Events – Page 4

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

MoMo London – goin’ underground

Last night’s MoMo London was hosted by TFL and the presentations were on how technology was being used to the benefit travellers (almost exclusively in London, and largely on the underground). Dan Appelquist got in a quick plug for Over the Air with BBC Backstage and Imperial College – mobile hackathone over 4-5th April; aiming… Continue reading MoMo London – goin’ underground

Serious fun in Coventry, part the second

This is one of a serious of posts about the Culture, Heritage & Tourism Technology Workshop at the Serious Games Institute on Tues, 4 March. After coffee Ron Edwards (Ambient Performance) kicked things off talking about mobile & location based goodness. His ambition was to ‘Be where the eyeballs are’. The most recent project was… Continue reading Serious fun in Coventry, part the second

Serious fun in Coventry, part the first

This is one of a serious of posts about the Culture, Heritage & Tourism Technology Workshop at the Serious Games Institute on Tues, 4 March. The event was streamed to the SGI island in SecondLife but I can’t find a link to the slides or any recorded version. The first session was kicked off by… Continue reading Serious fun in Coventry, part the first

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

Regional Strategy & Monty Python

Today was mostly spent in Exeter, at their new rugby stadium and conference venue (Sandy Park) at a consultation day for SWRDA’s new Corporate Plan. Ironically, given one of the Regional priorities is to be Carbon Neutral in new projects by 2011 and lots of folk had been persuaded to take the train, the trains… Continue reading Regional Strategy & Monty Python

Wither animation on the web?

Last night was the launch of SkillSwap Gloucestershire, hosted by Gloucestershire Media Group. Based on the same successful formula as Brighton and Bristol, the evening brought together creative media types, digital tech types and a couple enterprising business types. The venue was kept nicely informal at the Beehive in Cheltenham and expertise was provided by… Continue reading Wither animation on the web?