business & innovation

Digital Innovation Contest - Fashion: Final Event

Final event for the £130k IC tomorrow ‘Digital Innovation Contest – Fashion’ featuring pitches from 12 finalists who will present their idea to a judging panel of industry experts, including representatives from the contest challenge partners: London College of Fashion, BOXPARK, Holition and Bauer Media/Grazia.

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Date: 10 July 2013
Location: Somerset House, UK

Social CRM 2013 - London

SCRM13 is a compelling two-day conference and workshop that highlights the latest thinking and practice in social customer engagement. This year we’re exploring how brands are moving beyond mere engagement, towards sustaining genuine customer relationships.

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Date: 9 July 2013
Location: Cavendish Conference Centre, UK

David Pollak's Fast Track to Lift

Learn to create secure, dynamic Lift based sites.

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Date: 2 September 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Digital Innovation in Fashion

An IC tomorrow event to explore the future of fashion and retail through digital applications and services. 12 startups will pitch for the opportunity to receive £120K in funding, and to trial their tech with a leading industry partner.

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Date: 10 July 2013
Location: Somerset House, UK

Mark Rendle's Single Page Applications with AngularJS & .NET - 3 Day Workshop

Learn to create modern, ReSTful web applications using AngularJS on the client and .NET or Mono on the server.

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Date: 2 October 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

2014 Global Civil Engineering & Applied Science Conference

The Global Civil Engineering & Applied Science Conference(CEAASC) offers the occasion for wide-ranging, interdisciplinary discussion covering both academia and research.

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Date: 8 January 2014
Location: Courtyard Marriot Seoul Times Square, XX

Luke Hohmann's Certified Innovation Games for Customer Understanding

Join governments, charities, and Fortune 1000 companies - use serious games to improve your business!

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Date: 5 December 2013
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

F# Mobile Apps with James Freiwirth & Gustavo Guerra

Join the F#unctional Londoners for talks from James Freiwirth and Gustavo Guerra on F#, mobile applications, and Windows 8.

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Date: 25 July 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

In The Brain Of Paul Ardeleanu: Painless iOS Testing

In this talk, you'll find out how recent developments have affected your source code and how to embrace the new features that will make your code more readable.

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Date: 1 October 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

PR and Disruption: Embracing and Surviving Change

How does PR respond to and use disruption? Hear from leading academics and practitioners from brands such as Walmart and ActionAid and embrace disruption by attending “face-off" debates and getting your hands dirty with practical sessions.

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Date: 10 July 2013
Location: London College of Communication, central London, UK

Win a Ticket to The Guardian Activate Summit - London July 9 2013

Guardian Activate Summit

Transforming the world through digital innovation, technology and openness.

Discover how digital innovation, technology and openness are transforming the world at the Guardian Activate Summit on 9 July in London. This event is your chance to meet the people using technology to transform how we do business and reshape the world.

We have 2 tickets to give away to 2 lucky Chinwag readers, enter here. The Competition closes on July 5th.

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In The Brain of Russ Miles: Clojure and Other Friends - Promiscuous LISPing towards Simplicity

Functional languages, with the right practices and preference, can result in simple solutions, but they're not the only ones having all the fun!

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Date: 8 August 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Typesafe's Advanced Scala - 2 Day Workshop

If you are a developer with at least 3 months Scala programming experience and you would like to learn various advanced features of this programming language and how to apply these to create well designed libraries or DSLs using proven practices, Typesafe's Advanced Scala is for you!

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Date: 17 July 2013
Location: MicroTek, US

7 Ideas for Creating a Great Social Media Event

Applause

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...

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Win a ticket to the App Promotion Summit, London, July 11 2013

App Promotion Summit

One of the biggest challenges facing mobile app developers and publishers is how to ensure that as many people as possible know about your app. With this in mind, the App Promotion Summit is taking place on July 11th at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in London.

The organisers are offering 2 lucky Chinwag readers a chance to win a free ticket to the event. The competition closes on July 5th, so enter now for your chance to win a pass.

We’ve also secured a 10% discount on attendance for Chinwag readers (details below).

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