Come to TechCrunch London, 24 Sept: Speakers, Pitches & Party
When Seedcamp, the rolling European startups programme, runs its week-long event in London we like to turn up and cover the startups pitching the mentors and judges during the week. Seedcamp is built around its network of mentors and tends to attract a lot of CEOs and VCs, so we hate to waste the opportunity. Thus, with their collusion, we’re piggy-backing alongside their week, running an afternoon event [tickets here] of our own (as we did last year), and throwing their official party [tickets here] to boot. We’re calling the event TechCrunch London.
We’ll be putting on an afternoon featuring pitches from early stage startups selected from the sector right now, alongside startups which have been tutored on the free pitch-training programme run by the UKTI, which we’ve been supporting for a while now (see below for details). We’re also featuring some great presentations by a bunch of speakers. It’ll be on 24th September in central London.
The Essentials:
Tickets and info for the daytime event are here.
Tickets and info for the party only are here.
Cafe de Paris, Central London, please see here for info.
Time
We kick off at 3pm / 15.00. The party/networking starts at 7pm /19.00.
Sponsorship opportunities
Please contact Petra Johansson petra(at)twistedtree.co.uk for further details and enquiries about tickets. (Do not contact the editor, Mike Butcher, about tickets).
Press
If you are a member of the press wanting to cover the event, please contact Rassami Hok Ljungberg on rassami(at)rassami.com
Content
The “TechCrunch London” event is themed “Startups in a cold climate: getting real in the recession”. But although the title of the session sounds downbeat, the reality is that the recession has created many opportunities for startups, something we’ll be exploring. Like all TechCrunch events, it is designed to bring together startups, seasoned entrepreneurs, investors and key industry players for sharing of knowledge and great networking, TechCrunch style.
The supported by Seedcamp, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), Bootlaw the free boot camp for emerging technology, internet and digital professionals run by Winston & Strawn, as well as the Press Association.
Here are our speakers:
Nadjm Maz, BSKYB
“How startups interact with and sell to large corporates”
Barak Rabinowitz, Amuso.com
“Skilled gaming as part of the social networking framework”
Wil Harris, Channel Flip
“Why raising startup funding in the UK is different”
Scott Rafer, CEO at Lookery, Co-founder of Mashery
“How to handle closing your startup”
The presentations will be followed by / preceded by 12 startups pitching their business idea and model, where some of the pitching companies will have attended the previous UKTI workshops (FYI, participation in the Pitch! workshop does not guarantee participation in TechCrunch London, which is an entirely editorial decision).
The pitching startups include:
Kyubid
Aware Monitoring
Social Safe
Yoomoot
Fiabee
Notion Learning
Audioboo
Festbuzz
Kohive
En-twyn
mywidz
PARTNERS
Seedcamp
TECHCRUNCH PITCH! SPONSOR:
UKTI
MEDIA PARTNER/CO-SPONSOR:
Press Association
DRINKS SPONSOR: