New Creative Technologies

In collaboration with Game Republic and XR Stories - Join us in at Kommune in Sheffield for the New Creative Tech event looking at the latest innovations in creative tech for games, film and TV. The day includes talks, panels and demos, followed by drinks and networking at the National Videogame Museum.

Date and time

Thu, September 19, 2024

02:00 PM BST

Location

Kommune, Castle House, Angel St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S3 8LS


If you are working in game development, film or TV production, join the Barclays Games and creative team, Game Republic and XR Stories on the 19th of September at Kommune in Sheffield for the latest insights on new technologies including XR (virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality), virtual production, AI and the trends and innovations that are shaping immersive and engaging experiences for audiences worldwide.

There’ll be talks and panels discussions with leading games, film and TV industry experts who are working with new creative technologies, followed by networking, games-playing and drinks at the fantastic National Videogame Museum next door.

The event will give you a great opportunity to network with like-minded individuals and gain
valuable insights into the industries - and there will also be a showcase of innovative tech
companies there too including Beam XR, Reflex Arc and a host of brand new companies showing
fantastic new games from the Game Republic/York & North Yorkshire Combined Authority
Games Studio Start-Up Bootcamp.

 

Sessions already confirmed include:

 

Fireside Chat with Caroline Cooper-Charles and Barry Ryan

Caroline Cooper-Charles

Chief Executive of Screen Yorkshire

Barry Ryan

Head of Production, Ink Factory

Caroline Cooper-Charles, Chief Executive of Screen Yorkshire in conversation with Barry Ryan, Head of Production, Ink Factory on his incredible body of work while previously at Warp Films including smash hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Andy Nyman & Jeremy Dyson’s Ghost Stories and Chris Morris’s BAFTA winning first short My Wrongs 8245-8249 &117 and Four Lions, and Tyrannosaur for Warp X, as well as the use of technology in film-making and current and future landscape for film production in the UK.

 

Fireside Chat with Ashley Day and Jamie Sefton

Ashley Day

Head of Developer Relations, Team17

Jamie Sefton

Managing Director, Game Republic

Ashley Day, Head of Developer Relations, Team17 discussing his career with Jamie Sefton, Managing Director at Game Republic, including being deputy editor of gamesTM, launching the Wii U and Switch at Nintendo UK and now helping indie developers make their dream games a reality at Team17 – plus how Team17 is handling a fast-changing global market, using new technologies and discovering new games.

 

Tales of Technology with Judi Alston

Judi Alston

Creative Director and CEO, Dreaming Method

 

Judi Alston, Creative Director and CEO, Dreaming Methods on using technology to tell stories for social change, with their XR Stories-funded demo The Pit Camp about the 40th anniversary of the Miners Strike, and the homelessness project Streets of Change.

 

The Future of XR with Jed Ashforth

Jed Ashforth

CEO of Realised Realitie

 

Jed Ashforth, CEO of Realised Realities was instrumental at Sony in bringing PlayStation VR and VR2 to life and joins the event to talk about the present and future of XR.

 

Schedule

2pm – 3pm: Demos and networking

3pm – 3.45pm: First talk sessions

3.45 – 4.15pm: More demos and networking

4.15pm – 5pm: Second talk sessions including AI panel

5pm-7.30pm: Drinks and networking at the National Videogame Museum

7.30pm - Late: Afterparty

Date and time

Thu, September 19, 2024

02:00 PM BST

Location

Kommune, Castle House, Angel St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S3 8LS