events

BBC Worldwide Labs is a six-month accelerator programme for emerging media digital companies in the UK. It is designed to help startups gain traction by working closely with the experts at BBC Worldwide across all divisions: from technology and content to marketing, sales, advertising and legal, as well as having access to prime office space in the Media Centre in White City.

This year’s Social Media Week New York (Feb 17-21) is crammed with events, speakers, masterclasses and more. And we’re offering Chinwaggers exclusive discounted tickets.

Any event is an excellent opportunity to showcase your brand or organisation and grow its social media presence.

This weekend I joined one of my clients, @LUAAOfficial and their sister company @UrbanArtsExp, at the Lollibop Festival in Stratford. While I couldn’t claim to share their appreciation of “Rastamouse” (yet...) I did spot three ways that you can harness the power of social media and events.

Social Media Week returns to London for a fifth year with the theme Open & Connected: Principles for a Collaborative World.

As a platform connecting people, content and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media, it seeks the most forward-thinking agencies, corporations, non-profits, startups and schools to submit their event ideas.

We are looking for the boldest, brightest ways to attract a crowd, so here’s a few pointers to start you off...

SMX London (15-16 May) is the only search marketing conference designed exclusively for experienced internet marketers.

SMX is a 2 day event where the sessions are fast-paced, Q&A-packed, frequently controversial, always informative.

We have one ticket up for grabs for one of you lucky chinwaggers, the two day full conference pass is worth £890+VAT.

The competition closes May 5. Enter here.

Digital Shoreditch is back for its third year and looks to be the best yet, Digital Shoreditch is opening the doors of Tech City for a two-week digital wonderland, 20-31 May. 

Missed the early bird tickets? Don’t fret, we have a mighty tasty 25% discount to share.

The folks at Digital Shoreditch have given us this link to give you guys 25% off until the 29th of April, don’t miss out and grab a ticket now. 

Chinwag Psych (@ChinwagPsych) is fast approaching and we have more speakers to introduce you to. 

May 9th is the date and Chancery Lane the place. 

The full day conference is jam packed full of case studies, theory, insight and plenty of practical advice centred around the latest thinking and application of psychology, neuroscience and machine learning.

Dr. David Stillwell is Science Director at Cambridge Personality Research, and will be speaking at Chinwag Psych on May 9th. Concluding his discussion on Neuromarketing, which began with an analysis of EEG, he looks at the alternative...

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) uses huge, million-dollar magnetic scanners to see your brain without having to cut it open.

Resolution is relatively high – down to the millimetre range. It can also view deep brain regions as easily as areas on the surface. But it’s not without limitations.

The time has come. Social Media Week London is back. This September London will be joined by some awesome cities including Barcelona, Berlin, Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mumbai, São Paulo, Torino and Toronto.

Here are some important milestones ahead for the London event:

• April 23rd: Event Submission Opens
• August 2nd: Event Submission Closes
• August 13th: Attendee Registration Opens

Whether you’re new or old to Social Media Week London, there are many ways to take part: 

There are many psychological drivers that govern the way we share, says Natalie Nahai, aka The Web Psychologist. These subconscious principles can be useful in creating compelling content. Here, ahead of her appearance at Chinwag Psych, she examines three of the most effective:

Social Validation

Social validation refers to our desire to develop ‘meaningful social relationships, and retain a favourable self-concept’ [1].

Chinwag Psych (@ChinwagPsych) is coming to London on Thursday May 9th. 

It is a conference and online publication covering psychology, neuroscience and machine learning for business and marketing.

A limited number of Early Bird tickets are now available. Get your tickets here. 

We are excited to be able to announce our first two speakers. Here come the girls...

Big data is big, obviously. It’s huge, in fact with the amount of information pouring out of social networks, ecommerce systems let alone those that run our ‘real lives’ the challenge of figuring out what’s happening is almost insurmountable.

This time last year we started to explore how the worlds of psychology, neuroscience and machine learning could help techno-numpties like me to apply some of this high-fallutin’ brain science to business. From influence to behaviour to understanding emotions, there’s plenty to take on board.

Chinwag Psych was born, bringing together the leaders in this emerging world where academia and business combine in large part powered by digital and social media.

As you probably already know Social Media Week London will be back in September. If you didn’t know then I am sorry to be the one to break the news. Although it must have been a mighty big rock you were hiding under.

Social Media Week February is running in 8 global locations, it may feel a little too last minute to longhaul it to the other side of the pond to NYC or Tokyo but the European locations are just a hop, skip and a jump across the channel.

With lots of the events being run in English it really is worth having a look, or getting involved in a google hangout!