Co-oproduct is an interesting Open design-led community organisation, which is tackling the problem of waste in the UK and abroad, by developing longer-life products and solutions. Jamie Billing, Co-oproduct’s Technical Director and Co-founder, will join us on Tuesday the 11th of June to tell us all about the organisation and their community web portal.
Jamie Billing
He will be discussing the current and future work of Co-oproduct; using physical examples of open Product Design from Co-oproduct.org to explain an organisation that describes itself as ‘leading the revolution in Ethical Design Practice, Make it Yourself, Open Product Design & Creative Reuse’.
Jamie states that, “Central to Co-oproduct, is the ethical and open principles ingrained into everything that the organisation does. From it’s legal structure through to its everyday operations and longer term aims, Co-oproduct is striving to change the way that we innovate and consume.”
Jamie is also a Senior Lecturer and researcher in Product Design at Nottingham Trent. It should be interesting talk about web based community engagement and development from a design lead organisation.
The Creative Quarter initiative will see tens of millions invested, through investment funds, directly into Nottingham businesses active in the creative and technology sectors.
Disruption is usually unwelcome. It represents conflict, chaos, and potential danger. We discourage disruptive behavior in our homes and our societies, often favoring passivity and compliance.
But disruption can be a positive – sometimes vital – catalyst for change. It can challenge old assumptions, ignite conversations, activate authorities and expose new possibilities. Disruption can shed a unique light on difficult issues, giving a fresh urgency and perspective to the challenges of our global community.
To solve the most intractable challenges in health and development, we need positive disruption. It is the path to true progress.
TEDxChange 2013 takes place on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 9:00am PDT in Seattle, Washington. Themed Positive Disruption, TEDxChange 2013 speakers will challenge preconceived ideas, spark discussion, engage leaders and shed light on new perspectives.
Since TEDxNottingham in March 2012 and TEDxLaceMarket in November 2012 a Linkedin group TEDx in Nottingham was established to bring the 2 events and any future TEDx in Nottingham events together.
TEDxChange is the live stream offering. Mean while accompanying the livestream at TEDxLaceMarketChange we are hearing progress reports from 2 previous TEDx speakers Phil Campbell from TEDxNottingham’s Local Hero’s event and Marsha Smith from TEDxLaceMarket’s Family & Community event.
Working collaborative is easier said than done. This months NottTuesday is hosted by event regular Caron Lyon in the absence of Nick Barker. Reflecting on the event’s and reporting back to update you on the positive progress these initiatives have achieved. They are bought to you in the form of a mini TEDx.
3 speakers each getting 18 mins to present to you.
6.30 – Doors open
7.00 – Welcome address and intoduction
7.05 – Speaker one: Rob Williams – IT Director at Capial FM Arena.
Would you run a website without analytics, or a business without performance reports, or a budget? Reports and Analytics are fundamental to success. You have to be able to measure how well you’re doing in order to improve, in order to change.
Yet what about your life, your health, your productivity?
Do you know how many emails you replied to last week? how much time you spent on Facebook vs in Excel? what you ate, how healthy you are?
Personal analytics are about to hit the mainstream, let’s take a look at what they can do for you…
Marsha Smith opened up The Secret Kitchen Cafe; a social eating enterprise to expand her experiences around food sharing, food appreciation and food foraging. As well as having fun feeding people, she teaches ‘no weighing, no measuring’ cooking classes. She also advises on food poverty and is currently setting up family cafe spaces where people can access the healing frequencies that communal eating generates. Since TEDxLaceMarket Marsha has established her business as a social enterprise and the positive impact from TEDx has been greater than she could ever have imagined.
7.50 – Q&A and a chance to refill your glasses
8.00 – Speaker three: Phil Campbell (Cellar 54) TEDxNottingham
Phil Campbell conceived the cellar54 concept with the help from both Dan Rose and Caron Lyon over a number of years. Content creator, video blogger and brand advocate (previously for Verisign) The Cellar54 web studio is working on a number of projects including ‘on-the-round’ tools, digital social media signage for independent stores and guides for students to develop their own brands and social media practice while at university.
8.20 – Q&A
8.30 – Mini TEDx Ends
If anyone would like to sponsor the event to provide a drink token or some food please get in touch. See you there.
Have you considered raising your funding from the crowd but just aren’t too sure what it’s all about? Nottingham based E-Synergy and GrowthAccelerator are running a Nottingham workshop to help businesses understand crowdfunding.
The event will be held on Tuesday 12th March 2013 from 1pm to 6pm at Antenna, followed by our Nott Tuesday event.
The Crowdfunding workshop will cover:
• Establish if your business is the right type for Crowdfunding.
• You will then need to create and drive your company profile to get the
right crowd behind you and build momentum to get you across the line.
• We will discuss equity based Crowdfunding—the positives and negatives
from those who have been there and done it.
E-Synergy has one of the leading teams for Crowdfunding in the UK and are working with an FSA regulated platform.
By the end of the day you should expect to go home with a greater understanding of the Crowdfunding process and how you might go about building your preparation plan.
In addition to Derek Mcauley’s Inter Social Networking talk we also have George Jewitt, from AIESEC Nottingham presenting at March’s Nott Tuesday. George will be giving a short talk on internships opportunities for your company.
AIESEC is an international non-profit organisation based at the University of Nottingham. The organisation is run by volunteer members to foster growth for local businesses. AIESEC brings access to a global network of recent foreign graduates from 113 countries and 2400 universities.
AIESEC is particularly focused on the IT sector. George will tell you about the experience and skills of AIESEC interns, guide you through the recruitment process and its benefits.
For March we welcome back Derek Mcauley, after a 3 year break since his last Nott Tuesday talk.
