Welcome to Digital Shoreditch Festival 2012 ticket page.

Digital Shoreditch runs for 2 weeks – from Monday May 21st to Friday June 1st 2012.

There are 10 themed days happening at the Digital Shoreditch HQ Big Top on Shoreditch High Street.
These are : Inspire, Innovate, Career, Capital, Identity, Growth, Next, Brands, Play and the Summit.

There is also a 2 day hackathon hosted at google campus and a further 30+ events run by our partners.

 

Ticket Types 

A Day Pass gives you access to a specific day. This pass is for attending just one day of the festival. For almost all events you can get a Free Day tickets, some require a refundable deposit, which you get back if you turn up on the day.

Day festival pass
The Full Festival Pass allows you access to the entire two weeks of programme at the Big Top. The package can also include your own page in the Digital Shoreditch Source. Full Festival Pass holders will also have priority access to other events as well as the legendary party on the 1st of June.

Networking Dinners, open studios, workshops, exhibitions and parties are ticketed separately.

Full festival pass

Click on a day which you find interesting

Week One 21st to 27th May

Inspire

Monday 21st May

An inspirational day for young people looking for a future career in digital, with stories and workshops from some of the most outstanding innovators and entrepreneurs working in this sector.

Innovate

Tuesday 22nd

Innovate is an opportunity for businesses to leverage and utilise the exceptional hidden digital talent, as yet, undiscovered in local universities.

Career

Wednesday 23rd

Career is for digital graduates and ambitious digital specialists exploring employment prospects and career advancement in digital.

Capital

Thursday 24th

Bringing together entrepreneurs and investors. Whether you are a novice or an experienced hand we have a very stimulating day lined up.

Identity

Friday 25th

Explore the spaces that connect us as individuals and, collectives within the digital world.

Hack

Weekend 26/27

The Cadbury Mobile hack weekend is an amazing opportunity for developers, start ups, mobile geniuses or app dreamers – win tickets to the games, your own weight in chocolate and much more!
Week Two 28th May to 1st June

Growth

Monday 28th May

Interested in expanding your business? This event is for established entrepreneurs and organisations with ambition to expand their market and unleash their potential for growth.

Next

Tuesday 29th

The digital future ! A stimulating event exploring the next ‘big ideas’ in creativity and technology. A day that looks beyond the tablet to the next transformational innovation.

Brands

Wednesday 30th

Branding, Marketing, Advertising and Social campaigns! This showcasing event exhibits the best that London has to offer in all sectors from consumer goods to the government.

Play

Thursday 31th

The playful future! Games, gamification today and tomorrow. Bringing together and showcasing cutting edge adventures in play – for entertainment, consumer and enterprise engagement.

Summit

Friday 1st June

Be sure not to miss the ‘best of digital shoreditch’ squeezed into one day.

Big Top DS2012 HQ 
Digital Shoreditch 2012′s HQ this year is in a Big Top on Shoreditch High Street. Other events, open studios and the parties are also close by.

DS2012 HQ, 186 Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6HU


View the full Digital Shoreditch 2012 schedule on Lanyrd.com

Evening Networking Dinners 

Hosted at Google Campus, 4-5 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4BX.

Join fellow Digital Shoreditch entrepreneurs for exclusive networking dinners enabling innovators to leverage the expertise of other digital creatives and business professional! We are confident this will provide stimulating business discussions. Book now, limited spaces available per night.

Format 

  • Introduce yourself and share with your fellow entrepreneurs about your business
  • Let everyone know what type of people and businesses you are wanting to connect with
  • All this in a relaxed atmosphere whilst enjoying delicious food and wine
  • What’s included: Amazing food to share with your fellow entrepreneurs plus half a bottle of wine per person

Digital Shoreditch Networking Dinners hosted by 9others.com

DS Dinners hosted by 9others

Book your place now, limited spaces per an evening.

Tickets for 2012 Open House Programme

Discover some of the Open Houses star businesses. Get involved for this year’s open house programme. Sign up here

Week 1 21st May to 27th May

Making Interactive Music Apps for iPhones & iPads

Tues 22nd May

The course will guide you through the initial design stages of an audio processing app, and will then introduce you to a powerful music-making toolkit for iOS. The course will then guide you through the steps required to make an iPhone play beautiful marimba sounds, and then show you how to implement Gesture Recognizers to easily control the instrument. By the end you will have a fully-working handheld marimba, as well as the knowledge and the code needed to start building a beta version of the app.

ConnectedUK – AUDIENCES

Tues 22nd May

Audiences, where would we be without them? Now that audiences are watching on multiple screens, what are they doing on their phone while they watch TV? How can we accurately measure their activity? Our next evening of thought provoking speakers will explore the changing nature of the people that watch us.

Ticket price: £25 per event for members (UKIE, PACT, BIMA, IPA) / £50 per event for non-members.

Create a 30-Second Jingle in 30 mins at Hoxton Works!

Weds 23rd May

Working with artists, working to a brief and a tight deadline could be a new experience for you or perhaps one that you could benefit from seeing in a new light? Create a 30-second jingle in 30-minutes! Co-create in competing teams with composer Stuart Wood; rhyming words and making music to create a commercial, in half an hour! Then see it come to life by a troupe of musical theatre actors.

