1. Digital Economy Network Annual Meeting 2017 1 February – Digital Catapult Centre
Professor Sarah Sharples
Director: Digital Economy Network E:
W: @decdtnetwork

2. Today’s Programme Update on recent DEN activities and developments
EPSRC update
Plans for DE Summer School 2017 in London
Presentations from CDT students on DEN events
Lunch and networking
2 x Interactive workshops to discuss and get input on submitted ideas from recent call and potential public engagement activities
Digital Catapult update
CDT Directors meeting at 3pm – 4pm

3. The DEN Team pics Professor Sarah Sharples Felicia Black
DEN Director
University of Nottingham
pics
Felicia Black
DEN Manager
University of Nottingham
Prof Gordon Blair
Co-Investigator
HighWire CDT
Lancaster University
Professor Les Carr
Co-Investigator
Web Science CDT
University of Southampton
Chira Tochia
DEN Social Media Advocate
iPhD Web Science Student
University of Southampton

4. EPSRC Member CDTs
Centre for Digital Entertainment (University of Bath/Bournemouth University)
CDT in Healthcare Innovation (University of Oxford)
HighWire CDT (Lancaster University)
CDT in My Life in Data (Horizon - University of Nottingham)
CDT in Media & Arts Technology (Queen Mary University of London)
CDT in Financial Computing & Analytics (University College London)
CDT in Web Science Innovation (University of Southampton)
CDT in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence (University of York, University of Essex, Goldsmiths University of London)
CDT in Digital Civics (Newcastle University)
CDT in Cloud Computing for Big Data (Newcastle University)
CDT in Embedded Intelligence (Loughborough/Heriot Watt University)
Plus collaborations with other relevant CDTs and Digital Economy Research Hubs

5. DEN 5 Themes
DEN can support activities, training and events for the DE researchers via the following 5 themes:
Sharing best practice across CDTs
Large-scale shared events
3. Sustainable impact of CDT research
Collaborative and specialist training activities
Public engagement and dissemination

6. 25 £32.5k 372 880+ £7.5k DEN Achievements In-kind support:
Total participants at DEN events 25
DEN funded
events
£7.5k
match funding leveraged for DEN events
(non-EPSRC/CDT)
372
Number of CDT student interactions with DEN events
£32.5k
DEN funding awarded for CDT Student/ECR-led collaborative events (DEN Theme 4)
In-kind support:
e.g. Summer School speakers, workshop leaders, Digital YES Mentors, use of facilities e.g. Digital Catapult

7. DEN Events 2016
Futures of the End of Life International Symposium, January 2016, Lancaster University (36 attendees)
DE Summer School 2016, July, Newcastle University Digital Civics/Open Lab (74 delegates)
Exploring Common Values: Diving Deeply into the Digital Frontier, October 2016, Tiree, Scotland (10 PhD researchers from across 4 CDTs)
Cross-CDT Writing Retreats, Wyresdale (45 students)
Webinars hosted by CDTs at Loughborough University and the University of Southampton (100+)
Social Media Advocate-led workshops at CDTs.

8. Future DEN Activities
Double Dabble: A Feminist Day of Making, 4 February, Gateshead.
DEN Cross-CDT Writing Retreat, March 2017, South Leicestershire
Data Publics 3-day Conference: Formation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies – March 2017, Lancaster University/Newcastle University
Entertainment and Authenticity in the Digital Museum (DiMEA), Summer/Autumn 2017, Bristol/Bath
DE Summer School 2017, 4-6 July 2017, Loughborough University London, hosted by CDT-EI.
Digital Entrepreneurs event (CDT alumni start-ups)- TBC