Posts Tagged ‘BBC Backstage’

What have I learned at Thinking Digital? There™s a lot here and its only lunchtime on the first day. We arrived yesterday afternoon to attend Thinking Digital University. I got the Techbus up from Old Broadcasting House, which was great fun. This was a seriously well-equipped bus “ wireless, coffee, kitchen with fridge and sink, TV and best of all great company. (more…)

nti Leeds Leia Bassett gives us a report on the first day of thinking digital, attending the ‘Show & Tell: Gadget DIY’ session at Thinking Digital University, sponsored by the Institute of Digital Innovation, hosted by Ian Forrester from BBC Backstage and featuring Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino from Tinker.it, Adrian McEwan from MCQN, Richard Garside, Stuart Childs and Dave Lynch from the Jamjar Collective (Friispray), Andy Huntingdon from Extraversion Interaction & Sound, Ken Banks from FrontlineSMS, Ant Miller from BBC Micro and Johnny Chung Lee - author of the Wiimote Whiteboard Software amongst other things and now working for Microsoft. (more…)

The Ellison’s provided Tech Bus will be connecting the digital nation with sponsors BBC Backstage, Kisky Netmedia and International Centre for Digital Content (ICDC) for digital and technological exploring. The bus will be stopping Leeds as we are pleased to announce that Old Broadcasting House is confirmed as the Leeds stop for picking people up on the way to this year’s Thinking Digital Conference in Newcastle. Stops also include Liverpool and Manchester . (more…)

Throughout the week, Old Broadcasting House has hosted over 600 Leeds Met Innovation North third year students for the annual Innovation Camp. The week has attracted a variety of industry connections including award winning specialist digital agency MadeByPi who work with leading brands including Sony, Hallmark, ASDA and First Direct. (more…)