social innovation

Changify Shoreditch 2

Changify is a new online and events hub for local community-led change projects backed by brands and local businesses. We're bringing the excitement back to social change - with your input. Join us for an exciting blend of local exploration, smartphone-based reportage, and creative problem solving. Find backing for the things you care about!

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Date: 25 January 2013
Location: The Tea Building (Method offices), UK

Changify Shoreditch Xmas 2012

Design for Social Change is running a new series of events around the launch of our Changify service. Together with your input we're going to #Changify Shoreditch for Xmas 2012 - an exciting weekend of citizen reporting, rating, data collection and creative problem solving and more... Register now and join us to hack the hood!

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Date: 14 December 2012
Location: The Tea Building (Method offices), UK

The £800m Elephant in the Room: Social Inside the Enterprise hosted McKinsey & Co

McKinsey Global Institute principal Michael Chui discusses the potential value in using social tools to enhance communications, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within and across enterprises. He'll be joined by an expert panel who'll reflect and discuss the dramatic changes 'social' is making inside the enterprise.

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Date: 24 September 2012
Location: Business & Enterprise Hub @ The Hub Westminster, UK

Heroes of Social Innovation, supported by Nokia

The rise of social media and social technology has demonstrated its power to revolutionise industries. In a very literal sense, the power to connect and collaborate is quite literally changing the world. Mobile technology and social networks enable groups to self-organise campaigns to gain worldwide momentum.

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Date: 24 September 2012
Location: Business & Enterprise Hub @ The Hub Westminster, UK

VIP Showcase Completes Packed Digital Mission to Washington, DC

VIP by Gerard Girbes

The companies joining the Digital Mission to Washington are gearing themselves up for a packed week in and around the US capital meeting with numerous federal agencies, major corporates and a host of movers'n'shakers in DC.

We're delighted to announce a VIP Digital Mission Company Showcase (Mon 11th July - RSVP here) to close the first night of the mission. It follows a highly successful event organised by UKTI to promote TechCity a few weeks earlier. 

Working closely with FutureGov, UK Trade & Investment, Fairfax County EDA and Deloitte, the guest list will feature senior staff from across DC including speakers from sessions later in the week and key influencers in this sector from government and industry.

After the official presentations and introductions there will be a spot of speed networking with some of DC’s leading digital agencies and government officials continued with a casual networking session, with a chance to relax with a beer and carry on the all-important conversations.

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OpenAir Summer Announced, Rooftop Networking Session To Close Digital Mission to DC

OpenAir Summer, a night of networking, engaging conversations, cocktails and a rooftop sunset, what more could you want from an evening?

The event, taking place at 6pm on Thursday14th July, fits nicely with the end of the Digital Mission to Washington and is being organised by Tech and Innovation advisor Justin Herman and Director of FutureGov Dominic Campbell

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CityCamp London

CityCamp LDN will bring together London’s leaders from all levels of government, business, academia and community organisations to reimagine the way in which technology and the web will shape the future of London.

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Date: 8 October 2010
Location: RSA and one other venue TBC, UK

Pop!Tech 2009: America Reimagined

Held in a beautifully restored, 19th-century opera house, this three-day summit explores major trends shaping our future, the social impact of new technologies, and new approaches to addressing the world’s most significant challenges.

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Date: 21 October 2009
Location: Camden Opera House, US