NS20 DEMO 4 + Government 2.0
Programme submitted by: ManojRanaweera
on Mon, 2008-02-11 17:45
- Start: 2008-09-24 18:00
- Finish: 2008-09-24 21:00
On 24th Sept 2008, Northern StartUp 2.0 will be showcasing the best Northern digital talent to Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office Minister responsible for transformation of the Cabinet Office including exploring new ways to reach out to citizens and residents of the UK. Tom supported Webmission08 (edocr was selected as one of the 20 hottest startups) and Digital Mission (right now, 25 companies are in NYC with their entourage including KMP from Manchester). Let's show Tom the talent we have by making this a great event and a nigh to remember. Please blog and spread the word as much as possible.
Northern StartUp 2.0 is North of England's premier event for Northern Digital Startups to present their businesses to an audience of like minded individuals made up of entrepreneurs, investors, deal makers and service providers, in an informal setting. The event has already helped companies raise capital and find customers, strategic partners and suppliers
Is this event for you? Be part of the Northern ecosystem
Northern StartUp 2.0 is North of England's premier event series for Digital Startups to meet, learn and share experience with like minded individuals made up of entrepreneurs, investors, deal makers and service providers, in an informal setting. Are you a startup or early stage digital technology company? Or have you got a killer idea with some early code you want to tell others about? Are you looking for seedcorn or second round of funding, team members, mentors, partners, and/or ideas to commercialise your product? Do you need help writing your business plan? Have you got loads of money and love to invest in startups? Do you provide support services (e.g. PR)? Are you a blogger or journalist looking for breaking news? Or do you just like to hang out with startups? Or do you want to know how to leverage technologies to achieve a competitive advantage? If so, this event is for you.
Programme:
18:00 to 18:30 Registration & Networking
18:30 to 19:00 Keynote Speech
19:00 to 20:00 Presentations by Northern Stars
20:00 to 21:00 Table top demos to audience and Networking
Kro bar (opposite venue) for networking till early hours
Note: Depending on number of attendees, time allocated for presentations and table top demos may be combined for presentations & Q&A.
Keynote Speakers
Tom Watson, Cabinet Office Minister

Tom Watson Civil Service Minister Cabinet Office working with fellow ministers Ed Miliband and Phil Hope. Since being elected to Parliament in June 2001 to represent the people of West Bromwich East Tom has served as a Government Whip and Defence Minister as well as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Treasury. Tom is keen advocate of digital entrepreneurship and supporter of Webmission08 and Digital Mission08.
Roy Shelton, Angel Investor and CEO of Next2Friends
Roy Shelton has spent the last 22 years building international technology and telecoms businesses including Prime Carrier, Azure Solutions & Cerebrus. Working with government, senior industry and investment communities around the world, Roy has gained a reputation as an early evangelist of the emerging technologies that evolve to lead their field.
Roy has an MBA from the Open University Business School and is a member of both the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management.
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Company Presentations
1. Tiyga
2. CompetitiveUrge
3. edocr
4. Next2Friends
5. yuuguu
6. Treasuremytext
7. BeLocal
8. PressRoom
9. Ideas-For-My-Council
10. phonefromhere
11. S3CRM
12. Talent on View
13. Sanoodi
5 mins presentation from each company above
Attendance Fees (inclusive of VAT):
£10 for students (discount only available for full-time students)
£25 for eOffice Community (must inform prior to event)
£30 for all others. To download the invoice, click on the thumbnail and then select pdf icon.
Please bring correct amount in cash, cheque (payable to eveo Ltd) or bank transfer directly to Account No. 21281917 Sort Code 40-17-06. Please use reference "NS20Sep08"
Note: Annual subscription is £250 inclusive of
VAT
Disclaimer: We cannot 100% guarantee the presence speakers and companies identified here. Everyone has personally confirmed there presence but been human, there could well be changes on the day.
Speakers
S3CRM
S3CRM is the easiest to use CRM solution available on the market today. Small and medium sized businesses dont have the technical expertise or inclination to learn another system, so S3CRM allows these busy business owners to participate online easily and cost effectively. S3CRM includes the following functionality: eMarketing, click to call / sms, online customer quotations process and customer surveys. Using best of breed web technologies such as Ribbit it is able to bring these cutting edge services to the man in the street.
edocr
Dubbed YouTube, iTunes, Amazon and SpeedDating for business documents (DocCasting), edocr's mission is to make business document interactivity a reality today. Our concentration at present is helping businesses to generate leads through their documents (you heard right, lead generation through pdfs). Why not open a free account and give your business documents a new leaf of life today! Be pleasantly surprised!
