Hosted by iT4Communities with wine, snacks and refreshments provided.
Food & Drink: Light snacks and nibbles & wine
Subject for the evening: IT law, accessibility, and IT volunteering
The MOBILE 2.0 EUROPE conference brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers
TechGarage is the first edition of a big event entirely devoted to venture capital and networking. Start-ups, enterpreneurs, developers, bloggers, and techology lovers alike, will gather to present themselves, find funds and develop new ideas
TechCrunch and the BBC are to hold and event to rationally debate and discuss the issues around the BBC's assets and technology. Could or should the BBC develop an applications platform? What are the policy issues and implications surrounding this?
TechCrunch UK will be holding a startup pitch competition on July 10th in Soho, London, entitled “TechCrunch Pitch!”. It's a stripped down, "bare essentials" event. Just fast pitches from startups and networking.
The Visual Web Convention brings together 4 conferences all addressing the next-gen Web. You can book day passes or access-all-areas AAA VIP passes AND individual event passes on this site.
Media City UK is providing the Northwest media, marketing and digital community with its first chance to take a look inside the £1.5billion Salford Quays development. The open door event will feature stand-up comic John Bishop
The open door event featuring stand-up comic John Bishop and DJ client Boon is to be held at the Media City Studios, Pie Factory from 6pm to 10pm on Friday 20th June.
The 2008 Industrial Forum will take place on June 20th as part of the
60th anniversary celebrations of the ‘Baby’, the world’s first stored
program computer designed and built at The University of Manchester.
These activities are open to the Manchester business community and are
free to attend.
Tameside is maintaining its beacon role by bringing together key speakers to share their experiences with businesses acriss Tameside and surrounding areas.
The Wired City Reconnected events are ‘collaborative’ networking
events. They are aimed at mature digital businesses that wish to explore opportunites to meet like minded companies who are interested in potential collaborations.
Over the 2nd and 3rd of July the 2gether08 festival in London will look at how ideas and popular technology interact. The event is a forum that looks at improving our lives through digital media. Those presenting or developing ideas in the sessions at 2gether08 can take advantage of potential investment from 4IP’s £50 million fund.
At Chinwag we’ve been chatting about the skills shortage in digital for some time. We did a survey on the topic too at the end of 2007 to find out exactly how digital was faring. The results were quite worrying.
Apparently, in 2007, 16% of companies saw confidential information divulged online, 1 in 10 saw financial information leaked and ¾ of companies disciplined employees for abuse of email. So how do you know if your employees aren't divulging company secrets online? Simple – you don’t.