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Old Skool Video Games & Craft Beer Social

Visit The Brew, a creative co-working space in Shoreditch, as we return to the golden age of old skool computer games. There'll be plenty of networking, games, showcases... and did we mention beer?

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Date: 29 May 2012
Location: The Brew, UK

Win Tickets to Youth Marketing Strategy (21st June '12)

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Youth Marketing Strategy (21st June 2012) is the industry summit that brings together the best minds, top brands and edgiest agencies involved in the fast-moving world of youth marketing.

Latest insights and experiences are shared, fresh ideas are discussed and invaluable new connections are made. If 16-24s are your target audience, this event can not be missed.

We're delighted the organisers have offered 3 lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth £695.00.

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Social + TV = Social TV?

How consumers are using the social TV Today and how they will use it in the future? Define social TV strategies across products Brands who are already leading in social TV How social TV stands to change the future of television?

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Date: 22 May 2012
Location: Pulse Films, UK

UX Utsav - Intensive User Experience Design Conference for the professionals

UX Utsav is 2 days of Inspiring talks and in-depth workshops presented by world User Experience innovators and professionals. Learning, cutting edge technological developments and trends are delivered in real- world examples throughout the two-day seminars and workshops. For more details please visit our website http://www.uxutsav.com/

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Date: 16 June 2012
Location: Vivanta by Taj Hotel, M G Road, Bangalore, IN

SoConBuzz Monitoring Masterclass

The day has been structured to provide you with maximum learning opportunities. Educational sessions from buzz monitoring suppliers will see them advising on best practice and sharing their knowledge, giving you the what’s, why’s and how-tos you need to make a success of your listening and social engagement strategies.

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Date: 21 June 2012
Location: America Square Conference Centre, UK

DDD eXchange 2012

Skills Matter is pleased to announce the 4th DDD eXchange taking place on June 15th! The annual conference brings together leading experts with 125 practitioners and enthusiasts for an interactive, high energy event. Join us to learn and share with the leading designers and developers in DDD. Read the full programme here! http://bit.ly/DDDxJune

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Date: 15 June 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Chinwag's Careers Day @ Digital Shoreditch: Programme & Companies Announced!

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Come along to Chinwag's Careers Day at Digital Shoreditch next week (23rd May), where you'll be able to meet the industry's leading employers including agenices, top brands and exciting start-ups.

If that wasn't reason enough, you'll be able to improve your job-hunt with a brillant programme of advice sessions, with Portfolio Reviews from Vitamin T, CV Surgeries with Chinwag Jobs and Creativity & Ideas Workshops by Hyper Island.

There's limited space, so make sure you book now!

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Free talk - In The Brain of Doug Judd: Hypertable

In this presentation, Doug Judd, the original creator of Hypertable and CEO of Hypertable Inc. will present an overview of Hypertable, covering design and architecture, database model, salient features, and case studies. He will also present a comparison of Hypertable and some of the other popular open source scalable databases available today.

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Date: 19 June 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Echoer - You Heard It Here

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Like every 'social-media' guy, I dream of a world where the noise falls away. For years we've been helping brands and their PR firms kick off conversions about their products. We've created a deafening, hyperworld of mischief that flows ever more quickly towards becoming nonsense.

The fundamental truth is that there are only so many social media tools people can be expected to use and only so many ways they will want to interact with them. The smartphone brought the contact point into our hands. Facebook and Twitter fulfilled the rest. There's little you can't do on those platforms that really adds value to a person's every-day social desires. Or so I thought...

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Free talk: In The Brain of Andreas Ohlund - Death to the batch job

When everything is getting more and more "real time" we need to run our jobs more often. But how often can we really run them given the load they put on our database? Join Andreas Ohlund for some real-time solutions to time-bound processes with the latest and greatest sagas from NServiceBus

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Date: 27 June 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

The World’s Biggest Focus Group and How to Work It

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Traditionally if a brand wanted to test a new campaign or product it might turn to in-store promotions, sampling activities and surveys, or it might organise a series of focus groups bringing people face-to-face to talk through their thoughts and opinions and gather valuable insights.

Now, in the social media age, it’s possible to cut out the legwork and project our new ideas online, utilising the immediacy and connectivity of Facebook® to formulate a virtual focus group, probably the world’s biggest and most efficient group imaginable.

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Free talk: In The Brain of Mark Rendle - Zen and the Art of Software

In this talk, Mark Rendle -- creator of the Simple.Data framework -- will use passages from the book to introduce ideas on how we, as software developers, might try to improve the Quality both of the software we create and of ourselves

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Date: 11 June 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Music + Data + Geeks = Music Data Science Day!

If you love Music and Data this is your day! A half-day community event to learn more, network and discuss about music data science. Data scientists, music startups and music experts get together to discuss new ideas about music industry, music labels and music startups

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Date: 28 May 2012
Location: Bar Music Hall, UK

DataSift Hack and Open Day

DataSift Hack and Open Day - all are welcome

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Date: 24 May 2012
Location: Reading Enterprise Centre, Earley Gate, UK