business & innovation

MobX Conference 2011 / Mobile Experience Design & Usability

We are happy to announce a discount for the Chinwag community of 60 Euros (82 Dollars). Enter the promo code: MobX_Chinwag MobX Conference 2011 Mobile Experience Design & Usability: Meet the Experts! http://mobxcon.org Workshops: Nov 17, 2011 Conference: Nov 18, 2011 Location: Berlin Promo code: “MobX_Chinwag” Must-attend factor: Hot!

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Date: 18 November 2011
Location: Heimathafen Neukölln, DE

UPA International 21st Annual Conference

UPA 2012 will explore all the opportunities usability professionals have to be leaders that shape not just human experiences, but also the business and technology world. Themes of influence, power, authority, and initiative will be prevalent as we develop strategies for encouraging Leadership in our field...

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Date: 5 June 2012
Location: The M Resort Spa Casino, US

Digital Footprint Summit: Insights from the Screenagers

Irrespective of what we call them the Screenagers, Generation Y, millennials, digital natives or the Facebook generation; we all agree that they are driving new digital services. Often, in a discussion of next generation services and privacy their voice is ignored. Therefore, we ask: Should we teach the Screenagers or should we learn from them.

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Date: 3 November 2011
Location: innovation warehouse, UK

Simon Says: How to make a viral video & get your content retweeted

Mishka

You don’t make viral videos. Sorry, the truth hurts.

As a conciliation prize I’ll tell you that you were half right. You do make videos. But it’s the public that makes a viral, so you shouldn’t be selling it to a client under that label.

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Digital London Summit & Showcase

Taking place on 13th-14th March 2012 at ExCeL, London, this summit and showcase will bring the technology industry together connecting digital enterprises with digital media, investors with entrepreneurs, academia with industry, and the private and the public sectors with evangelists and leading digital technology innovators.

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Date: 13 March 2012
Location: ICC ExCeL, London, UK

Socialising The Workplace

Enterprise social computing has the potential to transform internal and external communications, collaboration, teamwork, processes, knowledge sharing and innovation. The big question is how to get the most from this new corporate resource? This event will show you how.

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Date: 9 November 2011
Location: Cubic Theatre, UK

Digital Mission: Singapore & Hong Kong Meetup: Discussions & Next Steps

Singapore by Manvendra Bhangui

For the least three years, over 150 companies have taken part in Digital Missions to the tech centres of the US. The week before last, we met with a group of companies interested in heading East, to South East Asia and China.

Gathering at the offices of our hosts, Pinsent Masons, we talked through the outline plans that have been brewing at Chinwag Towers and had an in-depth discussion about the priorities for a potential Digital Mission™ to Singapore and Hong Kong including the primary objectives, timings and possible companies to meet on the trip.

Here's a quick summary of the discussion and an outline of the plans for what happens next and how to get involved:

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London New Finance

This group is about the way in which New Finance Technologies are transforming our traditional finance industry.

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Date: 25 October 2011
Location: Bar Music Hall, UK

Business of APIs London

APIs mean Business! Learn API strategies from LinkedIn, ESPN, Netflix , Qwerly and others at the Business of APIs conference.

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Date: 25 October 2011
Location: Altitude 360, UK

Running Lean with Ash Maurya

Running lean is a systematic process for building successful products. Most startups fail. Not because they fail to launch what they set out to build, but because they waste time building the wrong product. Running Lean was developed through rigorous testing of Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques.

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Date: 9 November 2011
Location: London College of Communication,, UK

FREE Android, iOS and The Business of Mobile 2 day workshops

FREE 2 day workshops aimed at London based Mobile Designers, Developers, Business Managers and Commissioners. The workshops on 28th and 29th October in London include *The latest in Android Development *iOS workshop - beginner and advanced *The Business of Mobile

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Date: 28 October 2011
Location: Ravensbourne, North Greenwich (next to o2), UK

Digital Fundraising & Campaigning

A One-Day Conference, 1 December 2011 The Ibis, London, www.digitalfundraisingconference.com Plus! Mobile Engagement & Fundraising 101 Workshop 2 December 2011, www.thirdsectorworkshop.com

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Date: 1 December 2011
Location: The Ibis Hotel, UK

Webcast: How marketing automation is transforming B2B marketing

Learn how marketers nurture, score and deliver greater number of qualified leads with this webcast from Marketo.

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Date: 19 October 2011
Location: Online, UK

The Guardian's Changing Advertising Summit 2011

MediaGuardian Changing Advertising Summit 2011 guardian.co.uk/advertisingsummit October 20, CBI Conference Centre, London Register with a colleague and save 30%

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Date: 20 October 2011
Location: CBI Conference Centre, UK

20 Oct. London: Bus. Development China, by Guilian Zhang, deputy mayor Yangzhou

This event will cover: * How to recognize market opportunities in China * How to spot and avoid the minefields in China’s economic, cultural, and political context * How to capture the market demand and build meaningful relationships in China’s business world

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Date: 20 October 2011
Location: Regus Portland House, UK