Looking to improve your digital technology training? Look no further! We’re delighted to be running a special Do It Digital event in conjunction with Fab Lab Plymouth and Small Business Saturday later this month. From social media to 3D printing, this free event is a real boon for the South West with a great line up of talented and knowledgeable speakers.
Date?
27 April 2017
Time?
10am – 1pm
Who?
Small to medium-sized businesses keen to save money with digital tools, especially architects, design companies, construction or marine businesses
Venue?
Plymouth Fab Lab
Cost?
Free
As part of Small Business Saturday’s Do It Digital initiative, Shake Social and Plymouth Fab Lab are hosting a morning of talks and workshops to help you discover what digital tools would help your business go further, faster. From social media to 3D printing, business automation to CAD, our jam-packed session will give you the ideas and insights you need to develop your business digitally.
Small Business Saturday will also be filming the event and streaming it via their social media channels live.
Refreshments will be provided.
Our speakers include:
Jason Marks
As well as being our part-time designer, Jason is Strategic Manager of the Fab Lab and an expert in digital design. He will give an introduction to what is possible using the software, equipment and resources available through the Fab Lab. This will focus on creating prototypes and models and show how these can be produced quickly, cheaply and effectively. This will include looking at optimising workflows through Rhino and Grasshopper software.
Kate Tyler
Kate is Managing Director of Shake Social, one of the UK’s leading social media agencies. Kate will be talking about how you can use social media effectively to grow your audience, build your profile and position yourself as experts in your field. With creative and innovative solutions that will improve your digital presence and – ultimately – your bottom line, this workshop will explain how to stand out online.
Mi Evans
As a business partner with Plymouth Fab Lab, Mi is an expert in prototyping and business automation. Mi will be sharing insights and strategies for business automation and clever technologies to help save money and reduce errors. He’ll be demonstrating how to utilise existing infrastructure to consider other avenues of revenue, and how to use customer information more wisely and profitably.
Peter Robinson
As a training consultant with Autodesk, Peter is a CAD and health and safety expert. This session will aim to offer an introduction to the basic capabilities of CAD and demonstrate how to use it to save money before you cut, print or spend. He will also look at product display, advertising and marketing – how CAD can show your product in the perfect light.
Kate Tyler is the founder of Shake Social and our long time social media expert. A regular speaker at events, Kate offers consultancy and training on a range of digital marketing topics, in particular safeguarding and using social media in an educational setting.