Interactive Tayside

Scottish Development International is hosting a Preparing for International Growth Advanced Programme in Dundee starting on the 29th February 2012.

This programme, run over five days, is free to Scottish companies and is fully funded through Smart Exporter.

Date of the workshops:

29th February, 1st March, 14th March, 15th March and 28th March 2012

How to apply

Register to find out more about this free programme 

Who should attend?

The Preparing for international growth advanced programme is ideal for Scottish companies who are already experienced exporters and wish to develop their export capabilities to grow their businesses.

This programme runs over five day workshops. Companies are expected to attend all workshops to complete the programme.

How your company can benefit

Benefits include: 

• Expanding knowledge and expertise in the more advanced aspects of exporting 
• Developing a market development plan to help your business to grow 
• Gaining the skills & confidence to succeed in highly competitive international markets

Topics covered in the programme will include:

• Finance and international value pricing
• Distribution channels and contracts
• International marketing and communication skills
• Getting the best out of exhibitions and missions
• E-business international sales skills
• Setting up and managing overseas operations
• Strategic alliances/joint ventures/acquisitions
• Producing and presenting an international action plan
• Licensing/franchising deals

Smart Exporter trade skills programme is delivered by Scottish Development International (SDI) supported by the European Social Fund.

For further information: Kirsteen Higgins (kirsteen.higgins@scotent.co.uk)

Interactive Tayside invite you to come along to the new Dundee College Campus at Gardyne Road in Dundee on 1 March to network with like-minded individuals.

The event, held from 8.30 – 10 am, is a great chance for creative individuals from Dundee and the surrounding area to get together for relaxed chats and informal networking. This event is free to all.

Do you want to start a business? Are you looking for a new job? Could you benefit from extra support or training in 2012? Would you like a bit of extra motivation to help seize your opportunities this year?

The event & exhibition is open to anyone who is interested in moving forward in 2012, whether that’s starting a business, finding a job, changing career or adding to the skills and qualifications you already have to find something new.

Come along and talk to lots of local companies about the job vacancies coming up in 2012.

Chat to our exhibitors about the support that they can give you to achieve your goals in 2012.

There is also a programme of great presentations designed to give more information about enterprise, using social media to get ahead and taking positive action.

For more information

Please visit www.EnterpriseShow.eventbrite.co.uk to preregister for the event and any of the presentations you’d like to attend.

News about the show will appear on Facebook & Twitter too.

For further information: John Scott (john.scott@dundeecity.gov.uk)

The MEDIA Programme is the European Union’s financial support programme for the audiovisual industries. It currently comprises 17 different funding schemes, each targeting a different area of the audiovisual sector.The programme operates in seven-year funding rounds and has existed since 1991. The current programme, MEDIA 2007, commenced on 1 January 2007 and will run to 31 December 2013. It has a budget of €755 million to support training, project development, and the distribution and promotion of European audiovisual works.

The MEDIA Programme offers funding schemes for producers, distributors, sales agents, organisers of training courses, operators in new digital technologies, operators of VoD platforms, exhibitors and organisers of festivals, markets and promotional events. The MEDIA Information Roadshow would be suitable for audiovisual and interactive industry professionals from Dundee.

For further information: Emma Valentine (Emma.Valentine@creativescotland.com)

Digital 2012 is Scotland’s leading conference for the digital, creative and cultural sectors, created by Interactive Scotland in partnership with AmbITion Scotland.  The conference offers a range of world-class speakers and an excellent platform for meeting interesting people and sharing ideas. 

The theme for Digital 2012 is Monetising Opportunities.  As the global economy suffers, we all need to consider how to build a sustainable business with robust strategies to generate revenue from multiple streams.  Making connections across sectors is a key method of building a sustainable business and Digital 2012 will provide a range of opportunities for you to meet new contacts from across Scotland and find ways to collaborate.
 

You will leave Digital 2012 with:
• an address book full of contacts of potential collaborators
• an understanding of where the monetisation and growth opportunities lie for your business or project; and
• an insight into the future predictions for the global digital, creative and cultural sectors.

Digital 2012 starts with morning workshops focussed on teaching you how to make the most of monetisation opportunities for your project or business.  The workshop themes include Creating Sustainable Ideas, Scoping the Market Opportunity, Launching your Product or Service, Accelerating Sales, Partnerships and Collaboration and Internationalisation.
 

