business & innovation

Tech Connect, Tech meets Sports and Wellbeing

Tech Connect, a FREE meetup for 18-24s looking for an opening in the creative and digital space. Join us on 3 July at Hackney College’s Shoreditch site, where you can put your questions to the creators of Football Manager 2014 (Sports Interactive), with a VFX Specialist from Glassworks also presenting. Followed by networking over FREE PIZZA.

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Date: 3 July 2014
Location: Hackney Community College, UK

"Social Business Sessions London" Meetup

Social Business Sessions is a Meetup to provide a regular forum where we can share ideas, experiences and models for helping organisations become more social. This session, IBM will go talk about IBM Watson AI engine, and will give a 5 minute talk on how IBM support Wimbledon social media efforts.

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Date: 2 July 2014
Location: IBM South Bank, UK

ClickZ Live San Francisco

The Global Conference Series Designed by Digital Marketers, for Digital Marketers

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Date: 11 August 2014
Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco Embarcadero, US

NewFinance #London Insurance Disrupters - Business Model Innovation day

The objective of this workshop is to change the business mechanics of the Insurance industry by creating new business models that may be adopted by existing and new companies.

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Date: 17 July 2014
Location: Central Working (Whitechapel), UK

Drinks Giant Pernod-Ricard Announces Hackathon with £10,000 Prize and We Have Free Tickets For You

Pernod Ricard – Journey To The Glenlivet by Flourish Creative

A weekend focused on drinks and code, with a £10,000 prize up for grabs? This weekend, the team at The Bakery London are hosting a hackathon with drinks giant Pernod-Ricard.

Fancy a weekend developing a startup in the drinks industry, Chinwag has free tickets for the event, but don't hang about, sign up now.

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Celebrating on a Shoe-String: Why & How Should Start-Ups Celebrate Success?

Last academic year has been a special one thanks to you, the attendees, the speakers, and everyone else who was part of City Unrulyversity. So we thought it was time to say thanks and to celebrate!

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Date: 2 July 2014
Location: Unruly HQ, UK

The Innovative, Win-Win Corporate Charity Partnerships Conference

Join 42 speakers – including Coca-Cola, WWF, Barclays, Breast Cancer Care and Ben & Jerry’s – as they reveal how to make a corporate charity partnership win-win.

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Date: 25 September 2014
Location: Thistle Marble Arch, UK

Founder2Founder

Founder2Founder is an exciting new peer network for CEOs of growing startups.

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Date: 7 July 2014
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The Beauty Trends & Innovations Conference – From Insight To Engagement.

Join 20 speakers – including Dermalogica Skincare, Marks & Spencer, Lee Stafford, Philip Kingsley & Topshop– as they reveal the latest trends and innovations in the beauty industry.

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Date: 23 September 2014
Location: Hotel Russell, UK

Speaker Boutique - Growing from 5 to 50 staff

Hear three entrepreneurs from The Supper Club talk candidly about the situations they have experienced in growing from 5 to 50 staff.

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Date: 17 July 2014
Location: Charlotte Street Hotel, UK

SoftLayer Catalyst Startup Mixer

Join SoftLayer Catalyst and Startup Socials on June 25th for a fun evening in Shoreditch. Meet influential members of the Silicon Valley and London startup scene and create a global network.

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Date: 25 June 2014
Location: Casa Negra, UK

#London Insurance Disrupters - The Gamification of Insurance

The workshop is not about the technical aspects of the Disruptive Technology but a qualitative creative discussion about the existing Insurance value chain, how the technology might disrupt it and how that can be turned into an opportunity.

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Date: 24 June 2014
Location: Central Working (Whitechapel), UK

2014 Human Capital Analytics Summit

Talent Management Alliance http://the-tma.org/wp-content/uploads/brochures/human-capital-analytics-europe.pdf http://the-tma.org/human-capital-analytics-europe/

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Date: 3 September 2014
Location: Doubletree by Hilton London Victoria, London, UK, US

DIGITAL SPARKS JULY 2014

Digital Sparks events are evening networking events that have been created to provide a focused event for an invited audience of brand and agency guests to hear about relevant technologies, new start-up businesses and to discuss active partnerships that work well for all.

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Date: 16 July 2014
Location: Prince of Wales, UK

High-Performance Applications with WebSockets

Want to find out how to optimise your web applications' performance through WebSockets? Interested in implementing real-time communication in your applications? Then make sure you're on Richard Clark's course on High-Performance Applications with WebSockets!

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Date: 17 July 2014
Location: Skills Matter, UK