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UX Brighton 2010

A one day conference with an emphasis on designing for behaviour. We'll be learning how behavioral economics, cognitive psychology and linguistics can provide a clearer understanding of what goes on inside our customers' heads and inform better design. Get your ticket now: http://2010.uxbrighton.org.uk

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Date: 13 September 2010
Location: Sallis Benney Theatre, UK

Techcelerate Workshop - Bootstapping & Stealing Market Share from Incumbents (Members only)

This workshop will focus on from bootstrapping to go-to-market strategies including sharing of technologies to lower product pricing and overcoming investment hurdles to grow our businesses.

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Date: 6 July 2010
Location: Horwath Clark Whitehill, Arkwright House, UK

dConstruct 2010

Now in its sixth year, dConstruct 2010 brings together leading industry figures to explore the power of design thinking and show how we can all become just a little bit more creative.

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Date: 1 September 2010
Location: Brighton Dome, UK

T-1 GameHorizon Conference

Lots of Game & Watch by neofob

Following the very successful Thinking Digital event, Newcastle’s Codeworks next conference is focused on the Games Sector.

The GameHorizon Conference 29th to 30th June is billed as Europe's leading event for international game executives. A two-day conference featuring the most creative, entertaining and inspiring speakers from the games and entertainment industry.

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SuperGoogleAnalyticsExpialidocious

We aim to show how applications like Google Analytics can be used to both formulate and answer questions. We’ll also show how these quantitative techniques can be combined with qualitative methods such as traditional user testing.

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Date: 13 July 2010
Location: iCrossing, UK

Ideas Marketplace, Finding Collaborators for £18m TSB Competition

Ideas Marketplace

Judging by the number of people coming along to the Partnering for Innovation events, there's lots of interest in collaboration to get a slice of the £18m Collaboration Across Digital Industries competition.

There are a number of challenges in entering a winning bid: meeting the scope of the competition, finding the time (you'll need ~100 hours for a mainstream application) and finding partners to collaborate with.

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£5m Up for Grabs in Metadata Research Competition

Music Metadata Ecosystem (draft) by Frankie Roberto

Are you working with Metadata? Want to get a share of £5m for research and development? Then get yourself along to one of three events covering the Technology Strategy Board's (TSB) new £5m competition, Metadata: Increasing Value in Digital Content Collaborative R&D Competition.

The competition, launched on the 1st June, provides match-funding for projects which address three opportunities to build revenue streams with more efficient and innovative use of metadata.

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The Small Business Guide to Effective Social Media Marketing

The Small Business Guide to Effective Social Media Marketing, an insight-packed workshop that takes you through the 7 steps for building and maintaining an effective marketing presence on free social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and blogs is brought to you via the LEAD programme at the University of Salford.

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Date: 1 July 2010
Location: University of Salford, UK

Industry & Academic Collaboration: Notes from Partnering for Innovation

Sam Michel introducing Partnering for Innovation events

If you've been following my sudden increase in Tweetage (apologies for the deluge), you'll have noticed I've been zipping around the country hosting a series of events, Partnering for Innovation.

They're designed to support two collaborative R&D competitions run by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), and I'm rather chuffed to have been asked to help out by the event organisers, the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network.

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£18m Collaborative R&D Competition Round-up and Entry Tips

Collaboration Café

It's been a particularly hectic month for zipping up and and down the country hosting the Partnering for Innovation events, promoting the £18m Collaboration Across Digital Industries competition.

If you've missed out, the good news is that there's another chance to find out about this competition, the Digital Communications KTN are running a briefing in London on 5th July (info here).

Over the course of the events, there's been dozens of presentations, heaps of official-looking information, hundreds of conversations and, for me, a lot of learning in the way that groups can collaborate.

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TechCrunch Europe Summer Pitch Battle

We're postponing The Europas Awards - the European awards for tech companies - until after the Summer. But we still want to network with the startup community! So TechCrunch Europe is holding a Summer "Pitch Battle" and networking party. - We'll be hearing pitches from the latest startups on the tech scene - Speed networking - Having fun

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Date: 14 January 2010
Location: Tech Hub - Ground Floor, Sophia House, UK

GROW 2010

GROW 2010 is a technology conference that will bring together leading entrepreneurs, thinkers, influencers and investors from Silicon Valley and Canada to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Date: 19 August 2010
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, CA

Shift Happens: ALT Shift

Delegates can find out about the latest developments and applications in digital technology, try them out in workshops, discuss inspiring case studies, network, find partners for future collaborations and explore how working digitally can open up new areas of funding and sustainable working for organisations

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Date: 5 July 2010
Location: York Theatre Royal, UK

The Children's Media Conference

All you need to know about the business of creativity in kids’ content, and everyone you need to meet in one place at one time. Reboot your business thnking, re-charge your creative energies, with speakers and delegates from every sector of kids’ media.

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Date: 30 June 2010
Location: Showroom Cinema, UK

Arduino DevCamp

A BarCamp for Arduino enthusiasts. It is a unique opportunity to learn, showcase and be updated about the latest Arduino developments.

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Date: 10 July 2010
Location: RS Components, UK