in a working workplace.
Workshops that challenge workplace thinking, run in the settings, on the furniture. Sit in it, argue in it, work in it.
A live wall reading the room — how 300 people actually feel about work, updating in real time against the region's only benchmark.
The closing social: street food, a bar, a band, a geet canny atmosphere. The relationships are the real takeaway.
Book any or all sessions when you register — every session is free and capacity is limited. Speakers announced on a rolling basis.
Opening keynote — the workplace revolution, seen from 250 miles north of the usual conversation.
Book this session →A hands-on session run in the settings, on the furniture. Capacity capped — book early.
Book this session →Regional designers and the clients they've transformed, in conversation.
Book this session →Evidence over instinct — what the region's only workplace dataset says about how we really work.
Book this session →Ammunition for the workplace conversation you keep having — for HR and people leaders.
Book this session →Speakers react live to two days of audience data as The Pulse wall closes out the experiment.
Book this session →Same place, same programme — but nobody here will ask an HR director to care about furniture.
Experience products before you specify them, meet peers and manufacturers, take the stage — and bring the client who needs convincing.
Spend a day in one that isn't. See culture, technology and space working together for people and performance.
Ammunition for the workplace conversation you keep having — live data, real settings, actionable insight your board will read.
Benchmarks, suppliers, procurement connections and proof — all in one place, one train stop from your desk.
Every invitation carries a Plus One. Registering? Add your client, your MD, your head of estates — the person a better workplace actually belongs to.
Register with a Plus OneNo design event in the country has this. WorkPulse — the North East's workplace evidence platform — runs before, during and after the event.
Before: fortnightly data drops tease what the region really thinks. During: the live wall updates in real time and speakers respond to it. After: The State of Work in the North East 2026 launches in October — register to receive it first.
Follow the people making the North East's first living workplace event happen — founders, designers, sceptics and super-connectors, on the record as it unfolds.
20 South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PE. Two minutes' walk from Newcastle Central Station — no London train required.
Doors 09:00 both days. Day two closes with the Clock Off social from 17:00. Food and drink on site all day. Step-free access throughout.
A host, not an exhibitor. Work Beyond Walls is built by the North East's workplace community — twenty partners creating the working settings, and the region's businesses backing the experiment.
Workpattern hosts Work Beyond Walls as a platform for the region — welcoming, feeding and introducing. Nobody gets sold at. Alongside our partners, we're here to prove what evidence-led workplaces can do for people and performance.
Sponsorship recognises the clients and notable North East businesses backing the region's first living workplace event. Interested in partnering for 2027? Get in touch.
Day tickets are free but places are limited and registration is required. Choose day one, day two or both, add any talks and workshops, and bring a Plus One. Takes less than a minute.