Past event…

Nov 9 2012 Event Ended

The Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 0DT

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

See the results of the event on the Telegraph!

Startup Weekend is back! Join us at the Telegraph’s office in Nov 9-10-11.

Startup Weekend and Silicon Valley comes to the UK are teaming up to bring the craziness of the 54-hour long events simultaneously in London, Manchester , Sheffield, Southampton and Cambridge this coming November. Those events will bring developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts to come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups!

They will be using UK government data sets from data.gov.uk, import.io and the Open Knowledge Foundation to build startups. Participants will use this data to produce high impact applications/websites and unlock the power of public data to “rewrite the rules of the new economy”

After the weekend startups will be able to participate to another great contest, in which the winner of each event will be invited to attend an exclusive awards ceremony in London a couple of days after the event and will also get the chance to fight in the Global Startup Battle taking place between the 130 Startup Weekend events during GEW.

Thanks!

Media Sponsors

Schedule

Friday

Nov 9

6:30pm Registration Starts/Networking
7:00pm Welcome & Speakers
7:30pm Pitches
8:30pm Voting
9:15pm Team formation

Saturday

Nov 10

9:00am Breakfast
1pm Lunch
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one.
7:30pm Diner
23:59pm You can stay all night!

Sunday

Nov 11

9:00am Breakfast
10:00am Coaches help teams one-on-one. Call for help!
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Tech Check / Pitch practice with coaches
5:00pm Final Presentation
7:30pm Judging & awards
9:00pm Networking & Go home!

Judges

Edward Roussel

Executive Editor, Digital. Telegraph Media Group. | Twitter

Matt Simpson

Head of Strategy and Operations at Google, EMEA | LinkedIn

Gil Dibner

Principal at Index Ventures | Twitter

Extensive equity research experience at Goldman Sachs.
Venture Capital investing experience in the Israeli VC market with a focus on consumer software, services, and hardware.

Simon Cross

Developer Advocate at Facebook

Helping people build Facebook's tools and APIs into their web and mobile products.
Consulted with companies of all sizes, from multinationals, down to 2-3 person startups.
Specialties: Javascript, CSS, HTML5, PHP, Cloud Services, Git, Heroku, Rails, Python, Node.js, Agile (Scrum), Web Frameworks.

Coaches

Kam Star

Founder of Digital Shoreditch

Kam Star is a digital media entrepreneur, inventor and an award winning games developer.
Founder of PlayGen, Kam designs and develops playful solutions and platforms for delivering engaging experiences across the digital landscape.
Kam is also the founder of Digital Shoreditch, with the aim of bringing the outstanding creative, technical and entrepreneurial talent closer together and to one day create the SXSW of London.

Sara Kelly

Policy and Development Manager at Coadec | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Living and breathing digital startups. My role involves communicating to supporters and constituents about our work to promote startups to Government

Jodie Cole

MD of JC Social Media Limited | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Jodie runs JC Social Media, a social media management and training agency based in Birmingham. They train companies in how to achieve and maintain a brilliant social media presence, and also run social media accounts on behalf of their clients. She is also an ambassador for the Start Up Loans scheme. Jodie is passionate about marketing, social media, fitness and entrepreneurship!

David White

Founder and CEO of Import.io | Twitter

David started his career in technology as an independent contractor with projects for a number of FTSE 500 companies. After consulting for RBS, David was recruited as Head of Technology Relationship Management in 2003. Together with programming guru Matthew Painter, they founded Kusiri before their next enterprise, import•io. Innovative and articulate, David is an essential ingredient to the import•io management mix.

Rosemary Aves

Solicitor

I advise clients on a range of corporate transactions, including business and share sales and acquisitions, investments, group restructures and general corporate governance. As part of the firm's Tech team, I also regularly advise on corporate transactions in the technology, telecoms and digital media sectors.

Simon Campbell

Founder of Sandpit

Simon is a multilingual entrepreneur who has set up and built six businesses over the past 12 years. His key skills are based in fundraising, sales, marketing, commercial and strategic business development.