WebEnabled lecture series

Open Innovation at the BBC

Matt Locke
Head of Innovation, BBC New Media & Technology

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Thursday 15 February
6.30 - 8.30 p.m.

Room G108

Innovation strategies have changed rapidly over the last 5 years as a result of distributed production techniques made possible by the internet. Matt Locke will talk about how the changing media market has created opportunities for the BBC to develop 'open innovation' strategies, including projects like Backstage and  Innovation Labs.

Matt Locke is Head of Innovation for BBC New Media & Technology. He is responsible for developing and running research programmes within the BBC and with external partners, including developing academic and industry partnerships, and developing open innovation initiatives like Backstage and  Innovation Labs. Before that, he was Head of Creative Research & Development within the same division. Creative R&D worked with New Media production teams across the BBC on mid to long term innovation development, helping analyse trends and develop product and service ideas for 3-5 years out. 

He is a regular participant on working groups and advisory boards for other public sector projects and organisations. This has included being on the working group for the Office of the E-Envoy's Digital Inclusion Report, The Advisory Board for Ars Electronica's first Digital Communities award, and the jury for the mobile technology strand of ISEA 2005. He also chairs the External Advisory Panel for the Creative Archive License Group and is on the Board of the Brighton Photo Biennale

Before joining the BBC, Matt worked as a curator and writer, specialising in the social adoption of technology and the cultural impact of digital technology, and still continues to write regularly about these themes for journals and websites.

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