business & innovation

Thinking Digital Conference

Your opportunity to have conversations with the people who create the future. A three-day event jam packed with presentations and performances to delight, provoke and inspire - unleashing a vision of the world as it could be.

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Date: 21 May 2013
Location: The Sage Gateshead, UK

In The Brain of Jimmy Bogard: Building External DSLs for Fun and Profit

We've all seen the explosion of fluent interfaces and internal DSLs with the language-oriented features of recent releases of C#. But what if we want to move beyond the barriers of the programming language and into actual external, executable DSLs?

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Date: 6 March 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Online marketing masterclass for small businesses

Learn 9 fundamental areas of digital marketing. This workshop will teach you how to capitalise on this for your own business.

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Date: 25 February 2013
Location: British Library Business & IP Centre, UK

Masterclass: Reducing Technical Debt with Michael C. Feathers

We're delighted to welcome Michael Feathers to London to deliver his course Reducing Technical Debt at Skills Matter this April.

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Date: 10 April 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

UKTI Announces Guardian Activate India Trip 21-23 Mar - Register for Info

Indian Traffic

The Guardian’s Activate conference heads to Delhi on 21st March for an invite-only event bringing together leading influencers from technology, entrepreneurship and social innovation.

UKTI have a limited number of passes to Guardian Activate plus a local programme of activities and grants towards travel. There's more info coming soon, but in the meantime...

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Andrey Breslav: Introduction to Kotlin

Kotlin is a modern statically typed language targeting JVM and JavaScript and intended for industrial use. At this talk, Andrey Breslav (Kotlin project lead) gives an overview of the language and the principles behind it.

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Date: 3 April 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Nic Ferrier - A Year in Emacs

Will this year be when Emacs starts to become a viable application development lisp? Asynchronous servers, web-sockets, web-servers, threads and continuous build systems are all happening. Nic Ferrier, responsible for at least some of this tooling and re-assessment takes us through what will be happening this year in the Emacs world.

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Date: 19 February 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

WIE London - March 8th - International Women's Day

The second annual WIE London will take place on March 8th International Women's Day at The Hospital Club. Speakers include: Lady Lynn de Rothschild, Helena Morrissey CBE, Kelly Hoppen MBE, Melissa Odabash, Kay Burley, Justine Roberts founder of Mumsnet, David Gandy and Ozwald Boateng OBE. Tickets are on sale now: www.wienetwork.co.uk

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Date: 8 March 2013
Location: The Hospital Club, UK

MiniBarLabs CodeMaker Course

MiniBarLabs ‘CodeMaker’ one-day coding course for anyone who needs to understand the digital world better

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Date: 27 March 2013
Location: Mother London, UK

DigitalSurrey February 2013

On 28 February, DigitalSurrey will discuss the application of social media and data visualisation technology to opinion research.

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Date: 28 February 2013
Location: County Hall, UK

MiniBarLabs CodeMaker Course

MiniBarLabs ‘CodeMaker’ one-day coding course for anyone who needs to understand the digital world better

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Date: 6 March 2013
Location: Mother London, UK

Tech Business MiniMBA #11: Go Mobile – How to Use Apps to Grow Your Business

Tech Business MiniMBA #11: Go Mobile – How to Use Apps to Grow Your Business presented by Jonny Kaldor, Managing Director of Kaldor Group (creator of Pugpig)

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Date: 28 February 2013
Location: Young Foundation, UK

South West Regional Group: Building your brand

Branding reflects what people say, think and feel about you, it’s how they build trust in you. More than ever, charities must demonstrate that they are relevant and worthy of support. Join CharityComms in Bristol, free for CharityComms members or £50 + vat for non members.

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Date: 22 March 2013
Location: Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse, UK

Doncaster Wired City Reconnected Event – Business Collaborative Networking

Collaborative Networking event for Digital, Creative and ICT businesses and Freelancers based in Doncaster, South & West Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire. Free bar and buffet refreshments. Located 10 mins from railway station. Thursday 14th March ...doors open at 6pm

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Date: 14 March 2013
Location: Project, Copley Road, UK

Manchester Wired City Reconnected Event – Business Collaborative Networking

Collaborative networking for digital, creative and ICT businesses across the North West and Yorkshire. Free bar and refreshments based at Manchester Digital Development Agency Offices, Portland Street. Thursday 21st March

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Date: 18 July 2013
Location: Manchester Digital Development Agency Offices, UK