Agenda
The timetable for the event was as follows:
- 09.00-10.00
- Registration & Refreshments/ Exhibitions
- 10.00-11.00
- Emerging Technologies
- Keynote speakers/ Panel discussion
- Interactive media... immersive digital environments... GIS & GPS... pervasive & ubiquitous computing... digital video & IPTV... broadband... mobile-media... e-Games...Wi-Fi and Wimax... Web 2.0... e-Communities...
- 11.00-11.15
- Break
- 11.15-12.30
- The Impact on Regional Development
- Speakers/ Panel Discussion
- Once it was the canals, railways and roads that opened up new opportunities for developing industries... Today its about building the infrastructure for digital communications... New opportunities, business models, strategies and markets... The need for local implementation of broadband, wireless, entertainment platforms/ networks, local integration.
- 12.30-13.45
- Lunch/ Exhibitions
- 13.45-14.15
- Competition: Most Innovative and Creative Use of Emerging Technologies for Business or Cultural Development
- Two presentations from regional competition winners
- 14.15-15.00
- Putting the East Midlands on the Map
- Part 1: Case Study - Leicester.tv
- Part 2: Panel disscusion moderated by David Wortley
- 15.00-15.30
- Coffee/ Exhibitions
- 15.30-16.30
- Defining a Regional Strategy
- Panel discussion
- Leadership... support... raising awareness... education & training... new investment... strategic approaches
This event is presented by the New Technology Initiative Creative Industries Centre for Knowledge Exchange
in the East Midlands - a partnership between
De Montfort University in Leicester and the University of Derby.