LinkedIn ProfileNext2Friends
Next2Friends, the mobile social media platform, was created to deliver content and connections that entertain, engage and enhance life. Bringing together the full capabilities of both mobile and PC-based internet technology, the comprehensive suite of applications and features provide rich media, commercial and communication services to today’s connected consumer.
The Next2Friends platform utilises patent-pending, proprietary technology to ensure consumers, businesses and brands enjoy the full value of the mobile internet. The UK Limited Company, formed in 2007, has offices in the UK and US, in addition to R&D divisions on three continents.
Westhawk Ltd
PhoneFromHere.com delivers instant, verbal communication to Web users and online communities with no requirement for the end-user to surrender personal information, use a phone or download software. The service includes end-user analysis and custom integration into an existing Website. PhoneFromHere.com gives Web users the opportunity to leverage person-to-person or person-to-group speech within the context of a Website, enabling the Webpage to become the handset. PhoneFromHere.com can contribute to increasing your Websites traffic and stickiness by delivering worry-free, live voice chat opportunities.
* Speech offers a more effective means for communication (i.e. voice inflection, pitch, tone, etc.)
* Increases Website stickiness due to duration of live voice chats (i.e. increasing user residency time on the Webpage)
* Platform/Browser agnostic (i.e. 25% of the market use browsers other than Internet Explorer)
* Customisable to fit the theme, look, feel, and objectives of the host Websites and online communities
BeLocal
BeLocal is an innovative local mobile & web search service enabling the discovery of businesses, events, people, places, news & classifieds. BeLocal indexes a comprehensive variety of websites and presents the information in a relevant and ergonomic way. BeLocal augments its search results with social recommendation and alert services on email and SMS.
Show Us a Better Way
Ideas for My Council is a 'local government 2.0' concept dreamed up by Guy Dickinson and Simon Wheatley, based in Manchester.
At the concept stage (and entered into some recent government sponsored mashup competitions), Simon and Guy's idea solves the issue of local people having little opportunity to get involved in defining the priorities for their local council (other than at election time).
After building open innovation web apps for companies, enabling customers to suggest ideas for products, they realised the same approach would work brilliantly for local citizens.
Their idea is a web application that enables local people to 'suggest an idea for my council'. Others in the area engage by adding comments and rating the ideas.
When an idea reaches a certain critical mass, the site emails the details of the idea to the relevant department and to councillors from wards where people are voting.
Councils will have access to give responses and updates to the ideas in the site, building a highly relevant, participatory forum for ongoing citizen <-> council engagement.
Their plan is to build this web application to help local people connect with every council in the UK.
Westhawk Ltd
PhoneFromHere.com delivers instant, verbal communication to Web users and online communities with no requirement for the end-user to surrender personal information, use a phone or download software. The service includes end-user analysis and custom integration into an existing Website. PhoneFromHere.com gives Web users the opportunity to leverage person-to-person or person-to-group speech within the context of a Website, enabling the Webpage to become the handset. PhoneFromHere.com can contribute to increasing your Websites traffic and stickiness by delivering worry-free, live voice chat opportunities.
* Speech offers a more effective means for communication (i.e. voice inflection, pitch, tone, etc.)
* Increases Website stickiness due to duration of live voice chats (i.e. increasing user residency time on the Webpage)
* Platform/Browser agnostic (i.e. 25% of the market use browsers other than Internet Explorer)
* Customisable to fit the theme, look, feel, and objectives of the host Websites and online communities
TalentView
Talent on View is a user friendly web based interview solution. It enables
the a recruiter or anyone looking to help someone become employable to
record a video of the person being interviewed or a person giving a 5 minute
presentation on themselves. The recording is then sent via a secure link to
the potential employer enabling them to make a more informed decision prior
to meeting someone.
It can be advantageous to the employer as it does save time but it is also
beneficial to the candidate as it can overcome CV prejudices and allow
individuals whose personality can shine through even if their work
history/educational level is not 100%.
PressRoom
Ackura PressRoom is a social media press release tool, which allows PR agencies and Communications professionals to which quickly and easily submit their press release to a wide range of different news sources.
It contains a host of innovative behind-the-scenes coding, SEO and reader-distribution features to ensure that the press release stands a much greater chance of being found by search engines than conventional press releases, whilst giving readers the tools to distribute the release amongst their own circle of friends.
Aside from optimising the content, agencies can upload multimedia content, which is automatically distributed to online resources such as delicious, flickr and YouTube. Integration with the Reuters Calais news service ensures that press releases are tagged with the most relevant keywords and search terms.
The success of the release is measured by an engagement score, which tracks traffic numbers as well as the distribution of the release to the wider internet.
Ackura PressRoom brings the power of Web 2.0 to PR.









