The Sheffield Digital Winter Showcase was held on Thursday 12th December 2019 at The Workstation, with talks showcasing five impressive digital projects recently developed here in the city. The purpose of the Showcase events is to get together to celebrate digital products, services, campaigns and experiences that are made in Sheffield and to introduce audiences

Inspired by the concept of a playable city, AR’ City has developed playful tech to change the way we interact with our environment and explore the sense of belonging in a space. The theme of the project is ‘young people’ as the ideas for the playable tech were developed in workshops with young people, asking

We want to achieve two things: Build on the platform we created last year that allows people to organise their own events during the Festival week. Encourage people to explore and rediscover the city’s creative and digital industries through a digital medium. Our Festival will tie in with Sheffield’s ongoing “Make Yourself at Home” campaign

What made you want to start the Sheffield Collective meetup? Well, I’d been working freelance for a few months and had a couple of brief thoughts about doing it previously, but it was ultimately the Coronavirus situation which inspired me to set it up. I had a really tough couple of weeks at the start

Why did you start the ShfWiT meetup? Emma: Mel and I attended an “overly pink” women’s meetup that we felt didn’t empower or represent the women we saw in tech every day. We wanted something that spotlighted the positivity we could see, so Mel gathered an initial group of amazing Sheff women and we started