THIS IS A FREE EVENT

After three fantastic events so far we are back again to help startups improve their pitching skills and get noticed by the investment community and the startup world.

This month's event will be held at The Trampery in Old Street, home to the Publicis Drugstore and some of London's most exciting startups.  

The format is simple: Startups pitch and mentors and the crowd help them with constructive advice.

STARTUPS: Pitch up, present your funding or new business deck in three minutes and get valuable feedback, ideas and advice from mentors, other start ups, biz dev people, entrepreneurs and the odd investor.

CROWD: Come along and learn, contribute and network.

Here's a serious carrot for you: In the last session, the startups received advice from someone who had just raised £4.6m, for two start-ups, in the last six months alone.

Whatever stage you are at, you will not only refine your pitching skills but also get your business in front of the startup community and benefit from their 'crowd-help'.

The idea is that you'll come away with an improved deck, tips on how to present yourself and even strategy advice on how to take your business idea forward.

On the night:

6.30pm - 7.00pm Doors open and networking time

7.00pm - 8.30pm Pitch your deck (10 slots available, including two on the night)

8.30pm - 9.00pm Vote for the best deck

9.00pm - Everyone down the pub for more networking

Please email hellopitchup [dot] events if you want to pitch your startup.

LOOKING FOR UX DESIGNERS TO JOIN YOUR TEAM?

General Assembly welcomes companies to meet graduates of our UX Designer Immersive Program. Our UX Designers will be onhand showing off their projects and ready talk about new job opportunities. As a reminder, GA finds talent at no cost to you.

MEET UX DESIGNERS WHO CAN:

• Apply best practices while analysing problems and creating effective designs
• Express design ideas through site maps, user flows, and wireframes
• Translate wireframes into HTML prototypes and/or visual mockups
• Create and communicate solutions to business problems that meet customer goals

  Our graduates have gone on to successful careers at companies like Red Badger, DK, Radio Times, Mammal, Nice & Serious, Locatable, Friday, Spindrift, Borrow My Doggy, Lloyds, Big Fish and hopefully yours! 

• Wednesday 25th November 5:30-7:30pm - Location TBC
• Thursday 26th November 10:00am-12:00pm - Google Campus, 4-5 Bonhill Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 4BX

Sign up to either Wednesday or Thursday, the same grads will be present at both days.

Questions? Contact, Casey Nailer casey [dot] nailerga [dot] co

LOOKING FOR UX DESIGNERS TO JOIN YOUR TEAM?

General Assembly welcomes companies to meet graduates of our UX Designer Immersive Program. Our UX Designers will be onhand showing off their projects and ready talk about new job opportunities. As a reminder, GA finds talent at no cost to you.

MEET UX DESIGNERS WHO CAN:

• Apply best practices while analysing problems and creating effective designs
• Express design ideas through site maps, user flows, and wireframes
• Translate wireframes into HTML prototypes and/or visual mockups
• Create and communicate solutions to business problems that meet customer goals

  Our graduates have gone on to successful careers at companies like Red Badger, DK, Radio Times, Mammal, Nice & Serious, Locatable, Friday, Spindrift, Borrow My Doggy, Lloyds, Big Fish and hopefully yours! 

• Wednesday 25th November 5:30-7:30pm - Location TBC
• Thursday 26th November 10:00am-12:00pm - Google Campus, 4-5 Bonhill Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 4BX

Sign up to either Wednesday or Thursday, the same grads will be present at both days.

Questions? Contact, Casey Nailer casey [dot] nailerga [dot] co

Roof Terrace, WeWork, 1 Fore Street, London EC2Y 5EJ
Thursday 19th November 6-30pm
 
STEVE JOBS once famously remarked: "There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and ichat. That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run in to someone, you ask what they're doing, you say "Wow," and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas."
 
Keeping this in mind, come and join CEOs, tech entrepreneurs, investors and media, from across UK, Europe and America, for drinks, canapes and a networking reception on the Roof Terrace, with spectacular views across London.
 
For further details, click here:  www.plus-91.com/techdrinks.pdf 
 
Tickets:   £40 + VAT  Ticket price includes beer, wine, soft drinks and canapes.
 
For further information and to register online for this event, please visit www.plus-91.com and click on the Delegate Registration button on the homepage. The number of attendees will be limited and acceptances are on a first come first served basis. All major credit/debit cards are accepted. Demand for this event is high.  You are advised to register early.
 
When payment has been successfully made, you will receive a confirmation email from Pay Pal and your name will be automatically added to the attendee list.  Please click here to register www.plus-91.com
 
I look forward to meeting you.
 
Best wishes,
 
Rakesh
 
 


Rakesh Rawal | CEO, Codex and +91 Europe | M: +44 7 956 101 101 | E: rakesh [dot] rawalplus-91 [dot] com | W: www.plus-91.com |
Codex - International network of CEOs and corporate executives

THIS IS A FREE EVENT

After three fantastic events so far we are back again to help startups improve their pitching skills and get noticed by the investment community and the startup world.

This month's event will be held at The Trampery in Old Street, home to the Publicis Drugstore and some of London's most exciting startups.  

