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Sep 20th

TechHub backs Internet Week Europe

TechHub is one of the main participants in Internet Week Europe. Below you'll find the press release that's just gone out.

EUROPEAN INTERNET LEADERS UNVEIL PLANS FOR FIRST-EVER INTERNET WEEK EUROPE

- London to host citywide festival 8 -12 November celebrating Europe’s internet community -

London: Internet Week Europe will launch in London in November, when a coalition of leading European internet companies hosts the first week-long festival celebrating Europe’s thriving digital media industry and community.

The festival launches with initial support from industry leaders such as Tweetdeck, the Guardian,Moo.com, Google, BBC, WPP Digital, TechHub, Channel 4, Penguin, New Media Age and Creative Review, as well as flagship sponsor Yahoo!. These companies and more will host events throughout London from 8^th-12^th November 2010, ranging from conferences, technology demos, panel discussions, educational programming and meet-ups to late-night parties at venues across the city.

Internet Week Europe honours the internet’s open structure by inviting the entire European internet community – from the biggest companies and most prominent luminaries to grassroots organisations, universities and cultural institutions – to participate and program the festival. All participants can add their event to the official calendar at no cost, and will have their events showcased and promoted as an Internet Week Europe Official Event Partner. More information and signup for organisations that wish to participate is available at www.internetweekeurope.com.

Internet Week Europe is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, the presenter of the highly acclaimed sister festival, Internet Week New York. The European festival will build on the success of the NYC festival, which saw the participation of over 150 organisations in 2010, including Yahoo!, YouTube, Mashable, AOL, Time Warner, Pepsi, Motorola, The New Museum, New York University and Foursquare, and is presented in cooperation with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office.

Poke London founders Nicolas Roope and Nick Farnhill will join David-Michel Davies, executive director of IADAS, as co-chairs of Internet Week Europe.

“Some of the biggest names in digital media have joined together for a citywide celebration of all things Internet," comments Nicolas Roope, co-chairman, Internet Week Europe. "It's an amazing opportunity to experience the best of Europe's internet culture and commerce, meeting the people behind the screens who are creating the future of digital media."

An eclectic roster of UK and European internet leaders are coming together to shape the inaugural festival. Members of the Internet Week Europe executive council include: Mollie Spilman, SVP Global Marketing, Yahoo!; Richard Davidson-Houston, Head of Online, Channel 4; Tom Uglow, Creative Lead, Google EMEA; Anna Rafferty, Managing Director, Penguin Digital; Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, Lastminute.com and mydeco.com; Aleks Krotoski, Journalist, the Guardian; Matt Jones, Design Director, BERG; Richard Moross, Founder & CEO, moo.com; Mattias Hansson, CEO, Hyper Island; Mike Butcher, Editor, TechCrunch Europe and Iain Dodsworth, Founder & CEO, TweetDeck.

David-Michel Davies, co-chairman, Internet Week Europe and New York, says, “We are delighted to have so many major European internet organisations already on-board, which signals the incredible engagement of the community we anticipate in the first year of the festival.”

Sally Chatterjee, CEO of VisitLondon, says, “VisitLondon is thrilled to welcome this inaugural world-class festival to the city. Just as the New York festival has put the digital industry on the map, we're excited to highlight all that London has to offer the digital community from the UK and beyond. We expect Internet Week Europe to quickly become an influential gathering of the world’s top thinkers in digital culture and commerce.”

A preliminary schedule of Internet Week Europe events will be announced in early October.

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Sep 13th

£600k competition for disruptive products from the Technology Strategy Board

By Elizabeth Varley

A great opportunity for those working on disruptive technologies in areas of energy, digital, healthcare and sustainability to have their project funded as soon as next month. We want TechHubbers to get in on the act!

It's a competition to help small businesses turn brilliant innovative ideas into new marketable products. As the deadline to enter is this week (!), here's the skinny in quick overview:

Produce a two-minute video describing your idea for a £25k project
Upload it at the TSB website...
...by this Thursday September 16th!
15 projects in each category advance to the next round (written business case)
3 projects from each category are then invited to pitch at Innovate 10 on October 12th.
At the end of that day, four companies will each walk away with £100k to fund six-month projects, and eight companies will each received £25k for three-month projects.

So in less than a month you could have your innovative project funded!

To get in there now, visit the LaunchPad website.

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Sep 1st

Virgin Media Pioneers interviews Elizabeth Varley, CEO of TechHub

By Tech Hubber

David McQueen of Virgin Media Pioneers interviews Elizabeth Varley, CEO of TechHub, a ”new and exciting space in London for tech companies not just based nearby, but entrepreneurs and others in the tech industry from across the UK, Europe, the US and beyond.”

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