Posts Tagged ‘Yorkshire’

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…)

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…)

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…)

Forward thinking innovative events and seminars are being developed across the region. Through the partners and resources of the NorthernNet innovation and collaboration programme, a calendar is being put together to communicate free and additionally funded events for the creative and digital sectors.

The events will connect the North West, Yorkshire and the North East, giving a detailed picture of who is doing what, where and how. Industry specialists will deliver their insight into what the industry can expect for the future. (more…)

Green IT is gaining momentum, and already organisations are reporting a skills gap around areas such as the implementation of virtualisation and the building of a Green IT infrastructure. In response to the growing discussion facing Green IT, Old Broadcasting House hosted a Green IT mini conference on Monday 18th January. The day included guest speakers from Helen Harrop (Digital 20/20), Colin Coghill (formerly University of Leeds) and Leeds Met’s Innovation North Professor Colin Pattinson. The three main questions posed were, what does “green” really mean? Why be Green? How to be Green? Each was discussed in 15 minute presentations and a debate with the speaker panel. (more…)

How do artists contribute to Innovation?

Creative Networks boasts itself as the largest and most well attended professional network in Yorkshire for the Creative, Digital and Cultural Industry sectors. On Thursday 29th October, this month’s Creative Network will turn it’s attention to the “worth” of artists and the wider creative community. (more…)

The Dadi Awards 2009, in association with Leeds Live it Love it, returns to Leeds for the second year running. Run by The Drum, the awards scheme will promote, recognise and reward effective digital strategies. They are open to companies, creative and digital, to demonstrate to others and the industry how effective, the innovation of the digital strategies are. You can download your call for entry by going to www.dadiawards.com and the deadline for entering is Friday 10th July. (more…)