The format is simple: Startups pitch and mentors and the crowd help them with constructive advice.

STARTUPS: Pitch up, present your funding or new business deck in three minutes and get valuable feedback, ideas and advice from mentors, other start ups, biz dev people, entrepreneurs and the odd investor.

CROWD: Pitch up and learn, contribute and network.

INVESTORS: Pitch up and fish for new investment opportunities

Here's a serious carrot for you: In the last session, the startups received advice from someone who had just raised £4.6m, for two start-ups, in the last six months alone.

Whatever stage you are at, you will not only refine your pitching skills but also get your business in front of the startup community and benefit from their 'crowd-help'.

The idea is that you'll come away with an improved deck, tips on how to present yourself and even strategy advice on how to take your business idea forward.

On the night:

6.30pm - 7.00pm Doors open and networking time

7.00pm - 8.30pm Pitch your deck (10 slots available, including two on the night)

8.30pm - 9.00pm Vote for the best deck

9.00pm - Everyone down the pub for more networking

Please email hellopitchup [dot] events if you want to pitch your startup.

Register for Fintech Storm http://fintechstorm23november2015.eventbrite.com

In continued tradition of our stupendously successful Fintech Storm Series

Genius Incubator Presents

Fintech Storm - Blockchain for Insurance, Financial Services & Connected Ecosystems 23 November 2015

Come meet the disruptive thought　leaders that are imagining the future of banking.

We invited the most innovative firms applying blockchain technology and connected ecosystems to solve industry problems

This is a Meetup not to be missed with talks and a round table where the movers and shakers of the hottest new industry - Fintech - will debate opportunities, and challenges of the new age bank!

Register here:

 http://fintechstorm23november2015.eventbrite.com

What: Fintech Storm featuring disrupters

Meet the CEOs

See Product Demos

Join the Fintech Revolution!

When: 6:00pm-9:00pm 23 November 2015

Where: Rainmaking Loft, International House

1 Saint Katherine's Way, London, E1W 1 UN

2 min walk from MOORGATE and 4 min walk from Liverpool street stations

See our Blockchain video from recent event on 12th August in London featuring Dave Birch, Simon Taylor, Gideon Greenspan, Colin Kwan, Frank Schuil, Leanne Kamp and Arifa Khan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0wu5mO8fY

Maarten Ectors Vice President IoT, NG Networking & Proximity Cloud

Maarten Ectors is responsible for Internet of Things, the next-generation of networking and cloud solutions that are in proximity of the user or at the edges of the network. Previously he was strategy director for cloud, big data and IoT. Maarten reports to Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical.

Guido Baroncini Turricchia, Founder, Helper Bit  Insurance using Blockchain

Guido developed his interest for GIS and Remote Sensing and focused his research in hydrogeology and water management. In 2013 he started studying math-based currencies.

As partner inCoin Capital consultancy network, he leads the project for the first Italian bitcoin vending machine bit-wallet, and for the first scientific conference in the Italian parliament. He is co-founder of the Bitcoin foundation Italia and Assob.it. At the moment he is the team leader in Helperbit project.

Helperbit is a Natural Disaster Management Platform. In case of catastrophic events our goal is to empower individuals and organizations, offering advanced tools able to mitigate inefficiency, slowness and opacity issues.

Charalampos Doukas , Researcher, Create-Net

On his book “Building Internet of Things with the Arduino” The last couple of years I have built several projects that involve sensing and controlling systems remotely through the Arduino. At the same time I have used and built web apps on Cloud and mobile systems. The idea of combining the latter is basically the fundamental concept of the Internet of Things (IoT). Since there was no other book available that introduces readers to the concept of IoT and at the same time describes how to build projects I thought of writing my own!

The book is divided into three sections: the first section introduces readers to the concept of the Internet of Things, sensors and actuators and the Cloud computing. The second presents the Arduino microcontroller platform and gives details on how to connect your Arduino to the Internet and also how to make it ‘talk’ to your Android phone. The last chapter presents the most common platforms for managing sensor data on the Cloud and gives instructions for building many sensing and controlling projects with the Arduino. It also guides readers to build their own Cloud-based applications and provides many ideas for IoT projects.

What has been your favorite project? I have built a motion analysis system on a sock that uses a textile version of the Arduino and accelerometers. It can tell when someone wearing the sock has fallen and it can also transmit the users’ heartbeat to an Android app.

Do you have any note-worthy engineering experiences?  Once I have been nominated the best paper award for a work on motion analysis and fall detection (and actually was late on the award ceremony). I consider the second note-worthy experience the writing of my book.

Do you have an experiential stories you would like to share?  At the age of 12 I had built a relay switch for turning on the light by clapping my hands. The switch was so sensitive that when I started talking next to the microphone the lamp started to flicker until it got burned out!