The afternoon conference brings together a range of industry experts within the digital, creative and cultural sectors. They will give future predictions for the industry; provide an insight into how to collaborate, win contracts and investment; and show how to maximise the monetisation opportunities for your content, product or service across multiple channels.  We will hear from industry experts who have increased revenue, scale and impact from their digital or creative ideas on how they did it.  The conference will conclude with an industry panel debate where a range of experts will discuss the challenges facing the digital and creative sectors and how companies can capitalise on the opportunities.
 

A full exhibition will run throughout the day where we will bring together a range of digital, creative and cultural businesses to showcase products and services and share ideas with the conference delegates.  To exhibit at Digital 2012 contact us

A few sponsorship packages are still available for this conference.  Contact us for further details.

Plus!
Join us the night before for an evening of networking and light entertainment.  Relax, have a drink and meet lots of interesting people from across the digital and creative sectors.  Hear about the opportunities to compete for investment to fund your collaborative digital idea. Speakers from the main conference and workshops will be in attendance to share their thoughts and experience of how to monetise opportunities.

BOOK YOUR PLACE AT DIGITAL 2012

The cost to attend this event is £30.00 which gives you access to both day 1 and day 2 of the conference.  Please note, this cost is to cover the catering costs for the event only, the rest of the event has been kindly subsidised by our wide network of generous event partners.

Smart Exporter is delighted to invite you to this free event aimed at Scottish Technology Businesses who desire to increase their business profitability and growth through international markets.

Come meet and listen to our guest business speakers who will provide their thoughts on how they have managed to successfully grow their business at an international level.

Dr Steve Parkes, Managing Director, STAR-Dundee

STAR-Dundee Ltd specialises in supporting users and developers of SpaceWire, a standard for data communications onboard satellites and spacecraft. SpaceWire is being used on ESA, NASA and JAXA spacecraft as well as by agencies, research organisations and space industry across the world. STAR-Dundee is also the winner of two SMART awards from the Scottish Executive in recognition of its cutting-edge technology.

Andrea Gardner, Managing Director, Purple Feather

Purple Feather is an online Strategic Marketing company. Purple Feather find themselves in an unusual positions with a large number of international clients wanting to do business with them as a result of a truly remarkable video they produced, which has received over 11 million hits on YouTube (The power of words video). Andrea will share her story about the video, which has captured her global clients.

This is a must attend event which will provide you with:

• Speakers who will share their experience, concerns, challenges and opportunities in global markets.
• An understanding as to the importance of technology in international growth and how to add value to your business.
• A range of a support to help you prepare, plan and embark on international growth.

To book your place, please email: enquiries@smartexporter.co.uk

Smart Exporter is an ambitious new international trade skills programme, designed to increase exporting skills and knowledge amongst Scottish businesses. This initiative is funded by Scottish Development International (SDI), Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) and the European Social Fund.

For further information: Gabrielle Cairns (gabrielle.cairns@scotent.co.uk)

Creating New Revenue Streams – Making the Most of your Intangible Assets

This interactive Workshop will include: The IA Pathway to creating new revenue streams (identify, record, protect, communicate, commercialise); potential routes to revenue generation, including:  sales of product/service, trading IA (assignment, licensing, franchising), joint venture/collaboration; securing investment; business succession; new business models; Key IA messages for different purposes – sales, collaboration, investment etc.; Presentation of “Elevator pitches” by companies communicating their IA for a selected purpose (sales/collaboration/investment etc).  This session has the objective of increasing participant knowledge about how they can use their IA to increase business opportunities and income.  It will also enable participant companies to consider how to manage and present their IA for different income generating purposes.

This Workshop is delivered in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, the Intellectual Property Office, the Innovation Portal and Interactive Tayside.

Participating businesses may register for individual Workshops, or the full Workshop programme.  Participants will be offered free in company consultancy by IA Centre Advisers to take forward actions identified during the workshop programme. 

Businesses wishing to register for these Workshops may register directly on the IA Centre website listing for each event at:

http://www.ia-centre.org.uk/

The Workshops will run as half day events from 930am – 1pm, taking place at Scottish Enterprise, Enterprise House, 3 Greenmarket, Dundee DD1 4QB (Ideally situated, adjacent to both Dundee Rail Station and local NCP Car Park. 

