Tomorrow's Web Meetup: February 2nd 2013
Event Information
Description
Tomorrow's Web is a meetup for creative geeks, techies, anyone who likes building or creating things for the web. A place where new ideas can be exchanged and shared, advice can be sought from our speakers and guests, where inspiration can be found.
Speakers
Jamillah Knowles is the UK Editor for The Next Web. She’s based in London. You can hear her on BBC Radio 5Live’s Outriders. With several years of tech journalism under her belt, she'll be sharing some of the many industry tips and tricks that she's picked up along the way.
Ben Nunney is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. Trained in animation and digital media production, Ben made the decision a few years after freelancing that he wanted to work more closely with technology and inspire people to do awesome things with it.
James Maskell is the CEO and Founder of Vinetrade, a fine wine trading platform that's revolutionising an antiquated industry. Having raised funding from three of London's most respected startup investment capital firms, James has lots of advice to share. He will be speaking about the startup lessons that he's learned in the past 12 months.
Sponsors
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