Digital Trade Development and Markets

b.TWEEN 2007
b.TWEEN is an annual two-day interactive media forum designed to facilitate the gathering of new media companies and digital entrepreneurs. Last year, Vision and Media offered bursaries for ten digital media companies to attend the event at the National Media Museum in Bradford.
http://www.just-b.com/btween/

Game Developers Conference
Informative and fun, this annual event in San Francisco is a ‘must attend’ for industry professionals. The 2007 conference was hugely successful for a number of Northwest companies, four of whom were supported by Vision and Media and The Northwest Development Agency.
http://www.gdconf.com/

BBC Innovation Labs 2008
The Innovation Labs are a great way of developing ideas, theories and solutions as digital practioners pitch in response to briefs set by New Media and Vision commissioners across the BBC. Now live, nine launch days have occurred around the UK, with support from Vision and Media in the region. For more information, go to http://open.bbc.co.uk/labs. This includes short videos of each commissioner talking through the kind of projects they want to help develop.

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