events

events

Freelance Friday IV

This event is designed for freelancers with different skill sets to network, collaborate and have an end-of-week drink

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Date: 20 May 2011
Location: City Arts and Music Project, UK

PICNIC '11

The sixth edition of PICNIC is scheduled from 14 to 16 September 2011 in Amsterdam. The PICNIC ’11 theme is ‘Urban Futures’. We will explore the impact of global urbanization on our cities, societies and our lives and the way creative and smart technologies can play a role.

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Date: 14 September 2011
Location: NDSM Wharf, NL

Vodafone Mobile Clicks Competition Opens With €225,000 Prize Fund for Mobile Developers

Vodafone Mobile Clicks Competition 2011

Thanks to our friends at Momo London for the heads-up that applications are now open for year's Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition. 

The competition is open to startups from seven countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Turkey or the United Kingdom) and has a rather juicy €225,000 up for grabs for the leading mobile site, service or applications.

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16 May 2011 by Sam Michel

#KittenCamp London May 23rd

A monthly meet-up for web-loving ad industry type people to chat memes, drink beer and generally share some kitten love. http://www.rubberrepublic.com/kittencamp/

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Date: 23 May 2011
Location: Barrio Central, UK

Mini Seedcamp New York - 14th June

Seedcamp

On June 14, Seedcamp will be hosting the first ever State-side Mini Seedcamp in New York.

Mini Seedcamp New York 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 US and all over the world.

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13 May 2011 by Lauren Cotton

Seedcamp New York

On June 14, Seedcamp will be hosting the first ever State side Mini Seedcamp in New York. We're looking to take the 20 most awesome startups with us to meet with and be mentored by some of the greatest mentors from the East Coast and Europe.

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Date: 14 June 2011
Location: New York City, US

Good for Nothing

We're on the hunt for 80 awesome folks from across a wide range of disciplines - designers, developers, communicators, and more - basically anyone who's up for some turbo-charged 'doing'. Do some good for nothing.

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Date: 20 May 2011
Location: Splendid Communications, UK

MC ThinkCamp - mHealth

MC ThinkCamp - mHealth is on June 3rd at the Wallacespace St Pancras, London It is FREE to attend, and will bring the healthcare & mobile technology communities together to take a collaborative approach to putting ideas for mobile healthcare innovation into action.

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Date: 3 June 2011
Location: WallaceSpace St Pancras London, UK

SMW London Round-up: Sport and Social Media, hosted by the BBC, the UK Sports Network and Ogilvy

Sport & Social Media

Social Media Week London generated so much coverage that it’s taken us a little while to pull together all the information. This review brings together the video, reportage and tweets from Sport and Social Media, hosted by:

  • Sophie Brendel, BBC’s Head of Digital Engagement (@sophiebr)
  • Maz Nadjm, Ogilvy’s Head of Social Media (@mazi)
  • and Dan McLaren, Adidas Social Media Lead at Carat (@danielmclaren)

The event looked at how the sports industry and the BBC are bringing social media centre stage, and featured major speakers from across the world of sport and broadcasting.

Four industry showcases were presented (Football, The Ashes, Rugby and BBC & London 2012), showcasing how sports organisations are using social media:

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12 May 2011 by Lauren Cotton

30 frames per second – an exclusive seminar with BIMA and YouTube

30 frames per second – an exclusive seminar with BIMA and YouTube on new content, services and revenue opportunities and how to win in the high-definition age

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Date: 17 May 2011
Location: Google Offices, Belgrave House, UK

Tech City East meetup

Talk by Eric Van der Kleij, CEO of the Tech City Investment Organisation. Eric will discuss the challenges, successes, and opportunities, faced -- including how to attract talent, encourage collaboration, and how to further develop our area as the world's most exciting place in terms of technology innovation.

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Date: 26 May 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Register Your Interest: Digital Mission to Washington DC, July 2011

We’re gathering interest for a digital government and social innovation-focused trade mission to Washington for UK-based digital companies in July. Interested? Read on...

The last few years have seen a dramatic adoption of social media and digital technologies in government, NGOs and campaigning organisations. There’s a highly active community here in the UK, and an equally vibrant counterpart in the United States, centered around Washington DC.

What started as a conversation with our friends at digital government consultancy FutureGov, community builder BrightLemon and digital media consultant Kathryn Corrick, has come together to form concrete plans for a Digital Mission to Washington DC, scheduled the week 11th July 2011.

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6 May 2011 by Francesca Heath

Hadoop User Group: Apache Whirr and Amazon Elastic Map Reduce

May's meetup for the UK Hadoop Users Group talks on Apache Whirr and Amazon Elastic Map Reduce

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Date: 12 May 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Groovy Grails User Group: Grails 1.4.0.M1

By the time we meet up in May, Grails 1.4.0.M1 should have been released, so what better time to look at what's new in this version? Peter Ledbrook will take you through all the big changes and some of the smaller ones too.

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Date: 16 May 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

techpitch 4.5

techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups to have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months. The evening will kick off with a special keynote - to be announced shortly - and then followed by a number of pitching companies.

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Date: 25 May 2011
Location: The Auditorium, Pinsent Masons, UK