What a pleasure it was to get together with other digital leaders to celebrate the first anniversary of Digital Leaders North West. It was a mixture of 'old hands' and 'newbies' who gathered at Manchester Metropolitan University's Shed (which has become our home) to talk digital and eat cake (well, what birthday party is complete without cake?)
It was great to welcome Robin Knowles from Digital Leaders who gave an overview of how Digital Leaders came about and its history over the last few years.
The key aim of the meeting was to recap on what we've learnt and shared together over the last year and consider subjects and issues we'd like to cover in future.
Here's a romp through what we've done this year:
Here's a selection of people's highlights:
And here are some thoughts on what people would like to get out of future meetings and some suggested themes:
As you can see, there’s a lot of exciting things coming up at Digital Leaders North West in future. We’ll be holding our next meeting on Thursday 13 August where we will be discussing all things Open Data. So please save the date and register here: http://digitalleaders.co.uk/digital-leaders-north-west-salon
You can also join the Digital Leaders North West group on the Knowledge Hub to continue the conversation.