Level:
Novice
Format:
Talk

We’ve developed Smartphone apps to help people understand their own recreational drug use, supply health answers to questions most wouldn’t want ask their doctor – and compare their drug use to thousands of other people around the world. People increasingly trust data and objective facts more than Government or experts; and the future of drug policy increasingly lies in the hands of the people, not policy makers.

Questions answered :
Why apps are perfect for healthcare
Why people are more likely to ask a computer for advice than a doctor
Why data is more persuasive than expert status or Government say-so
Why big data is vital for social change

Level:
Intermediate
Format:
Showcase

Using our event discovery app Vamos, Luis will showcase the power of the contextual data for mobile services.

Questions answered :
Whether you’re a local or new to a city – how do you find events happening around you right now?

How can you harness local information in a foreign city?

How do contextual services make event discovery easier?

Speaker Bio: Luis-Daniel Alegria, 25, is an entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Vamos, a Berlin-based event discovery app that helps users locate public events happening around them right now - whether at home or overseas. Prior to co-founding Vamos, Luis, a Swede with Chilean heritage, has had extensive experience in event organisation and worked at major advertising agencies around Europe, such as BBH and AKQA. He studied Business Management at Hyper Island and inspires to add joy to people's lives
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Level:
Intermediate
Format:
Talk

Session exploring how start up businesses and creativity can work alongside each other to produce effective results using social media and mobile technologies.

Questions answered :
How can you be an entrepreneur without loosing your creative identity? What is like being a creative entrepreneur?

Level:
Novice
Format:
Talk

How to use the latest finance and other cloud technologies to run your business more efficiently!

Questions answered :
Cloud Accounting systems
Other add ons
etc.

Level:
Expert
Format:
Showcase

JustGoMusic.com is the new social platform for DJs. Following a silent beta,
the London-based website has now officially launched and offers a whole
suite of time-saving tools and free features to DJs to help market and promote
themselves in the ever-competitive, growing space of electronic dance music.

Questions Answered:
Showcase of the products and tools on JustGo Music…and how they can benefit you.

Speaker Bio: Justin grew up in Augusta, Georgia where he played the saxophone in a Jazz band with members from the 7-time Grammy Award winning group Lady Antebellum. He later attended the University of Georgia, voted #1 college music town by Rolling Stone Magazine. Justin quit his corporate day job to return to his true passion - music. He is a huge fan of electronic dance music and has traveled the world seeing some of the world’s greatest DJs. He is also a graduate of the Point Blank Music College in Londo
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Level:
Intermediate
Format:
Workshops

A fast-paced hour long-long masterclass in Atomic Networking, where a scientific approach to networking will help you build your own network and find value in every contact you make.

Questions Answered:
How to approach networking at events and online.

How to make introductions.

How to understand the value in the people you know.

And teach you how to drop ‘Heraclitus’ into your next conversation.

Speaker Bio: Mark Herring is MD of Urbano Network, London's innovative business networking community. For the past 12 years, he has been helping businesses create opportunities through networking, both face-to-face and online. In this time, he has organised over 1,000 networking events and connected over 25,000 people. Urbano blends his branding and marketing experience and knowledge with his philosophy of value exchange. His workshops will show you how to exploit the value in your connections.
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Level:
Novice
Format:
Talk

Fully Bloom was built during spare evenings and weekends and using only personal savings. When your resources are low, what else have you got? People, personality and persuasion.
In this talk Lucy will share how she galvanised her network, learned to push for engagement and commitment from people on the other side of the globe that she’d never met, and worked out the best ways to support her analogue efforts with strong digital presence.

Questions Answered:
How to launch an online service with minimum budget
How to keep stakeholders engaged in a project
How to work your network for tangible results
Ways to use digital media, including social networks, effectively to drive your message

Speaker Bio: Lucy launched Fully Bloom in September 2012. Fully Bloom brings together volunteers and organisation who want to host volunteers. Lucy’s professional background is producing content for large scale b2b events. Her network and media & marketing experience have been great assets as she’s built Fully Bloom. There’s more to do but Fully Bloom is getting lots of positive feedback; for the impact it's already making and the potential that people recognise in it. Lucy also teaches yoga and Eng
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Level:
Intermediate
Format:
Showcase

Video enabling the world is no easy task. That’s what Michael Grant his start up company UCi2i is here to achieve. Through innovation, R&D, and a world-class, global and carrier grade video conferencing managed service, UCi2i makes video conferencing affordable, accessible, easy and supported for every type of organisation. Hear how Michael turned his long-standing aspiration into a reality that’s making waves in one of the world’s biggest global growth markets.

Questions Answered:
See what the future of visual communications, collaboration and it’s market place looks like, and how R&D and innovation in the video space is transforming businesses, communities and ultimately, people lives.

Speaker Bio: Formally Operations Director of mVision video networks, Michael is one of the leading industry experts in business-class video conferencing and video managed services. Michael Founded UCi2i, a global video managed services provider in 2009 with the mission to video enable the world, allowing anyone to communicate and collaborate face to face securely and in high definition, regardless of device or network, wherever they are.
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