Archive for February, 2010

It’s official - our iPhone Apps Development course is the best in the world. Australian based mobile and web developer, Patrick Dockhorn from jTribe came to Old Broadcasting House to attend nti’s  January iPhone Development course. Patrick used the web to seek out the course he was looking for, and after seeing what nti had to offer, he decided to travel over 10,000 miles to Leeds to take forward his plans to expand  jTribe into new online and external revenue streams. (more…)

Congratulations to Old Broadcasting House coworking members Gerard Savva and Becky Edlin, who joined the Innovation Showcase in September 2009 to develop their business. Since then, Magpie has produced high profile campaigns for clients such as the BBC, National Union of Students (NUS), as well as Universities and Students’ Unions across the country.

The duo also work with local businesses relying heavily on student-spend, and national charities who are looking to increase student involvement. Magpie’s hard work has recently paid off with a nomination for the prestigious Sir Peter Thompson Award for Enterprise and Business. (more…)

Advertising legend Sir John Hegarty has agreed to speak at Creative Networks for the March event! As Chairman & Worldwide Creative Director of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), where he presides over one of the most successful and creatively acclaimed agencies of all time, Sir John has been responsible for some of the most celebrated ad campaign’s – from the 1982 Levi’s advert featuring the infamous Nick Kamen stripping off in laundrette, through to the more recent and blockbusting Lynx effect campaign. (more…)

A great coup for Leeds - the city is the first to be home to Guardian Local. The Guardian Local Leeds site is a collaborative community journalism initiative to provide local online news.  We’re pleased to welcome Leeds Beatblogger, John Baron, and Guardian Local launch editor Sarah Hartley as our newest coworking members at Old Broadcasting House.

Guardian Local aims to explore new models for journalism and social engagement through a mix of reporting, collaboration engagement with local communities, organisations and groups and aggregation.

Check out their  review of the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner on 11th February that featured two inspirational speakers from the games industry.

You can contact Leeds Beatblogger John Baron by email, and on Twitter @GdnLeeds

Music photographer for the NME, Kaiser Chiefs and Spin Magazine, Danny North has agreed to present his work and experiences at the next Exposure Leeds Monthly on Wednesday 3rd March, 6pm-9pm. (more…)

The BBC has announced the companies who have been selected to take part in the new @North commissioning initiative being led by BBC Children’s (who are part of the BBC move to Salford in 2011). In Yorkshire there are 20 successful companies from South and West Yorkshire, reflecting the strength of the digital sector in both Leeds and Sheffield.

These companies will now work in small groups with senior subject experts in both children’s content and technology, to learn more about working with the BBC and develop their ideas at intensive workshop days. Four final projects will be commissioned  for CBBC and Cbeebies.

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The seventh Women In Games invites technical and cultural business women to hear from top industry speakers around themes that include our preception of what constitutes ‘entertainment’, the affect of the recession, and the importance of gender. (more…)

Creative Networks in partnership with Business Link present a FREE evening with the inspirational Linda Barker. The famous Yorkshire interior designer and television presenter shares her story from humble beginnings, her TV career through to running and developing her businesses. (more…)

nti Works is a programme run by nti Leeds lasting approximately three months, designed to help new graduates start their career in the digital sector. The programme consists of   core training that has been specially designed to help you get started, as well as providing a virtual training account which enables enrollment on to courses from the nti schedule - see www.ntileeds.co.uk/training. (more…)

Open Source for Business (OS4B) is the exciting joint venture from nti Leeds and Yorkshire Forward, designed to help regional businesses make the most of open source technology to benefit from cost effective, and flexible open source IT solutions. (more…)

You are warmly invited by the West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network (WYLLN) Leadership, Management, Innovation and Enterprise sector group to this FREE, half day event on employer engagement in the Higher Skills agenda. It will provide an opportunity to find out about three innovative curriculum development projects, funded by the sector group and delivered by the University of Leeds’ Lifelong Learning Centre. British Gas, a key participant in the First at Work project, will provide employer and participant perspectives. (more…)

The UK Resource Centre for Women invite you to ‘Journey to the Boardroom’ to discover why women are under-represented on Boards. The event will explore the reasons why women and other groups are under- represented, strategies that women and other groups can use to get positions on boards and to consider the business case for having more representative boards. (more…)

The UK Resource Centre for Women are setting up a workshop aimed at women considering setting up a consultancy in science, engineering, technology or the built environment (SET). The day includes a skills audit, advice on how to generate leads and looking at whether self employment is right for you. (more…)

CompeteFor is a free service that enables businesses to compete for contract opportunities linked to the London 2012 Games and other major public and private sector buying organisations.

With a particular focus on supply chain opportunities, CompeteFor acts as a brokerage service, matching buyers with potential suppliers. It also facilitates access to focused business support, through the national Business Link network, helping to boost the long–term competitiveness of your business.

Registering on CompeteFor will bring you closer to accessing new business opportunities relevant to your sector. This service is delivered through a partnership between public and private sector organisations, working closely with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). (more…)

Innovation Showcase residents will be enabling Creative York and Creative Coast (Scarborough) to learn about what creativity is going on regionally, whilst having fun in the process.

The two teams will use the Jam Jar Collective’s FriiSpray to draw out the clues, which will be streamed from venue to venue. FriiSpray is an open source, virtual-graffiti tool that allows you to draw with light using infra-red technology and brand new software - click here to see how it works. (more…)

Forward thinking innovative events and seminars are being developed across the region. Through the partners and resources of the NorthernNet innovation and collaboration programme, a calendar is being put together to communicate free and additionally funded events for the creative and digital sectors.

The events will connect the North West, Yorkshire and the North East, giving a detailed picture of who is doing what, where and how. Industry specialists will deliver their insight into what the industry can expect for the future. (more…)

The completion of MediaCityUK is predicted to bring £400 million of multi-platform commissioning to the North. Northern based companies are in the ideal position to benefit from this massive growth. Will your company be ready and able to innovate and collaborate to compete? (more…)

Web designers and developers are invited to attend an unusual two-track web conference with world renowned leaders in their fields.

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne will see both sides of the web world brought together by DIBI, to listen to the following confirmed speakers: Adii Pienaar of WooThemes, Andrew Wilkinson of Metalab, Tim Van Damme, Sarah Parmenter, Jina Bolton and Andy Clarke, who will focus on the design aspects.

Development speakers are confirmed as being Elliott Kember, formerly of Carsonified, David Singleton (Last.fm) and Peter-Paul Koch, Emma Persky from Gumtree, Michael Brunton-Spall of The Guardian Newspaper online and Gareth Rushgrove.

Join The Sage in Gateshead on 28th April as nti Leeds‘ guest with our promo code to give you a 50% saving, reducing the cost to £99 ex VAT. The promo code is ‘DIBI ntileeds’ which you can register at http://www.amiando.com/dibi.html.

Healthcare markets are being invited to hear about technologies and innovations available from the leading Digital Creative companies in the North East. NorthernNet, Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus, and RTC North, have collaboratively organised a free networking event on Monday 22nd March from 4.30pm onwards.  (more…)

If you’re unemployed, or facing redundancy,  we  can help  you gain valuable skills to help you stand out in the job market. Funding is available to cover 100% of the cost of your training with us if you live in West Yorkshire. Update 5th August 2010 All the funding has now been allocated for this programme, so we are unable to offer any further courses . Since February 2010, over 150 people have benefitted from this offer, enabling them to gain new skills and certifications which have enhanced their CVs. (more…)