£10,000 to trial your technology media startup on consumers

Posted by John King on February 7, 2011 under Competitions | Read the First Comment

The Technology Strategy Board is investing £200,000 in up to 20 consumer trials of new digital products and services across creative market sectors including Music, TV/Film and Publishing – and would like to offer you the chance to participate.

You’ll need to submit a video and simple business case by 11 March 2011.  40 applications will be selected to go through to a final face-to-face panel session at the end of March. Your entry will be reviewed by the Technology Strategy Board with the help of leading digital content industry figures. If you’re successful, you will receive up to £10,000 in support of a six month consumer trial on the new IC tomorrow digital test bed.

Register your interest and apply to take part by visiting www.tinyurl.com/ict-contest.

See Michael Bayler live!

Posted by John King on December 16, 2009 under Videos | Be the First to Comment

Michael Bayler is an innovation strategist and futurist who knows what happens next in marketing, branding, media and technology. He impressed Florian so much at a Sun Startups event that he invited him to speak at Royal Holloway on January 21st.

For a preview of Mike in action, take a peek at this video from Sun.