What is the Marketing Innovation Labs? Marketing Innovation Labs group, is a working group dedicated to digital marketing entrepreneurs seeking creative solutions to everyday marketing challenges. We come together to identify issues within our industry and associated sectors and collaboratively develop innovative solutions. How does it work? The group hosts a series of 8 sessions during each lab "cycle". We use these creative and engaging sessions to first identify problems areas, solution map …

We're 4 entrepeneurs with a passion for building an entrepreneurial community and doing things a little differently. Over the next 6 months or so we want to trial some events that are more unusual, more innovative, and we want you to help us shape these events and come on this journey with us. If you're interested in startups, meeting likeminded people, networking, developing concepts or anything like that then join the group, help us spread the word and feel free to start a discussion if you ha …

Hello and welcome to Merthyr Hwyl. We are starting a fortnightly meet up of like minded individuals who are passionate about creating positive social change in our local communities. We seek to identify issues within our communities and work together in creating imaginative responses to some of the challenges they face. The initiatives and projects we work on will be fulfilling, worthwhile causes and act as a great learning experience for those involved. So lets see exactly what we can make happ …

I recently moved to the south-west and would like to get together with other people who share my passion for living the best life I can as an individual whilst also making a wider contribution to society. The intention is that this will be a group for people interested in getting together to discuss all aspects of life and society. To together do our best to understand the opportunities available to us individually and collectively as well as the limiting, mistaken and often damaging assumptions …

Calling all data do-gooders: DataKind UK is a meetup for the United Kingdom chapter of DataKind, a community of data scientists and non-profits working together to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. DataKind encourages local meetups to share ideas, collaborate across communities, discuss new tools and practices, and help bring about a better world through data for social causes. Come hang out with other conscientious dataists and tech-savvy social innovators …

Total 3D Experience 3D Printing London is for anyone interested in the revolutionary 3D technology. Whether you are: a novice and would love to see a 3D printer in action, owner of a 3D Printer and keen to show off your creations and share your experience, a designer or an artist using 3D printing in your work - or keen to, enthusiast user of Sketchup, Blender, SolidWorks or any other 3D drawing software, a developer interested in new 3D modelling techniques, curious about making your own jewel …

What's this group about? Financial Innovation is currently transforming our traditional finance industry, and consumers and corporates are demanding new innovative solutions for web and mobile. You will find this group valuable if you are interested or involved in any area of Financial Innovation, we have a broad membership that includes both new and existing finance companies, providers of capital, entrepreneurs, service providers, academics, technologists and those just interested in innovatio …

Note: In order to join the group, all members must have a meetup username that displays their first AND last name. Health 2.0 London is a meetup group focused on innovations in the delivery of healthcare and health related technology. This group is dedicated to creating a community around Health 2.0 in London as part of the international Health 2.0 movement. It's a venue for sharing, discussing, showcasing and developing ideas for how to improve patient care. If you are interested in the interse …

Balanced Team is a group of people interested in furthering processes and methodologies to create great things. We include product managers, developers and designers who see multi-disciplinary collaboration and iterative delivery focused on customer value as a source for innovation. Please join our Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/balancedteam

This group is for those interested in all things digital! We will discuss the current innovations, trends and best practices in digital strategy, digital publishing and digital design. It's also an opportunity to network and share challenges with like-minded individuals. All skill levels are welcome!

There are so many books for startups out there, I just can't read them all! I figured there must be a lot of founders out there with the same problem...you'd like to know the key actionable points and take-aways from all the amazing startup, entrepreneurship and business books out there. You know, books like Eric Reis's 'Lean StartUps' or classics like 'the Innovators Dilemma' and more specific books on great UX and design, marketing or sales. This group will pick 2 books for 2 members to summar …

Product Designers and Wholesale Buyers :: The product design and development industry is scattered and difficult to navigate. There are plenty of design expo's to attend, but (as yet) designers have no clear path for launching a product. Similarly, wholesale buyers cant easily source innovative new product designs. This meetup is the opportunity for product designers, buyers, manufacturers, hackers, techies and industry specialists to meet face-to-face, with a clear agenda: Understanding how to …

This is a group for all those interested in the development of new medical devices and software, and especially how we can make this easier, move from technical innovation to revenue and help entrepreneurs to succeed. Whilst starting in London, I know there is innovation going on everywhere!

