Social Media mixer* - 2nd Dec, 6-9pm, London

A networking event for people working in, affected by and interested in the future of social media.

Speaker: Chris Thorpe (@jaggeree)

Since he gave up playing with really big computers as a research scientist Chris has been trying to find more and more excuses to play with really big computers powering web applications. He’s been involved in projects as diverse as bringing Which? to an online audience, social worlds for 7-11 year olds, video archives of Nobel Prize winners telling their life stories, a James Bond premiere webcast and putting contemporary sculpture on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth.

He is a co-founder of Jaggeree which is a consultancy which works in the spaces and intersections around content, play, people and data.

The event will be semi-structured to help you get the maximum value from your time and energy.

Format: keynote speaker and 30 second stand ups (Who you are and what you need)

Price: £10 + VAT (Includes: beer, wine, pizza and salad)

Description:

This network orientated event will start with a 10 minute keynote and then be opened up to 30 second 'stand ups'.  Anyone who comes to the event will be eligible to take advantage of the stand up time, however to get on the list you must have a completed profile on the mashup* site with a picture, profile and web links.  Once this is done you can let Emma (emma@mashupevent.com) know you want to do a stand up.

    ONLY THOSE WHO PRE-REGISTER WITH EMMA WILL BE ALLOCATED A SLOT.

The 'stand up' slots are for you to describe what you NEED from the mashup* community (e.g a new CTO, funding, advisors, mentors, consultants, partners, etc). You have 30 seconds to speak (no slides, no demos) and the 'crowd' then get a minute to respond. Note: you can also simply ask a question rather than describing a fully-fledged need as such. The idea is that these little interactions will trigger more useful engagements after the 'stand up' session.