About TechHub

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TechHub is the physical hub for the technology start-up community. It's launching first in London in the Shoreditch/Old St area and will consist of desk spaces, co-working space, meeting rooms and an event space. London is the first space, but will be swiftly followed by others in the TechHub network around the world, so wherever you are, you can connect @TechHub.

While it will be a place for tech entrepreneurs to touch down, work, plug their laptops in and use the fast wifi, what really differentiates it is the mostly product-oriented tech community. We're focused predominantly on product-oriented tech companies as there are other spaces already catering for agencies, consultants and media companies.

We'll have members from London, around the UK, Europe, the Middle East, India, China, the US and beyond and will be helping to facilitate networking, collaboration, knowledge-sharing via events, introductions and our website - plus that delightful 'just bumped into someone' factor.

TechHub is Hiring!

Administrator

Who's behind TechHub?

Elizabeth Varley is TechHub's project leader and its main point of contact.

Elizabeth is a communicator and entrepreneur with a background in editorial, content and events. In 2001 she set up Online Content UK as an organisation for online content professionals running an industry-focused community and regular events. OCUK quickly became a commercial editorial and content agency working with clients as diverse as Amazon, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AKQA.

In addition to TechHub, Elizabeth recently worked with small business advice site Smarta.com on marketing and engagement, and is working with germination to produce the SHINE unconference for social entrepreneurs in May 2010.

She heads the team for Twestival London which had over 700 people at the social-media-facilitated charity event in September. In February 2009, 200 cities around the world hosted events raising over $250K for clean water projects in Africa, and March 25th 2010 will see the next Twestival Global raising money for Concern Worldwide's education projects in the world's poorest communities, including Haiti.

She's also working on Bike Shed, a project to create secure, covered cycle parking facilities and showers in central London.

Follow her on Twitter: @evarley

  

Mike Butcher is a board advisor on strategy to TechHub.

Mike has been a journalist and commentator on the internet industry in the UK since it began. Currently Editor of TechCrunch Europe, Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and the European edition of The Industry Standard.

In 2004 he was voted 'One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade' by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. In July 2008 he was put at number 47 out of the Top 100 people in London's creative industry by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club. In August 2008 TechCrunch Europe was awarded the best 'Web 2.0 and business blog' in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine. In 2009 it was named as one of the top 10 blogs in of the UK. This year Mike was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Mike brings to TechHub a wealth of knowledge and advice about what technology people need and want out of a club environment.

Follow him on Twitter: @mikebutcher