Open Houses & Workshops

Explore Shoreditch as you have never done before

Shoreditch businesses invite the Digital Shoreditch community to visit their studios, wander through their spaces and discover their world, create new connections, gain and share new ideas, and tempt their creative juices!

Covering a wide spectrum of topics, and in the formats of showcases, hands-on workshops, parties and networking, the Open Houses are aimed at a wide spectrum of creatives, techies, entrepreneurs and businesses that would like to discover and connect with new companies within the Tech-City Hub.

Discover some of the Open Houses star businesses. Find someone interesting? Connect with them via twitter and organise a meetup on the day.

Week 1 21st May to 27th May

Making Interactive Music Apps for iPhones & iPads

Tues 22nd May

The course will guide you through the initial design stages of an audio processing app, and will then introduce you to a powerful music-making toolkit for iOS. The course will then guide you through the steps required to make an iPhone play beautiful marimba sounds, and then show you how to implement Gesture Recognizers to easily control the instrument. By the end you will have a fully-working handheld marimba, as well as the knowledge and the code needed to start building a beta version of the app.

ConnectedUK – AUDIENCES

Tues 22nd May

Audiences, where would we be without them? Now that audiences are watching on multiple screens, what are they doing on their phone while they watch TV? How can we accurately measure their activity? Our next evening of thought provoking speakers will explore the changing nature of the people that watch us.

Ticket price: £25 per event for members (UKIE, PACT, BIMA, IPA) / £50 per event for non-members.

Create a 30-Second Jingle in 30 mins at Hoxton Works!

Weds 23rd May

Working with artists, working to a brief and a tight deadline could be a new experience for you or perhaps one that you could benefit from seeing in a new light? Create a 30-second jingle in 30-minutes! Co-create in competing teams with composer Stuart Wood; rhyming words and making music to create a commercial, in half an hour! Then see it come to life by a troupe of musical theatre actors.

Digital Shoreditch & Figtalks

Weds 23rd May

Digital Shoreditch & Figtalks – an ‘un’conference evening of short talk inspiration

Figtree is delighted to be part of Digital Shoreditch Week and is hosting an ‘un’conference evening of short-talk inspiration on Wednesday 23rd May.

Curated by James Hust (head of digital at Figtree Creative Network) we invite you to explore, push, dig, tweak, hack, kick, create and collaborate with topics ranging from ‘man machine’, ‘I created it, who owns it?’ and ‘The Hacker Ethos’. Each talk will last 10 minutes (or less).

Welsh Valley Roof IV’ Networking Event

Thurs 24th May

Join Atticus Finch on their great sunny balcony for drinks and food. We will show case a selection of work including our recent visuals for Snow Patrol’s Fallen Empires tour. We will also be giving our guests the opportunity to marvel at our ‘Welsh Valley Roof IV’ installation piece.

A Very Unruly Pub Quiz

Thurs 24th May

Come and join us for a social video quiz with an east-end twist at our new Unruly HQ! This is a chance to put your social video knowledge to the test in return to win prizes! Expect awesome content, traditional ales and some tasty treats from our side of town!

SILICON HACKNEY:FOOD THAT STARTS ONLINE

Thurs 24th May

This Silicon Hackney will be at The White Building, our new art, technology and sustainability focused creative venue in Hackney Wick, by the Olympic Park. The meetup will focus on how the sale, supply, production and review of is being influenced by the digital technology. From Tesco’s saying that profits are down due in part on the rise of apps and online shopping to the power of food bloggers to influence the success of eateries

Surface_Digital Momentum

Thurs 24th May

Surface Architects are exploring curved surfaces, deep spaces and interactive objects. Displaying architecture to the Street, Surface with Vlad Tenu and Momentum Engineering invite the inquisitive to reflect with us on conditions of complexity and potential.