Discussion and events on; The Journey to the Cloud, Innovation through Google Apps, Collaboration within Businesses, Working on Any device, Any time, Any where.

The Midlands Mobile Apps & Innovation Forum is a new Meetup designed for clients, developers, content owners, and enthusiasts of mobile and tablet technology - as well as emerging devices and trends in the mobile industry and marketplace. The goal will be to provide a regular roundtable of speakers, (not)working drinks and meetup events, and general discussion amongst members. Based in the Bletchley/Milton Keynes area - and sponsored by Entropy Labs (based in Bletchley Park), the Forum is open t …

At Create: Motivate: Innovate (CMI), where we come together to build up ourselves and businesses through the power of creativity, motivation and innovation. Achieving greatness could be very difficult when trying to do it alone and that is why John Lennon said, "A dream you dream alone is only a dream but a dream that you dream together becomes a reality." Let's come together to build up that greatness in us, as we would be hosting specific business/networking events that will help us to build o …

A meet-up to help you beat your job search blues, build your online & offline confidence, or take the next career step. Innovative networking events that will leave you feeling empowered and in control of your job search & career. This group is for London professionals who perhaps have struggled to be heard above others who are also looking for a new job or perhaps want a step up in their career and lack the confidence to ask. Meetups will be a combination of networking and guest speakers, speak …

London Mobile Innovation Forum

Steward Townsend approved BarCampBankLondon 1 and 2 being hosted at Sun while he was there.  So without him we'd probably never have managed to start the events at all. He's now working for ICAP and is promoting a seed fund/incubator for early stage financial technology startups. FinTech Startups call to arms : Investment fund run through ICAP - wants to invest NOW For more information go to http://checkthis.com/4h6 FinTech Investment Fund Euclid Opportunities offers financial technology s …

Satellite Applications Catapult will be a base for space related hackathons at the newly refurbished HQ in Didcot. We will be hosting events lasting 2 days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming: This 48-hour hackathon is to build new web and mobile services revolving around satellite data. Solutions can range from predicting natural disasters, Climate change, anything you can think of to tantalize the judges, using a wealth of satellite data. Cat …

Make connections with other innovators & disruptors. Share experiences, ideas, tips and best practice about innovation, design, creativity and entrepreneurship. All business professionals welcome - managers, entrepreneurs, designers, developers, marketers, community leaders and business leaders.

OpenFlow has the possibility to disrupt the networking industry the way that Virtualization disrupted the server industryl. This is a community where we discuss/innovate and create new start-ups that leverage OpenFlow/SDN.

London Creative Labs is a Social Business committed to ensuring decent work for everyone. It uses a unique and evolving combination of collaboration and business model innovation to generate new business opportunities that provide and/or enable work. We are committed to creating the jobs and kind of work that we would want our children to have, discovering better business/other models to generate the jobs and work and helping more people participate in the process If you are interested or active …

This is a group to bring together those working, or interested in working in the FP&A space. We will discuss the innovations in place to develop a systematic approach to linking strategic plans, budgets and forecasts. It's a place to share challenges, experiences and best practices and any skills levels are welcome. This group will operate under the Chatham House Rule.

Meet PHP users, developers and recruiters near you! Come to PHP London to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!

What Topics? Java & JEE, Design & DDD, OpenSource.NET, Ajax & RIA, Cloud&Grid, SOA What kind of events? We organise free evening events, which we call In-the-Brain Sessions, through these sessions we hope to give you the opportunity to have a peek in the brain of Technology creators and industry thinkers, shakers and movers! We host various User Group meetings, enabling the community to meet up in our fully equiped premises and share skills and ideas, for example, the London JAVAWUG and .NET Use …

We are a community of freespirited freelancers. We organise pop up co-working events which we manage through the Meetup group.  You can find us online at  http://www.kindredhq.com/ We’re really happy to announce that our events programme has just started rolling! We’re kicking off with some free KindredHQ coworking Jelly meetups where you can get on with work in conducive and productive environments, whilst at the same time being around fellow Kindred spirits. Working independently is great but …

Augmented Reality has been described as the new 8th Mass Medium. If you're interested in the creative use, advances and the promotion of Augmented Reality then this meet-up is for you. We are going to meet to talk about and demonstrate the latest innovations in AR, what we are all up to, and how we can drive the industry forward.