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Digital Startups Get Chance to PICNIC in Amsterdam - Apply Now

PICNIC Amsterdam by Mark Florquin

After a successful trip to Berlin last year, CIKTN have teamed up with PICNIC, one of the must-attend digital conferences in Europe, and the UK Science & Innovation Network for a special event on 21/22nd Feb in Amsterdam.

Kicking off what's billed as a series of events between UK firms and Amsterdam, which has a strong reputation for digital businesses, this looks like a promising intiative for digital firms looking to start or develop a foothold in Europe.

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23 January 2012 by Sam Michel

Mobile Games - Current Trends and what are the lessons for other sectors?

Mobile games is arguably the most significant contributor to mobile content revenues - so there's plenty to learn from that sector if you're not in it - and plenty to think about from others' experience if you are.

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Date: 30 January 2012
Location: CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, UK

Startup Asia

Startup Asia Singapore showcases newly launched and product-ready tech startups. It showcases only startups which are born in Asia. Of course, Startup Asia Singapore will have, as the name suggests, more startups that originate from Singapore.

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Date: 2 February 2012
Location: Singapore Post Centre, SG

PHP UK Conference 2012

PHP UK Conference 2012 is PHP London's seventh annual conference, building on the success of previous events by expanding to a double-day event, to accommodate the continual growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry.

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Date: 23 February 2012
Location: Business Design Centre, UK

webinar: B2B Marketing for tech start up companies in the UK

B2B Marketing for tech companies in the UK will look at the following: The key marketing priorities for tech companies looking to enter the UK. The webinar is designed to give you all the insight you need before making the step across the channel.

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Date: 19 January 2012
Location: UK, UK

Simon Says: You're Wrong about Spotify

Spotify

"Spotify Paid Lady Gaga $167 For 1,000,000 Plays"

This headline showed the “dark side” of music streaming start up, Spotify. Critics were in awe about how little artists were being paid for their hard work. Despite the short lived pleas from Spotify that they paid more per play people focused on this number, as if it was a bad thing.

Paying an artist less than 1p per play sounds like a raw deal, until you remember Spotify is a marketing platform. Spotify is designed as a service for people to listen to their favourite tracks cheaply. Why does this benefit the artist? Because if you love their music, you’ll go to the show, get the t-shirt and support the live scene.

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10 January 2012 by Simon Caine

techpitch 4.5

techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, including some of the startups that have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.

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Date: 8 February 2012
Location: Pinsent Mason's Auditorium, UK

UKTI Mission to SXSW 2012: The Companies Announced

SXSW 2011

Congratulations to the 40 leading UK digital companies selected for this year's UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) Mission to South by South West 2012.

The exciting mission will see the companies travel out to Austin, Texas for an action-packed 5 days at SXSW Interactive, one of the largest and most well known conferences focused on digital media and technology.

Each of the companies joining the mission are listed below, don't hesitate to drop them a line directly to arrange a time to meet up in Austin, or follow their progress via their Twitter accounts. You can follow the UKTI team's coverage of the mission on Twitter @uktiatsxswi.

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9 January 2012 by Lauren Cotton

London New Finance - January meetup

The largest London meetup for New Finance startups and technology

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Date: 24 January 2012
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

Facebook Developer Garage London January 2012

Our first regular event of 2012. We've some great speakers lined up - so far there's Bernie Hogan, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute who'll be talking about network and networking visualisations, and a usual must-see for developers, Iskandar Najmuddin from Syncapse will get us up to date with the latest Facebook platform updates.

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Date: 18 January 2012
Location: Freemasons' Hall, UK

The Winter Hackathon

The Winter Hackathon is a two-day festival of software coding devoted to the creation of mobile apps for the million plus visitors to the summer games in London in July/August 2012.

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Date: 28 January 2012
Location: Central Working, UK

Smart Cities of the Future in Asia: Opportunities for UK Business

The research focuses on developments in Built Environment (Construction); Education; Energy & Environment (road, rail, power grid); Health; Digital Environment (ICT, Creative) and Transportation in cities across the following markets: Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam

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Date: 14 February 2012
Location: Salford, Manchester - venue TBC, UK

Eric Ries, The Lean Startup – London Edition. 16th January 2012

Eric Ries, author of, ‘The Lean Startup’, will talk about what it means to apply those ideas in practice. After the talk and Q&A, there will be networking drinks & everyone will leave with a signed copy of The Lean Startup.

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Date: 16 January 2012
Location: tba, UK

Seedcamp London 31st January 2012

Apply now to Seedcamp London!

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Date: 31 January 2012
Location: London, UK

PerformanceIN Fashion & Beauty

A one day performance marketing conference and expo focusing on the fashion and beauty verticals.

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Date: 4 September 2012
Location: The Hurlingham Club, UK