Posts Tagged ‘Innovation Showcase’

Our coworking space here at Old Broadcasting House is a great place for startups and freelancers to do business.  Our community of members includes developers, designers, and creatives who value the fantastic location, prestigious business address, the collaborative open space and the cool technology.  We aim to offer a low risk space which lets you focus on developing your potential, your ideas, and your business.

The open space is organised into  ‘Pods’, equipped witha Mac Pro computer, and an Apple 30″ studio display, WIFI and broadband connectivity. Members also have access to meeting rooms, and a coffee area that is great for meeting clients.  Membership costs  £90 + VAT per month.

The coworking space  is a great alternative to working from home. You work for yourself because you value your independence and want to develop your ideas. As a member here you have all of these advantages plus you’re a part of a team, a community, which means you also get  feedback on your ideas, collaboration opportunities, referrals and introductions.

If you are interested in joining nti Leeds’ coworking space, call us on 0845 122 1555, come to an event or course, or simply call in. You can find out more, including who is currently based here  at on our coworking website

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…)

Joseph Edmonds is an ecommerce specialist who runs Edmonds Commerce. He has recently created and taught on the new nti Magento course. Joseph answers some questions about he’s career so far…  (more…)

During December, Innovation Showcase coworker Tim Waters joined us here at Old Broadcasting House. Tim is a freelance geospatial developer and consultant who runs he’s own company called Think Where. Tim also volunteers with OpenStreetMap (OSM), a free editable map of the whole world. OSM allows users to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way. (more…)

Residents of all ages were invited to come and take part on Friday 9th October, in a completely free celebration of the city™s diverse and exciting arts scene. The spectacular annual Light Night arts event took place in Leeds city centre with several contributions from Old Broadcasting House. (more…)

Expo is the UK’s Largest Annual free festival of Sound Art and Experimental Music. This year’s festival lands in Leeds to take over venues and public spaces across the city, showcasing leading artists and fresh newcomers in sound based art and performance. Expo Leeds is an extended weekend of people enjoying, creating, playing, sharing, experiencing, discovering and listening to sonic art. Come and join in! (more…)

nti is pleased to welcome it™s latest new coworking members as part of the nti Works graduate scheme.  Thanks to funding from the Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF), 15 Leeds Metropolitan University graduates are taking advantage of 3 months sponsored membership of our coworking space, the Innovation Showcase at Old Broadcasting House, and a whole range of training and business support services to help them get started in the world of creative and digital business.  We are currently recruiting the second group of graduates to start in September - please see this link for details of how to apply. (more…)

We’re pretty excited to get a mention in July’s Wired magazine in a feature on the office of the future.  Leeds is featured alongside London, New York, and Ibitha!

“The office is dead: make way for the freelance collective workspace. Part-time workers and self-employed may be hustling harder than ever, but at least the new wave of membership clubs lets them bounce ideas around and collaborate with like-minded souls”  The benefits of coworking for freelancers and startups are so attractive that more and more of these spaces are springing up. Things have moved on a pace since we first set up the space at Old Broadcasting House in November 2007. Back then things were very quiet and for a while our founding members Imran Ali, Deb Bassett, Simon Edwards, Richard Garside and Richard Hamer had the place to themselves. Now we have thirty five members and the space is buzzing! New products, such as virtual graffiti tool FriiSpray and Cardboard Laptop Stand have emerged as a result of coworker collaborations.

To find out more about our coworking space, call us on 0845 122 1555 or email info@ntileeds.co.uk.

Well I was hoping to get this up on the website on Friday, but after a full 3 days of astounding talks and fantastic networking, I was exhausted!  Our thanks again go to Herb Kim and the rest of the Codeworks team for a great Thinking Digital Conference 2009.

So.. Day 3 was again varied, including everything from northern talent to piracy, live music to video link-ups, and from the availability of public data to the availability of a free breakfast thanks to G-ti!  There was also a big focus on making your business customer-centric, from demand-driven content to the ‘Whuffie factor’ in social networking. (more…)

Recent graduate? Looking to work in the creative and digital sector? Get ahead by joining the Leeds Met™s freelance skills agency, nti Works.

Nti Works is part of Ecomonic Challenge Response, a programme of free support worth up to £1500 per individual, available to those affected by the recession running from June 2009 until June 2010. (more…)

Why not visit nti Leeds and the OS4B project at Thinking Digital from 13-15 May at the Gateshead, Newcastle?

If you book an nti Leeds course before 30 April you could even win a free pass to the Thinking Digital Conference - worth over £299! Just quote TDC offer when making your booking before 30 April to be entered into the draw. The winner will be notified by 4 May and announced on our website.

Thinking Digital is an annual conference where some of the world’s greatest thinkers and innovators gather to discuss the latest ideas and technologies and to inspire new thinking about our businesses and lives. (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…)

nti Leeds are excited to announce the arrival of two new sponsored workstations from Sun Microsystems for the Innovation Showcase, our unique coworking area for startups and freelancers, as part of the Sun Startup Essentials Programme. And if you’re a recent start-up or busy freelancer looking for low-cost, high energy, creative workspace, why not come and take a look around?

Web and graphic design agency, Creode, one of our Innovation Showcase members, have been named as the winner of the University of Leeds‘ annual business plan competition. James Hannaford (22) and Luke Harrison (21) founded Creode, which provides the full gamut of branding, design and web services, following graduation in the summer of 2008. The company already has some high profile clients in its portfolio, which includes children’s TV channel CBeebies, the University of East London and our own nti Leeds website! (more…)