New high-profile, hi-tech networking events for the creative industries launches in Liverpool.
NorthernNet and Liverpool Sound City have announced a partnership which will enable creative businesses in the Northwest, Yorkshire and the Northeast to take part in an innovative and forward thinking programme of events designed to increase their contacts and expertise, facilitate collaboration, expand their ideas and products, and to survive and thrive in a multi-platform world.
The first NorthernNet Connects Sound City event will be launched in Liverpool at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and will feature an interview with TV Producer, Screenwriter and Cultural figurehead Phil Redmond.
"In conversation with Phil Redmond" will take place on Monday 1st March 2010, 6 – 7.30pm at FACT, Liverpool.
The interview will be broadcast live to Media Access Bureaux positioned at MediaCityUK – Salford and The Round Foundry – Leeds and will also be hosted on the NorthernNet website at www.northernnet.co.uk
This series of master classes and events will also show the benefits that NorthernNet can deliver to northern digital and creative industries, with the unique Media Access Bureaux (MAB) providing companies with industry standard kit and a high-speed digital network with transfer speeds of up to 1GB, all accessible through pay as you go.
The MAB will be particularly advantageous to freelancers and SMEs and will help to create a Northern hub of digital and creative companies which can compete at an international level.
Delivered by industry specialists the events will aim to give a clear picture of who is doing what, where and how and an insight into what’s on the horizon for the industry.
The launch event on Monday 1st March at The Box at FACT in Liverpool will commence with CEO of North West Vision and Media, Alice Morrison, announcing the aims and objectives of the project and the benefits it can bring to creative businesses.
The launch and masterclass will be broadcast live via NorthernNet to the Media Access Bureaux in the Northern hubs.
Mercedes Clark-Smith, Project Director, NorthernNet Innovation and Collaboration Project said: “By partnering with Liverpool Sound City, we hope to create an exciting platform to unite the North’s creative businesses and provide unparalleled access to some of the industry’s most innovative and engaging figureheads.
"As well as the MAB and digital network, another key element of the project is to foster collaboration between northern companies and this partnership will support us in achieving this important challenge.”
Dave Pichilingi, Festival Director at Liverpool Sound City said: "We are delighted to be working on this hugely ambitious and innovative project.
"Sound City is all about bringing together and doing the business for those organisations in the North who operate in the music, media and technology environment.
"The NorthernNet initiative allows us to take this mission to another level and embraces the most cutting edge concepts in business communication for this environment.
"NorthernNet Connects Sound City is a unique collaboration that promises to push the boundaries and provide a range of local, national and international business opportunities across the board.”
Over the coming months NorthernNet Connects Sound City will host a range of Masterclasses and high calibre networking events from international locations such as SxSW Music and Interactive Festival (Texas) in March and the world class Liverpool Sound City Festival and conference in May.
In addition to these they will also host a range of other seminars and workshops at locations across the North West, North East and Yorkshire throughout 2010.
To attend the launch event on 1st March or to find out more about the NorthernNet Connects Sound City programme of events, please contact northernnet@weareboss.co.uk, visit www.northernnet.co.uk or follow twitter.com/northernnet
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