TEDx is Coming to Sheffield
September 9, from 1.30pm – 6pm
TEDx is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to spread ideas worth sharing. The theme for the Sheffield TEDx is “Not Business As Usual” and it will focus on entrepreneurship. This is a great event for hard working business professionals who need new insights to recharge their business. Get full details at TEDxSheffield.com.
How to Make a Million Before Lunch
September 9, from 6pm - 7.30pm
Presented by Rachel Bridge – Enterprise Editor, The Sunday Times September 9, from 6pm – 7.45pm
Rachel Bridge is a writer, journalist and public speaker specialising in entrepreneurship, start ups and growing businesses. She is the Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times newspaper and has written three books about successful entrepreneurs: How I Made It, My Big Idea, and You Can Do It Too. As part of the MADE Festival, Rachel will be performing her one-woman show, HOW TO MAKE A MILLION BEFORE LUNCH. This is a great event for those who want to laugh and gain new insight into entrepreneurial thinking at the same time. Get full details at MadeFestival.com.
MADE IN 48 Hours
September 10 + 11
School for Startups Doug Richard, Andrew Davis & Joost de Valk September 10 & 11 from 8am to 7pm
We will be running a 2-Day course in launching a business online and how every aspect of your business is changed by leveraging the connectivity provided by the web. This practical/tactical hands-on course happens September 10 & 11 and its perfect for business owners that currently have no web presence and for those who have a website that fails to engage customers or close sales. Get full details at SchoolforStartups.co.uk.
Want to receive £30 off your ticket? Simply enter the discount code PASSPORT when ordering your ticket.
*Please note: limited availability on the TEDx and Rachel Bridge events, they are first come first served.
MADE in 48 Hours Event Speakers
Andrew Davis is one of the UK's leading social media strategists, trainers and entrepreneurs. He started his career at digital radio station BBC Radio 1Xtra, before he was headhunted by Myspace.com to help launch its UK arm in Marketing and Content. His extensive work in community development and digital marketing led to his inclusion in the Guardian newspaper's 2007 'Minority Report', a shortlist of the Top 30 most important ethnic minority contributors to the British media. Andrew's continued success for MySpace was again noticed the following year, when he became the only entrant to make it into the list for both Media Week's '30 under 30' (a rundown of the industry's younger and most talented media individuals in the UK) and Broadcast magazine's 'Hot Shots' (a selection of media insiders tipped for future success).
Joost de Valk is a seasoned online marketer with a world class reputation for Web Development and SEO. Over the last 5 years he has been a regular speaker on this subject at all of the major industry events. Joost has worked with a long list of clients ranging from large corporates, such as eBay, Conrad Electronic and Salesforce.com, to smaller web based ventures. He continues to contribute to several Open Source projects including WebKit, the core of browsers like Safari and Chrome, and WordPress. He has written over 20 plugins for WordPress which, combined, have had more than 2.5 million downloads. Recently Joost developed QuixApp.com – a powerful browser tool that has been featured on hundreds of websites including Mashable, Lifehacker and Web Worker Daily. He is a co-host of the weekly WordPress podcast, WP-Community, where he converses with luminaries like Pete Cashmore of Mashable and Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google.
