dConstruct is an annual, internationally renowned conference that gathers many of the brightest minds in the design community to explore big issues in the digital world. This year, speakers including Kevin Slavin, Don Norman, Stephanie Rieger and Matthew Sheret explore how we can bridge the gap between physical and digital product design.
For more information: http://2011.dconstruct.org/
Update is an affordable one-day conference exploring the hottest topics in mobile design and development. Curated by user experience designer and developer Aral Balkan, Update features inspiring talks from top names from the worlds of iOS, web, and user experience including Brendan Dawes, Jeremy Keith, Sarah Parmenter, Matt Gemmell, Jeff LaMarche, and Cennydd Bowles. Their inspirational keynote sessions are punctuated by lively geek ninja battles debating platforms and technologies, and the conference day itself is followed by two days of hands-on workshops on topics ranging from iOS design to HTML5 for mobile. Update’s special guest this year is Ronald Wayne. He founded Apple alongside Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, created the first Apple logo, and wrote the manual for the first Apple computer. He then gave up his 10% share in Apple for just $2,300. If he’d kept it, it would be worth over $30 billion today and would make him one of the world’s 15 richest people.
For more information: http://updateconf.com/
As part of the Brighton Digital Festival, Fabrica is holding a series of three discussion evenings during September. Each with a different theme they will add up to an in-depth look at how social media and the digital space is changing the arts landscape. From artists taking their first steps and learning how to manage their online reputation, to those using the digital space to make work and invite creative participation, to the forces that will reshape arts organisations, challenging elitism and encouraging a diversity of voices into the arts.
Built into each session will be the opportunity to take part in the discussion. There are no experts here – speakers will be those working in this area including artists – we are all still learning and will continue to learn how to negotiate this new, exciting and ever-changing landscape. There will be the opportunity to spend some time networking after each event.
All events are free but booking is recommended – please contact office@fabrica.org.uk or call 01273 778646
For more information: fabrica.org.uk
Are you interested in the spaces where democracy and technology overlap? How can we use open data in ways that support debate? How can we find out what people in the city are saying? What is your top issue for discussion? Hear the latest news from experts in the field, and share and discuss the big issues you think the city’s politicians should be talking about. At this event the Democratic Society Brighton & Hove will be launching CityForum, an month-long democratic discussion programme for the city, online and offline.
For more information: http://brighton.demsoc.org
The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) has its international headquarters at the University of Brighton. An annual nomadic event,hosted in different cities, ISEA is one of most established electronic art events and has been running since 1988. At ISEA2011 in Istanbul (Sept 14-21), the ISEA International Foundation will be holding an ISEA Future Forum to discuss current directions and discuss the future of ISEA with delegates.
Join ISEA Director Sue Gollifer and ISEA Chair Julianne Pierce (Blast Theory) at this informal Brighton gathering to
kick-off discussions about the future of ISEA.
This event coincides with the Semiconductor Exhibition showing in the main Phoenix Brighton and which will be on view during the event.
For more information: www.isea-web.org
For digital marketers from all walks of life, the Brighton Digital Marketing Festival pulls together some of the greatest minds in digital marketing in a single day of interactive learning.
Organised by email and SMS marketing company Pure360, marketers will enjoy interactive workshops from Brighton agencies such as iCrossing, Nixon McInnes, Site Visibility & White Hat Media. They will also hear keynotes from the BBC, DC Storm and mobile innovators Zenith Media. No sitting in the same room all day, The BDMF will use multiple venues such as dynamic arts spaces Lighthouse, Fabrica and the renowned Brighton Dome.
With a capacity of 200 free tickets, we expect the places to go very quickly but fear not there’s a networking after party for all at the Fortune of War from 5pm.
For more information: http://www.Brightondigitalmarketing.com
BrightonSEO has grown from a few people gathering for beers in a pub to one of the UK’s most popular search marketing conferences. This one-day event brings together industry professionals from iCrossing, FHM, Leapfrogg and SiteVisibility to share advice for better performance in Google. The event’s aim has always been to highlight that the city is a hotbed for SEO talent, and provide a ‘Brightonian’ spin on the search marketing conference and networking event. When the last BrightonSEO event sold out in less than ninety minutes we knew we’d done a pretty good job building our reputation as one of the best search marketing events in the UK. The fact that it’s free and held on a Friday afternoon in Brighton doesn’t hurt either.
For more information: http://www.brightonseo.com
BarCampBrighton is an unconference: a conference created and organised by you, the participant. BarCampBrighton is focused on the web, digital art, design and technology.
The conference lasts for 48 hours, with the Saturday and Sunday broken down into eight or nine concurrent tracks of 30 minute sessions. Every attendee is expected to participate in some fashion for one 30 minute slot. You can give a talk or presentation, or show a film or some photographs. We’ve had people host boardgames, show work-in-progress, demonstrate experiments and run drawing classes: the choice is yours!
Encompassing topics such as the open and social web, mobile, games design, usability, user experience, interaction, design, programming and robotics, it is a community-run, free event for 200 people.
For more information: http://barcampbrighton.org
Flash on the Beach is a major international conference, and a highlight of Brighton’s digital culture calendar. It brings designers and developers together to share, educate and inspire. This year’s speakers include Joshua Davis and Ben Fry, who create stunning artworks using digital visual languages.
