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| Digital ninjas welcome at Leeds Digital Festival | Digital ninjas welcome at Leeds Digital Festival |
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| Leeds's burgeoning reputation as a hotbed of young and exciting digital talent is being celebrated at this year's Digital Festival with almost a fortnight of top-notch events. | Leeds's burgeoning reputation as a hotbed of young and exciting digital talent is being celebrated at this year's Digital Festival with almost a fortnight of top-notch events. |
| Whether you're a digital ninja, underground urban artist, eager student, journalist, collaborator, or freelancer fresh with ideas, organisers say the festival is a chance for you to enjoy and explore the digital scene in all its glory. | Whether you're a digital ninja, underground urban artist, eager student, journalist, collaborator, or freelancer fresh with ideas, organisers say the festival is a chance for you to enjoy and explore the digital scene in all its glory. |
| Some of the biggest names in the region's digital sector are set to take part in a conference being held as part of this year's event. Meeting at Leeds City Museum on October 12, it will be headlined by a number of keynote speakers from organisations including IBM, Sky Sports, Asda, BBC and Spotify. The one-day digital get-together will feature a mixture of seminars from Leeds-based agencies, independent digital professionals and national brands. Topics of debate will range from data and analytics, design, development, search, social and ecommerce to mobile and futurology. | Some of the biggest names in the region's digital sector are set to take part in a conference being held as part of this year's event. Meeting at Leeds City Museum on October 12, it will be headlined by a number of keynote speakers from organisations including IBM, Sky Sports, Asda, BBC and Spotify. The one-day digital get-together will feature a mixture of seminars from Leeds-based agencies, independent digital professionals and national brands. Topics of debate will range from data and analytics, design, development, search, social and ecommerce to mobile and futurology. |
| Si Wilson, creative services director at Bloom, and one of the organisers of the festival, says: | Si Wilson, creative services director at Bloom, and one of the organisers of the festival, says: |
| Leeds Digital Festival is a truly collaborative event, with everyone volunteering their time and company resources for free. Leeds has a hot bed of talented retail specialists who place digital at the heart of their clients' marketing strategies. The conference will place this talent pool in to the spotlight and will give anyone who is interested in digital an opportunity to hear from some big brands who embrace digital too. | Leeds Digital Festival is a truly collaborative event, with everyone volunteering their time and company resources for free. Leeds has a hot bed of talented retail specialists who place digital at the heart of their clients' marketing strategies. The conference will place this talent pool in to the spotlight and will give anyone who is interested in digital an opportunity to hear from some big brands who embrace digital too. |
| Now in its fourth year, the festival provides a platform for anyone interested in the industry to meet like-minded people, network, socialise and share ideas. A collaboration between digital sports companies in the city brought together Sky, Opta and Prozone earlier this week, which gave attendees the chance to take a look behind the scenes at how Sky brings a football match to life on multiple digital platforms. | Now in its fourth year, the festival provides a platform for anyone interested in the industry to meet like-minded people, network, socialise and share ideas. A collaboration between digital sports companies in the city brought together Sky, Opta and Prozone earlier this week, which gave attendees the chance to take a look behind the scenes at how Sky brings a football match to life on multiple digital platforms. |
| Events also include a panel discussion on the future of news in the city on Wednesday 10 October at the Cross Keys pub in Water Lane at 7pm. Panelists including Guardian Northern Editor Martin Wainwright, local blogger the Leeds Citizen, senior lecturer of Journalism at Leeds Metropolitan University Sean Dodson and the author of the post you're reading now, John Baron. The event will include an exclusive presentation about a new, mobile news service for Leeds, being developed by Hebe Media with funding from the UK's innovation agency, Nesta. | Events also include a panel discussion on the future of news in the city on Wednesday 10 October at the Cross Keys pub in Water Lane at 7pm. Panelists including Guardian Northern Editor Martin Wainwright, local blogger the Leeds Citizen, senior lecturer of Journalism at Leeds Metropolitan University Sean Dodson and the author of the post you're reading now, John Baron. The event will include an exclusive presentation about a new, mobile news service for Leeds, being developed by Hebe Media with funding from the UK's innovation agency, Nesta. |
| Other events include Facebook vs Reality which explores issues of truth, identity, self-representation and wellbeing on the internet and the Prime Minister's Ambassador to Tech City in London's uber-cool Shoreditch, Ben Hammersley, will also be making an appearance. | Other events include Facebook vs Reality which explores issues of truth, identity, self-representation and wellbeing on the internet and the Prime Minister's Ambassador to Tech City in London's uber-cool Shoreditch, Ben Hammersley, will also be making an appearance. |
| Other events in the calendar include LSx Café, a open networking event with presentations from digital artist Dave Lynch; a collaboration with Love Arts Leeds to explore the relationship we have with and effect that Facebook has on our daily lives, good and bad; a retro games night charting the development of the computer games industry over the last 30 years, and many more. Further information and full events listings are here. | Other events in the calendar include LSx Café, a open networking event with presentations from digital artist Dave Lynch; a collaboration with Love Arts Leeds to explore the relationship we have with and effect that Facebook has on our daily lives, good and bad; a retro games night charting the development of the computer games industry over the last 30 years, and many more. Further information and full events listings are here. |
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