What are you currently working on? Evaluating products (like sensors and open hardware platforms) for the Internet of Things Organizing a community for the Internet of Things in Greece Doing research on medical sensors and the Internet of Things Trying to build a Cloud-based system for data mining of air quality data  

Vlad Petrushev,  Chief Operations Europe, Storj

Decentralized cloud storage provider Storj Labs Inc. has announced that its second round of network testing called “Test Group B” has reached the 1 petabyte milestone of managed storage space.
Test Group B is an in-depth test of the platform’s storage client DriveShare, a software that enables users to earn money by sharing extra hard drive space. The Storj Test Group B has reached 1,173 terabytes in storage space and currently supports 293 users online.
“We’re extremely pleased by the support and validation we’ve received from our community,” said CEO Shawn Wilkinson in a statement. “We’re excited to release the world’s first crowdsourced cloud storage platform.”
The Test Group B network test is set to run until late October, with increased rewards and test group participants. In recognition of the 1 petabyte milestone, Storj Labs has increased the testing rewards pool from 100,000 Storjcoin X (SJCX) to 1 million SJCX, which is currently worth around $16,000.
DriveShare is an open-source software powered by the Storj network that is a part of the startup’s successful crowdsale campaign. The DriveShare client allows users to rent out unused hard drive or cloud storage space at the rates of Dropbox, Mega, Box and many other cloud platforms.  

Vlado Petrushev, 25— B.Sc.in Economics, and expected M.Sc. in Computer Networks and E-Technology. His working experience include leadership on VoIP project implementation internally within IBM and hardware asset management of IBM data centers in Frankfurt, Germany. In the past, has been a core member of teams which have been awarded at several mobile app competitions and was core member of a software company named Takeplace s.r.o (Czech Republic), leading business development in South-Eastern Europe and managing its mobile unit – Mobidi (www.mobidi.co). Vlado got involved in Bitcoin in 2012, and since January 2015 is involved with Storj(http://storj.io/) holding its operations in Europe. Currently is as well active in the Bitcoin scene in Vienna, Austria, and is a prospective founder of a new blockchain related company, working on a concept called "non-destroyable timeless" storage.  

Thrilled to announce our next debates Nov 11 and Nov 23 6-9pm in London featuring the most awaited  innovations. Our debates are high in Intellectual quotient, scholastic ability and debate to transform the world banking and financial order.      Fintech is at one of the most exciting points in its evolution, with disruption occurring everywhere you look. Alternative financing models, mobile payments and  bitcoin are gaining increasing traction with consumers and businesses alike. Some challenges remain for certain fintech businesses targeting the mainstream, but there’s no denying 2015 is proving a huge year for the global fintech industry. 

“The top 12 VCs that are reputed for spotting billion dollar valuation unicorns early such as Benchmark, Andreeson Horrowitz, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia are investing in Fintech in 4 main verticals of Online Lending, Personal Finance Management, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies, Marketplaces and Peer to Peer platforms.  

We are helping emerging talent in Fintech get that early exposure to the banking & financial services ecosystem  as well as investors, facilitating a deeper understanding and dialogue. We are also evangelising Fintech and bringing sophisticated knowledge of research labs of disrupters like Coinsciences, Cubits, Blockchain.info, Symbiont.io and their futuristic thinking to the common man.

Talk to our audience. And we have fiercely loyal repeat audience. And they can now debate confidently with technologists on topics as esoteric as blockchain to as mundane as mobile payments.  

The most sought after Fintech companies share a number of characteristics:

They operate in large growing global markets  They are world class in their niche  They have attractive underlying business models with strong recurring revenues  Demonstrable opportunity to drive top line growth  World class talent and teams      Come along for a rich education on this hot new industry thats growing fast and reimagining our economy. Come join a lively evening of insightful presentations from disruptive fintech players and engaging discussions, rounded off by networking drinks with more senior executives from major banking and financial services companies, hot startups and investors.    More profiles to come..  

 Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm Series

Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm

Read what the Londoners have to say about http://FintechStorm.com the spectacularly successful brand monthly series Arifa Khan has built, http://www.haggerston-times.com/fintech-start-up-storm-discusses-online-payments-asks-if-banks-are-losing-ground-in-the-battle-f...).">here.

Arifa Khan is a former investment banker in Private Equity led Leveraged Buyouts Mandate M&A transactions, a seasoned finance, strategy and operations executive based in the city of the London, with over 15 years experience in finance, specialising in Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products & Credit. She has worked with two suisse banks Credit Suisse & UBS. She has deep sector expertise in finance, operational insights, and the business acumen to forge big strategic partnerships.

Arifa has independently advised companies of all sizes from pre revenue to deal sizes of GBP300m on venture capital funding, scaling, international expansion, strategy etc. As an investment banker she has executed LBOs of sizes upto several billion USD across Europe across verticals such as Healthcare, Media Telecom & IT, Financial Institutions. She is a thought leader on innovation and disruption in financial services and a sought after speaker on payments and fintech at international conferences such as ICBI’s Payments International in London Mar 17-20, and will be speaking at Women’s Economic Forum Goa May 7-11. She currently architects Wharton Distinguished Dinner Series for Wharton UK Alumni Club as a Wharton Club Committee Member, and is currently the Chairperson London Chapter for All Ladies League.

Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras in Chemical Engineering. She is passionate about fintech and Blockchain. See her vision of Blockchain here.

