Tech London Advocates: October update

***Going for Growth (G4G) is supporting the launch of Sherry Coutu’s Scale Up Report on 17^th November and also Advantage Business Partnerships Scale Up Britain event on 26^th November

***The MadTech working group held its first adtech pitch camp on 13^th October and selected Slido, one of the eight entries for Ad:Tech London’s ‘The Next Big Thing’ on 21^st and 22^nd October

***Talent & Immigration working group:  the next Home Office Hours will take place on Monday, 10^th November at Level39

***An infrastructure group to include both the infrastructure and property working groups will meet on 4^th December to discuss a broader TLA message in 2015 about infrastructure issues

***The winner of the HealthTech Competition, Michael Seres, Founder of 11Health, pitched to TLA at Learning Curve.  Well done to the HealthTech group and watch out for the 2015 Competition

Here is an update the key working group activities:

• HealthTech:
  • Competition winner Michael Seres presented at the TLA event; Melinda Nicci and Kay Hutchison are planning the next competition for 2015
  • The group is collaborating with the Mayor’s MedCity initiative
  • Kay and Daniel Glazer are leading the group on the development of a register of healthtech startups across London
• Talent & Immigration:
  • Next London Home Office Hours, ‘Options for Graduates’ is 10^th November in the evening at Level39
  • http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/home-office-hours-options-for-graduates-tickets-13485013037
  • Very first ‘Overseas Home Offices Hours scheduled for 10^th December in San Francisco in conjunction with an Overseas TLA event for Advocates in the SF Bay Area
• Women in London Tech:
  • The group is supporting WomenShiftDigital on 26^th November at Canary Wharf
  • http://www.bodydataspace.net/projects/women-shift-digital-conference/
  • Baroness Lane Fox (and Tech London Advocate) will host the group on the morning of 26^th January at the House of Lords
• MadTech:
  • MadTech Pitch Camp selected Slido as its entry for the adtech:London Next Big Thing event.  Many congrats to the team including Marc Duke, Rod Banner, Robert Norum and Belinda Raynes
• Property & Infrastructure:
  • The next Property working group and infrastructure group will meet with me on 4^th December to hold a brainstorm discussion around TLA issues as they relate to infrastructure including broadband and connectivity, transport, and property and space
• Education:
  • Next working group meeting will take place on Monday, 10^th November at 5pm; please let Will Bentinck or me know if you are interested
  • Many thanks to the whole group for its support of ‘Learning Curve’ on 28^th October
• Triage:
  • James Clark, Todd O’Brien and Jonathan Prove have been working on what they call the ‘Triage reboot’ which includes:
    • The launch of a new booking system to go live this month
    • A ‘Skype Trial’ to allow entrepreneurs to do their first desk meeting via Skype and support Overseas startups looking to come to London
  • James is also interested in getting more Advocates to be Triage mentors; if you would like to help, please let James or me know
• Going for Growth:
  • The launch of the Scale Up Report by Sherry Coutu will take place on Monday, 17^th November at Bloomberg LP’s European HQ; Advocates are invited to attend; if you want to come please RSVP to [email protected]
  • Scale Up Britain by Advantage Business Partnerships takes place on Wednesday, 26^th November; please sign up here
  • https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scale-up-britain-achieve-growth-faster-and-more-easily-tickets-13663063591
• Corporate Venturing:
  • First TLA Corporate Venturing event now scheduled for 26^th November being led by Jason Goodman from Albion

Events and Partnerships:

Again, I would like to thank the various sponsors of Tech London Advocates for their financial support and commitment to the group:  City of London Corporation (lead sponsor), KPMG, techUK, Russell Reynolds Associates, Penningtons Manches LLP and London First.  The events that TLA holds twice a year would not be possible without their support…a big thank you!

Launch of Great London Tech Census

TLA is supporting Charles Armstrong at The Trampery to partner on this great initiative; the census is live at:

http://www.londontechcensus.com

ODI Summit on Tuesday, 4^th November

Advocates will receive a 20% discount with code odi_tla; more info at http://summit.theodi.org

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/odi-summit-2014-tickets-11838867371?discount=odi_tla&aff=tla

Startupbootcamp FinTech Demo Day: 12^th November

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/startupbootcamp-fintech-demo-day-2014-tickets-13530771903

Silicon Milkroundabout 8.0 on 15^th & 16^th November

London’s startups jobs fair led by Cristiana Camisotti

https://www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/guides

Scale Up Report Launch by Sherry Coutu: 17^th November

From 10 am to 1 pm at Bloomberg.  Please RSVP to [email protected]

Tech Talkfest’s Digital Leadership Dinner, 19^th November

Organised by Zoe Cunningham and Ghilaine Chan

http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=61e1e3b3bb22c2ef6c4b48ff5&id=6b1ce23e5b

Silicon Valley Comes to the UK:

http://www.svc2uk.com/2014-programme/

Unbound Digital: 25^th November

Organised by Anthony Bielen, more details are at:

http://unbounddigital.evolero.com

Connecting Tech City-Speed Mentoring with Tech CEOs: 25^th November

A number of Advocates will be ‘speed mentoring’ 150 young people at an event hosted by Oli Barrett on the 25th November. 30 CEOs will mentor young people wanting careers in tech. The event is part of the Connecting Tech City programme, supported by TLA.  Young people between 16-25 can sign up here:

https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/speed-mentoring-with-tech-ceos

Advantage Business Partnerships: Scale Up Britain 26^th November

From Advocate Daryl Woodhouse: ABP will host ‘Preparing for Growth, International Expansion & Exit.  Details are here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scale-up-britain-achieve-growth-faster-and-more-easily-tickets-13663063591

Reminder: Skills London:  21^st & 22^nd November

Supported by London First (a sponsor of Tech London Advocates), Skills London—the UK’s biggest youth jobs and careers event–will take place on 21^st and 22^nd November at ExCel as follows; please contact Mark Hilton at London First ([email protected]) for more information.

It has been another great month for media coverage:

Coverage of the TLA ‘Learning Curve’ event, including a great article from City AM’s Oliver Smith describing our group and the focus on digital skills:

http://www.cityam.com/1414456715/london-s-top-tech-advocate

http://news.techworld.com/sme/3582807/tla-calls-on-uk-universities-to-drive-londons-tech-industry/

http://techcitynews.com/2014/10/28/now-tech-london-advocates-is-telling-universities-to-buck-up-their-ideas/

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240233543/Universities-must-highlight-digital-skills-to-fill-London-IT-jobs-says-technology-network

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ed-vaizey-digital-economy-minister-claims-uk-needs-wall-money-emulate-silicon-valleys-1472279

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tomorrows-world-presenter-maggie-philbin-calls-dating-website-job-hubs-1472250

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2378333/government-urges-tech-industry-to-support-education-in-building-digital-skills

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/analysis/2378399/out-of-touch-parents-blocking-development-of-childrens-digital-skills

Coverage of the Great London Tech Census:

http://techcitynews.com/2014/10/29/london-tech-census-to-revolutionise-government-policy/

Coverage of the tech investment going into London startups and scaleups:

http://www.redherring.com/finance/london-tech-investment-smashes-records/

http://www.cityam.com/1412567984/london-s-tech-stars-raise-record-1bn