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Back in June 2011 we bought you the “Future of Mobile” which heavily focused on Apple and developing apps for their mobile devises. To kick off 2012 we are putting Android in the spotlight.

Restart your networking at this first NottTuesday of 2012 with Steve Haley co-founder of MultiPie Ltd, a Nottingham-based Android games company.

They have published two games for Android devices: Spectrum Puzzles, a fun and family friendly jigsaw puzzler; and very recently Astral Plague, a “2D shooting bonanza”.

Steve will talk about their experiences making games for Android, discussing the platform as a whole, the avenues for selling, some common (mis?)conceptions about ‘fragmentation’ and the ‘start up’ success of MultiPie Ltd’s games.

This event will be live streamed to Bambuser by Notttuesday regular, Caron Lyon from PCMcreative

There’s a free event running this weekend at Nottingham University with a Internet Tech track, including speakers from SpinVox and Mendeley, which maybe of interest to Nott Tuesday followers:

The NEF is a student run event bringing together people with an entrepreneurial spirit from across the UK, engaging them in a dynamic half-day event with fantastic keynote speakers, interactive breakout sessions, networking opportunities, dinner and a memorable social (dinner and social at Cast are included in the registration).

Daniel Doulton (co-founder of SpinVox – a London start-up that in 2008 raised over $100M at a whopping $500M valuation in 2008) will deliver the Opening Keynote Speech. For the Closing Keynote Panel, we have confirmed the international guest speakers Steven Lewis (Co-founder and CEO of Living PlanIT Valley – a €15 billion sustainable city development in Europe designed to be the world’s first leading centre of sustainable community innovation and research) and Mario Valente (investor at Seed Capital SGPS) and Robin Daniels (CEO of the Norwich Research Park).

For the workshop sessions we will have Seamus Garvey (UoN) and Adebayo Ogunjimi (UoN) on green, Nick Pope (Biospring and Mobius Life Sciences) on biotech, Victor Henning (co-founder of Mendeley) on internet and Ricardo Zozimo (University of Lancaster) on social entrepreneurship.

Why come?

· Excellent programme with venture capitalists, CEOs and founders of renowned companies, and successful entrepreneurs!

· Fantastic networking opportunities, with the speakers and entrepreneurs of the region.

· Opportunity to meet more companies, and career opportunities in the private sector.

· Share ideas and learn from the success cases experiences.

· Learn about funding sources and grants schemes that you can apply for once you have a business plan.

· Know more about business competitions, businesses incubators… among other things.

· Enjoy an exclusive dinner & social with the speakers at Cast Restaurant (Nottingham Playhouse)

Click here (http://nef.eventbrite.com/) to pre-register.

Be fast: attendance will be limited to a maximum of 60 participants and 51 places have already been taken.

Exciting news - Web 2.0 Surgery is merging with the long-standing Second Wednesday and  Susi O’Neill, is now managing the Web 2.0 Surgery. They’ve also got a brand new venue for the summer: Broadway Media Centre (Mezze Lounge, 1st Floor).

Web 2.0 Surgery, celebrating its first birthday in June, is a free drop-in event where independent businesses, freelance professionals and community groups can get advice from web experts on developing their website or ways to use free social media networks to grow their organisation. The project has helped a start-up business to sell online, a charity to use social networks for free promotion and a performance group to use live web video streaming to engage with audience

Second Wednesday is a long-running network for Nottingham’s web and digital professionals which regularly attracts web developers, online marketing experts and designers for an informal talk followed by drinks and networking. Previous speakers have shared their expertise on search engine optimisation, digital strategy and personal branding.

The two groups are now coming together as a forum to connect the city’s digital sector and to enable businesses seeking web services to meet web and marketing professionals in an informal setting.

Second Wednesday organiser Nick Heyward, from FCS Websites, said: “Linking together Second Wednesday and Web 2.0 Surgery is a great opportunity to develop Nottingham’s marketplace for web services and to help businesses and community group benefit from the £40 billion online spend in the global digital economy.”

The first joint event takes place:

Wednesday 9th June Mezze Lounge,
Broadway Cinema 14-18 Broad Street,
Nottingham,
NG1 3AL See Map

Web 2.0 Surgery runs from 5-7pm.  Drop-in at any time to speak to an expert.

Second Wednesday’s talk and discussion starts at 7pm, followed by drinks on Broadway’s terrace.

Both events are free to attend, no booking required.

This month’s speaker is Derek O’Brien on “Getting Down & Dirty with HTML5 and CSS3″, with a presentation on the latest trends in coding.

June’s Nott Tuesday is focused on getting funding for your company and working with outside investors.

This month we have two speakers: Chris Scarth from education web application provider Prime Principle and Robert Cawdron from the from the early stage technology VC E-Synergy. Chris will share his first hand experiences of Angel funding and Rob will present on Venture Capital funding.

These are great technology speakers, Chris Scarth is co-founder and commercial director of one of the Midlands top software companies. Prime Principle won the Nottingham Evening Post Small Business of the Year Award in 2007 and are in this years finals!

Robert Cawdron is a key member of E-Synergy who are a very active Midlands based VC and have an existing £60m of managed funds. E-Synergy run the £5m East Midlands Early Growth VC Fund for early-stage businesses investing up to £100,000 in East Midlands startups!

If your thinking of getting outside financing for your startup idea or taking your company to the next level this is the Nott Tuesday for you.

Please remember that Nott Tuesday has moved from Bluu Bar to Antenna. We now have a Twitter live stream for questions and ideas during the talks – just use the #notttuesday Hashtag.