Read "besotted with blockchain.." An overview of Blockchain's potential by Arifa Khan on Linkedin.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/besotted-blockchain-arifa-khan

Read a review of Fintech Storm's recent event Open Bank / Marketplace Banking held on 22nd July here : "A tale of APIs.." By Arifa Khan

Read an article "war for your wallet.." on Payments and mobile wallets by Arifa Khan on Linkedin 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/war-your-wallet-arifa-khan?trk=prof-post

Who should Attend?  

Senior  directors or advisors

Professionals working in banking and financial services industry

Compliance or Regulatory professionals

Managers and strategists of finance or investment companies

Advisers and Financial services consultants

Digital transformation specialists

Blockchain researchers

Fintech startups

MBA & other students specialising in finance

Public policy makers

Don't miss our Europe-India conclave: Future of Banking, Payments & Technology 17 December 2015 in New Delhi, Hotel Taj Mahal. A prestigious delegation of european tech companies is headed to India on 17th dec. To Join the delegation, sign up here:http://europeindiaconclave2015.eventbrite.com

Look up our upcoming events at one place http://finetchstorm.eventbrite.com

 See Fintech Storm in action here

This is a free webinar being run by software firm WoodWing which is being run for the retail sector.  It will reveal the results of a study by consulting firm Ovum about how well organisations in the retail sector are managing their digital assets (images, video, audio, text and more) - one of the key findings from the research being that retailers are wasting an enormous amount of time searching for files for use in marketing, merchandising and across a broad spectrum of business systems.

In addition, there will be insight from the largest Dutch e-tailer, Bol.com, about how they've solved this challenge and the benefits the company enjoys now they can easily and effectively integrate their digital assets with their other business systems (CRM etc).

The webinar is at 2pm UK time on Thursday 19th November.

The link to register for the event is here: http://page.woodwing.com/webinar-retail-ovum-bol.html

FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE WEBINAR:

Retailers need to stop wasting their time: A Woodwing Webinar on better managing digital assets.

Multi-channel communication and marketing automation drive continuous growth of stocks of media files in the retail sector.  Obviously, retailers must come to grips with these enormous stocks of digital assets - mainly images, but also video, audio, text and more. But how:

• Can they get a handle on their digital assets?
• Do they manage, use and share them to get the most out of them?
• Do they ensure that their assets are used properly?
• How strong is retailer´s awareness of the need for digital asset management (DAM)?
• How well do they understand DAM?

A study conducted by the consulting firm Ovum on behalf of WoodWing sheds light on these and many more questions. The study by Ovum is based on telephone interviews with 250 retailers in the United States and the United Kingdom. The results provide an overview of digital asset management in the retail industry. A key finding: Retailers waste an enormous amount of time searching for files.

In this webinar, Sue Clarke, Senior Analyst IT - Information Management at Ovum, will present the results of the study and thus provide you with the basis for sustainable decisions.

Furthermore, Stijn Kieft, Business Analyst - Product & Content Innovations at bol.com, will explain how the largest Dutch e-tailer has solved the challenge and what benefits the company enjoys by the integration of digital asset management with other business systems.

Big plans for the new year? We at the London App Brewery get overwhelmed by people with awesome app ideas looking to realise their project, meanwhile we're also bombarded by app developers looking for co-founders.

Wait a minute... Why don't we bring you together!

The event is free, but registration is required. Ticketing is done via our Meetup Group.

Join us at Central Working Whitechapel to meet app developers, entrepreneurs, designers, investors or a potential co-founder for your app idea. Network with a slice of the tech ecosystem. Learn what others are doing and inspire. Speak about your product or service.

EVENT TIMING & FORMAT

• 18:30 Doors Open

• 19:00 to 19:30: 45 second pitch to introduce yourself or promote your app idea

• 19:30 to 21:00: Networking & Speed Co-founder finding

Reserve your space here.

The IC tomorrow Future Retail Innovation Contest is offering five businesses up to £35,000 each (excluding VAT) to encourage innovation within the themes of food waste reduction, seamless shopping, enhancing in-store experiences, future street and covered markets and the future of fit.

IC Tomorrow is looking for digital solutions to address the challenges of enhancing experiences, services, and processes across the retail landscape – such as optimising virtual fit, improving accessibility of digital services in-store, empowering customers to reduce food waste, enhancing the street market experience and streamlining the process of replenishing everyday items within the home.

In addition to the funding awards available, the winners will have an exclusive opportunity to test and develop their solution in collaboration with our leading industry partners: Tesco, Unilever, Barclays, London College of Fashion, and Greater London Authority.

If you want to learn more about the contest, register here for the contest briefing event taking place in London on Thursday 21 January 2016. The briefing will give you the chance to find out more about the application and contest process, gain helpful hints and tips on applying, and will be an opportunity to hear more about each individual challenge.

For those unable to attend in person, we will be hosting a webinar from the event which allows you to watch the briefing live and ask questions to the speakers. The recording of the webinar will be available later on the contest website.