Mac (Derek) is the Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science and Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham. Mac’s got a wealth of academic experience from working at Cambridge and Glasgow University. He helped found the Microsoft Research facility and the Intel lablet in Cambridge. He also ran two startups, XenSource (now Citrix) and Netronome.
He’s focused on research in ubiquitous computing, computer architecture, networking, distributed systems and operating systems. So, this talk is sure to be enlightening. In Mac’s words:
“Proprietary sites dominant in the web 2.0 market (e.g. Facebook, iTunes, etc) and typically create a poor environment for user creativity for example by either demanding unreasonable IP rights, enforcing a business model (including crippling with DRM), changing APIs with the phase of the moon, or indeed all of the above.
Computer networking up until the 1980s (you can all remember that right?) was dominated by proprietary networks and applications – enter the idea of inter-networking – that the world should be composed of the interconnection of these networks by the introduction of a layer that subsumed these proprietary solutions.
Do we see a lesson here?”
Join us on the 12th of March for a glimpse into the future of social networking platforms from an expert.
‘A NOTTINGHAM entrepreneur’s website that takes the pain out of restaurant pre-ordering has won £7,000 worth of cash and services at a networking club for local high-tech businesses.
Mark Roberts’ Easypreorders service beat four rivals to win the tech start-up of the year award at Nott Tuesday, which meets once a month at Antenna in the Lace Market.
The prize, which includes money and legal and other business services offered by sponsors, will go straight into the further development of EasyPreOrders as it seeks to expand across the country.
The service, which helps hospitality venues manage large customer pre-orders, is based at Nottingham Trent University’s incubator The Hive and is run by a small team that includes Mr Roberts’ brothers Adam and Edward.
‘EasyPreOrders has already been trialled by the Loch Fyne restaurant chain and Mr Roberts now needs up to £50,000 to further develop the service and market it to nationally.
“We already have 2,000 individuals logging in to use the service and we’ll be talking to more chains and individual hotels and restaurants,” said 31-year-old Mr Roberts, who previously worked with his brother Adam on the Nottingham-based restaurant booking service Go Dine. “I’ll be doing the sales but we’ll be employing more people as we go across the regions.”
In winning the Nott Tuesday prize, EasyPreOrders beat competition by four other local tech start-ups – Guestsort, Hivedrop, Neehoy and Paydot.
The decision was made by a panel of judges which included SMS business Esendex’s co-founder Adam Bird, who started Nott Tuesday four years ago to invigorate Nottingham’s tech business and entrepreneurial scene.
Monthly events now regularly attract around 100 people and the network is regarded as both a gauge and promoter of the health of entrepreneurialism in Nottingham’s technology-based business sector.
“The people who come here include entrepreneurs and developers who work for different companies, but what brings them all together is technology,” said Nick Barker, who now helps to run Nott Tuesday and is founder of his own tech company, Aware Monitoring. “But we’re not all propeller heads. You can’t have technology for its own sake, which is why there’s a big business focus here.”
One of the judges on the tech start-up of the year panel, Jason Watkins, who is now a director of ecommerce consultancy Kuki Ventures, said: “I do think that networking is a very important part of a successful business. I’ve been coming here for three years and I’ve seen it grow to the point where, regionally, it’s become an important platform for people to talk about ideas and look for business services. There’s a lot of this kind of thing in London, but in the regions it’s more difficult to make connections.”
He added: “I’m not suggesting that Nottingham can become Silicon Valley overnight, but it has to start somewhere and it’s platforms like this, and councils that are engaged, that are helping the East Midlands to create opportunities.”
Of the other four Nott Tuesday prize contenders, Guestsort is a service allowing venues to better manage event guest lists using Facebook; Hivedrop is a web-based information-sharing service; Neehoy is a software app that encourages social recycling of used goods; and Paydot is a software tool to improve management of affiliate marketing.’
A big Thank You goes to Mark Patterson for covering the event.
For February the 12th’s Nott Tuesday we have Martin Boddy, the founder of Nexsan, with his talk entitled: The long and winding road to exit.
Nexsan pioneered the adoption of disk to disk back up as a mainstream technology and brought about the decline and ultimate demise of tape libraries. Nexsan have just been acquired by Imation for $120m.
Hear from Martin how he found the idea to start Nexsan in 1999, grow the business, moved to the USA, raised private equity financing, replaced himself at CEO and ultimately exited, with a few twists and turns along the way.
Like Doug Ashby’s, Rob Wilmot’s and Ian Flechter’s talks Martin’s is sure to be an interesting founders story from beginning to end.
For February’s event we also have Shaun Fensom from the Big Chip Awards to give us a brief overview of their tech competition. Shaun is also kindly buying your first drink on Tuesday
The Big Chip awards are the biggest and longest running digital awards outside London. They’re open to entries of all types of digital work – from software to marketing, technical or creative – from anywhere in the northern part of England. Entries will close on 11 March.
To kick-off 2013 with a ‘bringing out your personal best’ we have Alexia Leachman giving January’s Nott Tuesday talk on the 8th of January. The talk, ‘Why being you is your only chance at living awesomely… and 5 signs that you’re not ‘, promises to help you to kick start your year ahead in a focused and inspired fashion.
Alexia is a Nottingham-based personal brand & reputation specialist and is the founder of www.headtrash.co.uk. As well as giving regular talks on reputation, personal branding, marketing and social media all over the UK she also blogs and writes. She’s just published a new online marketing book Hit Me – The secrets of getting your small business to punch its weight online. Alexia also used to help organise Nott Tuesday with Nick Barker. You can find more about Alexia at alexialeachman.com
Alexia is a lively and fun speaker, so come along and figure out what awesome things you are going to do in 2013!!
This should be an excellent opportunity to learn how the startup journey continues and progresses. Zahid will be joining us by video conference as he is now based in London.
