The Big openMIC M

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As part of Bath Digital Festival we have teamed openMIC up with The Big M to bring 2 days of mobile discussion together in Bath.

The first day will be conference style speakers and q&a with a shortened barcamp session.

The second day will be workshops with detailed help on how to take your ideas and business mobile.

The overarching theme for the 2 days will be “The Apps Business”

openMIC #13

When: Thursday 22nd March

Where: Bath Ventures Innovation Centre, Broad Quay, Carpenter House, Bath BA1 1UD

REGISTER HERE for the conference day

The conference day will have 3 main themes:

Developer Communities and Advocacy
1 – Thayer Prime – Follow on Twitter
2- James Parton – Follow on Twitter
3- Tom Hume – Follow on Twitter

Making Money with Apps
4- Kieran Gutteridge – Follow on Twitter
5- Karen B – Follow on Twitter
6- Rick Chapman – Parkview Consulting

The Mobile Web
7 - Peter-Paul Koch – Follow on Twitter
8 – Phil Archer – Follow on Twitter
9 – Laura Kalbag – Follow on Twitter

The Big M Workshops

When: Friday 23rd March

Where: Bath Ventures Innovation Centre, Broad Quay, Carpenter House, Bath BA1 1UD

REGISTER HERE for The Big M workshops

The workshops will be:

Taking your website mobile – Peter-Paul Koch
Creating a native app using phonegap – Kieran Gutteridge – Intohand

More workshops to follow

Gamification & Militainment

Author: openMIC

GAMIFY YOUR RESEARCH, TEAMWORK, LIFEWORK
DISCUSS COLLABORATE EXPLORE GAMIFICATION FOR INNOVATION

FREE WORKSHOP

When: 9th December 2011, 5:30pm

Where: Bath Ventures Innovation Centre

Dr. Patrick Crogan tells us how:

• The Cold War gave us First-person-shooters and Strategy for Massive Multiplayer Wargames
• Play, Flight-simulators & Culture collide
• WarGames create Realworld Communities
• Modern Game culture can outplay War to anticipate Peace

An expert in games and contemporary culture, Dr. Patrick Crogan will show us how computer games originated in developing cybernetic weapons in the 1940′s and how this continues to influence our online culture today. Combining military logic, social critique and his newly published book, Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation and Technoculture, this lecture will finish our series with a bang.

Patrick is on the Executive Board of the Digital Games Research Association and teaches Film and Philosophy, World Cinema, Games, Simulation and Media at the University of West England.

REGISTER HERE

Hosted by The PRIZM Game Company and Bath Ventures Innovation Centre

openMIC 12 – Android and The Internet of Things

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When: Friday December 2nd

Where: Bath Ventures Innovation Centre

This event is FREE – thanks to the kind sponsorship of the ICTKTN

As the cost of hardware capable of running the Google Android operating system goes under $100 there is an opportunity for application developers to create services that run on a dedicated platform. The number of internet connected devices is rocketing and Android devices that are not smartphones or tablets could be a major driver in this growth.

Smart cities, intelligent homes, mHealth application, motoring computing devices all communicating to make the world a better place is the vision but how could a $100 android device provide useful services in the short term?

openMIC 12 will explore this with 4 thought provoking talks in the morning and 2 detailed barcamp sessions in the afternoon for you to build on the ideas and share your own.

Speakers include:

• Graham Fisher

• Tom Melamed

• Stuart Arnott

• Dan Williams

• Kieran Gutteridge

Find out more

Gamification, Gamestorming & the Gods…The Prizm Game

Author: openMIC

GAMIFY YOUR RESEARCH, TEAMWORK, LIFEWORK
DISCUSS COLLABORATE EXPLORE GAMIFICATION FOR INNOVATION

FREE WORKSHOP

When: 4th November 2011, 5:30pm

Find out:

• how to use some simple game elements to improve your innovation workshops

• how to use the best ideas that man and nature ever had, to inspire technology and solve critical problems, in a game simple
  enough for 13 year olds

• what is the journey and ideal final result of all creative play

Dr. Anja-Karina Pahl is the Founder of the PRIZM Game Company Ltd. and has been running gamified innovation workshops for some of the top 500 Companies for the last 7 years. Her methods bring high-tech teams ROIs over 2000% – billions in new product development. She is currently working on a massive multiplayer version of her innovation game to involve youth, charity and industry, with brilliant partners in European Games and Apps.

REGISTER HERE

Hosted by The PRIZM Game Company and Bath Ventures Innovation Centre

Gamification, Design and Beyond …

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GAMIFY YOUR RESEARCH, TEAMWORK, LIFEWORK
DISCUSS COLLABORATE EXPLORE GAMIFICATION FOR INNOVATION

AUDIENCE WANTED !!!
ENJOY THE PRESENTATION, BEER, GAMES & CONVERSATION AS OUR GUEST

When: 28th October 2011, 5:30pm

Speaker: Dan Dixon

Find out:

• how gamification is infiltrating consumer marketing

• why game designers should move from simple surface applications to more engaged, gameful design

• the history and presence of a sensitive thoughtful approach to using games in everyday life

Dan Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Creative Technologies at the University of West England. He researches how people interact with technology, especially at the interface of digital games and
the real world. Prior to moving to academia, he was a senior consultant with Headshift, a social software Co., Product Manager for BBC’s online communities and Production Director for new
media agency Syzygy.

Hosted by The PRIZM Game Company and Bath Ventures Innovation Centre

Gamification, Innovation and Transformation …

Author: openMIC

The Gamification network holds its next event at Bath Ventures Innovation Centre

AUDIENCE & EXTRAS WANTED FOR FILMING :
ENJOY THE PRESENTATION, BEER, GAMES &
CONVERSATION AS OUR GUEST

When: 21st October 2011, 5:30pm

Speaker: Anja – Karina Pahl

Find out:

• why Innovation Managers and Engineers should gamify problem-solving
• how gamification can turn high-tech to high-touch and high empathy
• how to recognise the fundamental pattern that’s intrinsic to universal creation, mass
collaboration, team communication and everyday product development
• How to do what you already do – better, and almost 300% faster than you imagined
possible

Its a happy accident that scientific breakthroughs can be applied more quickly, easily and beautifully as a Game. Anja’s own breakthrough system is run as innovation games and gamified programmes for top 500 companies in Aerospace, Medicine and Banking. It may also open up a new area for technical engagement and collaboration between Industry, Charity, University and the Community – a potentially massive multiplayer Game for the Greater Good.

Hosted by The PRIZM Game Company and Bath Ventures Innovation Centre

Game play gets serious

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Gamification Network launches in Bath 5pm Friday 7th Oct

The Gamification Network is launching at the Innovation Centre in Bath this Friday with guest speaker Prof.Sarah de Freitas, Director of the
Serious Games Institute and Fast Company’s ‘Most Influential Woman in Technology’

If you want to capture the power of game-play for business or innovation you’re not alone – a survey by Gartner showed that ‘by 2015, more than
50% of companies that manage innovation will gamify their processes’

Games don’t just make incredible profits in Apps and online. They’re mechanisms for working better, improving productivity and motivating
behaviour across the board – from street kids to CEOs.

Video and photos from openMIC#10

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Our 10th event was a massive success last week with our new format going down well with all the attendees.

Below you can see the full interview by Chris Book with Stephen Mellish of Radical Company.

Thanks to Kingmonkey Media for the photos and video.

Event: openMIC#10