TechHub

It’s been a smashing year for events at TechHub. In July we celebrated our 1^st birthday with a big bash – and our Winter Party was even bigger! September saw the launch of the awesome Roundabout Brewery and there’ll be more beery goodness from there  in the New Year.

We welcomed amazing speakers: Nicholas Negroponte, Fred Destin presenting his Startup Lifecycle while serial entrepreneurs Di-Ann Eisnor and Jack D. Hidary shared a cosy ‘fireside chat’ with our own Mike Butcher.

In October we launched TechHub’s Startup Resource Centre a popular series of 1-2-1 sessions providing invaluable help from VCs, lawyers, accountants, PRs… You can get the jump on the rest of the startup crowd by signing up for our new batch of pr/marketing, legal and finance sessions in Jan.

Our sponsors got in on the act too as we were joined in October by Google’s marketing guru Obi Felten, Pearson talked Tablets in August while Bluevia provided tip top advice in their monthly mobile 1:2:1s.

We introduced a host of new & exciting products to a lively & engaged audience at our ever-popular Demo Nights. Register for a chance to showcase your mobile related product in February’s Demo Night mobile edition. And if you’re something of a mobile guru drop us a line here if you fancy facilitating one of our laid back monthly mobile meetups.

If all this wasn’t enough we partnered with Internet Week Europe and hosted a cornucopia of events for others including: Facebook Developer Garage, Heroku, Londroid, Product Tank, Virgin Media and of course our awesome TechHub members!

Email us to find out how to hire TechHub for your event and join TechHub and enjoy 2012’s exclusive Members' Only events.

Auld acquaintances and all that...

We’re now recruiting for a new Events Superstar to take us full steam ahead into 2012 as I head off after 6 excellent months at TechHub. Thanks to everyone who's made it an enjoyable stay!

I’m off to continue growing my own startup, an exec coaching practice, and am focusing on the start up community, so get in touch to find out more.

We're very excited to announce an opportunity at TechHub: we're looking for an events superstar!

Would you like to be part of a tech startup phenomenon? TechHub launched sixteen months ago and in that short time has had a huge amount of media coverage and interest from the tech startup community. We're committed to making a difference to tech startups in London and beyond, and have some very exciting announcements on the horizon about enhanced space in London and new international locations.

With so many great events already going on at TechHub London, exciting new plans and more and more companies and organisations wanting to run events with us, we now need someone dedicated to making sure every single one is a smash.

This is a great opportunity for someone with solid events experience, who wants to take it to the next level and grow with TechHub. If you're successful, speedy advancement is definitely an option - you could end up overseeing all UK events for TechHub, or getting involved in international TechHubs and ending up as global events director or setting up and managing a TechHub in another city. There are huge possibilities!

The role:

• Coordinating and managing all events at TechHub London. 
• Logistics: you'll respond to enquiries, manage quoting, book dates, plan and order catering and staff, and any additional equipment or furniture requirements.
• Promotion: you'll create event registration pages, manage online event promotion (including writing the event copy and posting it to various websites), and create relationships with organisations to promote relevant events to their network. 
• Event management: you'll ensure smooth running of the event on the day, manage our volunteer event assistants and recruit more, welcome guests, manage clear-up and lock up after the event.
• Sponsorship: you'll manage relationships with sponsors, ensuring their needs are met. Ideally you'll have some experience with creating sponsorship packages and selling to sponsors - though in this role it's rarely cold-calling as you'll have interested contacts passed through to you for follow-up.

This is a full time role - likely hours will be 40 hours a week, spread out over 4-5 days and evenings per week and you *must* be able to work evenings at least a few evenings a week (usually Tuesday-Thursday). We anticipate it will begin as a freelance role and then move to a permanent role if all is going well. 

This role will involve evening work - as our evening events usually run 6.30-9.30pm, on event days you may need to work until 10pm to oversee the event, so flexible availability is a must. Please do not apply for the role if you are available only during the day.

You may have had previous roles as an event manager, event assistant or event coordinator, or you might have organised or managed events as part of another role, such as marketing, office management or PA work. We're flexible on your background but need someone who can hit the ground running and quickly become part of our fun, friendly and hard-working team.

You are:

• Super organised - you just can't rest until every last detail is planned and prepared, and you know how to anticipate everything and have plans in place to deal with the unexpected.
• Agile in dealing with change - we sometimes need to take advantage of last-minute opportunities, such as an international speaker being available at very short notice. In a small company, flexibility is key - we need someone who won't freak out if they need to arrange a same-week event.
• Confident and well-spoken - you'll become the face of TechHub events, welcoming attendees and guests at the beginning of each event, and will need to be able to speak to people at the event if they have questions or want to know more about TechHub.
• Reliable - we need to know that you'll be there when you say you will, and get done what you say you'll get done. We're a small team and this is absolutely essential.
• An excellent writer of English - there will be a lot of emails and copy to be written as part of the role to answer queries, make arrangements and promote events, so great language skills are very important.
• Keen to be part of a small and growing team - this isn't a corporate role, so the need to muck in and get your hands dirty is balanced with great opportunities for responsibility and advancement. 
• Strategically-minded - you need to be able to understand how events fit into the wider scope of TechHub, how to make sure they're doing what we need them to do, and how to ensure they're making money without compromising our objectives.
• Interested in the technology and web industry - you get excited about the possibilities for people to create amazing new tools, products and companies and want to help bring these people together to learn, network and take advantage of opportunities.

