events

events

Partnering for Innovation (Metadata), Birmingham

Join us at this FREE information event to find out how to enter the £5m Collaborative Metadata R&D competition. Meet other businesses and find the right technology or academic partners, learn more about eligibility and how to submit a proposal.

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Date: 1 July 2010
Location: Maple House, UK

Mini Seedcamp London

Mini Seedcamp London is a one day event aiming to connect the 20 best web-tech, mobile and software talent with some of the leading entrepreneurs, developers, and experts from the European tech ecosystem.

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Date: 20 July 2010
Location: University College London, UK

NMA Effectiveness Awards 2010

The new media age Effectiveness Awards night is one of the biggest social events in the interactive media industry calendar.

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Date: 24 June 2010
Location: Grosvenor House Hotel, UK

PR & Digital Media 2010

This event will examine the following key concerns: What social media channels really resonate with your audience? Gauging the impact of social media campaigns. How to tweet in a manner that engages followers. Tackling the blogosphere. Where do today’s media get their news. Delivering messages seamlessly across multiple channels.

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Date: 22 June 2010
Location: Dexter House, UK

Social Media Influence 2010

The aim of Social Media Influence, is simple: to help companies succeed in social media by returning the focus to the fundamentals of social media.

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Date: 22 June 2010
Location: London Marriott, UK

3rd Advanced Forum on Advertising Law

2010 is the year that marks an important turning point for the advertising marketplace with new restrictions on green claims and behavioural and online advertising.

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Date: 9 June 2010
Location: Kingsway Hall Hotel, UK

MoMo London: Panel session: Living in a Multi-Platform World

The mobile community has started to talk about how the tide is turning on App store mania and that the natural route forward is Web apps, HTML 5 and so on. Is this another example of wishful thinking - or is it reality?

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Date: 14 June 2010
Location: Microsoft Conference Centre, UK

News & Politics and the Adrian Mole Generation

ONA UK and New Deal of the Mind invite you to an evening exploring the Adrian Mole Generation - their political, social and cultural upbringing - and what it means for politics and journalism in the digital age.

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Date: 8 June 2010
Location: Microsoft, MSN, UK

Futurising

Futurising will feature how-to presentation, celebrity speakers, one-to-one advice sessions, CV, showreel and portfolio reviews, and around 100 stands of handpicked employers, trainers and networkers waiting to talk to you.

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Date: 29 June 2010
Location: Nicholls & Clarke Building, UK

Music 4.5 Licensing Workshop

The Music 4.5 Licensing Workshop is created to stimulate a new productive dialogue between music-tech startups and the regulatory industry. The Workshop will feature Eric Mackay of CELAS, PRS for Music, Beth Appleton from Universal Music Group and Clive Gardiner from We7.

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Date: 29 June 2010
Location: PRS for Music (Boardroom), UK

S4Stv presents Perfect Your Pitch-Doug Richard at UCL June21

Are you pitch perfect? Refining your business pitch is a real skill, but a skill that must be acquired to ensure you can give your product, service or concept the justice it deserves. A lousy pitch can be the breaking of an otherwise potentially great business. So if your pitch needs perfecting, this completely free event is the one for you!

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Date: 21 June 2010
Location: University College London, Wilkins Building, Old Refectory Room, UK

£18m Collaborative R&D, Partnering for Innovation Tour Visits Bristol and London

Sian Brereton, Technology Strategy BoardUPDATE: If you're not able to make it along, follow on Twitter #tsbcollab. Presentations will be available as videos in next couple of days.

This week we're off to The Watershed in Bristol on Wednesday (2nd June) and the Internet Advertising Bureau in London on Thursday (3rd June).

These events are part of the Partnering for Innovation tour Chinwag is helping to organise, to support the launch of the £18m Collaboration Across Digital Industries competition.

There's still a few spaces left for the Bristol event, don't forget to RSVP to secure one.

If you're after more background about this competition, don't forget to check out the videos we blogged last week with Alex Stanhope from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB).

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Webinar to Launch New Metadata R&D Competition

Metadata Has Wings by Gideon Burton

At midday today (1st June), we're delighted to welcome Alex Stanhope and Jeremy Silver from the Technology Strategy Board to Chinwag Towers for a live webinar.

They'll join me to chat about an exciting new R&D competition that focuses on metadata and how developers or rights holders can obtain grant funding to explore new business models and ways to increase revenues from their content.

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Exploiting Digital Tools Workshop, Edinburgh

We are holding a workshop at John McIntyre Centre on Friday 9th of July. This is a unique opportunity to share your expertise and to influence this exciting project along with other innovators from across the creative and technology sectors.

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Date: 9 July 2010
Location: John McIntyre Conference Centre, UK

Bootlaw June 2010 – Sex, Lies and Money

In our June 23rd Bootlaw, just so we can tell Bootlawyers all they need to know about the Emergency Budget the day before, we’re going to stay up really late just for you working out what it means for entrepreneurs and growth businesses.

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Date: 23 June 2010
Location: Winston & Strawn, UK