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Mobile Monday London: Accessibility Workshop

Join us for an informal workshop looking at accessibility for mobile services, apps and devices. We'll take a look at the business opportunity as well as learning how to tackle this with research and implementation.

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Date: 26 September 2011
Location: Siemens Room at The IET, UK

Mobile Monday Belfast: Accessibility workshop

Accessibility workshop looking at the business opportunity of making digital services more accessible to those with any kind of impairment or disability. We'll also be sharing tips and tricks on how to make mobile applications and services more accessible.

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Date: 26 September 2011
Location: The Black Box, UK

Webcast: Cloud Computing Q&A with Juniper Networks - Thu 22nd, 2pm

Clouds over IL-RT50 by Richard Cox

Using cloud computing to build your infrastructure, then this Q&A webcast taking place tomorrow at 2pm might be useful. Trevor Dearing, Head of Enterprise Marketing, EMEA, Juniper Networks will be on-hand to answer your questions.

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Bootlaw: Understanding the Seed Summit Term Sheets

On Wednesday 21 September, we'll be looking at term sheets for early stage investments - and not just any old term sheets, because we'll be explaining the Seed Summit Term Sheet to give our view on what to look out for if presented with this document, or what else you need to think about if using it for your own investments.

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Date: 21 September 2011
Location: Pinsent Masons, UK

Facebook Developer Garage London f8 2011 special

Facebook are holding f8 (their developer conference), for the fourth time on Thursday 22nd September in San Francisco. The event starts with a 90 minute keynote, and as we've done in the past, we're holding a special event in London where we will screen it live for everyone who can't make it over there.

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Date: 22 September 2011
Location: Glaziers Hall, UK

All Work and No Play Makes a Business Worth Less

Google London

To successfully cultivate plants you need the right tools. Cultivating the potential of talented people and their ideas is no different. You need the right tools and the right environment to encourage and support their growth.

Digital businesses are often incredibly creative businesses – and the working environment can play a huge part in harnessing or hindering this.

Here’s the advice I give to any business (established or starting out), on how to make sure that their workplaces do what any business asset should: generate value for the company by making the most of human potential. 

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Dublin Web Summit

Last year at our inaugural two-day Summit, speakers included the founders of Twitter, Youtube & Skype. We run 2 half day Summits a year that have featured some of the world’s leading tech entrepreneurs, investors & influencers. We also give great, young start ups the opportunity to get on stage & launch their products.

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Date: 27 October 2011
Location: The Royal Dublin Society (RDS), IE

Central Working's Autumn Hackathon

Sign up for the event Handler Autumn Hackathon in partnership with Central Working and Milamber Digital. Two days of coding and creativity with Javascript, JSON and Node.js.

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Date: 22 October 2011
Location: Central, UK

Over the Air 2011

OTA11 is a grass-roots mobile developer event that features two days of technical workshops, inspirational Ignite Bletchley Park talks and an over-night hack-a-thon. It's free to attend, other than a small £5 donation to Bletchley Park, and a breeze to reach from London Euston Station - so no need to hesitate, register now!

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Date: 30 September 2011
Location: The Mansion, Bletchley Park, UK

Facebook Developer Garage London September 2011

We're pleased to announce our next regular event, taking place on Wednesday 21st September, at our regular venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations).

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Date: 21 September 2011
Location: Freemasons' Hall, UK

James Caan, Julie Meyer and Austin Healey at the Accelerate Forum

James Caan, Julie Meyer, Lloyd Dorfman, Tim Levene, Austin Healey, Martyn Dawes, Pete Boswell, Tim Leeson, Will King, Kevin Godlington, Lara Morgan and Duncan Cheatle THE AUTUMN FORUM - 27.09.11 AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN ACCELERATE 2011 YOUR BUSINESS | YOUR REVENUE | YOUR GROWTH

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Date: 27 September 2011
Location: Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK

Were you at our Late Summer BBQ? £50 iTunes Voucher Competition

Summer BBQ

As you will of course be aware, last night was our Late Summer BBQ, with Bootlaw, Kingston Smith and Great British Chefs. It was a wonderful evening of delicious food and exciting discussion.

We're so glad so many of you could make it and it was brilliant to catch-up with you all.  Judging by the Tweets we've spotted last night and this morning, everyone had a fantastic time.

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London New Finance Technology Meetup

Theme: this months theme is 'Market Needs'. Let's start a discussion about market structure and market needs. What are the opportunities out there that a Fin Tech Entrepreneur can address about the latest Web 2.0 technologies? If you would like to get in touch with ideas, or would like to present, email [email protected]

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Date: 26 September 2011
Location: Bar Music Hall, UK

Minibar Monthly Meetup

MiniBar is a social evening in Shoreditch which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing mobile web, web applications, start ups, social networking, investment etc. There is usually a brilliant mix of around 250 web entrepreneurs, developers and tech investors plus a few 5 min presentations on what's hot right now.

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Date: 30 September 2011
Location: Mother, UK

StartUp Secrets with Emma Jones, founder of small business support company Enterprise Nation & co-founder of StartUp Britain

A sought-after speaker, Emma started the website Enterprise Nation from her home in Shrewsbury and within just a few years was being asked to advise the government on home business. Emma will share the story of her success, the factors she believes contributed to it, and how you can use them too to achieve your own goals.

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Date: 27 October 2011
Location: Central, UK