business & innovation

Mobile Games - Current Trends and what are the lessons for other sectors?

Mobile games is arguably the most significant contributor to mobile content revenues - so there's plenty to learn from that sector if you're not in it - and plenty to think about from others' experience if you are.

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Date: 30 January 2012
Location: CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, UK

Corporate Digital Communities, Do They Work?

Through case studies, we intend to highlight the key ingredients to creating a successful online community and the key challenges companies face when designing appropriate community platforms.

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Date: 13 February 2012
Location: Cass Business School, UK

Seminar: Putting The Audience Together - Using Social Network Analysis for Business Insights

Unique Seminar in Social Network Analysis. Overview: You will learn how to pull a Facebook and Twitter network graph into Excel using NodeXL. How to interpret social graphs using powerful Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques and then apply insights to your online business, applications, product, community or brand.

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Date: 29 February 2012
Location: Wallacespace, St Pancras, UK

Locial - Local Goes Social

Exploring the commercial opportunities as local goes social

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Date: 31 January 2012
Location: Innovation Warehouse at Smithfields, UK

Reaching the 7 Billion: Using mobile to create global social engagement.

This session is about connecting the dots between feature phones, smartphones and social networks to uncover a path towards global connectivity

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Date: 15 February 2012
Location: Edelman Offices - Southside, UK

Social Business in Action

The event will discuss the power of Social Business and how this can be used to to harness the willingness and ability of consumers, stakeholders and staff to get closer to, and more involved in, the delivery of business critical processes and practices.

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Date: 14 February 2012
Location: Edelman Offices - Southside, UK

Startup Asia

Startup Asia Singapore showcases newly launched and product-ready tech startups. It showcases only startups which are born in Asia. Of course, Startup Asia Singapore will have, as the name suggests, more startups that originate from Singapore.

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Date: 2 February 2012
Location: Singapore Post Centre, SG

DigitalSurrey January 2012

On the 25th January, DigitalSurrey will welcome Surrey's Chief Superintendent for Neighbourhoods, Gavin Stephens, who will be discussing Surrey Police's use of digital.

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Date: 25 January 2012
Location: University Of Surrey, UK

webinar: B2B Marketing for tech start up companies in the UK

B2B Marketing for tech companies in the UK will look at the following: The key marketing priorities for tech companies looking to enter the UK. The webinar is designed to give you all the insight you need before making the step across the channel.

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Date: 19 January 2012
Location: UK, UK

Simon Says: You're Wrong about Spotify

Spotify

"Spotify Paid Lady Gaga $167 For 1,000,000 Plays"

This headline showed the “dark side” of music streaming start up, Spotify. Critics were in awe about how little artists were being paid for their hard work. Despite the short lived pleas from Spotify that they paid more per play people focused on this number, as if it was a bad thing.

Paying an artist less than 1p per play sounds like a raw deal, until you remember Spotify is a marketing platform. Spotify is designed as a service for people to listen to their favourite tracks cheaply. Why does this benefit the artist? Because if you love their music, you’ll go to the show, get the t-shirt and support the live scene.

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techpitch 4.5

techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, including some of the startups that have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.

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Date: 8 February 2012
Location: Pinsent Mason's Auditorium, UK

Webcast: Improving marketing effectiveness with marketing automation

Find out how Basware increased their database by 115% through marketing automation with CRM Technologies and Eloqua.

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Date: 23 February 2012
Location: Online, UK

UKTI Mission to SXSW 2012: The Companies Announced

SXSW 2011

Congratulations to the 40 leading UK digital companies selected for this year's UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) Mission to South by South West 2012.

The exciting mission will see the companies travel out to Austin, Texas for an action-packed 5 days at SXSW Interactive, one of the largest and most well known conferences focused on digital media and technology.

Each of the companies joining the mission are listed below, don't hesitate to drop them a line directly to arrange a time to meet up in Austin, or follow their progress via their Twitter accounts. You can follow the UKTI team's coverage of the mission on Twitter @uktiatsxswi.

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London New Finance - January meetup

The largest London meetup for New Finance startups and technology

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Date: 24 January 2012
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

Augmented Reality Summit

We have recently witnessed a number of key sectors embracing AR; from the gaming sector, top TV shows and leading brands, all of which shows signs that the future of AR is set to explode to new heights in advertising, gaming and in our everyday life’s… watch this space…augmented reality is coming your way in 2012!

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Date: 7 January 2012
Location: Delfina, UK