Events

On Monday 6th February we’re hosting an informal Girl Geek Dinner here at Old Broadcasting House. Our guest speaker is New Media artist Megan Smith, and we’ll be screening  of Top Secret Rosies, the true story of WW2’s “female” computers.

More details and tickets are available from the Leeds Girl Geeks site.

Great news - Ignite is back! On 2nd February we’re hosting another evening of lightning talks where each speaker has five minutes and 20 slides - and no control over when the slides advance!  If you’ve been before, you’ll know its a fast paced run thorough a range of topics loosely linked to tech.  If you haven’t then we recommend you come along for an entertaining evening. Our speakers have the courage to get up and speak and about a subject they are passionate about.  And enthusiasm can be infectious - what better way to get yourself a boost of energy at this time of year.  Organised by Imran Ali as an LSx event, you can book your free tickets  here

Are you aged 16 - 24? Do you want to work in the media industry and are full of ideas? Do you want to get ahead,  combine your passion with all the skills you can lay your hands on, meet the people in the industry and start building your networks? Then this  Inspiration Day on Wednesday 22nd February is for you.

Helping people to develop their skills and and make connections is what we love doing and  Old Broadcasting House somehow seems to be the perfect place where these things happen. That’s why we’re really excited about being asked to host this event.
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Find out how our University knowledge and expertise can help you drive your business forward at our  informal open evening event here at Old Broadcasting House on Tuesday 6th December.

Meet our academic colleagues, tell us about your plans and discuss how the university  knowledge and expertise in digital technologies  could help your business to improve creativity, efficiency, productivity and  performance. You’ll also be able to see first-hand what we can offer.

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The new release of Apple’s industry standard Final Cut Pro video editing software has certainly got people talking.

Apple say:

‘It’s not just a different cut.  It’s a whole new production’

So is this a whole new product rather than a new release? (more…)

…. if you’ve been to Old Broadcasting House you’ll know that we’re fans of Wired magazine- it’s in  reception for visitors. So we’re pleased to be the venue sponsor for this talk on Digital Disruption from Ben Hammersley, Wired Magazine’s editor-at-large. Part  of Leeds Digital Festival, its on 28th November, 6pm at The Rosebowl, and tickets are available now.

You may have noticed that we’re big fans of Apple. We’re the leading Apple Authorised  Training Centre in the North East, and  if you’ve visited our coworking centre, you’ll have noticed it’s a showcase for the all things Apple.  We’d like to mark in some small way the achievements of the life of Steve Jobs, and the inspiration he has provided to so many people.  (more…)

November 2011 is the month of  Leeds Digital Festival, and to mark that, this month’s Open Coffee, starting at 10 am, will also also invite you to find out more about coworking.   Meet the coworkers and find out how being a member of the Old Broadcasting House community works for them. There’ll also be a showcase of coworker Richard England’s Kinect experiments which recently gained the attention of Microsoft. Find out more about Richard’s work and the Kinect game you can take part in here. Hope you can make it! Please let us know you’re coming by booking here

We’re big fans of events where people come together to do amazing things with technology, so we’re pleased to be partners in the first ever Culture Hack North which we’re hosting here at Old Broadcasting House on 12^th and 13^th November.  And this will be a major landmark for us - our first ever OBH sleepover!

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We’re pleased to be working with the West Yorkshire Linux User Group to host a very special guest lecture.

On the evening of 23^rd August, international award-winning ‘crusader for the freedoms of computer users’ Dr Richard Stallman will be in Leeds to give a guest lecture which we’re hosting here at Leeds Metropolitan University.

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We’re sponsoring PHP NW 2011 - back for the fourth year on 7th, 8th and 9th October.

More details on our news post.

…and its even better this year, not just because we’re sponsoring it!  Organised by Leeds entrepreneur and former Old Broadcasting House coworker Dom ‘The Hodge’ Hodgson, this promises to be an eventful weekend on August 6th and 7th at The Mint Hotel here in Leeds.

