Shift Happened...in York!

Well it did, on July 3rd at York Theatre Royal. Shift really did happen. We ran the conference at York Theatre Royal with the help of YTR and ACE and Science City. The speakers cam and did an amazing job and ys we did create our own mini version of TED (Technology/Entertainment/Design) here in Yorkshire

Shift Happens

Julie Borchard Young (New York Met Opera) Bill Thompson, Tom Fleming, Hannah Rudman, Roma Patel, Paul Sutton, Richard Sobey, Kit Monkman, Richard Slaney and Janice Fraser all joined us to make the day a unique event.

Highlights? well lots but for me the live link to San Francisco to Emmet labs with Janice Fraser launching the new wiki story programme software Beta was a TED moment for us. Bill Thompson and the Bit on an atom story...presentations from Roma Patel in 3-D and he fact that we lost the broadband for Second Life only to find it again for Skype just in time made us realise the nature of live interaction. Plus Dave Moutrey keeping it all together for us on the day. Nice one Dave, we owe you one.

Great posting from Richard Slaney on the Shift Happens wikispace, thanks Richard, with some great info and shared links. Plus Kit Monkman and his talk and potential spin offs to future collaborative ventures all highlight the need for this network and group to continue

Already the facebook group is up to 100 and growing during the last two days which is incredible

More to follow, but we open Fungus in St Andrews nex week, and I am off to present to the new Clore Fellows on the Leadership training programme some of the web 2.0 stuff we have been working on.

So onwards and upwards with the production Team in Scotland - Jamie, Stuart and Frankie, plus Katie and Katie who will be up with the acting team - Eamonn, Jo, Rhiannon, Ebony, Michael, and Mel - we are with you on the nex five week run at The Byre and I will be up next week

But big thanks must also go to Tracy, Katie, Sarah and Mandy for working on the Shift Day and managing the whole day and the 145 delegates.


I will post pictures on the Pilot Theatre site in a bit, but back to the presentaion for Wednesday I need to finish first

Marcus