Businesses wishing to discuss the programme prior to registration may contact: Martin Layton (martin.layton@ia-centre.org.uk) or David Hughes (david.hughes@ia-centre.or.uk ), or telephone the Intellectual Assets Centre (Tel: 0141 243 4920).

For further information: Martin Layton (martin.layton@ia-centre.org.uk)

Boosting your Brand – Developing your Branding through Intangible Assets

This interactive Workshop will introduce the concepts of: Brand Perception and brand value; managing Intellectual Assets (IA) to build your brand; and using Intellectual Property (IP) to develop and protect your brand investment.  This Workshop will enable participants to use their IA to manage, protect and enhance their brand and develop a “take away” action plan.  It will also enable participant companies to develop strategies for influencing how their business offering and reputation is perceived externally by existing and potential customers – and internally by employees.

 This Workshop is delivered in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, the Intellectual Property Office, the Innovation Portal and Interactive Tayside.

Participating businesses may register for individual Workshops, or the full Workshop programme.  Participants will be offered free in company consultancy by IA Centre Advisers to take forward actions identified during the workshop programme. 

Businesses wishing to register for this Workshop may register directly on the IA Centre website listing at:

http://www.ia-centre.org.uk/

The Workshops will run as half day events from 930am – 1pm, taking place at Scottish Enterprise, Enterprise House, 3 Greenmarket, Dundee DD1 4QB (Ideally situated, adjacent to both Dundee Rail Station and local NCP Car Park. 

Businesses wishing to discuss the programme prior to registration may contact: Martin Layton (martin.layton@ia-centre.org.uk) or David Hughes (david.hughes@ia-centre.or.uk ), or telephone the Intellectual Assets Centre (Tel: 0141 243 4920).

For further information: Martin Layton (martin.layton@ia-centre.org.uk)

Finding your Hidden Value – Identifying, capturing and protecting your Intangible Assets 

This interactive Workshop will help you to identify the key intellectual assets operating as value drivers in your business and develop strategies for their management and protection.  The content will include: an Introduction to intellectual assets (IA); understanding and managing intellectual property (IP) as part of your IA;IdentifyingIAand the value of undertaking an IA Audit.  The Workshop will also include an introduction to further, free, support from the IA Centre to help you to protect, manage and commercialise your IA and IP.  

This Workshop is delivered in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, the Intellectual Property Office, the Innovation Portal and Interactive Tayside.

Businesses wishing to register for this Workshops may register directly on the IA Centre website listing at:

http://www.ia-centre.org.uk/

The Workshop will run as half day events from 930am – 1pm, taking place at Scottish Enterprise, Enterprise House, 3 Greenmarket, Dundee DD1 4QB (Ideally situated, adjacent to both Dundee Rail Station and local NCP Car Park. 

Businesses wishing to discuss the programme prior to registration may contact: Martin Layton (martin.layton@ia-centre.org.uk) or David Hughes (david.hughes@ia-centre.or.uk ), or telephone the Intellectual Assets Centre (Tel: 0141 243 4920).

For further information: Martin Layton (martin.layton@ia-centre.org.uk)

Passionate about gaming? Want to work in the games industry? Fancy yourself as a programmer, an animator, an artist, a tester or even a game designer? Then this event is for you. This FREE event gives YOU the chance to meet Scotland’s top games development studios and learn of the variety of jobs available in the Scottish Games Industry. Scotland is home to some of the world’s most successful games development studios creating top selling titles, notably smash hits the Grand Theft Auto franchises, State of Emergency, Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, Lemmings, Denki Blocks for the Sky TV Platform and Championship Manager for mobile and the multi-award winning Crackdown for XBox360. You will hear presentations from various games companies across Scotland – including console, mobile and interactive TV development studios – and from employees within these companies. Learn of the variety of excellent jobs available within this exciting industry from games design through to quality assurance. Also learn about ‘Dare to be Digital’ – a unique industry-backed video games development competition for teams of students studying at all universities and art colleges. The afternoon will consist of a series of informal, yet informative, presentations and allow plenty of opportunity for you to chat with Scotland’s games companies.

For further information: Susan Cox (susan.cox@scotent.co.uk)