Attendees heard and saw presentations by Creative Pool partner-members, Black Country Chamber and Business Link’s Aidan Sheridan, and the Director of The Lighthouse Media Centre, Wolverhampton, Frank Challenger.

Interactive Media Centre Manager, Steve Smith, introduced ‘pitches’ from Forward Vision’s David Furmage and Higher Level Music’s Errol Lawson, who appealed for:

“….funding support and a production manager who would be able to co-ordinate the film production for the forthcoming STAR Awards, which celebrate the achievements of people of African descent in Music Film and Sport, and takes place at the I.C.C. in August this year."

Pixel Learning’s Kevin Conti also described how:
"….PIXEL Learning is a Coventry-based company which specialises in applying computer and videogame approaches to e-Learning in order to foster deep, enjoyable and effective learning experiences. The company is developing game engines and complimentary game creation and deployment systems which are aimed at enabling non-technical learning-professionals to create and manage games-based e-Learning".

The ‘audience’ then broke into informal sub-groups who engaged in ‘breakout sessions’ to identify how the Creative Networks format could be best enhanced to suit its user-group.
The results of these have been analysed by the tic team. Since then Peter Rigg has posted comprehensive details of the scope of the discussions and the conclusions and benefits our team has drawn from the exercise.