innovation

Dare Conference

Is change important for your team’s success, but difficult for everyone? Our speakers will dare to be honest about the hidden barriers, and you’ll learn to build on each other’s ideas, ship great work together, and take responsibility for change. Two-day conference (with an optional workshop) in London.

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Date: 23 September 2013
Location: Southbank Centre, UK

IC tomorrow 'Digital Innovation Contest - Sport' Briefing Event

IC tomorrow is running the £125k 'Digital Innovation Contest - Sport' to encourage digital innovation in the sports sector. A briefing event is being held to give potential applicants the opportunity to find out more about the contest challenges and the application and assessment processes.

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Date: 17 July 2013
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

INSPIRE [TWO]: SME Entrepreneurs and Funding

If you are an SME Entrepreneur or business with any interest in funding , then please join us for a morning with leading champions of entrepreneurship including Julie Meyer Founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Alysia Wanczyk of Seedrs and TED Speaker and creative entrepreneur Samir Ceric .

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Date: 21 June 2013
Location: Blue Fin Building, UK

Internet of Things 2013

One day to educate, inspire and connect people making the IoT a commercial success. The best event on the business of IoT in the UK this year.

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Date: 27 June 2013
Location: Robinson College,, UK

Briefing Event: Digital Innovation Contest - Fashion

IC tomorrow, a Technology Strategy Board programme, has launched the £120K Digital Innovation Contest - Fashion in collaboration with the British Fashion Council and the Tech City Investment Organisation. This briefing event will give applicants, investors and journalists the opportunity to find out more about the contest.

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Date: 23 May 2013
Location: Modern Jago, UK

Infographic or Visual CV as a Job Application [Infographic]

Future Gov: Head of Comms

When applying for the role of Head of Comms at FutureGov, I knew that the job posting would attract a lot of interest and high quality applications. Indeed, there ended up being several dozen people applying for the job.

I needed to make my application stand out.

Yes, I made sure to have a top notch CV, Covering Letter and References. But I wanted a little something extra to put my application on top of the pile.

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SMW Global Theme - Open & Connected: Principles For A Collaborative World

Everything Is Connected

There is an innate feeling in all of us to achieve progress, to advance, to solve problems. Emerging technologies have changed how we communicate and engage with the world.

We can now share our passions openly and across cultural and geographic boundaries.

One voice can ripple to millions.

Change is happening everywhere. Startups are disrupting entire industries and scaling their businesses globally. Tyranny, injustice and unethical behavior are being exposed. Groups are self-organizing to take positive action. Transparency, accountability, information sharing and collaboration are accelerating progress to levels never before seen.

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Delivering UX Innovation

Logistics & Schedule: Date – Thursday, 18 April, 2013 Time - 6:30pm for 7pm start Location - SapientNitro, 8 Spital Square, London, E1 6DU 6:30 – 7:00 :: Drinks and Nibbles 7:00 – 7:10 :: Welcome and Announcements 7:10 – 8:45 :: Presentations 8.45 – 9.30 :: Networking Ticket information: Tickets are available through Eventbrite

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Date: 18 April 2013
Location: SapientNitro, UK

UnBox 2013 Fellowships - Apply Now

Calling all UK-based creative practitioners! We are now accepting applications for UnBox 2013 Fellowships. This is your chance to take part in India’s most innovate cross-arts festivals and apply your creative expertise to a fresh set of situational, theme-based challenges. Deadline for applications: 23rd November 2012

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Date: 23 November 2012
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No Straight Lines: an evening with the author at Waterstones Cambridge

Me-We: innovating the future of work, happiness & our economies for a human centered world

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Date: 7 November 2012
Location: Waterstones, UK

1 year Anniversary FinTech Pitch competition & Panel session, July 31st @ 6pm, Farringdon, London

You will find this group valuable if you are interested or involved in any area of Financial Innovation, we have a broad membership that includes both new and existing finance companies, providers of capital, entrepreneurs, service providers, academics, technologists and those just interested in innovation generally.

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Date: 31 July 2012
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

Swedish Beers - the Jubilee Edition, London

Swedish Beers Jubilee Edition - the friendliest mobile networking event in town. Have a passing interest in mobile tech, enjoy chewing the fat with friends old & new & are happy to give the powerpoint & sales pitches a miss? Then join us on 30 May sponsored by our friends at Millennial Media, Inspiring Interns, Swiftkey & TVGuide.co.uk. Skål.

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Date: 30 May 2012
Location: Nordic Bar, UK

Like Minds 2012

With speakers from business, education, Social networks, the law and others, Like Minds 2012 focuses on "Why What You Do Matters" and the need to build better businesses. A Top 10 Global Ideas Festival: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/feb/17/top-10-ideas-festivals Event details & register: http://wearelikeminds.com

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Date: 24 May 2012
Location: Exeter Conference Centre, UK

Thinking Digital Conference 2012

Thinking Digital; a 3 day event drawing exceptional talent from the worlds of tech, media, science & arts. We attract speakers from around the world to share their wisdom & experiences. Speakers in May include Alan Moore, Aimee di Marco, Tom Scott & Kevin Slavin. Guests take part in workshops & many social activities. Follow us @ThinkingDigital

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Date: 29 May 2012
Location: The Sage Gateshead, UK

Youth Creativity and Innovation: Learning to Let Go…

Potato people

How an interactive story told through social media taught us to let youth creativity off the leash…

Working to encourage creativity and innovation amongst young people is frequently inspiring and often equally frustrating. Most of that frustration is aimed solely at ourselves for occasionally slipping into the trap of unwittingly projecting our ingrained ways of thinking upon them.

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