The Sharp Project previews The Campus by hosting a month long series of taster events

This month The Sharp Project, Manchester’s digital content production complex, opens its doors to host a series of industry events specifically for the creative and digital sector, including a range of start-up advice sessions and ‘meet the commissioner’ workshops.

The month-long events programme kicks off on 7th March with the MPA World Class Series with The Sharp Project’s Director Sue Woodward sharing her thoughts on the Global City of Manchester and how Manchester’s creative community can deliver the vital digital agenda.

In the first week Cisco is loaning The Sharp Project a portable ‘TelePresence’ unit allowing tenants and the wider digital community to connect for free to digital cities across the globe and engage with potential new clients. Cisco’s TelePresence technology offers high quality life-like video links.

On March 9th at 11am tenants and the wider digital community are also invited to view an exclusive presentation about the BIG Awards via TelePresence by Cisco business development manager Tom Kneen. Tom will present an overview of the awards, their aims and objectives plus will be able to answer questions on how The Sharp Project’s tenants and Campus members can submit their ideas to the BIG Awards and win £100k.

BBC Learning, CityCo and Deliotte are also all hosting events. Those interested should contact the relevant host organisation or The Sharp Project website to check availability as places are limited and booking is essential.

On March 21st there will be the final Creative and Digital Summit. This is the last of three summit events where The Sharp Project have brought together key influencers and opinion formers to formulate a digital action plan for the region.

The month of activity will culminate on 30 March with free ‘Ask the Experts’ workshops with a range of organisations including The Accidental Business School, Sizzle Media, media law experts Ward Hadaway. Anyone wishing to join a workshop can register their interest by emailing  events@thesharpproject.co.uk.

Sharp Project tenant, Ian Henry from Sizzle Media, who will be hosting a workshop on how to deliver award-winning websites in a budget, commented: “We’ve been part of The Sharp Project community for over a year now and we’re really excited by the next steps in the development. Opening up The Campus to this kind of activity will really benefit us and present all kinds of new opportunities for existing tenants and those who have never visited The Sharp Project before.”

Rose Marley, Interim General Manager of The Sharp Project said:  ‘The aim of this series of events is to give practitioners from the creative and digital sector a taste of what it will be like to be a member of The Sharp Project Campus.  We had originally planned a ‘Fresher’s week’ to launch The Sharp Project Campus but so many organisations wanted to collaborate with us that we quickly realised we had enough activity to extend this to last the whole month.”

Full details of the events programme can be found by clicking here