Agenda

13.30: Registration

14.00: Welcome and application process

14.45: Challenge 1: Pioneering new ways to fight food wast. Partners: Tesco and WRAP

15.05: Challenge 2: Future of fitting Partner: London College of Fashion

15.25: Challenge 3: Seamless shopping. Partner: Unilever

15:45: Coffee Break

16.00: Challenge 4: Enhancing in-store experiences. Partner: Barclays

16:20: Challenge 5: Digital enhancement of street and covered markets. Partner: Greater London Authority

16:40: Networking

18.00: End of event

Sponsored by:

As music streaming services take off, will marketers make the jump from radio and pay the bill? Or is it time we paid the piper?

Personal digital music consumption is changing, from a world where paid-for downloads are dwarfed by illegal file sharing. Meanwhile, new services like Spotify have taken consumers by storm adding 1m users in a matter on months with no US launch. Streaming music, with social discovery and sharing is now in vogue, but can it survive?

The folding of ad-funded music providers such as SpiralFrog and Ruckus, highlight the question of whether these business models are viable. The agency world meanwhile struggles to make the jump from old-school radio ads to the bells and whistles offered by these streaming services. And what are the implications and opportunities for marketers?

With licensing fees that favour subscription (8% rev share or 40p per subscriber) over ad-funded models (10.5% rev share or 0.085 per play), is there any mileage in advertising anyway? If listeners have to dip into their pockets for streaming services, will the lure of illegal file sharing increase?

Join the discussion as we explore the future for streaming audio services.

Where Are The Pictures?

Photographic evidence from the event, if you've got photos you'd like to add, let us know.

Speakers

Dave Haynes - UK Manager, SoundCloud
Dave Haynes is UK manager for SoundCloud, a cloud-based music platform that allows music professionals to easily distribute, share and stream audio over the web. With over a decade's experience in the music industry, Dave's career had moved from selling good old fashioned records to focusing on the latest trends in digital music. Along the way he has run his own label, worked in digital distribution and founded a successful niche MP3 download store. As well as his work for SoundCloud he is the organiser of OpenMusicMedia and upcoming Musichackday event.

Dom Hodge - Associate Director, Frukt Music
Dom Hodge is an Associate Director at FRUKT, the world's leading music strategy and communications agency. Dom works with a number of major consumer brands and music companies (including Nokia, Coca-Cola, Topman, Universal Music) helping them plan how to use music across their marketing channels in a variety of innovative ways. Prior to working at FRUKT Dom worked at Sony Electronics in London and Berlin in corporate strategy and business development.

Helienne Lindvall - Journalist, The Guardian
Helienne Lindvall writes the Behind The Music blog for the Guardian and blogs for mediaguardian.co.uk. She is also a professional songwriter and musician, previously published by BMG, who writes for and with recording artists on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she lived and worked in New York before settling in London.

Jon Mitchell - Sales Director, Spotify
Jon joined Spotify in January 2008, helping to launch Spotify here in the UK. Prior to Spotify Jon Mitchell has worked in commercial radio ending up at GCap. His work on the commercial side of business has involved him with some of the major brands such as Capital FM, Xfm, Classic FM and the chart shows.

Richard Jacobs - Head of Radio, MediaCom
Richard joined MediaCom in 2002 as Associate Director and Head of Radio. He is responsible for over £40m annual radio investment and works across clients including the Volkswagen Audi group, Glaxo SmithKline and T-Mobile. Before MediaCom, Richard worked for Emap (now Bauer) in their non-spot division and therefore understands the commercial pressures on both sides of the business.

Chair - Steve Bowbrick (blog)
Steve is one of Britain's most experienced Internet managers and entrepreneurs. A fifteen year veteran of dot.com boom and bust, of web site design, online marketing, technology strategy, capital raising and people management. Steve advises media owners (Channel 4 and the BBC), startups (Rememble.com) and consumer brands (King of Shaves) about social media and digital strategy.

Chinwag Live: Music - who pays the piper produced by Julia Eilon.

Ever wonder how to take your app from idea to the app store?

Join our talk as we guide you through how to take an idea and make it an App Store sensation. Sign up here. We will talk about the workflow and the resources available for each step of the way, from wireframing to design, to beta testing, to monetisation so you can get up and running the easy way.

A step by step overview of the process

Paying someone to make an app is expensive, so you often need to do it yourself, but the hardest part is getting started. We’ll talk about how to make a successful app from start to finish and give you an overview of the best tools and resources that are available for each step of the way. That way, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Making beautiful icons, finding a clever third party library, or testing an app on multiple platforms is not difficult when you have the right tools.

Who is this talk for?

This talk is non-technical in nature and aimed for everyone who wants to make an app.

Sign up via our Meetup page.

PARTICIPATE IN THE SCA RETAIL INNOVATION LAB TO WIN €10,000 AND THE CHANCE TO SCALE YOUR PRODUCT ALONG WITH SCA IN DIFFERENT MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD The SCA Retail Innovation Lab is a program to identify innovative retail, sales and loyalty solutions run by the Publicis Drugstore in London in partnership with MiniBarLabs. We are looking to reach out to and engage with start ups, change-makers and innovators to answer the following challenge:

THE CHALLENGE
SCA own several large tissue product brands like Plenty, Velvet, Cushelle, Tempo, Zewa, Lotus and Regio. A consistent challenge in these and in fact most FMCG product categories is how todrive loyalty to brands, over and above competitors.

