NWT Tech Talks Online

After a short break away from North Wales Tech events during lockdown, we're back with another online tech talks event!

Main talks, around 20 minutes each:

• Teaching with Games, Learning with Play - Chris Headleand

• Broken Eggs: A Human Centred Design Evaluation - John Lovegrove

• UltraVisual ... 3D Images from Sound Waves - Tom Burke

We also have some time for some 5 min lighting talks if anyone is interested in giving one.

Speaker Profiles:

Chris Headleand is an Associate Professor with over 20 years experience in a variety of teaching and learning roles. He is currently the director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln. His research interests include Virtual Reality, Student Engagement, Serious Games, and Learning Communities.

John Lovegrove is owner of Canary Designs based in St Asaph. John studied Ergonomics BSc at Loughborough University between 1996 and 2000. John has had a varied career from working with Airbus and the RNLI on their lifeboat designs, to ensuring human factors are considered in nuclear reactor systems design. John is always seeking out new knowledge and experiences ensuring that his knowledge and design tools are still relevant to the current marketplace and design community.

Tom Burke is the Managing Director Animated Technologies which he co-founded with his wife Anna in 2017. Tom started his animation career by first developing a love for it in Llandrillo college. From there he studied animation at Edinburgh College of Art where he developed and honed his skills more. Tom has extensive experience in animation and in developing creative and clever animations to explain the most complex concepts and situations.