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£150k Grant Announced for Music Apps - Deadline 8th Nov

Music Note Bokeh by Daniel Paxton

IC tomorrow, part of the Technology Strategy Board, have launched a Digital Innovation Contest for Music.

There's £150k up for grabs in this contest to encourage digital innovation in the music sector. The contest has six challenges under three themes: rights and monetisation; digital and live music; and linking digital to physical.

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Music 4.5 Smart Radio

Music 4.5 Smart Radio: Business models for interactive and streaming music platforms There is now a plethora of interactive streaming music and audio services online. Are these new services a result of the digital impact and innovation, or simply the least expensive way for online businesses to distribute music?

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Date: 26 September 2012
Location: Lewis Silkin office, UK

TechHub Founders Secrets - Founders of Songkick

FOUNDERS SECRETS Psstt...! Would you like to know the secret to a successful startup? Join us for an exciting new event series, where you can find out about the highs and lows, the stories and the secrets, and all the nitty gritty about what makes a successful startup - directly from those that have experienced the journey themselves

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Date: 24 July 2012
Location: TechHub @ Campus, UK

Music + Data + Geeks = Music Data Science Day!

If you love Music and Data this is your day! A half-day community event to learn more, network and discuss about music data science. Data scientists, music startups and music experts get together to discuss new ideas about music industry, music labels and music startups

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Date: 28 May 2012
Location: Bar Music Hall, UK

Music 4.5 Data is Sexy 2: data as arms

Following on from last year's popular Music 4.5 Data is Sexy, we are taking the discussion around data to the next level, focusing on issues such as live-data, relational data, the gathering and refining of data, semantics, and the new commercial paradigm created by data as 'links'.

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Date: 18 April 2012
Location: Lewis Silkin office, UK

MUSIC techpitch 4.5

We are delighted to announce the second MUSIC techpitch 4.5 event, an evening pitch event in partnership with EMI Music, as part of the successful techpitch 4.5 series of events.

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Date: 27 March 2012
Location: EMI headquarters, UK

Fanographie: the art & science of digital fan marketing

Fanographie Summit: 27 March 2012, London The Fanographie Summit is a gathering of digital media executives who work in sports & entertainment industries. Fanographie will bring together strategists, marketers, technologists, creatives, agencies, media entities, entrepreneurs and more.

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Date: 27 March 2012
Location: LBi, UK

Music 4.5 Mobile Music - the sound of the future

Music 4.5 Mobile Music will focus on the new innovative trends and technologies in the market place, explore the new interactive relationships between musician, music, audience and devices/service providers, going beyond the mere marketing role of an app and/or game.

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Date: 8 March 2012
Location: Lewis Silkin office, UK

The Appside presents: ‘Music apps – beyond the hype’

'Music apps – beyond the hype’ takes an in-depth look at the business realities of producing, marketing and monetising music related apps.

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Date: 6 March 2012
Location: Deloitte Auditorium, UK

SMWLDN 2012 Brainstorm #2: Food, Fashion, Sport, Music, Gaming, Family

lounge plan

After the success of our first Social Media Week brainstorm, the second, with a consumer focus, took place last Wednesday 7th December at Ketchum PR's offices in Shoreditch.

The aim was to explore how social media is impacting our day-to-day lives from the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the music we listen to, the games we play, the sport we do and the way our families interact online.

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SMWLDN 2012 Brainstorm Round 2 Announced 7th Dec: Food, Fashion, Sport, Music, Gaming, Family

Brain Embroidery by Spectacles

After last week's successful Social Media Week London brainstorm - we're delighted to announce a SMWLDN Brainstorm Round 2 in preparation for next February's SMWLDN on Wed 7th Dec from 6pm - 8pm in Shoreditch or TechCity, if you're startup-minded (RSVP).

This time, the aim is to focus on how social media is affecting and impacting our day-to-day lives from the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the music we listen to, the games we play, the sport (some of us, ehem) do and our families.

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Bandwidth

Showcasing the correlation between online presence and offline popularity, Bandwidth is a night of new music, free drinks and digital discussion at Cargo, one of Shoreditch's hottest venues.

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Date: 9 November 2011
Location: Cargo, UK

The social live music industry - where is the money?

Music 4.5: The social live music industry - where is the money?

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Date: 13 December 2011
Location: eOffice, UK

MUSIC techpitch 4.5

Eight music-tech startups will present their business ideas and revenue models during a three minute pitch followed by a five minute Q&A by a panel of judges.

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Date: 22 November 2011
Location: EMI headquarters, UK

CMU Training: Promoting Music - Media, Social Media & More

Promoting Music - Media, Social Media & More tells you everything you need to know about how to build a profile for your artists, label or music events using both traditional and new publicity techniques.

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Date: 2 November 2011
Location: CMU, UK