Hot Bed Of Creative Collaborations On Show At IBC

Trail blazers in Northern Ireland's emerging creative digital hub are to be showcased at Europe's largest industry show, IBC.
Crea8ivity.com will exhibit a specially commissioned showreel of locally produced content that exemplifies Northern Ireland talent in the field of online experiences from gaming, to e-learning, entertainment and training.
They will be accompanied by a range of local creative and web-enabling companies that includes names such as Sonic Academy Online, Banjax Studios, Amphion Semi-Conductor, and APT that demonstrates the province's particular strengths in web technology and web content development for global markets.
Jeffrey Peel, of crea8ivity.com explained: "We're in Amsterdam to give delegates a flavour of the great web content emerging from a hot bed of creative and IT collaborations in Northern Ireland, such as ConstantComedy from Wild Rover Production, the world’s first 24/7 online comedy show and Tibus's interactive GPS golf tuition product, still in development, to Sonic Academy Online's DJ and music mixing training for budding pop stars, DJ's and musicians."
Local businessman and entrepreneur, Eoin Lambkin who is also a Director of Sonic Academy Online and will be chairing an important panel discussion at IBC on 'Broadcasting by Broadband'.
He said that he was very excited about Sonic Academy's progress since receiving backing from local government to become one of crea8ivity.com showcase projects and added that he was "optimistic about attracting further third party partnership opportunities at IBC in advance of Sonic Academy's Online's launch later this year."
(SP)