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Guildford/Surrey STC First Meetup

First ever meetup with testers in and around Surrey (Guildford) area. This will be informal social evening just to get to introduce ourselves initially and we will take it on from there. Look forward to meeting you all.

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Date: 16 February 2012
Location: The Keystone Pub 3 Portsmouth Road, Guildford, UK

TestBash - 23 rd March Cambridge UK 2012

A TestBash is a one day conference from The Ministry of Testing. It is designed to inspire and educate, but equally as important it is about meeting other testers and building upon your knowledge & community.

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Date: 23 March 2012
Location: Cambridge UK at The Pitt Building., UK

Reaching the 7 Billion: Using mobile to create global social engagement.

This session is about connecting the dots between feature phones, smartphones and social networks to uncover a path towards global connectivity

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Date: 15 February 2012
Location: Edelman Offices - Southside, UK

Functional Programming eXchange

Clojure, Scala, Haskell, F#, Python

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Date: 17 March 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

DevTank January

Happy new year everyone! So it's time for the first DevTank of 2012. Here's what we have in store for you, returning to the offices of Forward in Camden.

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Date: 31 January 2012
Location: Forward, 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

X | MediaLab | Bath

X Media Lab Bath gathers digital media and entertainment visionaries from around the world to share their insight into the rapidly evolving media, entertainment and technology industries. It is your chance to learn how to succeed in today's environment and to thrive in tomorrow's.

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Date: 16 March 2012
Location: Bath, UK

DigitalSurrey January 2012

On the 25th January, DigitalSurrey will welcome Surrey's Chief Superintendent for Neighbourhoods, Gavin Stephens, who will be discussing Surrey Police's use of digital.

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Date: 25 January 2012
Location: University Of Surrey, UK

In The Brain of Jon Jagger: Cyber Dojo

In a CyberDojo the players work in small groups each group works at a single computer each group writes their code and their test-code totally inside a web browser each group submits their code and test-code to the CyberDojo server.

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Date: 8 March 2012
Location: Skills Matter, 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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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

Webcast: Improving marketing effectiveness with marketing automation

Find out how Basware increased their database by 115% through marketing automation with CRM Technologies and Eloqua.

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Date: 23 February 2012
Location: Online, 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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In The Brain of Luke Daley: Managing JavaScript with Gradle

In this talk, Luke Daley will look some of the options for managing your client side code assets such as JavaScript in your Gradle builds with some of the Gradle plugins that have sprung up in this area. We'll look at minification, unification, dependency management and other issues that need to be tackled for modern web software development.

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Date: 28 March 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK