Chinwag Live: Skills Emergency
Event Info
Description
The skills shortage in digital media is worsening. 2008 promises to be a crunch year for some and the pain is widely distributed. So what are we going to do about it?
People are moving around and big brands are offering glitzy packages. But this is just the industry cannibalising itself, not growing the digital gene pool...
As demand for digital media and services increases, companies are feeling the squeeze as talent is not coming into the industry in sufficient numbers. Many businesses struggle to train staff and augment their abilities.
The UK is a hub for creative and technical talent, so smart solutions must be possible. Training, mediated internships, bringing people over from print, radio and TV... what else can we do? Join us to discuss the options..
Where Are The Pictures?
Photographic evidence from the event, if you've got photos you'd like to add, let us know.
| www.flickr.com |
More on Skills Emergency
Unless these issues are addressed, the knock-on effect for the digital and related industries will be severe. Innovation and competitiveness will be diminished.
What is the role of government agencies like Skillset, NESTA, and the Regional Development Agencies? How are the many roles in new media repesented as careers in schools?
Join us on 29th January as Chinwag brings together experts from across the spectrum of recruitment, HR, creative agencies and business support bodies to assess initiatives that are up and running, discuss new plans in the works, and debate other potential solutions.
Speakers
Matt Alder - Head of Digital,
Barkers
After initially working as Online Marketing Manager for an internet
content company, Matt became involved in online recruitment nine
years ago, spending seven years as Head of Interactive Media with
TMP Worldwide before joining Barkers as Head of Digital early in
2006. Matt has played a key role in developing innovative online
recruitment methodologies over the last few years and has set up
teams that have devised some of the Europe’s biggest and most
complex online recruitment campaigns. He helped pioneer the use of
tracking tools in this space in the UK and has spoken at numerous
conferences on various aspects of global online recruitment. Matt is
co-founder of one of the industry’s leading blogs,
Digital
Recruiting Blog.
Tim Elkington - MD,
Enhance Media
Tim is the MD of Enhance Media - the specialist online recruitment
communications agency. Enhance Media helps employers recruit
effectively using the internet and works with employers such as AXA,
Dell and T-Mobile. Before launching Enhance Media in 2001, Tim was
the Head of Research at Workthing.com and was part of the core team
that launched the brand from the Guardian Media Group. Prior to
Workthing, Tim worked in the planning department of the Guardian
where he was responsible for research and sales support material
across the Guardian network of sites, including Guardian Jobs. At
Enhance Media Tim has also initiated NORAS - the UK's largest online
recruitment research project. Tim blogs at
'Online Recruitment - the bigger picture'
Harry Fowler - Group Digital Recruiter,
AMV
Group
Harry Fowler moved into the web world in 1996 helping to
shape the digital community in Edinburgh before leaving for London
to work with a commercial property portal in 1998. Moving into
recruitment Harry was snapped up by Major Players Ltd in 1999 and
has recruited through the boom and bust of the digital era. Harry
focuses his time on client services (suits to you) whilst keeping an
eye on emerging markets and sectors. Working with some of the
biggest and best, agencies and brands alike, Harry continues to help
develop the digital marketplace as it moves from strength to
strength.
Laura Jordan Bambach - Head of Art,
Glue &
Co-founder, She
Says
Laura cut her teeth as a key figure in the infamous Geek Girl
hyperzine in the early nineties, and has been involved in the design
and implementation of many of the world's most cutting edge digital
projects for international brands as diverse as Levi's, Mini, We Are
What We Do and Coke. She has consistently won awards for her
commercial work. Laura teaches dynamic lab-based and technical
digital media classes at major universities. Together with
Alessandra Lariu she founded SheSays in 2006 and it currently has
500 members. SheSays is an initiative to help more women to start or
develop a creative digital career, focusing on monthly free events,
and a mentorship programme.
Fiona Kilkelly - Interactive
Manager, Skillset
As Interactive Media Manager at Skillset, the Sector Skills Council
for the audio visual industry, Fiona works with industry, training
providers and government to address the interactive sector's skills
and business support issues across the UK. She is also a senior
consultant with Digital Public designing and launching online
services for a number of public sector clients. Fiona had directed a
number of important arts and media festivals, including the
Galway
International Film Fleadh; the Irish International Children's
Arts Festival; devised and delivered nationwide training programmes
for the Irish film and television industry; produced websites for a
variety of organisations including Chase Manhattan Bank and Granada
Media; and served as the Director of the UK's
Digital Content
Forum, working closely with key government departments to broker
new relationships with industry and stimulate new thinking on
digital media.
CHAIR: Sam Michel - CEO,
Chinwag
Sam founded Chinwag in 1996, as
a place to discuss the emergence of the digital marketing industry.
From the initial email discussion list,
uk-netmarketing, Chinwag has become the UK's leading community
for new media and digital marketing professionals. The site has
grown to include lists covering
design,
usability,
wireless
marketing and
viral marketing,
leading recruitment website,
Chinwag Jobs
and networking events. Sam was one of the UK's first full-time
webmasters for Time Out magazine, executive producer of the
award-nominated movie website, Popcorn.co.uk, for Carlton plc and
consults on email marketing projects for clients including MSN.
- Mandy Berry - Director, Zero-One
- Thayer Driver- Co-founder, Chinwag Jobs
- Robin Gurney - Owner, Altex Marketing & Founder, Angloestonian
- Craig Hanna - Training Director, E-consultancy
- Steve Hutson - European Manager for New Media, Aquent
Podcast
