Innovation Labs

Schedule for Manchester Launch event - Monday 28th November

The last of the launch events for the Innovation Labs is this Monday, 28th November at Manchester Art Gallery. There are still places available - email toby barnes if you want to reserve a place. Here's the running order for the day:

10.00 Introduction Frank Boyd, Unexpected Media.
10:40 BBC Internet and Innovation Strategy
Matt Locke, Head of Innovation BBC New Media
Tony Ageh, Controller Internet, BBC New Media
11:10 Breakout: Innovation in the independent sector
11.30 Coffee
11:50 Feedback from discussion group
12:00 Speaker: Matt Jones (www.blackbeltjones.com)
12:40 Speaker: Dale Herigstad (Executive Creative Director at Schematic)
13:10 Lunch
14:00 Discussion: Key technological developments, services and content.
14:40 Beyond the Browser: The Audience Holly Goodier, BBC Audience and Consumer Research
15:10 Idea generation/brainstorm session
16:00 Tea
16:15 Feedback from brainstorm groups
16:45 Labs practical information and questions
17:00 Close – go to nearby bar

Schedule for London Launch Event - Friday 25th November

The second London launch event will be at 01zero-one this Friday, November 25th. The running order is as follows:

9:00 Doors open and Registration
9:30 Introduction: Frank Boyd, Unexpected Media.
9:40 BBC Internet and Innovation Strategy
- Matt Locke, Head of Innovation, BBC New Media
- Jem Stone, bbc.co.uk
- Tom Loosemore, BBC New Media
10:40 Breakout 1: Innovation in the independent sector
11:00 Coffee
11:10 Breakout 2: Innovation: strategies for support
11:50 Feedback from discussion groups
12:20 Speaker: Fiona Raby, Dunne & Raby
13:00 Lunch
13:50 Discussion: Key technological developments, services and content.
14:00 Speaker: Dale Herigstad, Schematic
14:40 Beyond the Browser: The Audience
- Holly Goodier, BBC Audience and Consumer Research
15:10 Idea generation/brainstorm session
16:00 Tea
16:15 Feedback from brainstorm groups
16:45 Labs practical information and questions
17:00 Close and Leave. Go to John Snow pub.

London Attendee list for first launch event

56 indies attended he first London launch event, and we promised to upload the attendee list for everyone that was there (or for curious people who weren't!)

Adam Sefton Exposure Digital
Alina Gavrielatos
Andrew Barnabas Bob & Barn
Anja Kluever
Anna Hiltunen Tekolondon Ltd
Bob Cotton
Claudio Toyama
David Rainbird Fibre
Duncan Jarvies Windfall Digital
Durrell Bishop Lucky
Frank Wales Limitless Innovations
Gerred Blyth Amberlight
Giles Rollestone Urban Feedback Ltd
Guy Parry Williams Imedia8
Jon Akass media citizens
Jon Weinbren Imaginary Productions
Kate Bowden Monomo
Kieran McMillan Raw Nerve Ltd
Lawrence Garwood Picture Ltd
Lee Rickler fotango
Livio Hughes HEADSHIFT
Lorenzo Wood Framfab
Marco Ruffatti marcoruffatti.com
Mark Gawlinski
Mark Hardwick Ymogen
Markus Quarta Something
Martin Hoenle Intuity
Michelle Goldberg Future Studios Int’l / EcoVillage Urban Initiative
Mike Baxter Sales Logiq
Neil Aberdeen Tui
Nick Bryan-Kinns Optic Experience Design
Nigel Atkinson NeoWorks
Paul Bennun somethin’ else
Petter Warnsberg Swede
Ranzie Anthony Tonic
Rene de Labre Magic Lantern
Richard Eisermann Design Council
Rob Bevan XPT
Roland Harwood LDA
Ruth Kikin-Gil ruthkikin.com
Saul Albert The People Speak
Shahid Choudhry Kumbwa
Sigh Jones pure solutions limited
Tobi Schneidler Maoworks
Tom Williams Preloaded
Toke Barker Radarstation
Usman Haque haque.co.uk

North West Innovation Lab Open Day: 28th November 2005: Speakers Announced

Matt Jones and Dale Herigstad are both confirmed to speak at the North West Open Day. They will present their ideas and visions for the future alongside a range of senior BBC representatives.

