business & innovation

GROW 2010 is a technology conference that will bring together leading entrepreneurs, thinkers, influencers and investors from Silicon Valley and Canada to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship.

Affiliate Summit East, the premier affiliate marketing conference, is taking place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.

A half-day workshop and case study session that will showcase advancements in local services and provide organisations delivering or developing ‘local’ services (advertising agencies, Media, TV, News, local & central government, web businesses, directories, local businesses and local services) with a framework for developing them.

On 15th June 2010, the North West Development announced the appointment of fund managers to manage its £185 million venture capital fund. With so much public money available within regions, what are the options for setting up and growing high growth businesses?

A short seminar on 2 July from 0930 to 1230 aimed at developers and others that are using the released COINS data to generate systems or other on-line capabilities to allow the public to access the released data.

To optimize return on investment you need to measure how users react to campaigns and most importantly what makes a visit into a sale (conversion). In this workshop we will introduce tools and techniques used analyze web traffic.

To show up first in organic search on Google and Bing is what every business wants, but the methods people hear about to get there sound too often like black magic. There are, however, tried and tested strategies that enhance your ranking for a variety of search terms relevant to your business.

How to use local, social and cultural content and grow globally: The focus is to discuss different business strategies for music and music tech companies, and what their implications are from a legal, financial and international point of view.

At this workshop, social media experts will introduce you to several strategies on how to turn social media tools such as, Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere into powerful marketing devices.

The workshop will cover different management methods such as ‘agile software management’ and what processes to use to arrive at a web development plan that translates business goals into achievable and workable web implementation.

Apps World, a two day event taking place on the 30th November & 1st December at Olympia 2, has been designed to create a unique platform to bring together the next generation of this rapidly developing sector.