business & innovation

The Agony & The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

“Anyone with a cellphone and a moral centre should see this show.” Charles Isherwood, New York Times “I will never be the same after seeing that show.” Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder)

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Date: 5 February 2013
Location: WATERLOO EAST THEATRE, UK

London New Finance Monthly Seminar - Challenger Banks

The London New Finance monthly evening seminar on Financial Innovation through Technology, interesting speakers, question time session and networking opportunities, food and refreshments are included. Please see the link for more details.

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Date: 18 February 2013
Location: Cass Business School, UK

Married People Who Like Prostitutes And Other Unintended Facebook Social Graph Search Results

In Memory 9-11 and Katrina by cobalt123

"Married people who like Prostitutes", "Single women who live nearby and who are interested in men and like Getting Drunk" are just two of the searches unlocked by Facebook's new Social Graph Search. For that first search, there's even the option to list their spouses.

As the saying goes, "with great power comes great responsibility". Safe to say, opening the endless mountain of personal data on Facebook to user search is a bold business move, but as programmer Tom Scott proves, there's mischief to be made.

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Agile Testing & BDD eXchange NYC 2013

1-day conference on Agile Testing & Behaviour Driven Development in New York City with expert Gojko Adzic & many more

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Date: 20 September 2013
Location: Skills Matter NYC - Venue TBC!, US

BlackBerry 10 Jam

BlackBerry invites you to join us at SkillsMatter for a mini BlackBerry 10 Jam

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Date: 7 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Nimbus Ninety Converge

Converge brings together three Nimbus Ninety communities, The Cloud Circle, Big Data Insight Group and Obis Omni, for an evening of networking, lively debate and deep discussion of the business, technology and leadership issues facing senior level decision makers in 2013 and beyond.

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Date: 13 February 2013
Location: The Science Museum, UK

Hitting the Mark Email Marketing Seminar - February

We will take a look at engagement metrics that will show you how to target your very best customers, convert your very hottest prospects and reactivate contacts you thought you had lost for good. Learn how to automate a process to clean and purge your email database to create a lean, mean, revenue-driving machine.

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Date: 14 February 2013
Location: Adam street members club, UK

Hitting the Mark Email Marketing Seminar - Manchester - February

We will take a look at engagement metrics that will show you how to target your very best customers, convert your very hottest prospects and reactivate contacts you thought you had lost for good. Learn how to automate a process to clean and purge your email database to create a lean, mean, revenue-driving machine.

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Date: 6 February 2013
Location: Onthe7thFloor, UK

Hitting the Mark Email Marketing Seminar - January

We will take a look at engagement metrics that will show you how to target your very best customers, convert your very hottest prospects and reactivate contacts you thought you had lost for good. Learn how to automate a process to clean and purge your email database to create a lean, mean, revenue-driving machine.

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Date: 29 January 2013
Location: Adam street, UK

Are you Taking it Personally? The Reality of Personalisation and Relevance for Retailers

Attend this event and we will answer your questions on this fragmented yet critical business issue. This event is for Brands, Retailers & Agencies working directly with Ecommerce clients. Please note this event is invitation only, however, if you fit the criteria please feel free to apply for a delegate place.

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Date: 13 February 2013
Location: Cavendish Club, UK

SMW REWIND: Facebook Marketing ROI: A Masterclass [VIDEO]

Facebook Hub SMWLDN 2012

In Facebook Marketing ROI, Panelists from Nokia, The Social Partners, Play.com, The Humane Society of the United States and EngageSciences discussed how social marketing is changing and the processes organisations need to put in place to generate real world value. The social media managers of today could be the CMOs of tomorrow if they are able to help their organisations leverage the opportunity that marketing on Facebook represents to the bottom line. Tune into the livestream to see some of the strategies that leading brands are implementing and the results they are getting.

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London Android User Group: The new Gradle based Android Build System

The London Android User Group will present and demo the new Gradle based Build System for the Android SDK.

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Date: 12 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

The F# 3.0 SQL Server Type Provider - Very Cool, and Very Useful

A practical walkthough of F# 3.0's SQL Server Type provider, and the query {} expression. How to get started. How to write efficient queries. When to use it - and when not to

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Date: 28 February 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

The Limited WIP Society : How have you applied Kanban?

Join us at Skills Matter to share understanding of what Kanban means to you How you have applied it successes and failures What we want to explore more in this meeting and others.

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Date: 30 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

GET PLUGGED IN: LIVE MUSIC, PROMOTION AND VENUE MANAGEMENT COURSE 2013 (from Jan 29)

A three-day course on the live music industry sector taking place over three consecutive Tuesdays...29th Jan, 5th & 12th Feb 2013 (10am-5pm).

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Date: 29 January 2013
Location: university of westminster, UK