IMMERSION Forum – 24th May
Don’t miss the Immersion Forum on May 24th! I am going to be speaking on a Social Games panel in the afternoon. More info and a 10% discount below.
Book now for IMMERSION Forum & Showcase (May 24, London) with a 10% discount on attending this leading international event focused on monetisation, funding and distribution of [...]
Crossover Lab
The MirrorMe app was born out of a Crossover lab that Jeremiah attended earlier in the year. I now had the privilege of attending a similar Lab along with experts from science, film/ TV production and games.
The crossover science lab was a week of daily brain storming and idea generations exercises to come up with [...]
New Directions Conference
On Thursday I went to the New direction conference in Newcastle organised by Northern Film and Media. The topic was about using innovative and engaging media which young people will enjoy and learn from. There were speakers from Channel 4, First Light, Polytechnic, Novakcollective and many other exciting and creative digital media companies. We saw [...]
Digital ‘Mission Success’
I took such a long time to right this blog post but it’s taken me a while to follow up with the great contacts I met and also just absorb all the lessons I learned while on the Digital Mission. In both LA and San Francisco we met many of the major players: Lionsgate, Warner [...]
Destination Success – Representing the best of the Digital UK in the US & India
Exciting times at Ideonic, over this month alone I will be travelling across the world building business relations in both the US and India. We have gone through a vigorous selection process to be chosen to take part in two prestigious projects, the Digital Mission to LA and San Francisco and the UK Young Interactive [...]
Big Ideas Youth Challenge
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to judge at the Big Ideas Youth Challenge 2009. A North East based competition for Young People under the age of 20 with Software/ICT related business ideas. Together with Stuart Varrall of Fluid Pixel Studios, we presented to a group of young entrepreneurs (14-16 years old) about [...]
Games Industry talk at Norton College
Today Adam and I went to Norton College in Malton, to take a talk to year 10 students about what it is like in the game industry and how to get in to it.
It was quite interesting for me to look back from the path I’ve taken all the way from A-level to being involved [...]
School Game Making Workshops
We recently took several game making workshops with Year 12 pupils at St. Bede’s Catholic School in Durham. Stuart from Fluid Pixel joined Cora and myself in taking the workshops which consisted of three half day sessions over three weeks.
During the workshops we introduced the group to the games industry, some of the games we [...]
Conference Season Pt 2.
Over the past two weeks I completed the second part of my conference marathon; I attended the GameHorizon Conference, Channel 4’s Education Conference ‘What comes next’ and the Showcomotion conference; a summary of each follows:
Social Innovation Camp 09
I was fortunate to be invited to take part in the third Social Innovation Camp. For the weekend, I hung up my business hat and went along purely as a geek. I ended up working on an idea called Citipedia. Originally submitted by Dundee based designer Lyall Bruce, Citipedia was a platform for giving communities more information and ultimately power over the space around them.
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