Events

We’re holding an open evening on Wednesday 21st  July so you can come along and meet Old Broadcasting House coworkers. The event starts at 6pm and closes at 8pm. Guests are invited to come along and meet our members in an informal, relaxed setting. Find out what they brilliantly do, see their work, and consider how their specialist talents could add to your business.

We’ve sent out invites, but if we didn’t invite you and you’d like to come along please contact Holly, you’d be very welcome. Email holly@ntileeds.co.uk or phone 0113 812 1725.

We’re pleased to be supporting this exciting event from Screen Yorkshire on the topical subject of Mobile Apps, which is being held at Barnsley’s Digital Media Centre on Wednesday 21st July.  We all love to use apps,  and with the growth of mobile web there are many key questions facing businesses -  such as:  are business models for apps working; how do I exploit apps to promote my business, and how do I get started?

This event is for developers, agencies, brands and individuals, and aims to help provide some of the answers to these questions, and many more, by putting you in touch with industry experts - both global players, and regional businesses who will share their experiences of developing apps.

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We’d like to invite you to come and see the amazing features of Adobe CS5  first hand at this free event here at Old Broadcasting House on Thursday 8th July.

Our guest presenter is  Steve Burnard from Adobe. Steve has  just finished presenting at the official CS5 roadshow,  so if you missed the opportunity to come along to that, then here’s a second chance to find out how the amazing new features of CS5 can impact your design and development work.

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We’re very pleased to announce the second of this years Leeds Girl Geek Dinners which will take place on Thursday 13th May at the City Inn, a swanky new waterfront hotel in Granary Wharf Leeds. The evening will start with networking at 7.30pm-10.30pm.

The evening speakers will include Joscelyn Upendran, the co-founder and CEO of lovle which is a learning and training software & services company. She is also involved in Creative Commons UK as the Public Project Lead for England & Wales, which involves raising awareness about Creative Commons. Prior to this, Joscelyn worked as a commercial lawyer in private practice for a number of years before she commenced a career in higher and further education, training lawyers, accountants and mangers. (more…)

Raffi Krikorian will be speaking about his career in technology and innovation, working as a hacker, writer, and a tinkerer. Most recently, he has become a member of the API/Platform team at Twitter. He is also authoring the forthcoming book “re:sources”.

Raffi has worked for MIT’s Media Lab, written for O’Reilly Media, founding an R&D lab and working for Twitter in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was a co-founder in WattzOn.com - which was named by Business Week as the “Best Idea” in 2008. (more…)

Leeds Metropolitan University’s, Innovation North  - Faculty of Information & Technology is delighted to invite you to the 15th anniversary of the annual showcase of undergraduate student work in the areas of:

- Music, Sound & Performance

- Multimedia, Games & Animation

- Computing & IT

This will provide you with the opportunity to view innovative student work and meet the people behind it through a series of exhibitions, presentations and performances.

The showcase will be held on Thursday 13th May 2010 with daytime viewings, 2.00pm - 4.30pm, and evening viewings, 5.00pm - 8.00pm at James Graham, Headingley Campus, LS6 3PS.

Confirm your attendance by emailing innevents@leedsmet.ac.uk.

Has your company got high growth potential? Are you looking for funding? If so, then this series of investment readiness workshops by Connect Yorkshire, is for you. They are designed to help you address the important question: What is an investor looking for and how can I give myself the best chance of raising finance? (more…)

Adobe Creative Suite 5 launched live online! The world watched as Adobe showcased the most cutting edge software package for the creative industries. You can follow the latest developments on Twitter at #cs5 and if you missed the launch, watch the video at www.cs5launch.adobe.com.

Are you bowled over by some of the talent you have seen in the Yorkshire Digital and Creative sector? The Yorkshire Digital & Technology Awards are now open for entries to projects you think deserve some wider attention.

Perhaps it is a project you are working on at the moment, or a piece of technology you are currently developing in the sector itself. Maybe you have seen a mind-blowing website that you think has established a new benchmark in quality, or a new digital equipment you think could really make a difference to our lives or the way we do business? (more…)

All budding landscape photographer’s will be delighted to know that Exposure Leeds is to present Tim Parkin. Tim produces some simply stunning landscape photogaphy with his understanding of form and light.

To gain greater insight into his amazing work, come along on Wednesday 7th April, 6pm to 9pm at Old Broadcasting House to listen to Tim talk about his ideas, experience and portfolio. It costs £2 to cover the cost of hot drinks, payable on the door and no booking is required. Hope you can make it! In the meantime, visit Tim’s amazing work at Flickr or his website here.

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…)

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.

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.

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…)

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…)