Really pleased to announce that Horizon Digital Economy Research are treating us to some food, including birthday cupcakes, on Tuesday.
Horizon is a Research Institute at the University Nottingham engaged in Digital Economy Research. This new venture represents an initial £40million investment by Research Councils UK, the University of Nottingham and over 40 academic and industrial partners in both a Research Hub and Doctoral Training Centre within the RCUK Digital Economy programme.
We are used to the idea of our “Digital Footprint” – those traces of our online activity that leave a record – some are concerned this has gone too far.
However, we are in a transition to a society in which ubiquitous computing makes recording of peoples physical activities, as well as their virtual ones, possible. How are we going to remain human in this society….
The talk will look as some of the technologies, how they might be used (for good and evil) and discuss approaches to creating businesses that can exploit them without trampling the citizen’s privacy under a corporate or government boot.
I reckon the panel session will take care of itself after that warm up.
Just 12 short months ago we had the first Nott Tuesday. My haven’t we grown. I’m hoping we can make our first birthday a bit special.
Christian Payne set the bar very high for speaker quality when he regaled us with is Social Media Freak Show in January.
The speaker for February is confirmed just the title is to be decided. I’ll post here shortly with full details.
Just a bit of a heads up, our cloud computing discussion panel touched on the subject of privacy. I expect privacy to feature heavily, certainly in the post-speaker panel.
So if you have concerns, opinions or are otherwise interested in what we are doing with our data these days this will be a session you won’t want to miss.
The date for your diary is Tuesday 9th February at Bluu in Nottingham from 18:30
As it’s our birthday, I’m keen to hear from any companies or organisations who would like to sponsor food or drinks at this event and benefit from being associated with this vibrant forum.
I’m really pleased to announce that Christian Payne (aka Documentally) will be bringing his Social Media Freak Show to Nott Tuesday on the 12th.
Following on from last month’s Social panel I thought it would be great to get something a little more practical for those that were inspired to create more.
Christian is a freelance mobile media maker who also specialises in Social Media & photography.
He’ll be talking about what tools an early adopting mobile media maker is using at the moment. All about the tools and platforms along with, and probably most importantly, basic how-tos.
As for the panel discussion, how about?:
2010 is going to be a great/terrible year to be in a tech business because…
I was really pleased with how the panel session developed at the November meet and I suspect some of the views in this one could be just as controversial.
December’s event has a lot to live up to if it’s to be as successful as November, the key is people, lot’s of people. Spread the word, tell your friends and colleagues
I’m really excited to announce that Nick Barker and Simon Oxley from Aware Monitoring have agreed to sponsor and present the Nott Tuesday event in November entitled What does the cloud mean for your business?’
Nick, CEO of Aware Monitoring, will be starting proceedings by launching the Aware Monitoring service. This is a service designed to solve some of the problems businesses can experience using the cloud so
Simon, CTO of Aware Monitoring, will be sharing is insight into the cloud, the technologies behind it and what the future holds. Simon’s career has seen him working on high profile public and private sector infrastructure projects for the NHS and Capital One. More recently he’s been applying this knowledge and using cloud services in anger to support to set up the Aware Monitoring service.
I will then lead a dynamic panel discussion driven by questions from the floor (so remember to bring a pen to write on the cards) exploring the topics raised.
I’m really pleased that Nick and Simon have decided to this. It really feels like Nott Tuesday is back on the rails.
Finally, to incentise you to all to spread the word, Aware Monitoring are buying a drink for anyone that brings along a Nott Tuesday newbie. So get out that contact book, start dialing, emailing and tweeting and let’s get as many people along to this one as possible.
November 10th – 18:30 -20:30 @ Bluu (though may change this, but will update you all)
Topic: What does the cloud mean for your business?
Speaker: Nick Barker & Simon Oxley, CTO of Aware Monitoring
Panel Session: To discuss what has been raised
What is the cloud? Why is everyone talking about it? Is it secure? The choice of questions is yours.
At the moment the headline topic is chosen but that’s about it. Let me know via adam.bird@esendex.com or @adambird what you want to know/discuss. Use the hashtag #notttuesday so everyone can keep track.
This is a nice video explaining what the cloud is for starters:
I also need your ideas for speakers. Do you know someone that would be prepared to come and speak to us (reasonable expenses paid) about their views (positive or negative) about the cloud. Contact me via adam.bird@esendex.com or @adambird
CreativeNottingham is a new blog set up to celebrate Nottingham’s creative, arts and digital business communities – or anything that promotes Nottingham’s status as a creative place.
As one of the founding editors, Susi has promised to write a guest post giving a more personal view on this initiative. My hope is she will also give us a few words at an upcoming Nott Tuesday.
All sectors need a focus and CreativeNottingham, driven by four accomplished writers and bloggers, looks like a great site.
The breakfast seminar on Tuesday 13th October 2009 at the University of Nottingham, school of computer science, has been cancelled. A new date will be advertsied in due course.
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