BrightonJapan Festival 2013
BrightonJapan Festival 2013, recognising the strong link between Japanese innovation in digital matters and computer games, is proud to announce our contribution to the Brighton Digital Festival, with our Digital Playground event on Tuesday 17th September.
Doors open to the marquee in the Old Steine at 4pm, with Japanese bar and food followed at 5pm by a programme that features guest investors in digital enterprises and content. With Ian Livingstone and Bill Liao
At 5pm they sit down with Fred Hasson of Games Capital and Brighton entrepreneur with Victoria Real in the dotcom days, to discuss where investors are putting their money in games and digital apps and technology, and what the UK can do to increase the numbers of successful companies on a global scale, and the improving opportunities for digital entrepreneurs.
At 5.45 Bill Liao as a founder in the Coder Dojo movement will officially launch coder dojo brighton chapter (www.coderdojobrighton.co.uk to get involved) Coder Dojo is a voluntary initiative to teach young people (6-16) programming and digital skills. Its guiding motive is ‘be cool’, and is more eclectic and less tied to curriculum based coding initiatives for young people that have sprung up recently. Come and meet vounteers who have signed up already as Mentors and Champions.
After a beer break at about 7.30 Bill Liao and Ian Livingstone line up with other investors to judge the finalists to the Live Pitch competition. Live Pitch is a format developed by Fred Hasson’s company Games Capital over the last 4 years in the Nordic Region where budding entrepreneurs pitch to investors in front of their peer group – it has worked well with 2012 winners Boldai being snapped up by Linden Labs shortly afterwards. This year we introduced crowdfunding and voting for the finalists.
Hopeful entrepreneurs need to submit one page descriptions of their companies/ideas to Games Capital who will use a panel of experts to choose 4-5 finalists – each finalist gets 5 minutes to Pitch and up to 7 minutes to answer questions from the investors. (www.livepitch.co.uk)
We hope that if successful Live Pitch can contribute to the already entrepreneurial activity in digital businesses in Brighton and become an annual fixture.