For this reason SCA is interested in exploring how emerging retail tech innovation can producea more enjoyable shopping experience and drive loyalty to their brands - ultimately to helptheir brands be purchased more often.

The proposed solution can work within the multifaceted retail environment: POS technology, frictionless purchase, self-checkout or queue skipping, loyalty schemes and subscriptions, ecommerce,in-store consumer engagement, IoT or digital campaigns to name but a few.

NEXT STEPS
In the first phase we ask that participants register their interest via hellominibarlabs [dot] com providing a short bio and indicating which area of the challenge you’d like to address. The Drugstore team will then get in touch to discuss your solution.

Participants will also have the chance to attend a number of ideation sessions in March to develop their proposals. The programme will draw to a close with a pitching session 25th April 2016 at the Publicis Drugstore in London when the selected teams will present their ideas to apanel of judges including SCA representatives.

ABOUT SCA
SCA is a Swedish FMCG company operating in 100 countries, and turning over in excess of €11bn yearly. Consistently voted one of the world’s most ethical companies, they are a leading brand owner and manufacturer of essential hygiene products, which for the last 75 years have helped improve the quality of everyday life for people all over the world. 

HE Mr Joao de Vallera, Ambassador of Portugal to the United Kingdom
Jon Carter, Director UK, Deutsche Telecom
Elliot Messenger, Connected Car Manager, Bentley Motors
Michael Curran, Director, International, Alivecor
 
Ambassador's Residence, 12 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PP

To be connected, or not to be connected - that is the question. The Internet of Things is increasingly becoming a hot topic of conversation in the home and workplace. When smart objects can sense the environment and communicate they become powerful tools that have the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. This Internet of Things event will look beyond the hype to understand how connected devices can improve the quality of our lives, anticipate our needs, and create real economic value.

Our panel of expert speakers will examine:

How will the Internet of Things improve our quality of life ?
What will a smart home look like and how will it anticipate our needs ?
How will the rise of the connected car improve the driver experience ?
How can the Internet of Things and Wearables revolutionise healthcare ?
Latest Internet of Things trends and opportunities worldwide;
Security and privacy challenges for individuals and companies;
Q & A Live demonstration

 
Event Programme
 
18-30 Registration and Drinks
19-00 Presentations followed by Q & A
20-15 Drinks Reception
21-30 Close
 
Lead sponsor: Embassy of Portugal

Ticket price:  £40 + VAT
 
 
To register online for this event, please visit www.codex.com The number of attendees will be limited and acceptances are on a first come first served basis. All major credit/debit cards are accepted. Demand for this event will be high.  You are advised to register early.
 
When payment has been successfully made, you will receive a confirmation email from Pay Pal and your name will be automatically added to the attendee list.  Please click here to register www.codex.com
 
Come and join CEOs, hi-tech entrepreneurs, investors, and media, from across the UK, Europe, and America, for drinks and canapes at the Embassy of Portugal.
 
I look forward to meeting you.
 
Best wishes,
 
Rakesh
 
Rakesh Rawal | CEO, Codex | M: +44 7 956 101 101 | E: directorcodex [dot] com | W: www.codex.com |
Codex - International Business Leaders Network

 
About Codex
 
Codex is based in the UK and is a global network of top European, Indian and American, CEOs, corporate executives and professionals, moving across continents to transact business.  Codex events are designed to facilitate an exchange of ideas, encourage entrepreneurship and promote business links by building strong relationships between business leaders in a wide range of sectors.
 
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was the embodiment of the Renaissance period.  His "Codex" or notebooks are testament to his interest in a multitude of subjects and visionary ideas which were centuries ahead of their time.  Codex events endeavour to evoke the spirit of true enlightenment by showcasing companies and individuals with ground breaking ideas.
 
Codex has succeeded in attracting the most high profile speakers from the worlds of business, science, technology, media, sport and politics.  Previous speakers have included:
 
Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke CH QC MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1993-1997);  Tom Purves, CEO, Rolls-Royce;  Willie Walsh, CEO, British Airways;  Lord Neil Kinnock, Vice-President, European Commission; Rt Hon Lord Michael Howard QC;  Michael Wood, BBC Broadcaster;  Mihir Bose, BBC Broadcaster;  Ashish Chauhan, CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange;  Marek Reichman, Director of Design, Aston Martin;  Dr Hamid Mughal, Director of Manufacturing, Rolls-Royce;  Patrik Schumacher, Senior Director, Zaha Hadid Architects;
 
Andy Palmer, CEO, Aston Martin; Mr Babulal Sethia, President, The Royal Society of Medicine; Baroness Susan Greenfield; Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, Cambridge University;  Aram Shishmanian, CEO, World Gold Council; Jeremy Webb, Editor-in-Chief, New Scientist; Stephen Murphy, CEO, Virgin Group;  Andrew Neil, BBC Broadcaster;  Dr Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature; amongst many others.
 
No speaker has ever been paid to speak at a Codex event.  This is testament to the quality of the network we have built over the past 10 years.
 
