Category: Bristol

Geeks & investors, are they oil & water? Lets mix it up a bit…

There’re a ton of networking events taking place in Bristol, but there appears to be a gap around the business of doing business in the digital media / interactive technologies / software development type area. Simon Bunker launched Open Coffee Bristol almost a year ago but it never really achieved critical mass and became a… Continue reading Geeks & investors, are they oil & water? Lets mix it up a bit…

BBC/AHRC Knowledge Exchange Programme

Last night was the BBC/AHRC Knowledge Exhange Programme panel discussion on collaborative learning (British Broadcasting Corporation and Arts and Humanities Research Council, Mark asked on Twitter what the AHRC was, turns out there are at least 11 AHRCs and 79 BBCs). Andrew Dubber has a pretty good write up of proceedings, there should be a… Continue reading BBC/AHRC Knowledge Exchange Programme

Lessons in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Last night was spent up in Bristol University‘s Chemistry lecture room courtesy of Bristol Enterprise Network (this evening chaired by Prof Stephen Hagan, Director of the University of the West of England‘s Research, Business and Innovation group). The delegate list was rather larger than the turn out, but there were still plenty of entrepreneurs and… Continue reading Lessons in Entrepreneurial Leadership

iGLab 2

Last night at the Pervasive Media Studio we gathered for the second iGLab. The (by now usual) silliness ensued with various games organised and played in the interests of research. If there was a comment for the next Lab it would be for a bit more reflection between games on strategies, game play, ways of… Continue reading iGLab 2

Interesting Games Laboratory – iglab

A new initiative from the Pervasive Media Studio (currenly only with a Media Sandbox website) is the iglab. I was a bit late, but the games were in full flow when I arrived. Simon Johnson was organising the evening and getting people to ‘swarm develop’ the games played. The focus was on ‘interestingness‘ than cunning… Continue reading Interesting Games Laboratory – iglab

Hackathon Bristol

At Open Coffee the other night, after bemoning the lack of access to pre-seed capital and the unlikelyness of the banks to lend Simon and me £1m to run our own venture fund, the topic turned to the usual mix of mobile, hacking and start-ups. Somewhere between the beers, Dan proposed a hackathon in Bristol!… Continue reading Hackathon Bristol

Sandbox winners announced

We put a submission in but were unsuccessful so well done to everyone. There’s an interesting mix of ideas. Personally I can’t wait to see what HMC and Aardman come up with on Ani-mates. Harmonize sounds like a hyped-up Treasure Hunt or Challenge Annika and I’m sure that Power-to-the-People has been done several times before… Continue reading Sandbox winners announced

In theKnow

Got a bit overwhelmed with some work on another project, but spent a great hour or so with Sarah Baddley from Common Purpose on Friday. She’s putting together a new programme  and we were discussing innovation, entrepreneurship, Bristol and the West of England. The most obvious (and recent) entrepreneurial success that came to mind was… Continue reading In theKnow

Return of the Rocher

Just back from the nameless crimbo shindig. Copious very good home made mulled wine with whole orange, cloves, cinnaman, etc, lots of very good cheese and a fantastic pile of Ferrero Rocher. Jaya,  Stuart and the nameless gang have had a great year taking on new projects and sticking to their ethical principles even though… Continue reading Return of the Rocher

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