Wednesday 17 July 2024
13:00pm - 15:00pm
STEAMhouse, Belmont Works, Cardigan St, Birmingham B4 7RQ
STEAMHouse Design Enhancement Lab: Driving digital efficiency, for creative development, innovation, and growth
STEAMHouse Design Enhancement Lab: Driving digital efficiency, for creative development, innovation, and growth. Please note ALL 3 dates need to attended:
Session 1 – Launch, Learn and Lunch – Tuesday 11th June – 12pm-2.30pm
Session 2 – Regional Speed Networking – Wednesday 17th July – 1pm-3pm
Session 3 – Lunch & Learn – Regional Speed Networking – Wednesday 17th July – 1pm-3pm
STEAMHouse Design Enhancement Lab: Driving digital efficiency, for creative development, innovation, and growth.
Are you a business in Creative and Art, Publishing and TV or Digital, Media, Data and tech?
Are you wanting to improve the efficiency of your processes through Digital Gap identification?
Do you want to find new routes to market and grow your network in the process?
Connect with a central hub which supports your business development across multiple sectors. Come and join the UKSPF Government Funded Programme at STEAMhouse Create Lab! We have experts delivering sessions to support your creative strategy, and also to develop your network which will augment overall regional growth.
When you sign up to the programme, it provides you with 3 activities centered on knowledge exchange, co-creation, networking and collaboration. We recommend that you join us on all three dates for these activities to be effective for your business:
Design Thinking Workshop for Creative Development (Lunch included) – Wednesday 17th July – 12noon – 3pm
Session 3 – Lunch & Regional Speed Networking – Tuesday 17th September – 12 noon – 3pm
Continuing B2B support for long-term growth, take part within a specific meet, greet and relationship building event with businesses across the programme, as well as emerging entrepreneurs.
Complete the programme with a group reflective discussion, looking back at learning and observations, allowing you to evaluate methods in innovating within your specific sector moving forwards.
About the facilitators
Zuby Ahmed, Associate Professor of Game Design, College Academic Lead in Employability & Mobility, Course Director in MA Video Game Development, Birmingham City University.
I am a ‘hybrid professor’: a practicing industry veteran and an academic. Specialising in Games Design and Enterprise & Employability, my passionate for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity facilitates students, academics, and industry practitioners from varied backgrounds to collegiately collaborate, positively transforming practice, place, and people’s lives.
Dr. Mersha Aftab, Senior Lecturer in Design Management, Birmingham City University
My expertise is in human-centred design, and I explore the profound impact of empathy on organisational leadership and transformation. Embedded in industry practice, I have collaborated with companies like Philips, Unilever, and Airbus to drive meaningful change through design innovation. I currently lead an international network called Design-led Transformation, which brings together the public, private and higher education sectors to discuss and articulate the role of design in transformation.
STEAMhouse Forward is fully-funded by the UK government through the UKSPF (UK Shared Prosperity Fund) supporting Birmingham & Solihull businesses to innovate, collaborate and grow. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local initiatives by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus. Application forms are now open to all Birmingham and Solihull businesses to innovation, collaborate and grow via this link
Birmingham City University’s (BCU) STEAMhouse also proudly offers funded memberships to local digital SMEs through the Barclays Eagle Labs Ecosystem Partnership Programme called Digital Direction. This collaboration aims to fuel growth and innovation within the region for digital industry by providing exclusive access to resources, events, and mentoring opportunities.
Successful applicants gain entry to STEAMhouse’s Digital Labs, equipped with cutting-edge technology and business and industry mentors to facilitate hands-on experimentation and skill development. Supported by Barclays Eagle Labs, the Digital Direction initiative fosters a collaborative environment, driving digital innovation and creating valuable opportunities for local entrepreneurs and graduates. Find out about applying for Digital Direction via this link
