social media week

The Digital Mission series is back for 2016. Our first adventure will be the Digital Mission NYC to attend Social Media Week NYC, 22-26 Feb 2016.

This week-long trip, organised with UK Trade & Investment USA, features a programme specially designed for both tech startups and agencies covering media, marketing, content, mobile and social media including AdTech, MarketingTech, MediaTech, analytics and, of course, social media.

After five thrilling years, it's time for Social Media Week London’s (SMWLDN) next step and after much consideration it’s time for me and the Chinwag team to pass the baton.

The next edition taking place this September in London will be run by CrowdCentric, founders of Social Media Week and the team that runs the event in New York. It's a massive undertaking and we wish the NYC team all the best.

Thinking of tackling the US market? Have existing clients and need to open an office in the Big Apple? Need to boost your profile in the States?

Good news, Digital Mission is back, taking a group of fast-growing digital SMEs to Social Media Week New York (SMWNYC).

The trip, designed specifically for UK-based digital firms to understand the opportunities and challenges of developing business and investment in the US includes a dedicated programme of activities and an Insider Pass for SMWNYC.

And in even better news, our friends at UKTI London have secured grants for London-based SMEs.

Social Media Week, powered globablly by Nokia, gets bigger every year and we have the stats to prove it.

Founders and global organisers Crowdcentric, with the help of Beyond, Meltwater and UberVU have created this amazing inforgraphic to share what happened.

Social Media Week London is all about the people. This year with over 260 events and 20,000+ tickets booked it was bigger than ever.

Behind the scenes the Chinwag team swells in number as we do our best to tackle the avalanche of administration, emails, logistics and communications that SMWLDN brings with it.

This year we had an exceptional crop of helpers who supported us through what was, to put it mildly, a rather busy few months. We couldn’t have done it without them.

250+ events and it can be a little tricky working out what to go to. As events get full it can be tricky to figure out what to attend.

We've distilled down some of the sessions (that still have space, at time of writing) that you might fancy perusing.

Social Media Week London 2013 is approaching rapidly, and we're celebrating the release of two of our three Official Hubs!

Our SMWLDN HQ location is still being kept a secret, although we can confirm that it will be located in Covent Garden! Bloomberg's tech savvy offices in East London will serve as the location of our Business & Entrepreneurship Hub, while Virgin is hosting the Disruptors Hub in Paddington.

Nine and a half weeks means two things to us: a movie that’s very missable and a deadline which definitely is not.

If you want to submit an event for Social Media Week London, you have until 2 August 2013. Right now we have 20 submitted events - let’s double that number. You need nothing more than an idea or a work in progress.

Experience the international side of Social Media Week. Enter the SMW Travel Award Programme for grants to see SMW overseas.

The global team are looking for one participant, one speaker and one event partner to send to one of our spectacular SMW Host cities. Fancy bopping over to Berlin, living it up in London or moving and shaking in Mumbai? Well now you can with SMW's help.

Submissions are open, enter now.

Ready. Steady. GO!

If you hadn’t heard Social Media Week will be back in beautiful blighty this September the 23-27th to be exact, you probably knew that already. Did you know that tomorrow, that’s right the 23rd of April event submission finally opens!

We are so excited to see your entries we could almost shout it from the rooftops! So guys if you haven’t already come up with some fantastic events what’s the hold-up? Get those thinking hats on and knock our socks off with your submissions.

There is an innate feeling in all of us to achieve progress, to advance, to solve problems. Emerging technologies have changed how we communicate and engage with the world.

We can now share our passions openly and across cultural and geographic boundaries.

One voice can ripple to millions.

Change is happening everywhere. Startups are disrupting entire industries and scaling their businesses globally. Tyranny, injustice and unethical behavior are being exposed. Groups are self-organizing to take positive action. Transparency, accountability, information sharing and collaboration are accelerating progress to levels never before seen.

With February behind us, we are eagerly looking forward to our next Social Media Week, set to take place September 23-27, 2013! And we want you to experience it in a new way.

What if you had the chance to travel to one of our host cities this SMW September? Imagine joining amazing conversations, seeing iconic venues in London, Bogota and more while meeting innovators from all around the world? Thanks to our new Travel Award Program, powered by Nokia, you could do all that and truly have an international SMW experience!

The time has come. Social Media Week London is back. This September London will be joined by some awesome cities including Barcelona, Berlin, Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mumbai, São Paulo, Torino and Toronto.

Here are some important milestones ahead for the London event:

• April 23rd: Event Submission Opens
• August 2nd: Event Submission Closes
• August 13th: Attendee Registration Opens

Whether you’re new or old to Social Media Week London, there are many ways to take part: 

As you may know, Social Media Week London will be returning to your streets in September 2013, however if you can’t quite wait that long then why not be a part of Social Media Week NYC in February where Chinwag will be joined by some great companies for a Digital Mission trip to New York.

SMW NYC looks set to be a great week with its global theme of Open & Connected: Principles for a Collaborative World being explored by speakers including Ben Kaufman, founder & CEO of Quirky, Cindy Gallop and the MakeLoveNotPorn.tv team, and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.

Back in December we announced the first set of companies that will be joining us for the Digital Mission to New York in February this year. 

We are very excited to not only let you know the next lucky group of companies coming along on the trip, but also to let you take a sneaky peak at the mission agenda. 

With an investor roundtable, masterclass in doing business in the USA, a traditional British pub quiz as well as all the keynotes, showcases and presentations that are being held as part of Social Media Week NYC the mission companies are not going to be short on events to go to and people to meet. You can take a look at the full agenda for the week here.