Matt Jones is a creative director and user-experience designer, with over 10 years experience at some of the biggest news and information sites in the UK and the world, including BBC News Online. He is currently working in concept development and researching future mobile device user-experiences for Nokia in Helsinki.

Dale Herigstad is Executive Creative Director at Schematic. Schematic designs and develops interface and technology solutions. Their mission is to create simple, powerful answers to their clients' operations and communications challenges. For the past five years, they have been helping leading companies harness new technologies and new ideas. They have grown to be an industry leader in interface design, interactive production processes, and software development. Along the way, they have won countless awards for work on the Web, television, and other interactive platforms.

For more information contact Alan Carter-Davies, or Toby Barnes at Pixel-Lab, our regional partner for the labs.

If you can't attend the launch event, you can still apply. More details are in the the How to Apply section.

North West Innovation Lab Open Day - 28th November at the Manchester Art Gallery

The launch of the North West Innovation lab will take place on the 28th November at the Manchester Art Gallery. With a range of BBC speakers and external speakers Matt Jones and Dale Herigstad, the day will be an exciting and interesting introduction to the Innovation Labs project.

The goals of the day are to:
- explain the purpose of the Innovation Labs and the procedure for making a proposal;
- provide information about our internet and innovation strategies;
- provide an opportunity for networking;
- discuss the kind of projects which we might commission
- generate some preliminary ideas.

Manchester Art Gallery is situated at :
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street
Manchester M2 3JL.

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For more information contact Alan Carter-Davies, or Toby Barnes at Pixel-Lab, our regional partner for the labs.

If you can't attend the launch event, you can still apply. More details are in the the How to Apply section.

Second London Launch event - Running order

9:00 Doors open and Registration
9:30 Introduction: Frank Boyd, Unexpected Media.
9:40 BBC Internet and Innovation Strategy
- Matt Locke, Head of Innovation, BBC New Media
- Tony Ageh Controller Internet, BBC New Media
- Tom Loosemore, BBC New Media
10:40 Breakout 1: Innovation in the independent sector
11:00 Coffee
11:10 Breakout 2: Innovation: strategies for support
11:50 Feedback from discussion groups
12:20 Speaker: Fiona Raby, Dunne & Raby
13:00 Lunch
13:50 Discussion: Key technological developments, services and content.
14:00 Speaker: Dale Herigstad, Schematic
14:40 Beyond the Browser: The Audience
- Holly Goodier, BBC Audience and Consumer Research
15:10 Idea generation/brainstorm session
16:00 Tea
16:15 Feedback from brainstorm groups
16:45 Labs practical information and questions
17:00 Close and Leave. Go to John Snow pub.

Second London Launch event this Friday

The second London launch event will be this Friday at ZeroOne-01, Peter St, London. Speakers from the BBC will be the same as the first event (see below) with the addition of Tom Loosemore, talking about the BBC's programme archive project. The external speakers will be Fiona Raby and Dale Herigstad from Schematic.

The event is fully booked, but we'll put the presentations and documentation from the event up asap. If you are based in London, Yorkshire or the NW, then you can still submit proposals for the Labs, regardless of whether you attended a launch event or not. More information at our How to Apply section.

First London launch event

The first London launch event happened last Friday, 18th November at BOX, Clements Inn, London. Around 50 representatives from London indie new media companies attended. Speakers included Jem Stone, Matt Locke and Holly Goodier from the BBC and presentations from Ben Cerveny (ex Flickr and Frog Design) and Angela Shen-Hsei of Visual-IO. Presentations and notes from the brainstorm sessions will be available to download from this site soon.

Yorkshire Launch Event

The Yorkshire Lab launch event happened on Tuesday, November 1st at the National Museum of Photography, Film & TV in Bradford. There were presentations about the Labs process, the BBC's internet strategy, audience research and two guest presentations from Stan Wiechers of semapedia and Fiona Raby from Dunne&Raby. Presentations and transcripts of the days talks will be available soon from our regional partner, Just-B.

If you couldn't attend the launch event, you can still apply. More details are in the the How to Apply section.