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Mini-Leancamp @ the Turing FestivalSaturday, August 27, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (GMT)Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
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Mini-Leancamp at the Turing Festival
Using Lean, Agile & Design to get to market faster
Hosted by Salim Virani, Founder of Leancamp, and a Lean Startup and Business Model
Generation advocate around Europe.
He has founded 5 startups, and the digital media department for a major advertising agency. Salim will help you understand how to get started right away with Lean Startup, and how to choose and test your business model.
Sessions by global experts in Lean Startup, Customer Development, Agile and User Experience Design (UX):
Patrick Vlaskovits is an author of The Entrepreneurs' Guide To Customer Development, and mentor at 500 Startups. He'll explain how to get started with Customer Development and share some "Customer Development" hacks.
Johanna Kollmann, a Lean UX advocate, and especially interested in how UX research approaches can benefit a lean startup. She has recently mentored at Lean UX Machine Tel Aviv, organises the Agile UX meetup in London, co-founded DesignJam, and currently works as a Senior UX Consultant at EMC Consulting in London. Johanna will help you inject design know-how into your startup project, so you can learn from your customers faster.
Antonio Terreno joined Forward in 2010 as a senior developer after being a consultant for almost 10 years. He did previously work for ThoughtWorks as a senior consultant embracing and coaching the full Agile/XP stack. He holds a bachelors degree from Turin University in Computer Science. Antonio will explain how Forward has launched so many successful businesses - by gauging consumer demand.
Kelley Boyd is a mentor at Lean Startup Machine, Startup Weekend and the Lean Experience Workshop, and has seen 5 technology business through IPO/M&A transitions. She'll run a workshop on Challenging Your Assumptions, teaching you the critical skill of testing hypotheses against actual market behaviour.
Gordon Guthrie is the CEO of Scottish Startup hypernumbers.com – the next generation spreadsheet – his third startup. After spending $100m as the Chief Technical Architect at the online bank if.com, he was left thinking ‘there has to be a better way.' Based on his experience and real data, he will help you address your misapprehensions and Bust the Myths Of Lean Startup.
Nigel Eccles is the CEO of growing Scottish startup HubDub with its flagship product FanDuel. He has a long career in the internet business going back to flutter.com and Betfair in Web 1.0. Colin Hewitt is the CEO of the young Scottish startup Float Yard Ltd working on FloatApp their cashflow application. It is his 2nd internet startup. His focus is on design and HCI and building applications that are intuitive for users.
Both have firmly embraced Customer Development and will outline the impact it had on their businesses and how they operate on a daily basis – a Customer Development report from the trenches.
Why should I care about Lean, Agile & Design Thinking?
Methods from the Lean, Agile and Design world have revolutionised the software, manufacturing and marketing industries by ensuring that businesses stay connected to the needs of their customers. These techniques empower you to do more with smaller steps, and make sure you're heading in the right direction.
What is a Leancamp?
Mini-Leancamp at Turing will bring some of the leading minds in Lean Startup and Design to you in an open, interactive event.
Bring your business ideas, and your current marketing and market traction problems. Be ready to "shatter the darkness," as one Leancamper put it, with open discussion sessions, talks and workshops.
Engage in conversation with the experts - learning your way.
You'll have a chance to discuss your issues with launching your business with them, and connect to the UK Lean Startup community. We'll also have plenty of opportunity to network and collaborate with other businesses.
Not only will our speakers present and run workshops, you’re encouraged to do the same! If you have something interesting to share, ideas you'd like to discuss, you'll find like-minded others ready to participate. If there are specific things you want to learn, you'll have the chance to have them covered too! Don't be shy - this is a social event!
Free tickets are going fast, so register now at the top of the page!
This activity is part of the Open Innovation Project, and is funded by the European Union through INTERREG IVB.
When & Where
The Forum
10 Crichton Street
University of Edinburgh
EH8 9AB Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Saturday, August 27, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (GMT)
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Hosted By
LAUNCH.ed and UCL Advances
LAUNCH.ed
LAUNCH.ed is a free University of Edinburgh service that helps Edinburgh students start businesses. In the past four years, LAUNCH.ed support has led more than 50 students to form their own companies, of which 86% are still trading.
LAUNCH.ed is a University of Edinburgh service delivered by Edinburgh Research and Innovation,
UCL Advances
UCL Advances is the centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction at UCL. It exists to stimulate collaboration amongst researchers, business and investors, driving innovations that benefit society and the economy, with a particular focus on new businesses and SME engagement.
As part of its mission, UCL Advances works to support start-ups and small businesses across London by helping them to access the technical and business expertise of UCL’s staff and students through a series of programmes to help support ambitious young companies.
Like this event? Check out our other free event, which takes place in the same venue on the same day:
UCL and Mini-Leancamp. A multi-disciplinary event with a focus on Lean, Agile, and Design. The Informatics Forum, 10am–5pm.
Bright Club. The thinking person's variety night, blending comedy, music, art, new writing, science, performance, and anything else that can happen on a stage. The Informatics Forum, 6:30pm–8:30pm.
Click here to register for Bright Club: http://turing-brightclub.eventbrite.com/
This collaboration between UCL Advances and LAUNCH.ed is part of the Open Innovation Project, and is made possible by European Regional Development Funding through INTERREG IVB.