business & innovation

Winston & Strawn, in collaboration with UK Trade & Investment, invites you to join us for a practical, interactive seminar designed to equip you with the information you'll need to expand your business to the United States. Far from an ordinary lecture on the U.S. legal system, you'll hear from experienced U.S. lawyers – live in London and in the U.S.– who will provide real world advice to help you successfully navigate the complexities and avoid the pitfalls as you plan to enter the U.S. market.

Asia boasts the fastest growing social networking and social media market on the planet. There are also more mobile internet users, with the Asia Pacific region, than anywhere else in the world. It is no surprise that Six Degrees is moving the series to Signapore to learn from the leading social networking publishers, developers, brands and organisations who are currently operating in this exciting region.

During the last 12 months the 'realtime social web' has been growing in importance and value - services like Twitter have almost reached 'fever' point and are now starting to become adopted by the mainstream mass market. I still hear senior professionals saying "it's a fad" - whether it is or not - we think it is important to understand the value that is being created and why it matters to you in your role/business.

Hosted by UK Trade & Investment and co-hosted by bitkom and Intellect, the UK/European partnering event will being together UK and European companies to meet suitable customers, partners, and collaborators through pre-arranged meetings via an online “match-making” facility.

Is the democratic and social nature of the internet changing the way we understand finance?

The GSMA Mobile World Congress is an elite event in the global mobile Communications market. More than 50,000 key decision-makers in the mobile industry are expected to attend the 2009 Congress in Barcelona, approximately 46% of them C-level.

For our fifth Bootlaw meet up we are pleased to welcome Trevor Callaghan, senior product counsel for Google EMEA who will discuss Google's approach to legal issues within its business.