business & innovation

The Advanced Email Conference

Join 23 iconic brand speakers including; DFS, Dixons Retail, Cineworld, Nationwide, P&O Cruises and Confused.com and discover how to use advanced-level email marketing alongside the latest technological innovations to demonstrate impact on the bottom line with engaging, targeted and integrated email marketing strategies.

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Date: 19 November 2014
Location: Museum of London Docklands, UK

The Engaging Employees Conference – Optimising Performance

Join 21 Brands – including EDF Energy, HSBC, Legal & General & Virgin Atlantic Airways - at this one-day conference and find out how to boost organisational performance, productivity, retention & customer satisfaction through employee engagement strategies.

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Date: 2 December 2014
Location: Museum of London Docklands, UK

The B2B Marketing Conference – Driving Results, Proving Value

Join 21 Brands – including Vodafone, Dell, Google+ & Royal Mail- at this one-day conference and find out how to demonstrate ROI, maximise long-term engagement & boost your multi-channel & social media impact.

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Date: 23 October 2014
Location: One America Square, UK

Mobile UX & responsive design training

Learn how to design for engagement and create beautiful digital touchpoints on mobile & tablet with UX experts! Webcredible is a user experience agency that has trained 8000+ people across 2000 organizations around the world.

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Date: 17 July 2014
Location: Scholastic, US

Interaction design & prototyping (IxD) training

Learn how to plan, create and test design concepts through interaction design & prototyping with UX experts! Webcredible is a user experience agency that has trained 8000+ across 2000 organisations around the world.

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Date: 17 July 2014
Location: Scholastic, US

An Unmissable Conversion Optimisation Event

Learn from four industry leading speakers as they reveal their Conversion Optimisation know-how, best practices and real world examples, gained from running leading CRO companies and working with the most progressive brands in the world.

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Date: 24 September 2014
Location: Albert Square Chop House, UK

The Social Media Results For PR & Comms Conference – Engage & Deliver

Join 41 iconic brand speakers including Tesco, Universal Music, Asda, Monarch Airlines and Shell and discover how to create influential engagement and fresh, innovative content to drive social media results and value for PR and comms.

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Date: 26 November 2014
Location: The Congress Centre, UK

Insurance Disrupters - Analytics & Big Data, Predicting the Future

This is an Inaugural Insurance Disrupters morning creative workshop that will examine a disruptive technology with the potential to transform the Insurance Industry - Analytics and Big Data, almost certainly a 'killer app' for the sector.

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Date: 21 July 2014
Location: 55 Water Street New York, US

Scale Your Startup in Asia with Hong Kong's StartmeupHK Competition

Hong Kong by Barbara Willi

Is your startup targeting the Asian market? The 2014 StartmeupHK Venture Programme offers a US$500,000 package of support for the 12 competition winners looking to setup in Hong Kong, recently cited as number one for startups by Forbes.

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Digital Health and Space Sessions Feature at Commonwealth Games British Business House

City Chambers by Stewart Priest

Alongside the sporting elite headed to Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games, UK Trade & Investment are launching a series of high-profile international business sessions including Digital Health and Space/Satellite Applications.

The sessions taking place at the City Chambers, which for 23-25th July will be transformed into the British Business House. Other sessions include agri-tech, global sport, energy, rail, transport, security, and opportunities in the growth of African cities as well as showcases of British expertise.

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Game, Set, Tweet - How Wimbledon Became A Digital Superstar [interview]

Centre Court by Nikki Tysoe

Wimbledon has a reputation for embracing technology and using its troves of data to engage their online audience, during tennis' highest-profile fornight. Dan McLaren, founder of UK Sports Network interviewed Alexandra Willis, Content and Communications Manager at the All England Lawn Tennis Club to find out more.

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Corporate Innovation Dinner

At the inaugural #CIDLDN with Claire Cockerton, you can expect to meet other leading tech entrepreneurs and to enjoy after-dinner talk and informal Q&A from Claire on the topic of getting corporates interested in collaborating with innovative startups.

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Date: 7 July 2014
Location: The Eight Club, UK

From Concept to Brand Building in one afternoon

A workshop covering the initial steps necessary when starting to think about building a brand. From the concept to the assets you need to have and the ones you don't. The focus is on storytelling and developing a distinct visual language for a product/company.

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Date: 16 September 2014
Location: Avanta, UK

Pitch Workshop for startups (TechPitch 4.5)

Pitch-training workshops that provide the crucial first step for startups looking for funding. Surrounded by fellow entrepreneurs, you will benefit from a supportive environment, as well as honest and insightful feedback from your peers on your pitch. At times you will even receive good tips for your business model or technology too!

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Date: 15 July 2014
Location: The ODI offices, UK

UCD2014 User Centred Design Conference, London

UCD2014 is a unique User-Centred Design conference in London. UCD2014 explores how User Centred Design is applied in a variety of disciplines. "It’s the Goldilocks of conferences; not too big, not too small" Jonty Sharples. It is also describe as the conference for digital over achievers it is in it's 3rd year.

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Date: 24 October 2014
Location: The Kings Fund, UK