events

events

London Girl Geek Dinner with iT4 Communications

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

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Date: 25 June 2008
Location: The Information Technologist's Hall, UK

Mobile 2.0 Europe

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

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Date: 4 July 2008
Location: Espaceio Esade Fourm, ES

Tech Garage

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

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Date: 20 June 2008
Location: Luiss, IT

TechCrunch BBC Debate

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?

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Date: 25 June 2008
Location: BBC Broadcasting House, UK

Tech Crunch Pitch - The Techcrunch Summer Event

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.

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Date: 10 July 2008
Location: St Anne's Church, UK

Visual Web Convention

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.

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Date: 9 July 2008
Location: RIBA, UK

Media City Party

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.

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Date: 20 June 2008
Location: Media City Studios, UK

Digital 60 Day: Industrial Forum

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.

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Date: 20 June 2008
Location: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK

Digital PR , Web 2.0 & Tameside as a Digital Destination

Tameside is maintaining its beacon role by bringing together key speakers to share their experiences with businesses acriss Tameside and surrounding areas.

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Date: 18 June 2008
Location: Stalybridge Civic Hall, UK

Wired City Reconnected - Stockport

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.

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Date: 19 June 2008
Location: Broadstone Mill, UK

Festival of socially powered media in the post-broadcast era

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.

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Widget Web Expo

Marketing in a Widgetized World:  Extend and optimize your marketing through web, mobile and desktop Widgets  

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Date: 16 June 2008
Location: New York Marriot, US

Digital skills shortage: pure economics?

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.

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Risk management and social media

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.

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BBC News Interactive moves centre-stage

In the words of Pete Clifton, the BBC’s head of News Interactive: “Online now drives tv content”.

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