Digital Shoreditch & Figtalks

Weds 23rd May

Digital Shoreditch & Figtalks – an ‘un’conference evening of short talk inspiration

Figtree is delighted to be part of Digital Shoreditch Week and is hosting an ‘un’conference evening of short-talk inspiration on Wednesday 23rd May.

Curated by James Hust (head of digital at Figtree Creative Network) we invite you to explore, push, dig, tweak, hack, kick, create and collaborate with topics ranging from ‘man machine’, ‘I created it, who owns it?’ and ‘The Hacker Ethos’. Each talk will last 10 minutes (or less).

You’re Invited!

Weds 23rd May

Vitamin T and Chinwag cordially invite you to join use at the Lonuge & Terrace of the Light Bar for an unashamed VIP celebration of Digital Shoreditch 2012.

Please RSVP to ejackson@vitamintalent.com

Welsh Valley Roof IV’ Networking Event

Thurs 24th May

Join Atticus Finch on their great sunny balcony for drinks and food. We will show case a selection of work including our recent visuals for Snow Patrol’s Fallen Empires tour. We will also be giving our guests the opportunity to marvel at our ‘Welsh Valley Roof IV’ installation piece.

A Very Unruly Pub Quiz

Thurs 24th May

Come and join us for a social video quiz with an east-end twist at our new Unruly HQ! This is a chance to put your social video knowledge to the test in return to win prizes! Expect awesome content, traditional ales and some tasty treats from our side of town!

SILICON HACKNEY:FOOD THAT STARTS ONLINE

Thurs 24th May

This Silicon Hackney will be at The White Building, our new art, technology and sustainability focused creative venue in Hackney Wick, by the Olympic Park. The meetup will focus on how the sale, supply, production and review of is being influenced by the digital technology. From Tesco’s saying that profits are down due in part on the rise of apps and online shopping to the power of food bloggers to influence the success of eateries

Surface_Digital Momentum

Thurs 24th May

Surface Architects are exploring curved surfaces, deep spaces and interactive objects. Displaying architecture to the Street, Surface with Vlad Tenu and Momentum Engineering invite the inquisitive to reflect with us on conditions of complexity and potential.

Rewire High5: finding the sweet spot between design, digital and business

Thurs 24th May

Digital media is the driving force behind many new ideas. Design makes a good idea engaging. Business helps an idea to thrive. But finding a way for technology, design and business to meet in the middle can be challenging. Rewire High5 brings together 5 speakers from diverse industry sectors to share their experiences of how they have successfully (and unsuccessfully) combined the three areas.

Silicon Drinkabout

Fir 25th May

Silicon Drinkabout is a regular after work drinks for startups every Friday ’round the Silicon Roundabout! Founded by Mind Candy, and organised by @Digital_Sizzle, Silicon Drinkabout is open to startups of all sizes as a place to meet like-minded people, have some fun and relax after another busy week in ‘Tech City’.

To help keep our buzzing little community growing, we’ve also partnered with the team over at Digital Sizzle to support their quarterly networking BBQs for all digital and creative types – after all, everyone loves a good BBQ!

Silicon Drinkabout is every Friday evening, from around 7:00pm onwards, at a different venue in and around Shoreditch. Why not sign up for our weekly email updates below to keep up-to-date on weekly venue announcements, updates and the first word on upcoming Sizzle events? Oh, and don’t forget to come and say hi to us when you arrive!

Digital Marketing Workshop

Fri 25th May

A taste of City’s Continuing Professional Development course in Digital Marketing. Learn about the role of the web site, get an overview of search engine optimsation, find out what digital marketing tools are required and discover the significance of social networking for the marketing community.

MiniBar Monthly Meetup

Fri 25th May

This time we are going back to our roots and have good, old geeky and useful services being presented. We have Firehost coming as they provide great cloud hosting options (and we thought many of you need good hosting options). We also have MongoDB coming – a highly scalable NoSQL database. Efbian who make the Facebook API easier to use…….

qMedia Open Studios

Sat 25th – 27th May

qMedia invites you to the reception for the second annual Open Studios event on Friday 25th May between 5 and 10pm – drinks will be served. Openstudios continues on Saturday and Sunday.

Open Studios is a showcase of creative research and technology, including performances, exhibits, installations and hands-on activities. Highlights include new musical instruments, 3D audio in our ambisonic studio, interactive video and touch tables.

Open Studios runs all weekend at Queen Mary, University of London: Friday 25 May, 5-10pm: opening reception Saturday 26 May, 12-6pm Sunday 27 May, 12-6pm Please join us at the Engineering Building (Mile End Road near Bancroft Road, E1 4NS). For the Friday night reception, please book your place on Eventbright or email your booking enquiries to qmedia@eecs.qmul.ac.uk. Drop by anytime on Saturday and Sunday, no registration required when will shall be hosting electronics Hack days alongside our exhibits.

