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Taking place on the 16th June 2011, the Augmented Reality Summit will explore augmented reality and virtual technology, creating the perfect platform for brands, media agencies, publishers, and developers looking to uncover Augmented Reality in full and recognise the potential AR brings any brand or company.

We're delighted that the organisers have offered two lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth £345.

The 3rd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum (21st - 22nd June) promises to be Europe's largest Cloud and SaaS based event.

The two day conference, taking place at Olympia, London, includes a conference and free-to-attend exhibition, providing a full perspective of cloud computing and SaaS from business value through integration and implementation, to the future of business computing.

We're delighted the organisers have offered 10 lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth £695.00.

We caught David Rowan, Editor of Wired UK for a quick chat after the Game On! Games and Brands panel, sponsored by Nokia and JWT, on Weds 9th February as part of Social Media Week London.

We managed to grab Miguel Andres-Clavera, Head of Innovation at JWT, for a chat after the Game On! Games and Brands panel, sponsored by Nokia and JWT, on Weds 9th February as part of Social Media Week London.

After the Game On! Games and Brands panel, sponsored by Nokia and JWT, on Weds 9th February as part of Social Media Week London, we caught up with Mark Hindle, Communications Manager at Nokia UK.

Social Media Week London generated so much coverage that it's taken us a little while to pull together all the information. This review brings together the video and coverage from The "Friend" Close: Social Sales.

From lead generation to closing sales, how has the sales process been affected by social media? From peer to peer recommendations to group buying to online stores, learn from the experts in using social media as part of the sales cycle.

After Social Media Week London, we asked all attendees to complete a survey telling us about their experiences and thoughts.  As a 'thank you', all those who took the survey were entered into a prize draw.  Prizes were generously provided by our sponsors, Nokia, Kodak and Microsoft Advertising.

Metabridge BC June 2011 will take place over 2 days in British Columbia, Canada, bringing together entrepreneurs and their growing software and online technology companies from Silicon Valley, Canada and the UK.  Amongst the delegates will be Disney Online and Facebook.

The event is designed to create new partnerships, and collaborative projects and assist companies who have been in business and are on a growth spurt and are looking to access the US and Canadian markets more intelligently by meeting and creating potential collaborators who are in that market already.

The event is open to 5 UK companies, who will be selected via a short-list process and will then get to go and join the event.  You'll have to be quick to make the short-list, find out more below.

In a brief spare moment after The "Friend" Close: Social Sales panel (Weds 9th Feb as part of Social Media Week) we had a chat with Bruce Daisley, Digital Sales Director YouTube & Display from Google.

Here at Chinwag Towers, we've been very busy recently announcing some brilliant competitions and offers exclusively for friends of Chinwag.

We've gathered together a brief summary of all the offers and competitions we currently have on offer.  Take a look through, and remember, you have to be in it to win it!

• Social CRM (Fri 6th May)
• Thinking Digital (Tues 24th - Thurs 26th May)
• MusicConnex (Tues 19th - Thurs 21st April)
• Activate New York (Thurs 28th April)
• thingmakers: 3D Printing and Customised Manufacturing Conference (Weds 4th May)
• Social Media Results Conference - From Engagement to ROI (Tues 14th June)
• 3rd World Cloud Computing (Tues 21st - Weds 22nd June)
• GameHorizon (Tues 28th - Weds 29th June) 

After The "Friend" Close: Social Sales Panel, which took place during Social Media Week on Wednesday 9th Feb 2011, we managed to grab both Jonathan Mann, Head of Marketing and Hristina Hristova, Social Media Planner at Groupon UK to talk about the panel, social sales and Groupon.

Social Media Week London generated so much coverage that it's taken us a little while to pull together all the information. This review brings together the video, photos and coverage from "From Silicon Roundabouts to a Silicon World over Breakfast", hosted by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).

The breakfast event helped attendees to find out more about using social media and communities to develop international business. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) are a UK government organisation that help UK firms build their export business.

MusicConnex aims to facilite and encourage artists to take control of their career by sharing ideas, insight and experience to inspire each other. Expect:

• Over 100 fantastic speakers
• Over 40 digital platforms
• Exclusive Facebook & YouTube seminars
• Grammy Award Winning Songwriter of Jay Z & Alicia Keys "Empire State of Mind" Al Shuckbrugh will be talking about the art of song writing
• Keynote from Jonathan Forster of Spotify, speaking about the future of music and consumption and the impact on the Artist community
• Plus lots more!

We're delighted that MusicConnex have allowed us to hold a prize draw for tickets worth £199.00 for the conference.

Just after The Future of TV Advertising: Keeping it Social panel on Tues 8th Feb 2011, we had a quick chat with Michael Nutley, Editor-in-Chief of NMA.

Having just chaired two sessions on TV, we talk about the topics covered and the questions being asked.

Social Media Week London generated so much coverage that it's taken us a little while to pull together all the information. This review brings together the video, slides and coverage from The Future of TV Advertising: Keeping It Social, sponsored by JWT and Fundamental Amp.

The panel brought together leading thinkers in the field to discuss the opportunities and challenges of TV in a world where social media is embedded into the daily lives of the majority of the audience. How can brand advertisers and their agencies put the social into TV to maximise impact.