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UKTI Multi-Platform App Developer Mission
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Location
1 Sansome Street Suite 850 San Francisco, 94104
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Description
Let UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) help you learn from MANY App experts and platforms in just one visit!
UKTI is excited to host the Multi-Platform App Developer Mission on 07-11 October 2013 We are currently recruiting B2B and B2C companies with cutting-edge mobile apps to join us for four days of sharing best practice and shortcuts
to success, from Silicon Valley’s leading brands and platforms in the mobile app industry. Send your rock star developer to San Francisco to learn from the best and showcase your app during this week long mission of master classes, workshops, and a hackathon. These tech-talks will be specifically tailored
for technical architects or developers of already launched business-to-consumer or business-to-business mobile apps.
Make sure your company is one up to 30 selected to attend! During the four day programme, delegates will:
- Learn from experts and creators
- Network with US peers and innovators
- Promote your company and showcase your technology
- A pre-departure webinar to discuss Mission goals and objectives
- Four days of meetings and master classes with strategists and evangelists from:
- Multi-platform tools such as Adobe, Box, Mozilla, and StackMob
- Discovery and monetisation strategies such as PayPal, App Annie, and HeyZap
- B2C strategies such as Netflix and Kindle
- Platforms, Operators, and devices such as Sony, Intel, Kindle, and Microsoft
- Demonstration stand at networking event to showcase your app(s) to Silicon Valley press and potential partners
- Participation in a hackathon
Terms and Conditions If you are selected to participate in this mission, you will be required to make a mission fee payment of £510 +VAT (£1020 less 50% discount under UKTI's current export promotion scheme) through UKTI’s Overseas Market Introduction Service (OMIS).
This fee provides for overall mission programme and outlined activities. UKTI will provide you with your OMIS login details and instructions on how to make payment through the system. Costs associated with transportation and accommodations around the mission are NOT included in this fee, and delegates are responsible for these arrangements separately. Application to attend this mission does not guarantee selection. Selection to attend is a competitive review process.
Delegate companies will need to meet the following minimum criteria: 1. UK based SME*
or
2. UK based Mobile App team (<50 people) in a larger company
and must have:
3. Launched at least one mobile app (ideally a suite of apps) with at least 1500 downloads and 25 ratings And ideally a:
4. Software Developer with awesome C++/Java capabilities and some GUI skills too Deadline to apply is 6 September 2013, and applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
All applicants will be notified whether or not they have been selected to participate in this mission. If you are selected to participate in this mission, you must make payment via the OMIS system by 09 September 2013 to guarantee your space in the mission. *UKTI has adopted the European Union definition of a SME. This is a business which meets all of the following criteria:
a) has less than 250 employees;
b) has an annual turnover not exceeding EURO 50m, or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EURO 43m;
c) is independent, i.e. not more than 25% of its capital or voting rights are owned by one enterprise, or jointly by several enterprises, which fail to meet any of the above points a) and b) although this threshold may be exceeded in the following two cases:
(i) if the business is held by public investment corporations, venture capital companies or institutional investors, provided no control is exercised either individually or jointly over it;
(ii) if the capital is spread in such a way that it is not possible to determine by whom it is held and the business can legitimately declare that 25% or more of it is not owned by one enterprise or jointly by several enterprises falling outside the definition of a SME.
Please click here to view the conditions for participation in trade missions sponsored by UKTI.
Payment must be received by 20 September 2013 to guarantee your space in the mission. Overseas Market Introduction Service (OMIS) - Fine Print: The OMIS is provided by the Commercial Departments of Diplomatic Service Posts overseas as part of the joint trade development operation, UK Trade & Investment (“UKTI”), of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (“the FCO”) and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (“BIS”). Whereas every effort has been made to ensure that information provided through OMIS is accurate, these Commercial Departments, UKTI, the FCO and BIS accept no liability for any errors, omissions or misleading statements in such information and accept no responsibility as to the standing of any firm, company or individual mentioned. Any party interested in the goods or services provided by any company referred to in OMIS material should undertake their own research and should not consider a reference in OMIS material to be an endorsement of any goods, services or companies mentioned.
UK Trade & Investment is the Government Department that helps UK-based companies succeed in the global economy. We also help overseas companies bring their high-quality investment to the UK's dynamic economy – acknowledged as Europe's best place from which to succeed in global business. www.ukti.gov.uk