Rewire High5: finding the sweet spot between design, digital and business

Thurs 24th May

Digital media is the driving force behind many new ideas. Design makes a good idea engaging. Business helps an idea to thrive. But finding a way for technology, design and business to meet in the middle can be challenging. Rewire High5 brings together 5 speakers from diverse industry sectors to share their experiences of how they have successfully (and unsuccessfully) combined the three areas.

Silicon Drinkabout

Fir 25th May

Silicon Drinkabout is a regular after work drinks for startups every Friday ’round the Silicon Roundabout! Founded by Mind Candy, and organised by @Digital_Sizzle, Silicon Drinkabout is open to startups of all sizes as a place to meet like-minded people, have some fun and relax after another busy week in ‘Tech City’.

To help keep our buzzing little community growing, we’ve also partnered with the team over at Digital Sizzle to support their quarterly networking BBQs for all digital and creative types – after all, everyone loves a good BBQ!

Silicon Drinkabout is every Friday evening, from around 7:00pm onwards, at a different venue in and around Shoreditch. Why not sign up for our weekly email updates below to keep up-to-date on weekly venue announcements, updates and the first word on upcoming Sizzle events? Oh, and don’t forget to come and say hi to us when you arrive!

Digital Marketing Workshop

Fri 25th May

A taste of City’s Continuing Professional Development course in Digital Marketing. Learn about the role of the web site, get an overview of search engine optimsation, find out what digital marketing tools are required and discover the significance of social networking for the marketing community.

MiniBar Monthly Meetup

Fri 25th May

This time we are going back to our roots and have good, old geeky and useful services being presented. We have Firehost coming as they provide great cloud hosting options (and we thought many of you need good hosting options). We also have MongoDB coming – a highly scalable NoSQL database. Efbian who make the Facebook API easier to use…….

qMedia Open Studios

Sat 25th – 27th May

qMedia invites you to the reception for the second annual Open Studios event on Friday 25th May between 5 and 10pm – drinks will be served. Openstudios continues on Saturday and Sunday.

Open Studios is a showcase of creative research and technology, including performances, exhibits, installations and hands-on activities. Highlights include new musical instruments, 3D audio in our ambisonic studio, interactive video and touch tables.

Open Studios runs all weekend at Queen Mary, University of London: Friday 25 May, 5-10pm: opening reception Saturday 26 May, 12-6pm Sunday 27 May, 12-6pm Please join us at the Engineering Building (Mile End Road near Bancroft Road, E1 4NS). For the Friday night reception, please book your place on Eventbright or email your booking enquiries to qmedia@eecs.qmul.ac.uk. Drop by anytime on Saturday and Sunday, no registration required when will shall be hosting electronics Hack days alongside our exhibits.

More information on qMedia and Open Studios can be found at our website: http://qmedia.qmul.ac.uk

Adobe InDesign Level 1

Sat 26th May

This course will give you the knowledge and confidence required to create basic layouts and PDFs. Adobe InDesign is the professional software employed by graphic designers and the creative industry to produce printed matter and interactive PDFs.

Adobe InDesign Level 2

Sun 27th May

This course will give you the knowledge and confidence required to create basic layouts and PDFs. Adobe InDesign is the professional software employed by graphic designers and the creative industry to produce printed matter and interactive PDFs.
Week 2 28th May to 1st June

Creating Growth and Opportunities in an age of Uncertainty

Mon 28th May

Appsjunction – Where ideas meet developers & investors – is back again this time as a part of Digital Shoreditch initiative!

An interactive session exploring some of the tools and rationale used by companies and entrepreneurs who remain competitive by innovating confidently in an age of massive uncertainty. This session is for people who are thinking of starting a business, those who already have but are looking for their next iteration and companies who are looking to innovate internally.

Grow your business with City

Mon 28th May

Can a partnership with a university help your business grow? Come to City University London’s ‘Grow your business’ event to find out how we can work together to deliver best opportunities for both partners. Event includes presentations from a CEO of a successful digital media company and a leading Venture Capitalist, key insights from our star academics and mechanisms available for business and university collaboration.
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Impact digital

Mon 28th May

There is a $667 billion business opportunity for the taking. One that demands creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation. And it’s one you get to feel good about.

