IFB 2014
John McKerrell
Notes from Creative & Digital launch on 15 May 2013
Related to GEC2012 and Accelerate 2013, IFB2014 is a festival of business. Lots of events and activities around how to do business, how to make connections overseas, all that sort of thing. It's a UK conference that just happens to be hosted in Liverpool. (Like Internet World 2013 wasn't a "London" event, just happened to be in London)
Something that DoES Liverpool should consider being involved in.
Aiming to be the biggest business event in the country, and hopefully in the world, in 2014
Phil Southward is the Ops Manager
June 5 - July 25th 2013
JohnMcKerrell - as a very fringe/grass roots thing it might be interesting to use this as an opportunity to link to grassroots development in Detroit
They're offering support for creating new events, ones that may continue beyond 2014.
They want to create a steering group for the creative & digital sector, a representative from/for the DoES Liverpool community should be included.
We can offer our services, for example if we want to be considered for website work "we" should make sure they're aware of us. There's a standard framework with Vision(?) that will handle some of the work, but not all.
We can offer to speak at events, or to exhibit. E.g. AdrianMcEwen may offer to speak as a thought leader in the field of Internet of Things.
We can offer to host events, i.e. at DoES Liverpool.
We could offer other services of DoES, e.g. offer a discounted rate for hot desking during the event to people visiting for IFB2014
Can include raising local investment to fill a need. For example, (in a universe where DoES didn't already exist) creative companies need workshop facilities, so they might have funded DoES. Perhaps DoES could host an event to find out what facilities are needed by the companies in Liverpool that we want to be helping. Would raise awareness of what we already do but also give people an opportunity to say what else they would like.
They want to cluster similar events together and are looking at W/C 7th July as the "Creative & Digital" week. Events could be held at other times but the idea is that if there is a cluster, then overseas people can aim to be at the event during that time. DoES would already have Sewing Club, Maker Night and Lean Liverpool on that week anyway.
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As an aside it was mentioned that Baltic Triangle Area CIC is celebrating their birthday on the 24th June as part of Accelerate 2013. They will have an afternoon of activities up to ~7pm.
Adrian McEwen
Anyone got any business-y events they're thinking of running next summer? Would a Liverpool DoES Startups, or Launch48 weekend make sense around then?
Or maybe a maker-focused startup weekend, like <http://seattlemaker.startupweekend.org/> (haven't dug into how useful/popular it was at all), or something like Hardware Summer Camp (a more business-focused hardware conference) <http://hardwaresummercamp.com>.
Or a day of "next big thing in tech" talks, to bring businesses up to speed on what they should be looking out for - stuff like IoT, big data, 3D printing, etc. where we share the expertise of the DoES community with business people (good for profile-raising, both of the tech community, and individual businesses...)
I also wonder if there are more off-the-wall suggestions we could make - things that would make the festival more interesting, and that the general conference-types wouldn't necessarily think of. RFID tags on each delegate badge, with playful stuff happening when they're used, a drawbot visualising the activity at the festival... What could makers bring to organising a conference to make it more interesting and fun?
Or what business support would the startups in DoES find useful? Can we think of useful events or things we could ask for help (both in arranging and funding) with?
So, give us your crazy ideas, or offers of helping run events... as usual, none of this is going to happen without people to /do/ things :-)
Cheers,
Adrian.
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Simon Holgate
Adrian McEwen
I have a couple of very preliminary ideas for IFB.
One is a second Launch48 to follow on from the one we're aiming to run in mid/late November. The current thinking is that the first Launch48 will be held in FACT but I'm hoping that the second one might be a bit bigger and held in DoES.
The second idea is a 'showcase' event that FACT are also interested in hosting. The idea would be to have stalls for startups, investors and anyone else who wanted to come along. I was thinking that this showcase could concentrate on the 'Internet of Things'.
Cheers,
Adrian.
Simon Holgate
Cool. Any ideas on what sort of support you might need for that?I have a couple of very preliminary ideas for IFB.
One is a second Launch48 to follow on from the one we're aiming to run in mid/late November. The current thinking is that the first Launch48 will be held in FACT but I'm hoping that the second one might be a bit bigger and held in DoES.
Sounds interesting. Open to anyone (geographically)? I would've thought we could get quite a good spread of IoT devices along. Do you know where FACT are thinking of hosting it?
The second idea is a 'showcase' event that FACT are also interested in hosting. The idea would be to have stalls for startups, investors and anyone else who wanted to come along. I was thinking that this showcase could concentrate on the 'Internet of Things'.