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nti is hosting the very first Leeds Tester Gathering on the 26th May here at Old Broadcasting House.

The evening will start at 18.00 with networking followed by announcements, (vacancies, training courses or other interesting information for testers), a presentation on a salient testing topic lasting no more than 40 mins and finally more networking in a very friendly atmosphere, finishing the evening at 21.00 (more…)

We’re pleased to be hosting this prestigious weekend event on Saturday the 21st & Sunday the 22nd of May here at Old Broadcasting House.

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Here’s a great talent spotting opportunity - The second annual Computing Showcase is being held on the 12th of May at Leeds Metropolitan University’s Rose Bowl building. There will be the opportunity to view innovative student projects and presentations by Leeds Metropolitan Universities final year Computing students.

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We’re hosting the second  WePublish event here at Old Broadcasting House on 11th May.If you came along in January, then it would be great to see you again. If you’re new to WePublish,  these events are aimed at everyone who produces content - for their own blog, community or  charity web site, company web sites. There’s an awful lot of us doing that.

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We had such great feedback from our iPhone apps taster evening that we’ve planned another one on similar lines - but this time it’s all about building an Android app.

Developers- come along to Old Broadcasting House on Wednesday 13th April  and take part in this two hour workshop,  where you’ll get an overview of the development process for Android apps, and then have a go yourself - so bring along your laptop.  The evening will be presented by Patrick Ingham  and Carl Whalley, who deliver the Google Android Apps training course

The evening begins at 6:00pm with refreshments, with the workshop starting at 6:30pm. We’ll aim to finish at 8:30pm.

If you’d like to come along, email us at hello@ntileeds.co.uk with your name and contact phone number.

Build an app in an evening. Come along to Old Broadcasting House on Tuesday 22nd  February for an introduction to iOS development for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.  Much more fun than Eastenders!

We’ll start off the evening with an overview of the hardware and software capabilities of the iOS devices, followed by a run down of the kind of things that are possible through the iOS SDK* as well as a tour around the development tools that developers use every day to create the apps you know and love.

Your presenter for the evening is Dave Verwer, of Shiny Development, an experienced app developer and trainer, and all-round great guy.  Dave  delivers the four day iOS Developer Training course here at nti Leeds.

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We’re big fans of Wordpress here at nti Leeds, and all things Open Source. And we know lots of people who create content, prepare news, write blogs, and generally report on what’s going on.

And we love inviting people to Old Broadcasting House so that they can share their experiences, network, collaborate and generally  make connections.

That’s why we’re pleased to be sponsoring WePublish on Saturday 22nd January 2010 10:00 til 4:30.

WePublish provides an arena for anyone who creates content, publishes or supports digital publishing.

Whether you are a self-taught blogger or diarist through to a trained, experienced journalist and all the many alternatives between, this unconference style event will take an open and sharing look at subjects such as:

• How is ‘digital’ changing the way we publish?
• Where are ideas got from?
• Moderation
• Staying on the right side of the law
• Getting the right system in place
• Beyond the written word - photography, audio, video and other opportunities
• Beyond blogging - what else can I do with my content and ideas?
• Building and managing audiences
• What do mobile phones, iPads and other new platforms means for me?
• Getting real - using third party printing solutions
• Using social media to best effect
• and much much more…

You can find our more at the WePublish site wepublish.org and book your ticket at   wepublish.eventbrite.com

There’s a live TEDxChange webcast on 20th September at 4:00 pm at Leeds Met’s  Rosebowl building.  More details and booking can be found here. There’ll also be a chance to find out more about TEDxLeeds, scheduled for 10th November.

TEDx Sheffield last week  was really good so  we’re hoping that the Leeds event will be even better and we’d recommend keeping the evening of 10th November free to make sure you don’t miss it.

Keep a lookout for details of TEDxLeeds on the web site.