Hi3 Network Testing Ground: Where Creative Technology meets Innovation

Join us for our first Hi3 Network event to meet the people and partners that are Hi3 Network and get early insights on our future offer and a glimpse of our creative hubs in Canterbury, Folkestone and Maidstone.

We invite you to find out about the new high speed network and studios that will be able to support innovation in your creative business. Tell the Hi3 Network team what you need to create innovative moving images for the next phase of your business.

This is a completely new innovation for Creatives in the South East of the UK, funded by the European Regional Development Fund. During the event, there’ll be the opportunity for you to tell the Hi3 Network team what you’d like from what’s going to be the largest studio development in the South East of England over the next three years.

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Hi3 Network will help you to explore the endless possibilities found in creative technologies, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, motion capture, virtual production, computer-generated imagery, gaming, animation, and eSports. Eligible businesses can benefit from Hi3 Network to create viable products and develop new income streams through collaborations with university researchers and industry experts.

What to expect…

Prof. Lizzie Jackson, Director of Research and Enterprise at London South Bank University, will give an overview of Hi3 Network and the opportunities

Trevor Hargreaves, Hi3 Network’s Lead Technology and Development Manager, will give you a sneak preview of the studios and introduce you to some of the researchers you’ll be able to work with over the next three years.

You’ll meet all of the Hi3 Network partners and find out the specialisms and interests that each of the Hubs have. But most of all, we want to hear what YOUR interests are.

This event is open to everyone and anyone. Hi3 Network is able to support, SMEs from any sector based in England.

We will be running a second event on 1 July 2021, please also join us for Hi3 Network Testing Ground: Part 2

About Hi3 Network

Hi3 Network is defining the future of moving-image, screen-based and creative technologies through innovative research and development. A network of specialists, researchers and businesses developing new products, services, experiences, and new research at our hubs in Canterbury, Folkestone, and Maidstone. Technologies we are working in, are virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, Motion Capture, virtual production, computer-generated imagery, gaming, animation, eSports, etc.

Hi3 Network is a £6.1m project that is part-funded by the European Development Fund. The partners are London South Bank University, Screen South, Creative Folkestone, Canterbury Christ Church University and Maidstone Television Studios.