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Arts Council England, South East AmbITion Roadshow

Friday 15th May, InQbate, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton

Organisations 2.0 – the RFO in the digital age

10.00am Tea/Coffee & registration Creativity Zone

Morning session with chair: Lizbeth Goodman, SMARTlab Creativity Zone

10.20am Get Thinking! Welcome from Felicity Harvest and Verity Slater, Arts Council England, South East.

10.35am Introduction to the AmbITion project, the roadshow, and the world of digital development by Hannah
Rudman of AmbITion
Hannah will give a speedy overview of the AmbITion project, explain the focus of the roadshow and talk about why
digital development is essential for the arts sector. Explaining how changes in socio-economic and cultural
behaviours affect the landscape in which we work, Hannah will show how digital developments create benefits and
opportunities for any arts organisation. www.consultrudman.com

11.00am Keynote: Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson is a freelance BBC/Guardian journalist, new media pioneer and board member at arts organisation
New Writing Partnership and has done extensive work on digital development in the sector. Bill has been working in,
on and around the Internet since 1984. He was the founding head of new media at Guardian Newspapers and led
the team that built the first Guardian website in 1994. Bill will help us horizon scan and consider how some of the
implications of technological change might inform long term strategic planning and resource allocation.

11.45am Comfort break & coffee

12.10pm Case Study: Stephen Freeman: New Wolsey Theatre

Stephen from New Wolsey Theatre presents a case study of an arts organisation’s journey through digital
development. He will outline the organisation’s changes, the results and the lessons learnt.

12.45pm Questions from the floor and debate with the morning’s speaker

1.10pm Lunch & Networking Creativity Zone

1.50pm Lizbeth Goodman Founder & Director of the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute & the Creativity Zone
MAGIC Multimedia & Games Innovation Centre, Gamelab and PLAYroom.

Get Immersed! Workshops and Seminars

2.15 - 3.15pm - Session 1 Get Immersed! Workshops and Seminars See overleaf for workshops and
location.
3.20 - 4.20pm - Session 2 Get Immersed! Workshops and Seminars
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Get Immersed! Workshops and Seminars

Parallel sessions looking at practical things you can do to turn your organisation into a Web 2.0 organisation. The
sessions are run twice for one hour each.
Please see the workshop attendee lists if you have forgotten what you pre-booked!

Social Media in Action Workshop Ideas Lab

An opportunity to take your first steps in to social media. A hands on short workshop looking at tagging and
feeding your website effortlessly, creating a page turning on line brochure, mobile live streaming and your very
own voice to text service. This is a quick glimpse in to the potential of social media, and how the web can be
integrated to work for you and your organisation. For the workshop you will require: Sign up to the Amb:IT:ion
digital opportunities network (You will access your profile page during the workshop); Wi-Fi enabled laptop;
Mobile phone capable of text messaging. www.pcmcreative.com 15 people maximum per session.

Participation 2.0 Masterclass with OurManInside Creativity Zone

Social technologist Christian Payne is: www.OurManInside.com. He will talk about his exploits using the latest social
media devices and platforms and give everyone from beginner to expert new ideas about how to get audiences and
stakeholders - and even politicians - engaging with you. 30 people maximum per session.

Beginners Guide to Video Workshop Interact Lab

If you’ve ever wanted to create digital video, this is the workshop for you. Lets Go Global, an Internet TV and digital
video production company, will give insight into what content might exist in your organisation, and how you might
capture and disseminate it! www.letsgoglobal.tv. 15 people maximum per session.

Intellectual Property Advice Masterclass Arundel Building Room 204

OWN-IT will give an overview of the intellectual property (IP) issues around digital content and some of the solutions.
Intellectual property advice from people who know that content and live experience is the business of the arts.
www.own-it.org. 20 people maximum per session.

Afternoon session with chair: Lizbeth Goodman Creativity Zone

4.30pm Get Participating! Twitter Masterclass and Signposting to Resources

4.45pm Question Time & Plenary

A chance to debate with the workshop speakers, ACE and the AmbITion team about digital development and reflect
on the themes of the day.

5.00pm Closing Remarks & Close

5.00- 6.00pm Drinks and Networking