There’s to be a one-day Using Digital Media in Marketing and Communications event at Alton Towers theme park in North Staffordshire, 18th March 08. It aims to introduce innovative West Midlands businesses and research teams to the idea of using digital media to promote their ideas. Hosted by the University of Warwick and Maverick’s ideasforlife.tv online video service, the keynote speakers will be Anthony Lilley of independent production company Magic Lantern (Oxford University Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media, member of OFCOM’s Content Board, and MediaGuardian columunist) and Dr Adam Rutherford (Editor for Web Publishing at Nature), and also…

…”workshops, a behind the scenes insight into the development of the region’s latest online channel and a short lecture on what every Alton Towers visitor needs — the science of rollercoasters! [...] The conference is free to attend, with each ticket valued at £550, for businesses employing up to 250 people. To attend the conference, or for further information please email events@ideasforlife.tv”

Here’s a neat ‘techies meet cityscape mapping’ video from the ideasforlife site, about Warwick’s Positive Soundscapes project on city-centre and hospital ‘soundshaping’. One of the project’s partners is the University of the Arts, and there will be “artistic outputs” among other research publications…