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Results from Scottish Lab 2007

Of the 10 projects who participated in the Scottish Innovation Lab this year, the following projects were selected for further development with the BBC:

Pixel Trigger - Mobile Acuity
Labyrinth - Think Tank Mathematics
Animated Radio - Inter//media
Myspace News Widgets - ThinkTank Mathematics

Two further teams were invited for further discussions about their projects, or about working on other projects with the BBC:
Go Local - The Fifth Business
Docutalk - ThinkTank Mathematics

Congratulations to all the teams, and thanks to everyone who made the Lab such a great experience for us at the BBC!

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Selected Teams for Scotland Innovation Lab

We've now finalised the list of 10 teams who will be developing their projects on the Scotland Innovation Lab. The selected teams are:

TheFifthBusiness
Mobile Acuity
Yiibu
Ambiesense
Oneill productions
Teebster Productions
ThinkTank Mathematics, Blootag & Ambisense (joint submission)
ThinkTank Mathematics & DZR (joint submission)
Inter//media
ThinkTank Mathematics & New Media Bureau (joint submission)

Congratulations to all the winning teams! The Scotland Lab will start on Monday, 26th February, and the participating teams will be blogging about their projects and the Labs on this blog throughout the week.


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Agenda for Edinburgh Launch Day - Wednesday November 8th

The fifth Innovation Labs launch day is on Wednesday 8th November at Apex International Conference Centre, 31-35 Grassmarket, Edinburgh. If you haven't registered already, email Scottish Enterprise to reserve a place.

The event will last from 12-5pm, and will consist of presentations from BBC speakers, information about how the Innovation Labs project works, and an idea generating exercise. Its an informal event, aimed at giving all attendees the opportunity to meet, network and ask questions. Here's the agenda:

12:00 - arrival, lunch
12.30 - Matt Locke, Head of Innovation, BBC Future Media & Technology
Introduction to Innovation Labs
Overview of BBC web strategy
Overview of the Briefs for Labs 2006/7
13:00 Commissioners talking about their specific briefs:
Sanjay Mistry - CBBC Interactive
Jason Daponte - Development Executive, BBC Future Media & Technology
Jem Stone - Interactive Editor, BBC Future Media & Technology
13.20 Ian Forrester -Senior Producer, BBC Backstage
Technical architecture and web services at the BBC
13:40 Break
14:00 Idea Generation Exercise
led by Frank Boyd, www.unexpectedmedia.com
16:00 Idea pitching and feedback
17:00 close

The ideas generation and feedback exercises are 'rehearsals', giving attendees the opportunity to explore ideas and test the response of the BBC commissioners. Its a valuable way of finding out about the kinds of things the BBC commissioners want before you develop and submit ideas via the website. This exercise is just a 'rehearsal', however, and is not a replacement for the actual application process on the website. Throughout the afternoon, the BBC attendees will be availble for informal enquiries and questions about the Labs process, briefs and the BBC technical architecture.

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Agenda for Glasgow Launch Day - Tuesday 7th November

The fourth Innovation Labs launch day is on Tuesday 7th November at Scottish Enterprise HQ, 150 Broomielaw, Atlantic Quay, Glasgow. If you haven't registered already, email Scottish Enterprise to reserve a place.

The event will last from 12-5pm, and will consist of presentations from BBC speakers, information about how the Innovation Labs project works, and an idea generating exercise. Its an informal event, aimed at giving all attendees the opportunity to meet, network and ask questions. Here's the agenda:

12:00 - arrival, lunch
12.30 - Matt Locke, Head of Innovation, BBC Future Media & Technology
Introduction to Innovation Labs
Overview of BBC web strategy
Overview of the Briefs for Labs 2006/7
13:00 Commissioners talking about their specific briefs:
Sanjay Mistry - CBBC Interactive
Max Gadney - Head of Design and Audience Insight, News Interactive
Jem Stone - Interactive Editor, BBC Future Media & Technology
Matt Humphreys - Senior Content Designer, Radio 1 interactive
13.20 Ian Forrester -Senior Producer, BBC Backstage
Technical architecture and web services at the BBC
13:40 Break
14:00 Idea Generation Exercise
led by Frank Boyd, www.unexpectedmedia.com
16:00 Idea pitching and feedback
17:00 close

The ideas generation and feedback exercises are 'rehearsals', giving attendees the opportunity to explore ideas and test the response of the BBC commissioners. Its a valuable way of finding out about the kinds of things the BBC commissioners want before you develop and submit ideas via the website. This exercise is just a 'rehearsal', however, and is not a replacement for the actual application process on the website. Throughout the afternoon, the BBC attendees will be availble for informal enquiries and questions about the Labs process, briefs and the BBC technical architecture.

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Venue information for Scotland Labs Launch Events

Here's details of the Launch events for the Scotland Labs. If you want to register to attend the events, contact Scottish Enterprise

Glasgow
Tuesday, 7th November 2006

Scottish Enterprise HQ, 150 Broomielaw, Atlantic Quay, Glasgow

Edinburgh
Wednesday, 8th November 2006

Apex International Conference Centre, 31-35 Grassmarket, Edinburgh

Each event will run from 12-5pm, and will include a buffet lunch. The agenda will include different speakers from the BBC at each event (details will be posted shortly), plus a brainstorming/pitching session with BBC commissioners. All presentation material from the events will be posted on this blog after the event.

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