Pictures and videos of past events can be viewed at www.codex.com  Click on Attend and Past Events.

This timely seminar will focus on teaching quality in higher education and the introduction of the ‘Teaching Excellence Framework’ (TEF). 

Delegates - including key policy makers and stakeholders from universities - will discuss proposals for the introduction of the TEF which were outlined in the recent Higher Education Green Paper, including the impact of the TEF on universities and students, implications of linking TEF results to tuition fee increases and strategies for effectively measuring teaching quality. 

Further planned sessions look at how to support university staff to deliver high quality curricula, encouraging innovative course design and how to include diverse forms of higher education provision - for example two-year degrees, online learning and Degree Apprenticeships - within the framework, along with concerns about the effects on the quality of provision of the ‘casualisation’ of teaching contracts in some parts of the sector. 

Mosaic Ventures is excited to announce an event on Tuesday June 7th, for anyone who is thinking about taking the leap with a big startup idea and wants to build a business.

Join Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Simon Levene of Mosaic, for a talk and Q&A session on what it’s really like to start a startup. Hear stories and get advice on forming a winning team, developing a great idea, raising money from investors and more. Find out if the road to becoming a founder is really for you.

Y Combinator is the leading Silicon Valley accelerator program, which helps rapidly propel the ideas of founders into real businesses. YC has seeded and mentored over 2,000 companies over the last decade, with big tech successes including AirBnb, Docker, Stripe, Dropbox, Cruise and Reddit -- all-told, a combined market cap of $65B. YC also has started to back bio/medical technology teams, and has an NGO track too.

Please join us to learn more about YC and the increasingly interconnected worldwide tech ecosystem. Tuesday June 7th, from 3pm-5pm at the Royal Institution, Albemarle St, London W1. We look forward to welcoming the best and brightest entrepreneurs-in-the-making.

Join us for an evening with Dave McClure, founding partner of 500 Startups on 13th June at 6:30pm.

He'll share the view from Silicon Valley and join a panel of local founders and VCs who will discuss growth & fundraising, the M&A market and other perspectives on Europe.

AGENDA 

• 18:30pm: Registration & Networking

• 19:00pm: Opening & Welcome

• 19:10pm: Dave's Talk: "How to Influence People & Get a Higher Valuation with GIFs & Emojis"

• 19:25pm: Fireside Chat with Dave McClure

• 20:05pm: Panel Talk "Has Venture Capital in Europe Finally Arrived?"

SPEAKERS

Do you want to learn how to grow makers innovation? Don't miss the opportunity to be part of the European Maker Week! An exclusive local event in London where you can learn from successful entrepreneurs and build a strong community within the maker world. 

Makerversity opens its doors to host a workshop in which great London startup makers will be showing their projects, sharing their passion and their skills.

The talk will be about the community and the makers - what is necessary to create an outstanding hardware startup:

• What challenges early stage start-ups face when creating other than software/platforms/services?
• Dos and don’ts while launching and growing a hardware company.
• What kind of support would be needed by start-ups of the maker movement?

 SPEAKERS

Andy Hutt, Makerversity

Makerversity Marketing and Events Manager. In his "spare" time is also a music festival curator, street wear  brand creative director and a former electrician.

Filippo Yacob, Primo Toys

Filippo is a designer and entrepreneur. He is now following a dream inspired by the birth of his son.

Heather Corcoran, Kickstarter

Heather Corcoran (CA/UK) is a curator and cultural producer with a specialism in technology, design and contemporary art. She leads Design & Technology Outreach for Kickstarter in the UK and Europe, based in London

MODERATOR 

Hannah Stewart, Researcher, Future Makerspaces.

Hannah Stewart is a Research Associate at the Royal College of Art on the 2 year Future Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing project. An agenda forming research project funded by the EPSRC to establish what role makespaces could play in future redistributed landscape of sustainable production. Makers are moving from product ideas to production - what emerging forms of infrastructure enable product start-ups to scale-up?

WHEN

Thursday, June 2nd from 06:30PM to 08:30 PM 

WHERE

Makerversity at Somerset House, Victoria Embankment, West Goods Entrance, London WC2R 1LA

 Mind The Bridge  - in partnership with Makerversity - are inviting you to join the discussion!

The Europas, the European Tech Startup Conference & Awards will be held on June 14, 2016, in London. On one single day you will see great speakers from the US and Europe, deep-dive into niche discussion groups relevant to your business, network with Europe's key founders and investors, and enjoy a stunning awards dinner and party.

Instead of a massive anonymous "congress", the majority of The Europas delegates are invited key players and experts, keeping the numbers low and the networking high quality.

Founded in 2009 and still run today by Mike Butcher, The Europas are the premier awards for Europe’s hottest tech startups. While it concentrates on the newest companies on the scene, it also brings together the mid and late stage technology startups, as well as leading investors and media in the EMEA region. It’s a genuine, editorially driven, independent awards, judged by the community itself.

The Europas is accompanied by a parallel track called PathFounders, the exclusive event for startup Founders, in particular those at an early stage.

