Posts Tagged ‘Networking’

The hugely successful breakfast networking event is to be held by Leeds Chamber Networking Breakfast on Thursday 4th February at 7.30am - 9.30am. The morning attracts a wide range of business backgrounds and more than one hundred attendees each month.

Come and join in with table networking and conversations by registering your place on the Leeds Chamber website here. Cost for members is £14 + VAT, and non-members £28 + VAT.

The GameHorizon Conference is Europe’s leading event for international games executives. A two-day conference featuring the most creative, entertaining and inspirational speakers from the games and entertainment industry. For the third year, GameHorizon Conference will return to The Sage, Gatehead on 29th-30th June 2010. (more…)

Old Broadcasting House, has been the landmark for film production for decades. After many years as a base for the BBC, this listed building has been beautifully refurbished and represents a stunning coming together of history and technology. The building’s 21st century purpose is now to act as the focus of enterprise at Leeds Metropolitan University. (more…)

The sell-out Think Visibility series of conferences during March 2009 was on “the things that usually get left behind in the web design process”. The conference featured well known speakers, new talent and great networking opportunities.

Discovering an appetite for more of the same, covering a wider range of subjects, Think Visibility is back on 12 September 2009. Tickets are now on sale at http://thinkvisibility.buildevents.com/.

Take part in a live experiment, testing out cutting edge digital technology on offer at the University of Leeds event ‘Shaping the Digital Future’. This networking event will take place on Tuesday 15th September, from 10.00 - 16.30 at the University of Leeds.

Over the next 3 years the UK government is investing £120 million into researching and developing digital technology. The University is hosting a day of debate and presentation by leading academics and industry key players in order to spark ideas for new collaborations.

Delegates from the healthcare, medical imaging, transport, computing and other sectors are invited to attend the digital event. The keynote presentation will be from Leeds alumnus Dr Tim O’Donoghue, Vice President Engineering for EU and Canada for Yahoo!

As well as presentation from leading experts in artifical intelligence and computational systems there will be ample opportunities for networking and the opportunity to take part in a live experiment.

Register online or email ekt@engineering.leeds.ac.uk or phone for more information on 0113 343 8307

If you’re working in the creative or digital industries, we’d love you to come hang out, chat, demo or just network with others…usually around 25-30 people each month…sometimes more.

This month’s OpenCoffee is a little special. Just for this month, we’re relocating to The Round Foundry (http://www.roundfoundry.net/) meeting at 10am till 12pm.

Right after OpenCoffee, we’re planning a tour of the nearby Temple Works (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Works), being redeveloped as a cultural locale for the city.

We’re hoping that the tour will help bootstrap some ideas on how the creative and digital sectors of the city can contribute to the development of Temple Works.

On Thursday 12th February, new social networking site Twitter started running it’s new worldwide festival event called Twestival in more than 175 cities around the world. Organised by volunteers in each city, ranging from Beijing and Sydney to Capetown and Lisbon, Twestival allowed the Twitter community to socialise offline and enjoy food, drink and entertainment, whilst also raising money and awareness for ‘charity:water’ that was highlighted by Jeff Allen. (more…)