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Jag Gill

Jag Gill has written 16 posts for Unsheffield

Jag organises grassroots technology events aimed at bringing geeks and not-geeks together in a physical space. He digs community and collaboration, and the possibilities that are opened up by harnessing people's passion for doing good things. In his professional life as a business analyst he straddles the no-mans-land between people who make technology and those who just want to get things done.

Unsheffield USE Stimulus: Call For Submissions

By Jag Gill ⋅ June 1, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Unsheffield kicks off with an injection of ideas on the evening of Fri 19 Jun at 7:00pm. We’re inviting participants to offer lightning talks exploring all dimensions of the Future Users of Cool Technology theme. We’ll pull these together in an intense back-to-back stream of topics that will challenge our perceptions of technology, where it fits in our lives and how we go about producing and consuming it. This session is called USE Stimulus and will spark the ideas that shape the agenda of Unsheffield. The deadline for submissions is Sunday 14 June 2009.

University of Sheffield Enterprise

By Jag Gill ⋅ June 1, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

The Stimulus night that kicks off Unsheffield will serve up a smorgasbord of ideas that point the way forward for makers and users of technology, and we’re delighted that the University of Sheffield Enterprise have joined Unsheffield as event partner to help make this happen. Social enterprise and pragmatic innovation feature significantly in the Unsheffield programme, and combining technology and social research from academic circles with industry generates great opportunities to produce progressive solutions that provide real life-changing value to people.

Evernote

By Jag Gill ⋅ May 29, 2009 ⋅ One comment

So much is going on at Unsheffield that it’ll be nigh on impossible for any single individual to be involved in it all. We’re anticipating over 70 talks and sessions in 4 zones across 3 days. That’s a lot of ideas coming out, and a lot of content building up. We don’t want our participants suffering from information overload, so we’re really happy that Evernote have stepped in to help us capture, share and remember the memories that will form over what’s going to be an intensely creative weekend of innovation and knowledge-sharing.

Future Users? Cool Technology?

By Jag Gill ⋅ May 28, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

So who are these Future Users we’re talking about? And what do we mean by Cool Technology? Why should the former care about the latter? And why should we care that they care about it? All these questions, and many more besides, are exactly the kind we hope to understand better at Unsheffield.

CIDA & ECCE Innovation Project

By Jag Gill ⋅ May 20, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Independent creative innovation catalysts CIDA are the first official sponsors of Unsheffield. They are instrumental in delivering the ECCE Innovation Project, an initiative which stimulates the digital and creative industries in a dozen selected cities around Europe. We’re very excited that CIDA have selected Unsheffield as a partner event to help realise the project goals in this European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

Unsheffield fka BarCamp Sheffield

By Jag Gill ⋅ May 7, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

BarCamp Sheffield has evolved to Unsheffield, and is taking the technology unconference format to a broader public. Participant-generated content still remains at the heart of the event. Mixed up alongside are public workshops that create a bridge between local and regional talent and the international event and its contributors.