EVENT: Future Users of Cool Technology

Thanks to Yorkshire and the Humber regional ICT champ Colin Harrison for pointing out this interesting looking event coming up in Sheffield.

Unsheffield’s : ‘Future Users of Cool Technology’ conference is an opportunity for people with an interest in making technology useful for more people, to come together and share ideas.

Date and Venue

The event takes place at the Showroom Café Bar in Sheffield and runs from the evening of Friday 19 to late afternoon on Sunday 20 June.

Theme

This year’s theme is Future Users of Cool Technology and will appeal to anyone who’s interested in making technology useful and impactful – not just geeks.

The event will stimulate ideas, understanding, collaboration and debate around all manner of issues affecting design and usability, access to technology, practical and socially relevant applications of technology, sustainable innovation, the digital infrastructure and the creative processes that can deliver life-changing technology.

As well as identifying opportunities for bridging the digital divide, we also anticipate that participants will contribute to a wider understanding of how to effectively generate routes to previously hidden digital markets and transform existing markets by creative and intelligent use of technology.

More Information

http://unsheffield.net/

To keep up to date with what is happening in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, visit Colin’s blog at http://yhictchampion.wordpress.com/.

Innovation in Service Delivery

It was the annual NCVO ICT conference last week and for some reason I took it upon myself to run a workshop on innovation to about 80 delegates from frontline and infrastructure organisations.

Despite being exteremly nervous the session seemed to go really well.  I’ve posted the slides here: