business & innovation

Tick Tock, SMWLDN is Coming Ready, Or Not.

SMW is coming...

Nine and a half weeks means two things to us: a movie that’s very missable and a deadline which definitely is not.

If you want to submit an event for Social Media Week London, you have until 2 August 2013. Right now we have 20 submitted events - let’s double that number. You need nothing more than an idea or a work in progress.

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Unlocked: The Hybrid Cloud

Unlocked is a one day event for developers, IT professionals and decision-makers to learn and discuss how hybrid cloud is changing IT.

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Date: 11 July 2013
Location: No. 11 Cavendish Square, UK

Internet of Things 2013

One day to educate, inspire and connect people making the IoT a commercial success. The best event on the business of IoT in the UK this year.

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Date: 27 June 2013
Location: Robinson College,, UK

Raising Start-Up Capital

Piggy Bank

The path to securing investment for your start-up can be steep, twisted and challenging, Darren Hamer decided to interview a veteran in this field, Mathias Plank , the founder of Sticky, the world’s first webcam based eye tracking platform (formerly known as Eyetrackshop).

Mathias was interviewed by Darren Hamer, (Managing Director UK, Sticky) where he outlines the path to securing investment for your start-up.

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Sharing is Caring - Help Us Make the Ultimate List of Social Tools.

secrets

We are in the process of curating a list of all the social tools the web and the world have to offer.

Two heads are better than one and loads of heads are awesome! We have started the list off but we need you to help us by submiting all the social tools that help you do all the things you do on a day to day basis.

We thought that it would be a list that would be helpful for everyone, so save it, share it and submit. You know you want to.

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TestBash 2014

TestBash is a one day affordable software testing conference held in sunny Brighton on Friday March 28th 2014.

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Date: 28 March 2014
Location: Brighton, UK

The Tech Business MiniMBA #6: Web Analytics

'The Tech Business MiniMBA #6: Web Analytics' presented by Malcolm Coles, a successful internet strategy consultant and Product Director of digital at Trinity Mirror.

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Date: 11 July 2013
Location: The Young Foundation, UK

The Tech Business MiniMBA #5: Effective Marketing with Social Media

'The Tech Business MiniMBA #5: Effective Marketing with Social Media' presented by Margaret Gold, founder of The Mobile Collective and co-organiser of Over the Air.

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Date: 20 June 2013
Location: The Young Foundation, UK

Tech Business MiniMBA #4: The Business Timeline - Getting the Basics Right

'Tech Business MiniMBA #4: The Business Timeline - Getting the Basics Right' presented by Mark Twum-Ampofo, Technology Partner at top 20 accountancy firm Kingston Smith.

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Date: 5 June 2013
Location: Kingston Smith, UK

The SMW Travel Award Program is open for Entries!

Come Fly With Me

Experience the international side of Social Media Week. Enter the SMW Travel Award Programme for grants to see SMW overseas.

The global team are looking for one participant, one speaker and one event partner to send to one of our spectacular SMW Host cities. Fancy bopping over to Berlin, living it up in London or moving and shaking in Mumbai? Well now you can with SMW's help.

Submissions are open, enter now.

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Creating engaging, locally relevant and on-brand global content

Polkadot Global training workshop: how to create global content that is engaging, locally relevant and consistently on brand.

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Date: 26 June 2013
Location: The Hub, Kings Cross, UK

Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion Workshop

In this 4-day course, written by Mr. DDD himself Eric Evans and delivered by inspired expert Alberto Brandolini, you'll learn how to put the domain model to work!

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Date: 10 June 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

In The Brain of Daniel Steinberg: The Evolution of iOS Code: Less Code, More Fulfilling

We'll look at before and after pictures that will convince you to embrace the new features that have been working their way into the language from Objective-C 2.0 to now.

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Date: 17 September 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Forget-Me-Not: can a computer remember for you?

On 7 June, come to a morning of debate, experiment and live demonstrations exploring our relationship with digital memory. Alongside hearing from an expert group of panellists you can take part in an experiment exploring how we access and store data, and seeing demonstrations of different approaches to collecting and curating digital artefacts.

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Date: 7 June 2013
Location: Nesta, UK

Looking for a New Job? Look No Further.

Will Work For Food

Chinwag's Careers Day at Digital Shoreditch is this Friday, May 24th to be exact. The companies are ready and waiting to find their next star employee. Grab yourself a ticket now, it's FREE.

Make the most of Friday, get the medical attention your cv needs at the surgery, wander upstairs for a workshop and catch a presentation in the main room, read the full agenda bellow.

The only thing left to do is introduce the final six companies exhibiting: Pharmiweb Solutions, Inspiring Interns, Harvest Digital, BrightLemon, Enternships, LGCH.

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