Creative and Digital Expo On Thursday 7th November 2019, Carpe Diem and The Pledge will be holding a creative and digital expo. 150 year 10 students from schools all around Warrington will be able to find out more about the creative and digital sector. They will be exposed to a panel of former students...
Opus Open House – On a Stick… A panel show unlike any other; for entrepreneurs, high growth businesses and digital transformers.About this EventAre you a marketing director or high growth entrepreneur who's asked for the moon?Are you a digital creative, a technologist or an investor that's delivered it?On a stick... brings to light real-world experiences of success...
The Donut Tour, First Bite Half-hour breakfast sessions, from 8am, open to all. Register your interest here. Sept. 17th – Prefab lives, Chris Hillidge from FabLab Sept. 19th – The Pledge, Aimee Ruddy and Stacey Rutter from the LEP Sept 24th – Don’t spoil a good story – Darren Jeffries from Ludovico Sept 26th –...
Opus Launch Night Over 150 delegates attended the launch of our digital and tech dedicated coworking space Opus, here in Pyramid, Warrington. From kanban to psychopaths and Lego to gin and beer tasting; our opening night was nothing if not eclectic. Our thanks go to Ian Carroll of Solutioneers, Dr Amy McKee of...
CONSTRUCTING A LIFE ON MARS How could human life survive on Mars? Where would we live, how would we get around and what about food and oxygen? These questions will be posed to 80 schoolchildren and 20 employer/student ambassadors on March 12th during a workshop delivered by 4wardFutures and hosted by Carpe Diem. The young...
INDEPENDENCE DAY Warrington’s business growth event for new and existing small businesses. A FREE half day business growth event intended to guide and support new and growing small businesses in the Warrington area. This event is organised by Warrington Business Exchange and Colony Networking. The event is offered without cost to WBEx/Colony...
#LinkedInLocal Warrington – Summer 2019 Not heard about this networking movement yet ... then now is the time to tune in! If you're based in or near Warrington, come along to the next #LinkedInLocal Warrington event on Tuesday 25 June 2019. Following the successful and popular events of 2018, the hosting team is...
Priestley College Games Pitch at Opus We welcomed four student gaming companies to Opus and our own Bill Carr sat on a judging panel with Arthur Parsons of TT Games, Mark Gregory of WA Games and Freesphere Entertainment plus producer and Girls Make Games facilitator Caoimhe Roddy. The winning team, Slime Mouse Games, have since taken quirky ‘Shromio’s...
WA1 Games – Warrington Games Meet up Once a month Opus welcomes the members of WA Games who host their meetup in our collaboration space. Always focussed on making, whether pitches by students of Priestley College or expert speakers, like Tom Pugh, Level Designer from Lucid Games; WA Games supports the development and production of new gaming...
GIRLS MAKE GAMES Opus by Carpe Diem is proud to sponsor this game makers workshop at FabLab Warrington. Learn how to make video games with real game developers! A workshop suitable for girls aged 8-15.
Opus Open House WP Engine are bringing their Generation Z research, hot from MTEX 2019, to our second Opus Open House of 2019. Because they grew up immersed in a digital world, Gen Z’s level of dependency on digital experience is more pronounced than other generations. They turn to the web expecting authenticity, entertaining...
Happy Birthday WBEx Bill and Saul spoke at the first anniversary conference of Warrington Business Exchange. Talking about our aspiration to build on the digital and tech ecosystem here in Warrington, we were pleased to get such a positive response from our peers across the public, private and third sectors. Not least our...
Warrington & Cheshire become an LDSP Carpe Diem’s MCD, Saul, chaired the LEP’s collation of voices for a successful application to become a Local Digital Skills Partnership. Recognition of our place in the national digital and tech sectors within government has been reflected by the DCMS decision to grant LDSP endorsement to our plan. Aligned with...
Arts Council of England Visit Darren Henley Chief Exec of ACE hosted by Carpe Diem at Opus. We were pleased and proud to welcome Darren on his visit to Warrington. As part of his guided tour of the town’s cultural developments, he stopped by to see how Carpe Diem are bringing the STEAM agenda to...
Undergrads Exposed To Commercial Realities Our CEO, Bill, interacts as a panelist for the University of Chester’s Media Department. Compered by Ian Rasmussen, Bill sat on a panel with Ali McBride, Development Producer at Lion Television, and Shirley Jones of The Write Word. Meant as a careers session on campus, Bill shared industry expectations and...
Maker’s A to Z MD Thea Burrows and Exec Producer Luke Toyne from Maker shared their alphabeticalised (!) recommendations for commissioning great video content. Born from years of experience, reflected by their Bronze Lion from last year’s Cannes Festival, Thea and Luke’s interactive workshop spanned the whole journey from briefing to multi-platform delivery. The...
How can I find out who is visiting my website? Clients that are concerned about optimising their B2B Online Lead Generation from their website visitors, often ask the question How can I find out who is visiting my website? and the answer is quite a difficult one to explain – especially with the anonymity of website visitors being a big...
Why your website is still one of your most important marketing tools. Every day new methods of marketing come into fruition and can be very useful for different types of brands. However, it doesn’t matter how effective your marketing is if your website isn’t up to scratch. Your website is still a method of marketing and the experience a user has should...
Creating emotions with colour in web design When designing a website, the colour is a very important aspect. The colour gives an emotional feel to the page that users unknowingly judge when then visit. We are going to talk about the fundamentals of the colour theory and how designers use it when creating brilliant websites. We will...
What are people doing on my website? We can get analytics and data telling us where users enter and leave a website and also what pages they go on during, but we never really know how they are navigating through and what they are actually doing. Well, that’s what we thought until we discovered Mouseflow. Mouseflow records what...
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Look Up Warrington A good news campaign, from Opus by Carpe Diem, Look Up Warrington looks to draws attention to the success of the local digital sector and the opportunities that exist for training or reskilling, leading to employment.Supported by sponsors Yellowbus and Birchwood Park, the campaign kicks off with a series of breakfast...
Who Who Opus is for Opus members are digital entrepreneurs, coding artisans and tech facilitators.... Have a read of the profiles below to see if there’s a cultural fit.
What What you getMembership of Opus means a postal address with no rates or utility bills, limitless broadband access, free parking (on a first come first served basis) and flexible, part-time or a full-time / dedicated desk space - based on the package you choose.From bean to cup coffee or our...
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How How it works Carpe Diem set up Opus because, over 20 years, we’ve seen the talent (and sometimes enthusiasm) for digital and tech leave Warrington for bigger smokes because our sector wasn’t visible. So until we have neon signs or a High Street presence, Opus is a destination to demonstrate...
Why Why here?Warrington is going through some changes.We already have the strongest ‘city’ economy in the UK, as part of Cheshire we are officially the fastest growing English region (with a 31 billion pound economy) and, meanwhile, Warrington & Co. is managing a £900m town centre regeneration plan including 20,000 (affordable)...