Brighton Dome to be a leading digital conference venue for the Digital Festival

Brighton Dome has been the centre of a number of digital conferences with previous clients including Clearleft, Wired Sussex and Microsoft. Now to mark Brighton’s status as the leading digital conference destination, Brighton Dome is at the heart of a month-long Digital Festival, coordinated by Lighthouse, which features  five iconic digital conferences: dConstruct, Update, Improving Reality, Flash on the Beach and UX Brighton.

With five spaces under one roof – the Concert Hall, the Corn Exchange, Foyer Bar, Founders Room and the Pavilion Theatre – Brighton Dome is one of the most versatile and stylish venues in the South. Built for the Prince of Wales (who became George IV) and steeped in Regency history, Brighton Dome combines state-of-the-art facilities and unrivalled in-house expertise with Grade 1 listed heritage. Able to cater for intimate meetings and events of between 20 - 80 people, the venue can also accommodate larger conferences and events of up to 1742 people.

dConstruct
2nd September
An annual, internationally renowned conference gathering the brightest minds in the design community. This year speakers include Don Norman, Stephanie Rieger and Matthew Sheret.
Organised by Clearleft.
2011.dconstruct.org

Update
5th September
Join top designers and developers from the world of iOS and beyond in a multi-disciplinary exploration of the mobile world. Update is a day of inspiring talks, panel discussions, and tech beats followed by several days of in-depth workshops on iPhone and iPad design and development, mobile web, and mobile user experience.
updateconf.com/

Improving Reality
23rd September
A one-day conference that shows how artists and designers are working with digital technologies to radically re-engineer the world in which we exist. Thinkers and makers from the technology, film, education and art worlds will explore how the current generation of makers is not only attempting to augment reality, but rather to go one step further, and improve reality.
Organised by Lighthouse, it features Julian Oliver, Tassos Stevens (Agency of Coney), Matt Adams (Blast Theory), Alice Taylor (Makieworld), Matt Hanson and many others.

Flash on the Beach
11-14th September
Flash on the Beach brings the best minds in design and development together to share, educate and inspire. This conference offers the opportunity to get hands-on technical training and hear breaking news from the web community and networking opportunities for designers, developers and artists.
flashonthebeach.com

UX Brighton
30th September
Bringing together leading names within the user experience community nationally.
Uxbrighton.org.uk

Maker Faire
3rd September
Join makers, crafters and inventors and interact with fascinating creations, home-spun robotics, garden shed inventions, circuit boards and the occasional fireball. Learn to solder or make a musical instrument at this hands-on day of creative invention and technological discovery for all ages.
Supported by Lighthouse.
makerfairebrighton.com/makers


For further information about the all the events taking place during the Brighton Digital Festival please visit: brightondigitalfestival.co.uk

Contact: Shelley Bennett, Press and PR Manager: 01273 260803 / email.shelley.bennett@brightondome.org or Michael Eppy, Press Officer: 01273 260838 / email.michael.eppy@brightondome.org
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