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£1000 up for grabs with Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards

Live Wire

August was the last month to qualify for this year's £10,000 Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the UK Final will take place in London on 9th November.



However, both the £1,000 and £10,000 Awards competitions, which started again on 1st September, are up and running and awaiting your entries.

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FuseSource Community Day

FuseSource is holding a Community Day on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at Skills Matter. Join us at this free FuseSource community event and meet committers and the founders of Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF and Camel and open source champions who have successfully implemented these projects in production.

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Date: 11 October 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Competition: Win a Ticket to the Conversion Conference

Conversion Conf 2010

The Conversion Conference (30th Nov - 1st Dec) is dedicated to anyone wanting to achieve maximum ROI from their online campaigns. The event will see internationally renowned experts explain how to improve sales and dramatically increase your site’s conversion rates.

We're delighted the organisers, Rising Media, have offered one lucky Chinwagger(s) the chance to win a free conference ticket.

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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

Tweetcamp London 2011

Tweetcamp2011, London, Oct. 8, 2011, is an open, free-to-attend, ‘unconference’ for new and experienced users of Twitter. Its aim is to bring the online world face to face in order to learn from each other, to inspire creative concepts, smart solutions and challenge accepted thinking.

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Date: 8 October 2011
Location: Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School, UK

Introduction to Facebook Marketing...Join the Bootcamp, 5th Oct.

Bootcamp

The companion to the Chinwag Insight: Facebook Marketing conference, the Facebook Marketing Bootcamp (Wed, 5th Oct) is a chance to roll up your sleeves and really get stuck in. Don't worry it's almost certainly not as muddy or as energetic as the picture suggests.

This day-long workshop, taking place at Channel 4's offices in London, will explore the practical side of the tools, tactics and best practice of Facebook Marketing.

Find out how to use the tools to achieve that all-important ROI, the Bootcamp is a great place to hone your practical skills and great preparation for the following day's conference.

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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, M&S, Nando's and Capgemini to Join Chinwag Live: When Customer Service Goes Social

Chinwag Live: When Customer Service Goes Social just got really exciting with the announcement of some leading brands joining the panel.

The event, taking place on Wednesday 5th October, will look into the profound impact social media is having on how corporates interact with their existing and prospective customers.

We are very pleased to announce that we'll be joined by Gavin Sathianathan, Strategic Partner Manager at Facebook, Julia Monro, Community Manager at Marks and Spencer, Boris Jacquin, Digital Marketing Manager at Nando's Australia and Guy Stephens, Technology Consultant at Capgemini (UK).

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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

The IET President's Address: 'Digital Century - the web is your oyster'

The lecture entitled 'Digital century - the web is your oyster' will examine the developments of digital technology and services globally, and their impact on society.

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Date: 6 October 2011
Location: IET London: Savoy Place, 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

Neo4j and Spring - Practical Primer

In this talk Aleksa will introduce how you can integrate Neo4j with Spring. Topics covered will include declarative transactions, object-to-graph mapping using Spring-data-graph components, as well collections mapping using Cypher and Gremlin annotation support introduced in newly released version 1.1.0 of spring-data-graph.

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Date: 28 September 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK