Events

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.

Discussion themes include:
• What examples can we learn from already?
• What support agencies are there to help?
• What additional ideas are there? E.g. debt finance, mergers, shared resources
• What Continuing Professional Development (CPD) provision is there available to support your skills development?
• What do we understand creative enterprise to be? Participate in a live research project with Dr Tim Deignan

This is a free participatory workshop being held at the Electric Press in Leeds from 12pm until 5pm, including an optional ticket to the Creative Networks event at Leeds College of Art from 6pm, with Sir John Hegarty from famous advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH).

For more information or to book your place please download the booking form or email holly@ntileeds.co.uk

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.

Speakers for the evening will be Emma McGrattan and Emma Smith-Howe. Emma McGrattan is the senior vice president for Engineering at Ingres. A leading authority in DBMS technologies, Ms McGrattan has been instrumental in the ongoing success of the Ingres product line. She will talk about women in science and the challenges that they face. Emma Smith-Howe will tell us more about HIVE and provide a demonstration of this fantastic 3D facility that all participants will have an opportunity to experience.The evening will be informal, friendly and chilled. For just £10, you can enjoy some food, drinks and the chance to network. There are only 20 places available for the event so you’ll need to be quick!

For more information or to book your place please visit http://hullgirlgeekdinners11032010.eventbrite.com

This event is supported by the University of Hull, Imagine DPM, nti Leeds and the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC)

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…)

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 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…)

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…)

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 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…)

Regional agencies across the north present a first-of-it’s kind, three-way, simultaneous event. Hear from some of the most inspirational women share their insightful and motivational accounts of their experience in the growing Creative and Digital Media industry. (more…)

We are super-pleased to announce the first of this year’s series of Leeds Girl Geek Dinners, starting on Thursday 11th February, hosted at Leeds’ hottest new waterfront hotel, the City Inn, on Granary Wharf in Holbeck Urban Village.

It will see the first in a series of collaborations between Girl Geek Dinners Scotland, Leeds Girl Geeks and supported by UKRC. Speakers for the evening will be Shanna Tellerman, Founder and CEO of Sim Ops Studios, and Kaye Elling, who has over 12 years of expertise in the games industry. The evening will be presented by Infinitus’ Nicole Mathison, nti’s Leia Bassett and Carbon Imagineering’s Imran Ali. (more…)

The hugely successful breakfast networking event is to be held by Leeds Chamber Networking Breakfast on Thursday 4th February at 7.30am - 9.30am. The morning attracts a wide range of business backgrounds and more than one hundred attendees each month.

Come and join in with table networking and conversations by registering your place on the Leeds Chamber website here. Cost for members is £14 + VAT, and non-members £28 + VAT.

On Wedesday 24th February 2010, two Bradford-based creative and media organisations will join forces to promote the opportunities offered by one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK.

Artworks and bmedia present a one-day event, targeted at anyone with an interest in working in the creative & digital industries. The Creative Careers Fair is aimed at the full spectrum of interest in the creative sector, from GCSE and ˜A™ level students through to further and higher education students, graduates, prospective job hunters and existing creative, media and digital businesses.

It will be held at the Atrium, University of Bradford, and if you would like to attend please contact Ged Walker ged@artworksbradford.org.uk.

On Wednesday 3rd February at 6pm to 9pm, Exposure Leeds will be meeting at Old Broadcasting House with a special photography focus led by John Dolan. A beginners guide to Photoshop will give you some useful hits and tips about what to do with your photos once they have been taken. John and Mark Skeet will review the work-flow process once a shoot has been completed.

After the main presentations there will be a question and answer session, an opportunity for the group to discuss the many aspects of image selection and processing.

A charge of £2 will be made on the door, and no pre-booking is required. Register your interest on Facebook here.

On Tuesday 9th February at 5.30pm, the Digital Media Centre will present John McLear, leading specialist in Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and currently part of the Etherpad Open Source Leadership Team. Come and listen to John present a critical approach to business ethics and ask the question, is Google fulfilling it’s mission statement ‘Don’t be Evil’? (more…)