So, to summarise:

18:30 – 20:30 at Antenna, Nottingham

Speaker: Chris Scarth & Robert Cawdron & now Mark Chandler: Get funded!!

Q&A: topics raised

UPDATE: We now have our third speaker confirmed for the 8th of June’s Nott Tuesday. Mark Chandler from Lloyds TSB Bank plc will be presenting on getting startup/tech funding from the banks. Mark is the East Midlands relationship Director at Lloyds TSB Commercial banking.

Each of our speakers will have a 15 minute presentation slot, followed by a group Q & A session.

• Ever wondered what all the fuss about open source software was?
• Confused over how anyone can make any money from giving software away?
• Like the idea of free software but not sure if you can trust it?

If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to any of the above or indeed have any other questions about open source software then you need to be at Bluu in the Lace Market at 18:30 on Tuesday 9th March.

Antony Martin Director of Open Source Engineering at Dialogic will be sharing his knowledge and experiences to enable you to make the most of the open source community.

His talk will cover:

• Free / open source software a short history
• Licenses
• Business models
• Popular projects
• Using open source software
• Developing in open source
• The benefits of open source

If that wasn’t enough then we also have Ryan O’Sullivan, Solicitor with the Commerce and Technology Unit at the national law firm Shoosmiths, sharing some real life experiences from clients who have fallen foul of open source licensing and how they extricated themselves.

And if that wasn’t enough, Dialogic have also kindly agreed to sponsor the food.

It promises to be really valuable evening and I look forward to seeing you all there.

18:30 – 20:30 at Bluu, Nottingham

Speakers: Antony Martin & Ryan O’Sullivan – Open Source: what is it and how can it benefit you

Panel: topics raised

Really pleased to announce that Horizon Digital Economy Research are treating us to some food, including birthday cupcakes, on Tuesday.

Horizon is a Research Institute at the University Nottingham engaged in Digital Economy Research. This new venture represents an initial £40million investment by Research Councils UK, the University of Nottingham and over 40 academic and industrial partners in both a Research Hub and Doctoral Training Centre within the RCUK Digital Economy programme.

Huge thanks to them for this.

I intimated that we’d have a strong follow up to Christian Payne‘s Social Media Freak Show and I’m pleased to announce we’ve delivered.

Professor of Digital Economy, Derek McAuley from The University of Nottingham will be speaking on the subject ‘Who’s data is it anyway’.

We are used to the idea of our “Digital Footprint” – those traces of our online activity that leave a record – some are concerned this has gone too far.

However, we are in a transition to a society in which ubiquitous computing makes recording of peoples physical activities, as well as their virtual ones, possible. How are we going to remain human in this society….

The talk will look as some of the technologies, how they might be used (for good and evil) and discuss approaches to creating businesses that can exploit them without trampling the citizen’s privacy under a corporate or government boot.

I reckon the panel session will take care of itself after that warm up.

So, to summarise:

18:30 – 20:30 at Bluu, Nottingham

Speaker: Derek McAuley – Who’s data is it anyway

Panel: topics raised

See you there.

I’m really pleased to announce that Christian Payne (aka Documentally) will be bringing his Social Media Freak Show to Nott Tuesday on the 12th.

Following on from last month’s Social panel I thought it would be great to get something a little more practical for those that were inspired to create more.

Christian is a freelance mobile media maker who also specialises in Social Media & photography.

He’ll be talking about what tools an early adopting mobile media maker is using at the moment. All about the tools and platforms along with, and probably most importantly, basic how-tos.

As for the panel discussion, how about?:

2010 is going to be a great/terrible year to be in a tech business because…

So, to summarise:

18:30 – 20:30 at Bluu, Nottingham

Speaker: Christian Payne with his Social Media Freak Show

Panel: 2010 is going to be a great/terrible year to be in a tech business because…

See you there.

18:30-20:30 downstairs at Bluu, Nottingham

Speakers:

Phil Campbell- Conkertu – Re-enabling local economy in a rural location when high-speed connectivity is not available

Susi O’Neill – Creative Nottingham – Connection nottingham’s creative communities

Panel

Topic – Social Media, lovely but where’s the money for my business?

Chair – Nigel Ainscoe

I was really pleased with how the panel session developed at the November meet and I suspect some of the views in this one could be just as controversial.

December’s event has a lot to live up to if it’s to be as successful as November, the key is people, lot’s of people. Spread the word, tell your friends and colleagues

I’m really excited to announce that Nick Barker and Simon Oxley from Aware Monitoring have agreed to sponsor and present the Nott Tuesday event in November entitled What does the cloud mean for your business?’

Nick, CEO of Aware Monitoring, will be starting proceedings by launching the Aware Monitoring service. This is a service designed to solve some of the problems businesses can experience using the cloud so

Simon, CTO of Aware Monitoring, will be sharing is insight into the cloud, the technologies behind it and what the future holds. Simon’s career has seen him working on high profile public and private sector infrastructure projects for the NHS and Capital One. More recently he’s been applying this knowledge and using cloud services in anger to support to set up the Aware Monitoring service.

I will then lead a dynamic panel discussion driven by questions from the floor (so remember to bring a pen to write on the cards) exploring the topics raised.

I’m really pleased that Nick and Simon have decided to this. It really feels like Nott Tuesday is back on the rails.

Finally, to incentise you to all to spread the word, Aware Monitoring are buying a drink for anyone that brings along a Nott Tuesday newbie. So get out that contact book, start dialing, emailing and tweeting and let’s get as many people along to this one as possible.