It's almost time. Business cards are being discovered at the back of stationery cupboards, bags are being packed, presentations are being honed, dry-cleaning is being collected (actually, that reminds me...)
This weekend representatives of the 19 companies selected for this year's Digital Mission to New York will be heading across the pond for a packed week taking understand the US market, networking, briefings, meetings and more.
If you find yourself in New York next week - OK, so it's not likely you've dozed off on another flight and ended up there, you probably know already - the Digital Mission group will be out and about at various events. Why not swing by and say hello:
Our friends at leading games community GameHorizon are planning a shindig in London-town on 2nd Dec to celebrate the Best of British games featuring the legendary Ian Livingstone.
We fluttered our eyelashes and they've kindly given us a couple of tickets to give away to this networking event. As well as the talk above, the evening features a pub quiz, show reel of the best in British Games and a spot of food'n'drink to keep the wheels oiled.
There's two tickets up for grabs. To get your hands on one, simply fill out the form below.
Win a much sought-after ticket to this year's IAB Engage conference. The theme of Engage 2010 is Supercharge Your Brand.
Join an audience of 600 smart-talking, quick-thinking marketers to watch presentations from industry leaders including Yahoo!'s Carol Bartz, Spotify's Daniel Ek, YouTube's Bruce Daisley, researcher and broadcaster Dr Aleks Krotoski and comedian Jimmy Carr amongst a glittering array of speakers.
To win a ticket, just send fill out the form below and you could be the lucky recipient of a ticket to IAB Engage 2010. Or if you can't wait (and tickets are almost out), why not book now?
With uptake rates on the rise and journalists increasingly using Twitter to
tinyurl their stories, nab quick quotes from their followers, are the days of
the lowly PR numbered?
The thing that really got me into Twitter were the G20 riots in London; the
day when the Royal Bank of Scotland was raided. Journalists were tweeting live
updates, as they unfolded. The "by the grace of God" landing of US Airways
flight 154 on the Hudson River, back in January 2009, was another one.
That near miss, not only elevated the pilot, one Captain Chesley
"Sully" Sullenberger, to hero book status but also showed the
disconnect between new media and old.
Twitter’s trend page flagged up the key
terms #USAirways, #Hudsonplane and #crash, instantly. FlightStats.com, the
aviation information site, on the other hand, was showing the downed flight as
being late, but still en route to its destination. An hour after the accident,
Google’s trending service was showing no signs of those keywords, even an hour
after the accident.
19 of the UK’s top digital companies have been selected in a fiercely
competitive process to join the third Digital Mission to New York from 1st-5th November 2010, forging new business and showcasing British
digital talent.
Organised by Chinwag and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI),
the Digital Mission to New York provides the ideal platform for the companies
attending to make business connections, build international profile, understand
the US market and discover the practicalities of setting up shop in the US.
The Digital Mission companies are:
A full list of companies with descriptions and
contact details is available on the Digital Mission website: http://digital-mission.org/nyc10-companies
In under a week some of the UK's leading digital firms will be making the trip to the Big Apple for the third Digital Mission to New York.
The week takes in a heap of activities designed to bring companies up-to-speed on the US market, make heaps of introductions and take in the full intensity of the ad:tech NYC Expo.
For those taking part in the Digital Mission, and anyone travelling to the US from the UK, the forms for immigration have changed in the last couple of months and it's now obligatory to complete the snappily titled Electronic System for Travel Authorization for (or thankfully, ESTA form).
We've got together with the lovely team at Mobile Cloud Computing Forum (1st Dec in London) to offer 10 lucky Chinwaggers free tickets for this year's conference at RIBA in London.
The conference will provide a full perspective of mobile cloud computing and SaaS from business value through integration and implementation and the emerging trends in the industry. Just fill out the form to enter the competition.
The Technology Strategy Board, following funding calls earlier this year designed to encourage collaboration between companies for cutting edge technology, are hosting Innovate 10 next week. And they've kindly given us ten tickets to give away.
The event, which includes a keynote from David Willetts MP will address all aspects of technology innovation, with a special focus on the commercial exploitation of the digital economy, healthcare markets of the future, energy generation and supply and the sustainability economy.
There’s a digital ‘journey’
that you can follow at this year’s event. It starts with two sessions How Digital
Technology Will Drive Growth in the Creative Industries, and Make the Connection
between Open Innovation and Social Media. You can then follow this
by voting for your favourite new idea when companies will be pitching for up to
£100k of funding in the Innovate Launch
Pad: Digital & Healthcare.
Thinking about expanding your business to the Big Apple? There's been heaps of interest in this year's Digital Mission to New York (1-5 Nov) so we've extended the deadline until Friday 8th Oct.
This trip, the third to New York is timed to coincide with ad:tech New York, the biggest gathering of digital media and marketing types in the city, with 10,000 visitors expected and 290+ exhibitors confirmed. The Digital Mission companies will have access to the UKTI stand, plus Exhibit Hall passes included in the trip.
In the last few months we have seen a marked shift in
the number of clients requesting cutting edge programming languages like HTML5,
Ajax and CSS3.
This is great news for candidates but how many can capitalise on this burgeoning area?
