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Pre-TestBash Meetup (Brighton)

A Meetup for the night before TestBash (http://www.ministryoftesting.com/training-events/testbash-2-0/) for those that arrive early. Start around 7pm. Somewhere central. Full details TBC.

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Date: 21 March 2013
Location: Brighton, UK, UK

Digital Innovation in TV: Exclusive Networking Event

IC tomorrow, in association with Robot Corp, is excited to bring you a speed-networking event that will offer digital startups the opportunity to meet the UK’s leaders in the TV industry. The event will take place on Weds 20 Feb at 5pm at The Hospital Club, and will focus on connecting leading TV companies with talented digital innovators.

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Date: 20 February 2013
Location: The Hospital Club, UK

Web in Feb

We’ve put together a month of special workshops and events for you to target and optimise your online audience to its maximum potential.

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Date: 5 February 2013
Location: British Library Business & IP Centre, UK

Manchester Wired City Reconnected Event: Collaborative Business Networking

Manchester WCR Events are collaborative networking events for business owners and freelancers working with digital, creative and ICT to "do business". No sales pitches or irrelevant speakers....nor outside "business consultants"...all decision maker working within the sector. Pure facilitated networking matched against business needs.

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Date: 31 January 2013
Location: Manchester Digital Development Agency, UK

London Haskell : Lambda|Wars

Join us for a live coding session working on a project to create a RoboWars like bot arena

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Date: 6 February 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Referee! Sport tackles Social Media

The news that footballer Marvin Sordell has sought treatment for Twitter addiction has kickstarted a new debate about sport and social media.

Plenty of ink has been spilled, with The Guardian’s Barney Ronay asking why 140-characters holds such a fatal attraction.

One thing is certain: it’s a mass affliction. In a minority of cases, such as Marvin Sordell’s, additional factors are likely to be in play, separating the “normal” obsession the rest of us are avidly and cheerfully pursuing.

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The London Clojure Community:Clojure at Nokia Entertainment

Join us at Skills Matter for the London Clojure Community meet up.

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Date: 22 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Seedhack Fashion and Online Retail

Seedcamp's Seedhack hackathon returns to disrupt fashion and online retail on the 8th, 9th, 10th of February at Google Campus. It will be a whirlwind weekend of brainstorming, hacking and product creation. We’ll be bringing together hackers, companies and API experts with the aim of solving real world problems to create real companies.

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Date: 8 February 2013
Location: Google Campus, UK

GGUG:Groovy Coding Practice

Yet again The Groovy & Grails User Group, we will be doing some Groovy coding practice and looking at ways to solve different programming problems. This is a great way to learn new techniques, library methods, and tools.

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Date: 21 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

ionSearch 2013

Online marketing conference ionSearch returns for a second time this April, expanding over two days and welcoming a host of leading speakers from across the globe - including representatives of Expedia, BBC, Adobe and Hootsuite.

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Date: 18 April 2013
Location: The Carriageworks Theatre, UK

CEO Tales: Open Source Business Models

Network event for entrepreneurs, investors and corporates wanting to learn more about successful open source business. First registrations collect free Raspberry Pi

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Date: 6 February 2013
Location: 5 New Street Square, UK

Functional Programming eXchange 2013

Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Fourth Functional Programming eXchange our annual conference on the functional programming paradigm, practices, technologies and ideas.

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Date: 15 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

In The Brain of David Pollak, What is David Pollak going to say?

David Pollak will be delivering another free In The Brain session at Skills Matter!

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Date: 11 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

In The Brain of Robert Schneider, NewSQL and NoSQL - Two Different Yet Complementary Approaches For Managing Information

In this free talk, Robert Schneider will portray the challenges that have led up to this moment along with introducing major NewSQL and NoSQL platforms

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Date: 11 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Want Your Social Media Week Fix Early? Get Involved With The Digital Mission & SMW NYC

SMW

As you may know, Social Media Week London will be returning to your streets in September 2013, however if you can’t quite wait that long then why not be a part of Social Media Week NYC in February where Chinwag will be joined by some great companies for a Digital Mission trip to New York.

SMW NYC looks set to be a great week with its global theme of Open & Connected: Principles for a Collaborative World being explored by speakers including Ben Kaufman, founder & CEO of Quirky, Cindy Gallop and the MakeLoveNotPorn.tv team, and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.

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