PathFounders will bring together Founders and Investors in a series of exclusive networking experiences, on the days either side of The Europas.

Founders at The Europas will be able to upgrade to the PathFounders track, if they are invited...

TechCrunch is the Official Media Partner and attendees of The Europas will automatically receive discounts on Disrupt Europe to be held later this year.

Contacts:

General Enquiries:

TheEuropasgmail [dot] com

Sponsorship and ticketing:

Petra Johansson

petratwistedtree [dot] co [dot] uk

An invigorating conference and exhibition at the forefront of the international digital revolution - following in the footsteps of Google, Amazon, Airbus and Microsoft - and you can be part of it!

Digital 2016 will bring together over 2,000 delegates from a wide range of industry sectors for two days of business networking, enlightening talks and inspiring keynote lectures in one of Wales' most famous venues.

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Speakers

• Sir Terry Matthews
• Stephen Kelly, CEO, Sage
• Phil Smith, CEO, Cisco
• Dr Siani Pearson, Principal Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Allyson Brown, Head of Intelligence Analysis, South Wales Police
• Jen Long, DICE
• Neil Cocker, Ramp
• Phil Doye, CEO, CDW International
• Eric Van Der Kleij, Former adviser to No10 on Tech City
• Daniel Burlacu
• Richard Hollis, Risk Factory
• Jonny Voon, Lead Technologist for Internet Technology, Innovate UK
• Georgios Papadakis
• Geraint Green, Head of Research and Innovation Branch and the Horizon 2020 Unit, Welsh European Funding Office
• Carl Jones, National Software Academy
• Ian Bond, Medivation
• Mark Smithson, Co-founder and CEO, Digital Health Labs Limited
• Richard Theo, Wealthify
• Mark Lowe, Pinacl
• Alasdair Rettie, Pinacl
• Dr Sangeet Bhullar, WISE KIDS
• Hanna-Riikka Sundberg, Senior Business Designer, Leadin
• Nick Crew, Operations Manager, Airbus
• Paolo Bianco, Manager of R&T Co-Operation Engineering of Airbus Defence & Space, Airbus
• David Sadler, Head of IT Recruitment, Acorn
• Sally Meecham
• Simon Powell, Inspire Growth Wales
• Warren Fauvel, CEO, Nudjed
• Robert Kingston, Chief Technology Officer, UK Public Sector, Capgemini
• Chris Moore
• Mike Bampfield, Board Member, Welsh Governments Central Cardiff Enterprise Zone
• Andy Parr, Senior Intelligence Analyst, South Wales Police
• Martyn Baker, Twitter
• Owen Derbyshire, Properr
• Bev Owen, Head of Regeneration Investment & Housing, Newport City Council
• Robert Hayes, Microsoft
• David Pugh, Systems Engineering Manager, G24 Power Ltd
• Eric Llewellyn
• Sam Huckle, Head of Apprenticeships, Welsh Government
• Luke Beeson, Vice President of Security, BT
• Robin Moore, Head of Innovation & Connected Studio, BBC Wales
• Robin Cramp, Market Engagement Manager, BBC Connected Studio
• Oliver Spall, Product Manager BBC, Taster
• Simon J. Gibson, Chief Executive, Wesley Clover Corporation
• Dr Jeremy Silver, CEO, Digital Catapult
• Faron Moller, Director, Technocamps
• Luke Davies, Business Development Manager, Cardiff and Vale College
• Ben Milsom, Echosec
• Damon Rands, Managing Director, Wolfberry IT
• Jason Davies
• John Davies, Managing Director, Pervade Software
• Laura Bailey, Co-Founder, Zerado
• Tomasz Mloduchowski, Solutions Architect, Zerado
• Jess Hoare, Programme Manager, Y Lab
• Martin Lee, Airbus
• Stephen Thair, DevOpsGuys
• Ashley Cooper, Co-Founder and Director, Catalyst Growth Partners
• Ollie Gardener, Co-Founder, Noddlepod
• Gerard Grech
• Martin Stapleford, Head of Security Propositions and Showcase, BT
• Marshall Van Alstyne, A world expert on IT economics and strategy
• Mark Woods, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Amplyfi
• Paul Newbury, Yard
• Jessica Ratty, Crowdfunder
• Paul Ferris, Object Blockchain
• Jonathan Davies, Pervade Software
• Rhodri Evans, PWC
• Gareth Morgan, Liberty Marketing
• Paul Shepherd, Coup Media
• Matt Roach, Swansea University Cherish De
• Pete Downton, 7Digital
• Tom Crick, Cardiff Met
• Karen Cornish, Deputy Director Curriculum
• Luke Mansfield, Pioneer School
• Huw Rees, Vizolution
• Jason Dunlop, Addmass
• Chris Clark, TDS
• Avril Lewis, ESTnet
• Maggie Buggie, VP, Capgemini
• Phillipa Davies, FYI
• Ian Barwick, Life Sciences Hub Wales
• Matt Warren
• Paul Harwood
• Vinay Gupta, Technologist & Policy Analyst
• Graham Hunter
• Gordon Dalgleish, Head of ICT Solutions, Public Sector & Contact Centres, arvato

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