For more information: http://www.flashonthebeach.com/
The Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network (BSSN) is a research network aimed at supporting research and researchers who work on issues of sexuality.
The theme of the 5th Annual BSSN Conference is ‘Hard Science? Sex, Science and Technology’. It will take place on Thursday 15th September, Grand Parade Site, University of Brighton.
This is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at activists, academics, scholars, member of the LGBT community and community groups, students, documentary and film-makers, writers and artists. Presentations will cover a broad range of questions on research and practice around science, technology, queer, sex and sexuality.
Keynote speakers include:
- Mary L Gray, Indiana University.
- Campbell Ex, Filmmaker.
- Dr Stuart Lorimer and Christina Richards, Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic
For more information: http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/bssn/conf2011/
With over half a million contributing developers in 200+ countries, Drupal powers over 2% of the web including such diverse sites as The White House, Economist.com, Examiner.com, Amnesty International, MTVuk, .net magazine and Data.gov.uk.
From a single-page blog to the world’s biggest sites, Drupal does it all with the same, scalable, open-source software.
Drupal’s flexibility along with 10,000+ modules and themes provides cost-effective websites that integrate with your designers and have the best user interface for your users.
Come along to The Lighthouse in Brighton on Friday 16th September and discover how Drupal can enable your company to embrace communities and harness the power of the social web to deliver real business value.
Join the Drupal revolution!
For more information: http://bad-ass.org.uk
How can technology be used for social good? Come to an evening of ideas and social innovation. Hear about the state of social innovation in the city, from local Royal Society of Arts Fellows, Royal Society of Arts Project staff and the CityCamp Brighton team. Bring your thoughts and proposals to a discuss-and-pitch evening in a friendly informal environment. The best ideas will be given support to apply for funding and expertise from the Royal Society of Arts Catalyst Fund and Skills Bank.
For more information: http://citycampbtn.org/
Improving Reality is a conference curated by Lighthouse that explores how digital artists and designers are radically re-engineering our world.
Thinkers and makers from the technology, film, education and art worlds will explore how the current generation of makers is not only attempting to augment reality, but go one step further, and actually improve reality.
It features artists, Julian Oliver, Blast Theory and Agency of Coney, gaming guru and founder of Makieworld, Alice Taylor, filmmaker and founder of A Swarm of Angels, Matt Hanson, user experience designer, Aral Balkan, and more …
For more information: http://is.gd/reality
Want to improve your web presence? WP-Brighton is a special event in the Brighton Digital Festival calendar, aimed at creating profitable connections between businesses and web professionals.
The event will focus on the ability of WordPress (aka WP) to power dynamic and cost-effective web, social and mobile media communications. Much more than a blogging platform, WordPress has fast become an essential tool for many of the world’s best known brands.
Expect a host of guest speakers from Brighton’s flourishing digital industry, who will share practical tips, tricks and advice – on everything from functionality and design to copywriting and strategy – which you can implement immediately into your company’s online activities. As well as enabling businesses to improve their web presence for clients, WP-Brighton will also provide a forum for digital professionals to come together, collaborate and inspire one another.
For more information: http://www.wp-brighton.org.uk
Pecha-Kucha Night Brighton, as part of Brighton Digital Festival, is exploring how creative makers, designers and artists are using digital technology to inform, inspire and create their work.
Presentations have been invited from practitioners working in different creative backgrounds who use digital technology, from designers and artists to theatre practitioners and filmmakers. Expect an inspirational evening of presentations that will show the breadth of inspirational creative practice possible using digital media.
Pecha-Kucha gives people the opportunity to raise exciting, creative and sometimes controversial ideas, using the Pecha-Kucha style, which is fun and fast-paced. The unique format of Pecha-Kucha gives each presenter six minutes and 40 seconds to share 20 visual images each held for 20 seconds on a screen, keeping the event dynamic and fluid.
For more information : www.pecha-kucha.org/night/brighton/
The phenomenal growth of social networking has transformed the way people and companies communicate and do business. Clients and customers are speaking to each other constantly and as business people we need to be engaging and building better relationships if we want to be part of their future.
Digital Business Brighton is an innovative and informative day of hands-on workshops, seminars and presentations bringing together some of the most knowledgeable and forward-thinking social media speakers and practitioners in the UK.
Digital Business Brighton is a multi-venue event covering every area of social networking for business, from Facebook to Foursquare, Twitter to Google+ and lots more.
Stop playing safe and start being remarkable. Develop your digital mindset at Brighton’s premier digital business conference.
For more information: www.digitalbusinessbrighton.co.uk
A one day ‘unconference’ for anyone involved or interested in user experience design, interaction design, information architecture or usability.
The event will allow people to share and learn in an open environment. Every attendees contributes by running a 25 minute session and all are treated equally. It could be it a talk, demo or discussion. No headliners, no product pitches, just a friendly (if intense) event focused on sharing and socialising as well as learning new stuff.
It is free to attend and tickets will go quickly, so check us out on Twitter @UXCampBrightonor our website for the latest information.
For more information: http://www.uxcampbrighton.org