Join Forum for the Future, Wayra and O2 to find out more about this huge business opportunity – sustainability, also known as impact investment. We’re running a collaborative & interactive ideas session. Bring either your own idea, or take on a sustainability challenge on the night. The best ideas will pitch live to a panel of digital and sustainability experts and be profiled on our three organisation’s websites and social media channels. There is potential for the best ideas to be taken up and developed. And it’ll be fun too – drinks, food and fun provided!

Inition ‘Future of 3D’ Open Studio for Digital Shoreditch Festival

Tues 29th May

Following on from the success at last year’s Digital Shoreditch Festival, Inition will be opening its doors once again to the public for an Open House session as part of the festival programme. The event will provide opportunities to try out some emerging 3D technologies and quiz some of Inition’s 3D specialists. There is no better place to glimpse the future of Everything in 3D.

The Secrets of Successful Collaboration

Tues 29th May

This session is produced by Unthinkable Consulting and the Barbican Centre. It’s for digital media practitioners and innovators from all sectors interested in the practice of collaboration. Using real examples from Shoreditch and further afield, we’ll take you on an entertaining, informative and interactive journey.

Old Skool Video Games and Craft Beer Social

Tues 29th May

Ahh… Nostalgia. It perfectly sums up our feeling for tech of old as we embrace the future. So using the most innovative digital wares we can get our hands on, the brew will be rocking it, 80’s style with an arcade emporium of your favourite classic video games.

Visit the brew, a creative co-working space in Shoreditch, as we return to the golden age of arcade video games. Expect Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Pong. Get those space shooter fingers to the ready. Puck up, get the highest score and win a fantastic prize! Beer courtesy of The Craft Beer Social Club

Behind the scenes of a usability and creativity lab

Tues 29th May

Can a partnership with a university help your business grow? Come to City University London’s ‘Grow your business’ event to find out how we can work together to deliver best opportunities for both partners. Event includes presentations from a CEO of a successful digital media company and a leading Venture Capitalist, key insights from our star academics and mechanisms available for business and university collaboration.

Forum for the Future Open House

Tues 29th May

At the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) we invest billions of pounds a year to promote and enable innovation in the UK. But the world is changing fast, and we believe that to keep the UK economy competitive in the long term, we need to put sustainability at its heart.

So now we need your help. We’ve been working with leading sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future to build a framework for a sustainable economy. We now want to turn that into a digital tool that will help UK businesses innovate better, and the TSB to make better investment decisions.

Come and collaborate with us. The best ideas will be taken forward by the TSB to build the tool in 2012

The Legacy of Alan Turing: Protecting ourselves from Internet fraud and invasion of privacy

Tues 29th May

Continuing on from his recent lecture on Alan Turing and breaking Enigma, Professor David Stupples will discuss how we can protect ourselves from Internet fraud and invasion of privacy.

The Secrets of Successful Collaboration

Weds 30th May

MOO.COM is having an open house! Tours will be held at 11am, 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm, but feel free to come any time to see Big MOO in action and pick up some MOO goodies.

Drop in Business Card design sessions with MOO’s design team will run from 4pm-8pm, and if you fancy working at MOO, pop by to have a recruitment chat with Bhavisha from 5-8pm.

Don’t forget to order some cards so you’re prepared to network at Digital Shoreditch! To help you out, we’re offering 100 free MiniCards, just pay P&P (or come and collect at MOO’s Open House for a reduced fee).

MOO is a new kind of printing business. We’re an online stationer helping both individuals and businesses to stand out in an over-crowded world. With our unique printing technology – which we call ‘Printfinity’ – we help customers to celebrate themselves and their brand. Printfinity gives everyone the opportunity to print a completely different image on every single Card or Sticker in a pack. Got 50 different products in your store? Print 50 different business cards, with a different product on every one! Upload straight from your computer, import images from your social network, or use beautiful artwork created by MOO’s Designers. The stationery you print with MOO is as individual as you are.

