Posts Tagged ‘Imran Ali’

On Wednesday 21 October, The Loft hosted the fifth gathering of  Leeds Girl Geeks for our Girl Geek Dinner. The day got off to a great start with nti’s own Leia Bassett and Becky Edlin from Magpie Communications being invited on to the Radio Leeds breakfast show to explain what being a girl geek is all about. (more…)

On the 10th September 2009, Leeds Metropolitan University™s Rose Bowl hosted Leeds’ first encounter with the independently run TEDx event. Organised and introduced by Imran Ali (Carbon Imagineering), nti Leeds, and Codeworks, TEDxLeeds was one of five TEDx events to take place in cities across the north of the UK in a venture entitled TEDxNorth, who™s main organiser Herb Kim, gave thanks to the hard work and time given to what would be a challenging and exciting evening for all in attendance. Sponsors included the West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network and Screen Yorkshire as the main funders of the event. (more…)

The Loft will once again be hosting the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner on Wednesday 21st October with support from nti Leeds‘ Linda Broughton and Carbon Imagineering™s Imran Ali. For just £15 you can enjoy food, drinks and the chance to hang out with the city™s brightest female creatives, technologists, programmers, entrepreneurs, marketeers and PR professionals. (more…)

Over the last year, Leeds has played host to three hugely successful Girl Geek dinners. On Wednesday 27th May, The Loft will once again host the creative and digital girls. In addition, it will join forces with LSx 2009, the second Leeds Web Festival. (more…)

Our very own Old Broadcasting House founder, Linda Broughton, has been interviewed on Web Worker Daily.  Writing about the future of work in a post-broadband world, Imran Ali asks Linda what her experience, motivation and challenges have been to establish our coworking spcae that was recently a contender in the Innovator 09™ Awards.  (more…)