Work - Speaking

I speak at, judge, and contribute to conferences and events. An incomplete list of engagements is below:

Future

• May 15th, Tallin, Estonia SmartStart “Startup Business Models”
• June 19-21 2013 Berlin, MLOVE Confestival
• March 2014, Failcon Europe, MC

Previous

• Apr 26th 2013, Innotech Summit, Host of Google Hangout with Boris Johnson Mayor of London, Silicon Valley and LA; Moderator, VC  Discussion Panel
• Feb 28th 2013, PhoneBrain Awards, Judge & Mentor
• Feb 1st 2013 London, The ICE List Fireside Chat with Founder of Huddle, MC
• Jan 20th 2013, Sundance Film Festival, Park City - Illumin8 Tech Summit “Founder Hero Stories”
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• June 27th-29th 2012, MLOVE Europe, MC, Start-up Competition Judge
• Latitude 59 June 7th-8th, Tallinn, Estonia “Mobile and Entertainment. To build a next Rovio, or not to be?”
• April 27th-28th 2012, MLOVE Monterey California
• Start-up Weekend London, Mentor
• Feb 25th 2012, MLOVE Camp, Barcelona
• Feb 23rd 2012, Heroes of the Mobile Fringe 2012, Barcelona – Panel Chair “Innovation”
• Feb 22nd 2012, Mobile World Congress 2012, Barcelona Techrcunch Dinner – Startup Dragon
• Feb 18th 2012, Start-up Crowd, London – MC and Mentor
• Jan 30th 2012, Start-up Weekend, Bergen Norway – Judge and Mentor
• Jan 14th 2012, ICE Switzerland “SWICE 2012″, Les Crosets Switzerland – Speaker
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• Dec 2nd 2011, Smart Start 2011, Tallin Estonia – Interview ETV TV
• Dec 1st 2011, Smart Start 2011, Tallin Estonia – Keynote “Wantreprenuer to Entreprenuer” (Video here: http://youtu.be/BFQkDL2XPHo) and Panel
• Sep 20th 2011, Tiger Cage Start-up Competition, London – Judge
• Sep 5th 2011, SeedCamp 2011 London – Mentor
  
• Aug 22nd 2011, Interviewed for London Newspaper City AM How To Avoid Dodgy [Investment] Deals
• Jun 29th, 2011, MLOVE 2011, Berlin, Germany “Start-up Competition” – Chair
  
• Jun 20th 2011, Mobile Monday London, “Geospatial, Mapping, LBS and AR”  - Chair
• Jun 2011, Vodafone Mobile Clicks Awards 2011 – Judge
• Jun 16th 2011, RUTBERG SUMMIT FUTURE MOBILE 2011, San Francisco, “Mobile, Local, Social” - Unable to attend
• May 24-25th 2011, eG8 Forum & Summit, Paris
• Mar 21st, 2011, Tehnopol Start-up Club, Tallin, Estonia “Building a start-up”
• Feb 11, Telegraph Tech Startup100 Awards 2011 - Judge
• Feb 11, MWC MLOVE Camp, BARCELONA, Spain “Awesome”
• Jan 24th-25th 2011, Cross Creative Project, GLASGOW “Mentoring & Presentation on UK v USA Tech”
• Jan 11, LIFT Conference, GENEVA, “Personalising the Physical World”

• Dec 10, Launch 48, LONDON, “The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission”
• Nov 18th 2010, Cambridge University Moller Centre, CAMBRIDGE, “Social Networks”
• Jun 10, Medien Forum NRW 2010, COLOGNE, Keynote “Communication 2010″
• Jun 10, MLOVE Confestival, BERLIN,  ”Fireside chat with Alcatel-Lucent”
• Mar 10, NextWeb 2010, AMSTERDAM “The Dirty Dozen (Abridged)”, 6 minute Video
• Feb 10, TechCrunch GeeknRolla, LONDON, “The Dirty Dozen”, Techcrunch Report and 15 min Video
• Feb 10, MLOVE Winter Camp 2010 Andorra “Passion”