Inition 3D Printing and 3D Scanning Workshop

Weds 30th May

Inition, a pioneering creative 3D technology and production company, are opening the doors to their Shoreditch Demo Studio to provide a workshop on 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies. This is a unique opportunity during the festival to gain hands-on experience with some of the latest 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies and learn from some of Inition’s experts who have been working with these technologies since 2006

Brightsolid – connecting people and places through digital innovation

Weds 30th May

An introduction to brightsolid and our new offices. Come and meet our team at this informal drinks reception.

ConnectedUK – PLATFORMS

Weds 30th May

The technology that underpins the new connected home will be vital, it will need to please the audience with its simplicity, thrill the advertiser with its opportunity and inspire the creatives with its potential. Our third session seeks the thoughts of some of the platforms that hope to be players in a multiscreen environment.

Ticket price: £25 per event for members (UKIE, PACT, BIMA, IPA) / £50 per event for non-members

An evening of networking and cinema.

Weds 30th May

A relaxed evening for digital creatives and the start-up community to come together and pretend we’re working whilst watching award-winning short films from the London Sci-Fi festival, hearing from their creators and all the while talking shop and making important business connections.

Cinema seating for the films, bar for the networking. See you there.

Hosted by Inkerman Road

Appsjunction Demo & Pitch Night & Network with Developers

Weds 30th May

Appsjunction – Where ideas meet developers & investors – is back again this time as a part of Digital Shoreditch initiative!

There are hundreds of app developers in London and thousands of people with an App Idea in their head. Let’s Make them meet then. AppsJunction invites YOU to its popular networking event where developers and people with ideas come together in a friendly casual atmosphere, to get to know each other and lay the foundation of many exciting partnerships.

Digital Innovation Contest – TV & Film, Pitching event

Thurs 31st May

IC tomorrow has launched a £300,000 contest to stimulate innovation in the TV and film industry with support from eight leading content and charity partners: Lionsgate, Virgin Media, FremantleMedia, RNIB, National Geographic, Zodiak Active, Hat Trick Productions and Rovi Corp.

The contest is now closed and the finalists will be pitching their innovative ideas on the 31st of May in a full-day event that will take place during the Digital Shoreditch Festival.

Over 30 companies will also be showcasing their products and services across a range of digital media.

Brainient & Albion Open House

Thurs 31st May

At Brainient, we focus on helping advertisers, agencies, publishers and ad networks make their video ads more effective. If you are interested in video advertising and want to know how to make the most of your campaigns and media spend, join us at our Open House event, brought to you by Brainient & Albion.

See how we Shine!

Thurs 31st May

Want to know how to make a banner
Want to know how to make a mobile app
Want to know how to make a website
Want to know how to make the most of social media for marketing

This is your opportunity to come and see the inner workings of a small digital agency.

Take on England Team Captain Steven Gerrard in I AM PLAYR Social Football Gaming Challenges

Fri 1st June

We R Interactive blends the best of games, film and TV production to create social games that bring global audiences together around sport and music.

Come down, find out how we do it and bag yourself some goodies.

We’ve just released four very cool new challenges featuring some of the football premiership’s biggest talent – England Captain Steven Gerrard and fellow Premier League talent Jamie Carragher, Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson -
into our social game I AM PLAYR – the first of its kind to let you play the life of a professional footballer.

Take part in the challenge pitching yourself against the country’s biggest football heroes for the chance to win an I AM PLAYR good bag.

Check out the England All Stars challenges trailer here

Played across Facebook, its own dedicated website and MSN UK, I AM PLAYR fuses live action video, interactive story-telling and first-person perspective 3D game play to create a truly original narrative, where the storyline is dictated by the player’s decisions and actions both on and off the pitch.

Location:
We R Interactive
13-19 Vine Hill
London, EC1R 5DW
Time – 12-3pm
Date – Friday 1st June
Twitter: @WeRtweeting