Archive for March, 2010

We are delighted to announce that one of the few Cloud Camps to be held in the UK is coming to nti at Old Broadcasting House. 

Exchange your ideas, share your experiences, challenges and solutions with the early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies to stay ahead of the rapidly changing industry. (more…)

The nti Works scheme has been praised by the Yorkshire Post as it featured last week on Thursday 25th March, as an article in the jobs section of the newspaper. If you missed it, keep reading below:

Graduates at Leeds Metropolitan University and its Northern Technology Institute (NTI) are receiving a helping hand as a scheme designed to help them into work has received extra funding.

Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward has backed the scheme that helps digital and creative graduates access training and gain business skills needed to set up their own businesses. By the time the project finished in June, the number of Yorkshire and Humber graduates involved in the training will have reached 60. The NTI Works programme, which provides advice, training, guidance and mentoring to recent graduates, has proved popular since its launch in 2009.

Linda Broughton, Head of the Northern Technology Institute, said “Being part of the co-working community here at Old Broadcasting House offers a unique opportunity for the graduates to learn from other s who have been through the same experience.”

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We’re pleased to confirm that the  first ever Girl Geek Dinner York event will be taking place in the beautiful Grays Court Rooms in the city centre of York on 15th April. If you are working in or studying technology then you’re invited to what promises to be a fantastic evening with inspirational speakers and great networking opportunities. 

Speaker Mary Vincent is the Founder and CEO of Green Star Solution, a Global Business, Technology, and Innovation Firm. She also runs a Clean Tech and Green Business News blog. Mary is based near San Francisco and is coming to the UK to talk in a number of locations as part of the Inspiring Women project which is jointly run by Girl Geek Dinners Leeds and Girl Geek Dinners Scotland. 

Tickets cost £10 for food, wine and speakers.  Boy Geeks are very welcome to attend too - you just need to be invited by a Girl Geek

The evening begins at 6.30pm on Thursday 15th April, and tickets are available to book online here…

The Girl Geek Dinner York is co-hosted by IT & Digital York, Digital 2020 and Pilot Theatre’s Shift Happens: ALT Shift.

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Photoshop, Adobe is releasing a series of videos. One of the creators of Adobe Photoshop recreates the first demo he ever gave with the product.

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Adobe InDesign is celebrating its 10th birthday, and to mark the milestone of entering into its second decade a new book Page by Page: 10 Years of Designing with Adobe InDesign is now available.

The book charts the product’s evolution, examines the role of Adobe InDesign in transforming design and page layout, and shows innovative examples of artwork created using InDesign over the years. Adobe will also be posting 10 new InDesign tips and tricks in video tutorials on Adobe TV over the next five weeks. This is being hosted by InDesign experts David Blatner, Colin Fleming and Chris Kitchener. (more…)

Talk About Local is a project to give people in their communities a powerful online voice. Old Broadcasting House is now home to The Guardian Local project, and on Saturday 17th April an Un-Conference is to be held in partnership with Talk About Local here in Leeds. A similar event was held in Stoke-on-Trent during October and we will be using the Un-Conference format in the hope to have some of the very best hyperlocal publishers and special guests attending on the day.

To book your place there are 50 tickets available at Eventbrite here. There will be more given out after local bloggers in Yorkshire, and the North East have got their tickets.

Gen Up North is the unique training programme from TRC Media aimed at emerging digital creatives in the North of England. It is designed for graduates or those new to the industry who have a real talent for creating digital content across platforms. (more…)

The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology invite you to a FREE lunchtime seminar that will explore the thinking behind setting up a business. (more…)

The Bradford International Film Festival has unveiled the line-up of award winning experts from behind the scenes of filmmaking for the 2010 Film Festival Industry Weekend. This year’s theme will focus on Strategies for Survival, looking at how filmmakers and organisations are creating new business models to help them survive in a challenging climate. (more…)

Are you an arts organisation? Are you trying to develop your business? Are you too reliant on external funding?

Come and discuss new ways to develop your arts business practice, sharing, networking and developing your ideas, with help from the Arts Council, Business Link Yorkshire and the West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network (WYLLN). This is your opportunity to share best practice and explore new ideas for developing your arts business with your peers.

This is a facilitated discussion event where everyone will have the opportunity to contribute and decide on the priorities for each session. Five discussion themes will be covered in parallel during each of the Workspace sessions, and delegates will have the opportunity to move between these streams throughout the day. (more…)

We are pleased to announce the first of this year’s series of Hull Girl Geek Dinners that we will be supporting, starting on Thursday 11th March. Hull Girl Geeks is about bringing together women who like or work within science and technology, which is pretty much everyone these days. This is the FIRST meeting whereby local business women (and men) and university students are getting together. It will be hosted at Hull’s brilliant HIVE (Hull Immersive Visualization Environment) venue where you will don your 3D glasses for a fantastic presentation. (more…)

Open Source for Business (OS4B) is the exciting joint venture from Yorkshire Forward and nti Leeds, designed to help regional businesses make the most of open source technology to benefit from cost effective IT solutions. Open source Zend and PHP training courses benefit your business solution to provide you with the skills for doing business better.

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