Digital Trends in 2011.

Date: 2nd February 2011

Venue: BCS, Southampton Street London WC2E 7HA

Time: 18.00 - 21.30

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It is possible that 2010 will be remembered for a coalition government,  student riots, snow, volcanic ash, bankers bonuses and wiki leaks.  At a digital level Apple fans kept the faith and continued to upgrade, Facebook passed 500m users, Twitter passed 150m users and Google  made at least 25 acquisitions including :Blinetype, socialDeck, Slide, Labpixies, DocVerse,  Widevine, Phonetic Arts, Planr, Quiksee and Like. 

Whilst the biggest surprise was AOL taking control of Techcrunch, all major technology companies were acquiring  IBM (Clarity, storwize, BigFix, Intelliden, Initiate, Blade), Cisco (Linesider, extendMedia, MOTO, rohati), EMC² (Lsilon, Archer) Oracle (atg, PassLogix) Microsoft (Canesta, AVIcode), Intel (Infineon,McAfee), RIM (cellmania, viigo, TAT), Nokia (motally), Apple (Siri, intrinsity)  and HP (Palm, Stratavia 3PAR) to name a few. 

Apple has also been acquiring and filed many patents throughout 2010 (some quite bizarre including the invisible button and oxygen level ear buds) but we have started to see the impending patent wars between the major players that will be regular news during 2011.

Therefore, why not at the beginning of the New Year, with business plans signed off  and budgets set, come and hear views on technology and markets. Discover and share your views on the trends that matter and which will shape our economics and strategy in 2011.

Come and hear what the trends are in 2011 around: Social, Location, Applications and  Mobile.

Speakers

l.john

Laurence John CEO Amadeus' Seed Fund #1 & #2 at Amadeus Capital Partners with £10 million under management and up to £10 million for co-investment from Amadeus III. AASF is dedicated to providing seed money for start-up companies spanning the technology sectors, with the exception of Life Sciences. Since joining Amadeus in 2001 Laurence has established Amadeus' seed activity with the Amadeus Mobile Seed Fund (AMSF) and made a number of investments. These include: Enigmatec, which has developed an automated policy-driven management system that provides a powerful solution to the increased complexity of the data centre by automating repetitive, mundane, or manual tasks; Nujira, which is developing advanced power amplifier technology that will solve some of the enduring problems faced by the cellular industry; XMOS, a company revolutionising re-configurable silicon by producing chips that combine the low cost of application-specific integrated circuits 'ASICs' with the flexibility of field-programmable gate arrays 'FPGAs'; and Ambient, an early stage start-up in the mobile location based services business.

Laurence brings a wealth of experience to his role in evaluating these opportunities. He spent seven years at Motorola, working in a variety of hands-on roles managing businesses in the traditional mobile sector as well as its mobile commerce ventures. Many of his jobs at Motorola

involved developing strategy and implementing new business ideas. Laurence started his career at Smiths Industries in the Aerospace Sensors division, moving on to engine controls and fuel gauging systems.

Laurence received an MA in Marketing from Kingston University, an MSc in Optics and a BSc in Physics both from Imperial College of London University. He speaks fluent French.

Andrew Gerrard

Andrew Gerrard is a Social and Digital business consultant, helping businesses and organisations understand and participate in the relationships they have with their customers, and converting them through social and digital channels into mutually profitable long-term benefit.

With over 20 years in the digital, online and social media industries, Andrew brings with him a wealth of strategic insight and tactical knowledge for creating clear opportunities, building effective and practical activities, and producing measurable results.

His experience in social business spans several decades: from creating new online community marketing services and revenue streams for CompuServe and AOL in the nineties; launching LunarStorm, a UK social network for the youth market, in 2005; to currently developing social business strategies and engagements, advising clients on how to integrate and take advantage of social media in their day-to-day business and cultures. Andrew is a co-founder and Director of Social Media training consultancy, Article8. His career also spans senior marketing and business development roles with Microsoft, Epsilon and DoubleClick; and he is a founder member and former Director of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). Andrew is a regular speaker and maintains a visible and active role in the social and digital media industries.

Andrew is active on Twitter as @andrewgerrard, and you can read more about him on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com

/in/agerrard Article8 is at http://www.article8.co.uk

Gary Gale

Gary Gale is a self professed "geek with a life", I've had a life-long love affair with maps since discovering the iconic Harry Beck map of the Underground on the back of the London A-Z street atlas at an early age. After "growing up and getting a proper job" I now live in Teddington in South West London with my family and work in London and Berlin as the Director of Ovi Places for Nokia; I'm also the co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf and I sit on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group.

Prior to Nokia, I was at Yahoo!, leading their Geo Technologies group in the UK, releasing GeoPlanet and Placemaker and providing the geo heavy lifting for Flickr and Fire Eagle; I've also been at Digicon, developing geophysical technologies to aid in the search for natural resources and at the European Space Agency Research Institute in Rome, Italy, participating in the development and launch of ERS-1, Europe's first remote sensing satellite. Outside of the location and geo field, I've been at companies including the BBC World Service, Reuters, Factiva.com and Network Associates.

Fascinated by technology, I first started hacking on a Commodore PET, built my own Sinclair ZX-80, spent too many years behind the console of a VAX, and even more years coding in Assembler, FORTRAN, C and C++.

I speak and present at a wide range of conferences, workshops and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, #geomob,mashup*, the British Computer Society, WhereCamp EU, the

Location Business Summit and FOWA.

Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, I blog at www.vicchi.org and I tweet as @vicchi.

Despite living in London for most of my life I still haven't managed to visit every station on the London Underground network and I now face the additional challenge posed by using the Berlin U-Bahn network every week.

James Poulter

James Poulter, winner of “Best Newcomer 2010″ at the Christian New Media Awards

James is a Digital Consultant at Lexis PR, working with brands such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Budweiser and Boots.

He previously has worked at Euro RSCG Biss Lancaster and Ogilvy Public Relations, heading up the UK Digital offering at both agencies and working with a wide variety of enterprise clients including the likes of IBM, American Express, Mattel, Nike, Kimberly Clark, Reckitt Benckieser and Vodafone.

James was also recently nominated for the “Best Contribution from an Individual” award at the Reputation Online Awards 2010, hosted by New Media Age magazine.

James is also a Technology and Gadget reviewer and Christian blogger. His blog can be found here: http://jamespoulter.co.uk

He is also an avid twitter fan and can be found tweeting here: @jamespoulter

James is married to Holly (@hollylinda) and lives with her in South London.