So, if this sounds like you, and you have an engaging, enthusiastic personality, get in touch with Elizabeth Varley at elizabeth AT techhub.com with:

• Your CV
• TechHub Events Superstar in the subject line
• A brief overview of your relevant experience and skills
• Details of your availability - when you could start, hours you could commit to
• The hourly or daily rate you'd expect as a freelancer, and the annual salary level you'd seek  in a permanent role - do bear in mind that as a small company, we won't be offering corporate-level salaries
• A line or two about why we should specifically choose you

Be professional but with personality - don't write like a corporate drone, let your real self shine through your email.

Please get in touch asap.

TechHub has an opportunity for a bright and enthusiastic individual to join us as an Events Intern.

Events are at the heart of TechHub’s business informing and bringing together our members and the wider tech community, and helping to drive one of the UK’s most creative and dynamic industries.

Working with the Events Manager, the role is initially required to look after pre-event admin and marketing (booking bar staff and volunteers, ordering catering, keeping events sites up to date), and working on events themselves (co-ordinating bar-staff and volunteers, setting up venue, greeting and checking in attendees, speakers and sponsors).

The internship is part-time (18 hours per week), and you’ll need to be available 2 evenings per week as part of this. In return we’ll pay expenses and give you access to additional goodies including:

• Access to TechHub's events
• Access to the exclusive TechHub Members’ Drinks
• Use of the TechHub community workspace

You’ll need to be reliable, flexible and enthusiastic with a willingness to get stuck in. Good organisation skills are a must, an interest in the tech industry is essential, and experience of working in events would be a plus. We’ll be looking for a minimum commitment of 3 months.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get some valuable experience working within a thriving industry and as an expanding company there may be opportunities to get more involved with us further down the line. In addition, you’ll get to mix with loads of interesting entrepreneurs and other industry people and if you’re a bit good you’ll get a reference from TechHub!

So, if you’re interested please…

• email your CV to liam@techhub.com
• put “TechHub Events Intern” in the subject line
• include a short covering email explaining why you’re interested in volunteering with TechHub (something a bit more adventurous than just ‘networking’ please!)
• briefly detail any relevant experience
• explain why you’d be great for TechHub
• let us know how many evenings per week you could typically offer

http://techhubmonetizingtablets.eventbrite.com/

One year on from the launch of the iPad, and with a whole slew of competitors on the market now trying to chase Apple, sales forecasts for 2012 are already upwards of 80 million units.  

But from a content owners' perspective, what has happened already as a result of this explosive new market, and what can we expect in the next 12 months? Is anyone making money from content? And how is the hardware driving content development?

We will be hearing from key players in this field - leading publishers making the transition to digital publishing; startup content retailers exploring new business models for traditional 'book' content; and billing platform specialists.

We'll be hearing what’s been learned so far and what the expectations are for the coming year. We hope you’ll join in the conversation!

Our Contributors

Eric Huang has worked in publishing for over 15 years. His first ‘real job’ was as an editor at Disney Publishing in LA. He then spent six years in Australia, creating media tie-in books. Eric is now publishing director at Penguin Children’s Media and Entertainment division in London where he publishes books, apps and other storytelling platforms behind entertainment brands.

Mawuli Ladzepko is the Director of ExpressReads, a start-up with a new ebook rental platform. The platform gives readers the ability to access a wide variety of ebooks on a temporary basis - something we know consumers want, and publishers are trying to keep up with. ExpressReads titles can be rented via a range of devices including the iPad, iPhone, Android tablets and smartphones.

Martin Harris SVP Strategic Accounts at Bango, is responsible for managing the long term relationships with Bango's key customers in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Working with global app stores, online publishers and network operators his role covers business planning and strategic sales. His 11 years experience in the mobile industry and wealth of knowledge in the mobile content and payments space means he often speaks at industry events. Previously, as Sales Director at iii.co.uk (Interactive Investor International plc) Martin helped drive the company to a leading market position and through a subsequent IPO in February 2000. Martin spent 12 months with AT&T Labs, heading global new technology sales. Before that, he was at Sun Microsystems for 10 years, and has also held senior roles at NCR and Torch Computers in the USA and Canada

Glynn Hayward is the Creative Director of Complete Control, a BAFTA award winning Independent Children's Interactive Production Company. During the last 12 years Glynn has directed and produced many memorable interactive resources for broadcasters, publishers and children's charities to assist children in learning through having fun online. Glynn's creative drive has also seen Complete Control launch its own kids animated brand on the App Store in the form of a series of funny seaside games. Glynn also sits on the Children's Committee for BAFTA.

About out sponsor...

TechHub is looking for bright, friendly and enthusiastic volunteers to help us out at a variety of our evening events.

Events are at the heart of TechHub’s business where we inform and bring together our members and the wider Tech community, and help drive one of the UK’s most creative and dynamic industries. You’ll be supporting the Event Manager in setting up and resetting TechHub’s office space before/after the event, keep things running smoothly throughout the event, as well as things like handing around mics for Q&As and welcoming and checking in attendees. The work is straightforward but essential to our events’ success so you’ll need to be reliable and willing to dive in. In depth knowledge of the industry is not essential but a keen interest would be a great start.

In return for one or two evenings (typically 4 hours each) per week you’ll get access to things like:

• TechHub events
• TechHub members drinks
• Use of TechHub co-working space

This is a fantastic opportunity to get a taste of working within a thriving industry, and as an expanding company there may be opportunities to get more involved with us in the future. In addition, you’ll get to mix with loads of interesting entrepreneurs and other industry people and if you’re a bit good you’ll get a reference from TechHub!

 So, if you’re interested please…

• email your CV to liam@techhub.com
• put “TechHub Events Volunteer” in the subject line
• include a short covering email explaining why you’re interested
  
• briefly detail any relevant experience
• let us know how many evenings per week you could typically offer

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to reviewing your application!


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