• 09, Heroes of the Mobile Screen, London
• 09, Carsonified Future of Mobile, London
• 09, Mobile 2.0 Europe
• 09, 140Char Conference, New York
• 09, Mobile Advertising, Amsterdam
• May 09, Mobile Location Services, London
• 09, Mobile Telematics & Navigation, Amsterdam
• 09, Mobile Web Summit 2.0, London (Chaired panel)
• Feb 09, Mobile World Congress
• Feb 09, MLOVE Barcelona 2009

• 08, Mobile 2.0 San Francisco
• 08, Carsonified “FUEL” Conference, London
• 08, CBI, “A History Of The Social Network”
• Nov 08, MLOVE Camp, MUNICH, “If I Could Change Anything In The World”

• Jul 07, NMK Forum, LONDON, “It’s about the data, stupid”

Video

• Latitude 59 – Jun 2012 - http://latitude59.ee/video
• The Next Web – 2010 – AMSTERDAM, Interview about “Rummble” by Gleb Kaplun on Vimeo
• TechCrunch Geek n Rolla – 2010 – LONDON, “The Dirty Dozen” (scroll to 2 hours and 36mins)

More to add, will be updated as I make time..

Attended

All the above, plus: (in A-Z order)

• 140conf Twitter conference, New York & more
• Jeff Pulvers leading twitter conference, not just in New York but in many major cities
• Being Digital, London (Spoken at)
• Chinwag Live (various), London (Spoken at)
• CTIA Wireless, San Francisco
• DLD, Munich
  a sort of European version of a tech media TED; larger and often invite only it attracts a diverse crowd and usually has great networking opportunities
• European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Tenerife
• eG8 Forum, Paris, France
  Invite only forum to discuss what the G8 agenda regarding the internet should be
• E-Tech, San Diego
• Fuel, London (Spoken at)
• Future of Mobile, London (Spoken at)
• Future of Web Apps, London
  one of the major tech web events on the London calender, not to be missed
• Future of Web Apps, Miami
  fun, fiesty and one of the leading Web 2.0 conferences
• Heroes of the Mobile Screen, London (Panel)
  brilliant newish mobile conference with intimate feel and good content
• Le Web, Paris
  run by Loic and his wife, the biggest event on the French tech calendar
• Lift, Geneva
  diverse conference with not-the-usual speakers, spanning much more than tech, I hugely enjoyed this event
• Location Based Services IIR, Amsterdam (Spoken at)
• MLOVE
  a distruptive event which represents the next generation of conferences (Spoken at, Founding team)
• MEX, London
  the leading mobile usability conference; personal, rammed full of interesting people & quality content
• Mobile 2.0 Europe (spoken at)
  the main independent Mobile conference for apps, enterprise & consumer mobile services
• Mobile 2.0 San Francisco (Spoken at)
• Mobile Advertising, Amsterdam (Spoken at)
• Mobile Location Services, London, 12th & 13th May 2009 (Spoken at)
• Mobile Telematics & Navigation, Amsterdam (Spoken at)
• Mobile Web Summit 2.0, London (Chaired panel)
• Mobile World Congress , formerly 3GSM, Barcelona (Spoken at)
  THE global mobile industry conference, with everything from cell-tower builders to handsets, MNOs and everything in-between – almost getting too big these days, but a definite for the mobile aficionado 
  
• Monaco Media Forum, 2010, 2011
  An invite only summit to discuss European internet, business and the future of digital media 
• Plugg
  Brussels very own tech conference which is growing fast
• Social Graphing Patterns, San Diego
• Summit Series 2011, Summit At Sea
• SXSW, Austin
  young, cutting edge and party-central in Texas USA
• The Next Web, Amsterdam (Sponsored)
  one of the best European conferences, this continues to have a unique vibe & great content
• Under the Radar Mobile, San Francisco (Spoken at)
  an institution in Silicon Valley, the UTR conferences attract alot of attention and are run by veterans of the valley world

One of the two best European events are Lift and Boris & Patrick’s The Next Web, the latter held in Amsterdam. RyansFOWA series is also very well attended and a great asset to the event calender, recently expanding with a UK tour of mini-FOWA events.

Social, Tech & Networking events

London tech scene in the last two years has really congeeled and picked up pace. There is a vibrant evening roster of events each month, including:

• the Huddle boys awesome Drink Tank (an absolute compulsory for any self respecting entreprenuer, tech angel or VC)
• Simon’s Mashup Events
• Helen Keehans mobile-centric legendary Swedish Beers