Events
Innovation in Digital Media
Tuesday 27 May 2008
Event summary
This event provided an insight to the specialist academic expertise available to the digital media sector. Speakers from Interactive Tayside, the
Speakers
Donna Fordyce (Interactive Tayside)
Grant Alexander (Whitespace Solutions)
Gregor White (University of Abertay Dundee)
Stuart Reid (Dynamo Games)
Chris Rowland (Advanced Underwater Surveys Limited)
Event detail and schedule
17.00 -17.15 - Networking + buffet
17.15 -17.20 - Jamie Henderson (Manager, Innovation Portal)
Introduction and brief overview of the Innovation Portal and some of the funding opportunities available.
Click here to download Jamie Henderson's presentation about the Innovation Portal.
17.20 - 17.30 - Donna Fordyce (Interactive Tayside)
Interactive Tayside is a partnership between public, private and academic sectors to develop and promote Tayside's digital media industry. Donna will discuss why innovation and academic collaborations have assisted local SMEs in building and maintaining a competitive advantage in a busy local economy. Donna will illustrate using examples of her own involvement with SMEs.
17.30 - 17.40 - Grant Alexander (Whitespace Solutions)
White Space is a state of the art digital media facility based at the University of Abertay Dundee. The services, facilities and expertise at White Space are used regularly by clients from a number of sectors. Grant discussed some of the areas where whitespace can collaborate with SMEs and presented a case study of how they assisted Alliance Trust.
Click here to download Grant Alexander's presentation - Part 1
Click here to download Grant Alexander's presentation - Part 2
17.40 - 17.55 - Gregor White (University of Abertay Dundee)
Gregor White is a Division Leader in the award winning Computer Arts and Media department based in the University of Abertay. Gregor will discuss some key areas where he can assist local SMEs and explain the benefits of collaborating with the expertise in his department. Gregor will illustrate these benefits using examples of previous collaborations with local SMEs.
17.55 - 18.05 - Stuart Reid (Dynamo Games)
Dynamo Games is a specialist mobile games developer dedicated to bringing the best quality games to the mobile platform. The company received a SMART award to develop a system to allow the updating of mobile phone game data procedure, predominantly for games involving large amounts of data to be sent. Stuart will discuss the application process and how the award enabled Dynamo Games to develop their technology from idea to market.
Click here to download Stuart Reid's presentation about Dynamo Games' SMART award.
18.05 - 18.15 - Chris Rowland (Advanced Underwater Surveys Limited)
Chris Rowland is an expert in 3D visualisation at the Centre for Digital Imaging within Duncan of Jordanstone. Chris is the lead academic in the latest University of Dundee spin out company; Advanced Underwater Solutions. Chris will discuss how his work can be transferred into industry through medical imaging, forensics, archaeology and environmental applications.
18.05 - 18.20 - Questions
18.20 - 18.25 - Refreshments
18.25 - 18.55 - Group Focus - An opportunity to have your say
A breakout session for small groups
- What are the 3 most important innovations to your company in Digital Media?
- What are the main barriers to innovation in Digital Media?
Each group to present findings to the Workshop
18.55 -7.15 - Feedback Session
Post group findings: feedback, advice, further probing and suggestions
7.15 – 7.30 - Networking
Feedback
We asked the attendees of the Innovation in Digital Media event for their feedback. Delegates thought that the speakers were good or excellent, informative and useful, and that the event was a useful networking opportunity.
- 100% of attendees rated the event as very good or good.
- 70% of attendees thought that the event was the right length and held at a good time.
- 70% of firms thought that they would consider working with academia to improve their business competitiveness.