Digital media businesses embrace disruptive technologies. That's what they do well and they have already transformed the world of marketing services, advertising, entertainment and news and content delivery beyond recognition in recent years. Now, Beyond Digital - a full day conference on Wednesday 13 July - will address the increasing spill over of Digital and Creative Industries' innovation to other industrial, commercial and service sectors. A panel of regional, national and international business leaders, practitioners and academics will address the conference.
Case study and workshop themes will include:
Visualisation, Design and manufacturing, Future markets and new business models, CRM and mobile communications, Autonomous systems, Social media, Agile methodologies and cross sector innovation with specific sector examples drawn from aerospace and defence, Automotive, Nuclear and energy, Health and public services, FMCG and Entertainment and leisure.
ASTRAEA, the national programme to develop autonomous systems, will, on the day, be launching a challenge to develop an innovative piece of digital and creative media which can be used to improve the public perception of autonomous UAVs. A contract award of up to £5,000 will subsequently be made available to develop the best proposal received by 1st August.
Confirmed speakers include
Gus Desbarat, Chairman of British Design Innovation; Darren Ansell, BAE Systems Military Air and Information; Maria Stukoff and Graeme Ankers, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe; Ian Finch, Mando; Carla Ross,, NESTA; Ben Davies, the Neighbourhood; Natalie Gross, Amaze, Don Marinelli, Executive Producer of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center; David Smith, Northwest Fund 4 Digital & Creative; Tony Foggett, Code Computerlove; Dr Adrian Woolard, Project Lead (R&D North Lab), BBC Research & Development; John Cass, Director of the Creative Industries KTN and Nick Rhind, CTI Digital.
Who should attend?
Any business with plans to invest in R&D that will involve use of digital technology, companies seeking to reduce their supply chain costs and/or enhance profitability of existing product offers or explore ways of creating new revenue streams, cluster organisations, supply chain and innovation advisors and academics, investors and funders and service providers with an interest in digital and commercial exploitation
Conference detail and ticket information:
Tickets: Full day tickets including lunch are £100+ vat
Special offer to Manchester Digital members: 25% off the ticket price. Click here for the discount code.
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