events

Harnessing user-led innovation

To investigate this phenomenon, NESTA commissioned a major new piece of research - The New Inventors: How users are changing the rules of innovation.  Join them to hear about the findings and to discuss the implications for policy and practice.

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Date: 16 July 2008
Location: NESTA, UK

Open Alchemy Launch Event

Ian Pearson MP, Minister of State for Science and Innovation will make a key note address as Oracle, Innovaro and NESTA formally launch the Open Alchemy programme. It will be a fresh approach to developing new products with suppliers, opening up the process using the principles of corporate open innovation.

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Date: 14 July 2008
Location: NESTA, UK

Measurementcamp IV: where the influencers are

Alpha fans leading superfans, super fans leading normals, normals leading those that just don’t have clue. It’s a bit like Harry Potter this social media marketing lark – all muggles and non-magics.

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Wanna go to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York or SXSW Interactive?

It’s official and finally I can talk about it! Chinwag has teamed up with the UKTI to take UK digital SMEs on trade missions to New York and Austin, Texas coinciding with two of the world’s most celebrated web events – the Web 2.0 Expo and SXSW Interactive.

The NYC mission coinciding with the Web 2.0 Expo runs 14-19 September 2008.

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Engage for Brand Building

IAB Engage for Brand Building will provide the latest case studies and examples of exceptional online creativity and integration.

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Date: 16 July 2008
Location: Conference Centre, Centre Point Tower, UK

Engage in Manchester

The Internet Advertising Bureau is going ‘on tour’ to Manchester this year, hand-in-hand with some of the industry’s biggest names to discuss the online marketplace, plus the big challenges in the UK (specifically outside the M25)...

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Date: 23 July 2008
Location: Bridgewater Hall, UK

Mobile 2.0 Conference

The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee is proud to announce the 3rd Annual Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco. The 1-day event on November 3rd will once again be held at the Grand Hyatt Union Square.

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Date: 3 November 2008
Location: Grand Hyatt Union Square, US

FITC Seoul 2008

FITC Events is an international events company serving the design and technology community with events designed to inspire, educate and challenge. FITC events bring together many of the world's top designers and developers within a fast-paced program with plenty of opportunity to connect with others others working within the industry.

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Date: 14 October 2008
Location: COEX Auditorium, KP

mashup* Event: Enterprise 2.0

  This mashup* Event will focus on the status of Enterprise 2.0 thinking, where thought leaders are up to and we are sure will stray into the opportunity of effecting and delivering corporate social responsibility and “green” IT.

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Date: 17 July 2008
Location: BT Centre (St Pauls), UK

Face to Face with the Millenials

Following the recently acclaimed ‘Meet The Millennials’ report, MusicTank has invited its author and Nettwerk Music Group’s Co-Founder & CEO Terry McBride to the UK to take part in a very special music business initiative.

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Date: 17 July 2008
Location: Imagination Gallery, UK

TALK Pecha Kucha - Your Big Idea

Work in the public sector and got a big idea? We want to hear about it at the TALK Pecha Kucha on Friday 11 July at the Manchester Digital Development Agency.

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Date: 11 July 2008
Location: MDDA, UK

Scripting Enabled

Scripting Enabled is a two day conference and workshop aimed at making the web a more accessible place. We will be achieving this by making those in the know about accessibility barriers meet hackers that know how to retrieve information from APIs and display them as alternative interfaces.                

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Date: 19 July 2008
Location: Metropolitian University, UK

Monetise Web 2.0 Social Networks

Monetise Web 2.0 & Social Networks 2008 is where leading media, web and games developers, consumer entertainment, broadcasters and agencies come to discover how to build and monetise social networks, gadgets and widgets.

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Date: 9 July 2008
Location: Royal National Institute for the Blind, UK