Internet Week Europe held in London

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Parent Category: Expos and Conventions

Category: Previews

Published on Wednesday, 02 November 2011 05:00

Written by Christopher Lai

The second annual Internet Week Europe, hosted by Europe's digital industry, will premier in London on November 7 - 11, 2011. Internet week is not a  traditional conference where you sit all day while speakers troop on stage. Instead, the many crowd-sourced events are held throughout London.

The Hospital Club is the inaugural HQ for Internet Week Europe 2011. The only club designed specifically for the Creative industries, it features seven floors of inspiration, entertainment and innovation -- from a state-of-the-art TV Studio through to the Gallery, beautiful club spaces, fabulous restaurant and up to the Screening Room and roof top Martini Bar.

In between sessions IWE delegates are invited to lounge around the Bellini Bar with an espresso martini rustled up by their expert bar staff.

Throughout the Internet Week, more than 200 events are expected to take place citywide, from Tech-City’s Bethnal Green, Silicon Roundabout and Shoreditch to Westminster and Covent Garden.

These events represent a wide spectrum of digital topics, ranging from digital culture and creativity, through politics and social media to networking, privacy, games, mobile and entrepreneurialism.

The second annual gathering and celebration of Europe’s digital industry offers unprecedented networking and learning opportunities, with events encompassing everything from conferences, workshops, panels, entertainment, social media meet-ups, parties and even industry speed-dating.

The calendar for 2011 reflects how Internet Week Europe has fast emerged as a top annual gathering for internet leaders across Europe, and a showcase for Europe’s thriving digital innovations.

Organizations presenting events during the festival currently include:

• BIMA
• TED
• LinkedIn
• Dentsu
• eConsultancy
• SapientNitro
• Don't Panic
• Vitamin T, IAB,
• Yahoo!,
• TechHub,
• BERG,
• Soundcloud,
• BBC
• Framestore
• Financial Times
• Google

Nick Farnhill, co-chairman of Internet Week Europe commented:

"Now in its second year and already feeling like an established annual event for the European digital community, the weeklong festival continues to raise the profile of internet companies and organizations and celebrate the best of the European web.

"The citywide platform is a way for many to get to the heart of our digital culture, with emerging themes including start-up culture, mobile creativity, privacy issues, cyber crime and the use of social media in government all being addressed."

For the second year in a row, Yahoo! is on board as presenting sponsor, with Vitamin T, a new division of Aquent, supporting the festival as official sponsor. The official media partners are BIMA and The Financial Times.

Internet Week Europe is delighted to welcome for the first time SapientNitro as official agency partner, LinkedIn as its official networking partner, Wildfire as Social Media partner and WebCrumbz.net as the official app development partner.

European partners have venue spaces available to them from TechHub, Central working and Hub Culture, as well as accommodation offers from The Sanderson and St Martins Lane hotels and Roomarama.

Highlights of the preliminary calendar include:

• Digital archaeology highlights
  Digital Archaeology returns to Internet Week Europe this year with a selection of the most significant sites from the early web - all congruously displayed on archaic hardware.
  
  
• Kissing
  Unit 9 will be encouraging crowd participation again this year in Hoxton Square by featuring the installation 'Kissing' by Tango & Hawaii in their window. The intimate kissing moment will be responsive to the bystanders’ stimuli.
  
  
• Mind Candy HQ Party
  Mind Candy are throwing open the doors of their (relatively new) Moshi headquarters. Have a drink in their tree house and enjoy a short talk from the CEO and founder of Mind Candy, Michael Acton Smith.
  
  
• Ignite London
  This well established event will be keeping its tradition format - 20 slides - 15 seconds a slide - but with very special speakers lined up for Internet Week Europe.
  
  
• Metaphwoar
  Another chance to hear some creative metaphors and be introduced to seeing something you thought was one thing, into seeing it as another thing entirely.
  
  
• Creative Social Presents...... 'Creative Looting' - Who's Idea is it Anyway?
  A line-up of excellent speakers and a room of Creative Directors all pondering on creative harvesting and the originality of anything. Who will play it safe or take a risk?
  
  
• Come Find the Answers
  A party at The Marie Lloyd pub where you can see who gives a better answer - The Pub Landlord or Siri - http://siritoldmeto.com/
  
  
• Social Media in Parliament
  A discussion hosted in the House of Commons as to whether MPs and Lords in the Houses of Parliament should use social media and under what kind of parameters?
  
  
• Lean Startup Workshop: Practical ways to turn your idea into a successful product
  Made by Many and Leancamp are running an introduction to tools of the Lean Startup - giving practical advice based on their experience - and discussing the new methods and ways of thinking for this business development approach.
  
  
• Everybody's a Critic? - Literary Merit on the Internet & The Not the Booker Prize
  Guardian critic Sam Jordison and Mark Thwaite, the creator of the independent online book review website ReadySteadyBook, join novelists Lars Iyer, Michael Stewart, and Julian Gough— three finalists from this year's Not the Booker Prize (including the winner) — to discuss the world’s rowdiest literary prize.

The calendar of events, including full details, can be found at www.internetweekeurope.com/calender

More information and sign-up for organizations that are interested in to hosting official events during future festivals is available at www.internetweekeurope.com

Internet Week Europe
November 7 - 11, 2011

Various Locations
London, England