business & innovation

Luke Hohmann's Certified Innovation Games for Customer Understanding

Want to give your business an extra edge? Join Luke Hohmann at Skills Matter for his course on using serious games to maximise your success.

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Date: 28 October 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

The Future of Open

We would like to invite you to the Future of Open - a day of future scenarios for Open across diverse sectors.

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Date: 6 July 2013
Location: Mother London, UK

Local Social Summit

The intersection of Local, Social and Mobile

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Date: 19 November 2013
Location: Etc Venues, UK

REWIRED STATE: BMJ Hack Day

Challenges- 1. Digital Medical Students 2. Create a “Zero harm” NHS 3. Localise content through collaboration 4. Revolutionise the scholarly publishing process

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Date: 6 July 2013
Location: Hub Westminster, UK

In The Brain of Russ Miles & David A. Dawson: Rescuing the PaaS with Simplicity

In this talk, David Dawson and Russ Miles of Simplicity Itself will show how to design Cloud-friendly, simple components, services and applications that can deliver on the promises that have loosely been collated around the term PaaS, without the need for an actual PaaS

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Date: 18 July 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

UXPA UK Careers Event 2013

The event will include the following tracks; -Speed dating followed by a traditional open house careers fair - for those actively looking for a job; -Q&A panel :- for practitioners keen on improving their interviewing skills; and -UX booths :- for both junior and senior practitioners who would benefit from professional development.

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Date: 27 June 2013
Location: Thomson Reuters, UK

Not All Fans Are Equal

4.7%

Think all your Facebook fans are equal? Richard Jones, the CEO of EngageSciences doesn't... 

Back in 2009, when EngageSciences was founded, we saw that the first generation of social media management systems weren’t really platforms for marketers. Let’s be clear, there is a difference between tools that are aimed at managing the conversation on social channels and a platform designed to configure and run social marketing campaigns.

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Is the press release dead? Join us for Breakfast, PR & Media at the Press Association (London) on 26th June

Join us for breakfast on "Is the press release dead?" at the Press Association (London) on 26 June. Topic: the state of the press release and everything in between from multimedia news releases to social media. Speakers include: Teilo Colley & Jim Grice-PA, Anna Averkiou, Louise Stewart-Muir-Say. Moderator: Simon Quarendon-Keene Communications

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Date: 26 June 2013
Location: Press Association, UK

Keep taking the tablets

Spend an evening at the British Library networking and sipping cosmic cocktails and canapés with Thomas Jeffs, Chief Technology, of Lucidica as he predicts future technology trends.

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Date: 3 July 2013
Location: British Library Business & IP Centre, UK

Finance in the Cloud - an evening Fintech Seminar

Finance in the Cloud: the next event in the monthly FinTech Evening Seminar series presented by NewFinance at Cass Business School. Free industry guide, networking opportunities, speakers, and a panel session, always a really good session.

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Date: 15 July 2013
Location: Cass Business School, UK

Conversion Conference London 2013

The conference is dedicated to anyone wanting to achieve maximum ROI from their online campaigns as this is the place where internationally renowned experts explain how to improve sales and dramatically increase your site’s conversion rates.

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Date: 23 October 2013
Location: Etc Venues, UK

60+ Social Tools You Can't Live Without...

Tools

Let's get to 100.

Is there one thing you can't live without? We want to know about it! No we don't mean chocolate, we mean social tools.

If you didn't know we are compiling a list of all the social tools the world and the web have to offer, we started it, people are adding to it and it is coming along beautifully.

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In The Brain of Allan Kelly: Is there a role for Project Managers and Business Analysts on Agile?

Allan Kelly explores whether project managers are really needed within Agile teams.

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Date: 24 June 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

"Learn to Code" ~ a one-day workshop

Learn to code and build websites and web apps. From scratch. In a single day. Even if you've never written or seen a line of code before.

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Date: 10 July 2013
Location: Lab for the Recently Possible, UK

INSPIRE [TWO]: SME Entrepreneurs and Funding

If you are an SME Entrepreneur or business with any interest in funding , then please join us for a morning with leading champions of entrepreneurship including Julie Meyer Founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Alysia Wanczyk of Seedrs and TED Speaker and creative entrepreneur Samir Ceric .

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Date: 21 June 2013
Location: Blue Fin Building, UK