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Events Menu: 13-19 September

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 13 September, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Tuesday 14th September: E-Club “Thoughts on Failure (and Success!)” by David Law, 6:30pm at Business School Auditorium

You’ll never look at Failure the same way again… Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) is back, and the first event features Scotsman turned Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Law. Cool companies David has founded include the Valley’s leading product design firm Speck Design, the trendy phone/laptop/ipod cases brand Speck Products, camera cases Camera Armor, and more. The talk will be followed by a wine reception as usual :). Note new Business School location – 29 Buccleuch Place, with entrance on George Square too near the library. Free, just sign up here.

Tuesday 14th September: Edinburgh Girl Geek Dinner, 6pm at Microsoft Offices (1 Waverley Gate)

Bringing together women interested in tech, Girl Geek Scotland is hosting a fabulous event in the Microsoft Office. Speakers include Aimee Maree Forsstrom, consultant for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in Australia, and Josie Goodale, Product Manager at Cisco Systems. Tickets are sold out on this one, but look out for future events and check out the workshops too…

Wednesday 15th September: Mobile Apps Group, 6:30pm at InSpace

Mobile Apps Groups is starting up again, and this month you’ll get a selection of demos of apps people in the room have developed. (more…)

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Scottish startup or working with one? Introduce yourself to #REE10Edi. (Please RT!)

Posted in Events, Local News on 9 September, 2010| 1 Comment »

Take thirty seconds right now to introduce yourself to a dynamic group of investors, policy makers, entrepreneurs, academics, non-profits, and support organisations who make it their business to create more and better entrepreneurs.

Yesterday, this group converged on Edinburgh for the tenth annual European Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE). Over the next two days, they’ll be discussing and designing the future of entrepreneurship education in schools and universities across the continent, as well as determining the types of funding and startup support programmes that are available in the next decade. (more…)

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Events Menu: 6th – 12th Sept

Posted in Events on 6 September, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Jess is away to Copenhagen for a few days, so I’m here to serve up your events menu this week. This is week really busy, seeing MoMo, Launch Lab, REE Fest and Barcamp all happening at once!

Mobile Monday, Monday 6th Sept, 12.30pm at Centotre

One topic in mobile that has regularly been mentioned at previous events, but without anyone having a massively strong grasp of the details is Near Field Communications or NFCs. This seems to be an area that is starting to come to life. As a result, this month’s MoMo is about NFCs. (more…)

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FREE film making workshop in Edinburgh on 3rd Sept (this Friday!)

Posted in Events, Local News, tagged , , , on 1 September, 2010| Leave a Comment »

What are you doing this Friday?  You could attend a free film-making workshop in Edinburgh.  Here’s a link to the agenda  – it’ll take you to an eventbrite page where you can also register to attend the workshop. 

When: Friday, September 03, 2010 from 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Where: Mercure Edinburgh Point Hotel, 34 Bread Street, EH3 9AF, Edinburgh

The workshop is hosted by Crossover: “an international programme designed to explore the creative and the commercial challenges of developing content and services for digital media”. (more…)

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Edinburgh College of Art: Postgrad Degree Show

Posted in Events, tagged , on 23 August, 2010| 1 Comment »

This evening, I had the pleasure of getting an invite along to the Edinburgh College of Art postgraduate degree show. Normally, this wouldn’t be something that I would cover, but graduate shows can be places to find young designers to work with.

There were some really neat pieces and here are the designers on exhibit: (more…)

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Going Camping: BarCamp, FilmCamp, ScotGovCamp

Posted in Events, Local News, tagged , , , on 22 August, 2010| 6 Comments »

Camping seems to be the latest rage at the moment. Of course, we’re not talking about outdoor camping (it might be a little cold for that … even during the summer) but the user-generated unconferences. Barcamps, if you’re not familiar with the concept, are conferences without a pre-planned agenda and relies on the participants to give talks or chair discussions on particular topics. These unconferences can be great places to engage with people on similar topics in a format that’s much more accessible than traditional talks with Q&As.

If you’re intrigued as to where to pitch your tent (oh dear, I can hear the pun police sirens) then here are your upcoming choices for the next two weeks: (more…)

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Events Menu: 9th-15th August

Posted in Events, tagged , , , on 9 August, 2010| 4 Comments »

Tuesday 10th August: Dorkbot Alba, 8pm at Forest Cafe (3 Bristo Place)

**I’m excited to say Dorkbot Alba is now on our radar, and only sorry I didn’t know about it sooner. If you’re doing anything with electricity, or want to be, do check it out**

Dorkbot is a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of “electronic art”. Here in Edinburgh we meet bi-monthly at the Forest Cafe, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 8pm onwards, upstairs in the Action Room. We hope to mix people with crazy ideas with people who can make them happen. Mostly we chit-chat, but things do happen, sometimes, and if you have an idea, or if you like making things, we’d like to hear from you. (more…)

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Calling all Scottish startups for a London showcase

Posted in Events on 6 August, 2010| 24 Comments »

Launch48!

Calling all Scottish startups: if you have a demo-ready product or service and want to tap into the money, experience and network in London, pack your bags and head to the Launch48 Showcase.

The event, on 2 September, is a new offering from the talented Launch48 team, who have organised a series of top-notch startup events in the U.K. and abroad. Startup Cafe reps attended one of their weekend events earlier this year and were blown away by the calibre of the attendees.

High-profile figures from PayPal, Yahoo, Seedcamp and Tech Crunch attended, not to mention VCs and Angel Investors. Other major sponsors include Amazon, Sun Microsystems and Vodaphone. The place was packed with experience, enthusiasm, expertise and money.

But that event was about building new companies. This one is about showcasing your own. And if there was one thing amiss about our previous experience at Launch48, it was the lack of Scottish tech and talent.

So seriously, pack your bags. It’s £10 to attend the Showcase, and free to exhibit–though you’ll have to apply for a space. Deadline 20 August.

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Want to Exhibit at Stanford Entrepreneurship event in Edinburgh?

Posted in Events, Local News, tagged , , , on 28 July, 2010| 1 Comment »

Did you know that Edinburgh is hosting Stanford’s annual Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE) this year? It’s time to show our friends across the pond and across Europe that Edinburgh is one hip happening place for startups. Well, and it’s a chance for you to showcase your startup/spinout/design project to an audience of rather well-connected people around the world!

The exhibition event (REE Fest) is Wednesday 8th September, starting 5:30pm in the Informatics Forum. Exhibiting is free, but this is the last week to sign up so grab a spot before you write your next email! And if you want to join the festivities but exhibiting doesn’t suit, you can actually attend the exhibition portion free too – sign-up info for exhibitors and attendees thanks to Mike Clouser: (more…)

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Events Menu: 26th July-1st Aug

Posted in Events, Local News on 26 July, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Tuesday 27th July: Social Boom Birthday Party, 6:30pm at Roxy Art House

Social Booms are fun, free and informal networking events for local individuals involved in the creative industries. If you live or work in Edinburgh and are keen to collaborate, network, learn new things, be inspired or find out what’s happening in your creative field, then Social Boom is for you! Our first Edinburgh Social Boom (#EdSocBoom) in May was really successful, so we’ve decided to host another one! This time we will have some very special sponsors and lots of birthday fun, including a cake-fuelled opportunity to raise money for Breast Cancer Care

Tuesday 27th July: Mashable Meetup, Edinburgh organiser still not found 😦 … But happy 5th birthday Mashable!

As Rachel shouted out earlier, anyone want to organise this for the future? I am trying not to get involved in organising any more events, but will happily attend! (more…)

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