More information on qMedia and Open Studios can be found at our website: http://qmedia.qmul.ac.uk

Adobe InDesign Level 1

Sat 26th May

This course will give you the knowledge and confidence required to create basic layouts and PDFs. Adobe InDesign is the professional software employed by graphic designers and the creative industry to produce printed matter and interactive PDFs.

Adobe InDesign Level 2

Sun 27th May

This course will give you the knowledge and confidence required to create basic layouts and PDFs. Adobe InDesign is the professional software employed by graphic designers and the creative industry to produce printed matter and interactive PDFs.

Week 2 28th May to 1st June

Creating Growth and Opportunities in an age of Uncertainty

Mon 28th May

Appsjunction – Where ideas meet developers & investors – is back again this time as a part of Digital Shoreditch initiative!

An interactive session exploring some of the tools and rationale used by companies and entrepreneurs who remain competitive by innovating confidently in an age of massive uncertainty. This session is for people who are thinking of starting a business, those who already have but are looking for their next iteration and companies who are looking to innovate internally.

Grow your business with City

Mon 28th May

Can a partnership with a university help your business grow? Come to City University London’s ‘Grow your business’ event to find out how we can work together to deliver best opportunities for both partners. Event includes presentations from a CEO of a successful digital media company and a leading Venture Capitalist, key insights from our star academics and mechanisms available for business and university collaboration.

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Impact digital

Mon 28th May

There is a $667 billion business opportunity for the taking. One that demands creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation. And it’s one you get to feel good about.

Join Forum for the Future, Wayra and O2 to find out more about this huge business opportunity – sustainability, also known as impact investment. We’re running a collaborative & interactive ideas session. Bring either your own idea, or take on a sustainability challenge on the night. The best ideas will pitch live to a panel of digital and sustainability experts and be profiled on our three organisation’s websites and social media channels. There is potential for the best ideas to be taken up and developed. And it’ll be fun too – drinks, food and fun provided!

Inition ‘Future of 3D’ Open Studio for Digital Shoreditch Festival

Tues 29th May

Following on from the success at last year’s Digital Shoreditch Festival, Inition will be opening its doors once again to the public for an Open House session as part of the festival programme. The event will provide opportunities to try out some emerging 3D technologies and quiz some of Inition’s 3D specialists. There is no better place to glimpse the future of Everything in 3D.

The Secrets of Successful Collaboration

Tues 29th May

This session is produced by Unthinkable Consulting and the Barbican Centre. It’s for digital media practitioners and innovators from all sectors interested in the practice of collaboration. Using real examples from Shoreditch and further afield, we’ll take you on an entertaining, informative and interactive journey.

Old Skool Video Games and Craft Beer Social

Tues 29th May

Ahh… Nostalgia. It perfectly sums up our feeling for tech of old as we embrace the future. So using the most innovative digital wares we can get our hands on, the brew will be rocking it, 80’s style with an arcade emporium of your favourite classic video games.

Visit the brew, a creative co-working space in Shoreditch, as we return to the golden age of arcade video games. Expect Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Pong. Get those space shooter fingers to the ready. Puck up, get the highest score and win a fantastic prize! Beer courtesy of The Craft Beer Social Club

Behind the scenes of a usability and creativity lab

Tues 29th May

Can a partnership with a university help your business grow? Come to City University London’s ‘Grow your business’ event to find out how we can work together to deliver best opportunities for both partners. Event includes presentations from a CEO of a successful digital media company and a leading Venture Capitalist, key insights from our star academics and mechanisms available for business and university collaboration.

Forum for the Future Open House

Tues 29th May

At the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) we invest billions of pounds a year to promote and enable innovation in the UK. But the world is changing fast, and we believe that to keep the UK economy competitive in the long term, we need to put sustainability at its heart.

So now we need your help. We’ve been working with leading sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future to build a framework for a sustainable economy. We now want to turn that into a digital tool that will help UK businesses innovate better, and the TSB to make better investment decisions.

Come and collaborate with us. The best ideas will be taken forward by the TSB to build the tool in 2012

The Legacy of Alan Turing: Protecting ourselves from Internet fraud and invasion of privacy

Tues 29th May

Continuing on from his recent lecture on Alan Turing and breaking Enigma, Professor David Stupples will discuss how we can protect ourselves from Internet fraud and invasion of privacy.

The Secrets of Successful Collaboration

Weds 30th May

MOO.COM is having an open house! Tours will be held at 11am, 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm, but feel free to come any time to see Big MOO in action and pick up some MOO goodies.

Drop in Business Card design sessions with MOO’s design team will run from 4pm-8pm, and if you fancy working at MOO, pop by to have a recruitment chat with Bhavisha from 5-8pm.

Don’t forget to order some cards so you’re prepared to network at Digital Shoreditch! To help you out, we’re offering 100 free MiniCards, just pay P&P (or come and collect at MOO’s Open House for a reduced fee).

MOO is a new kind of printing business. We’re an online stationer helping both individuals and businesses to stand out in an over-crowded world. With our unique printing technology – which we call ‘Printfinity’ – we help customers to celebrate themselves and their brand. Printfinity gives everyone the opportunity to print a completely different image on every single Card or Sticker in a pack. Got 50 different products in your store? Print 50 different business cards, with a different product on every one! Upload straight from your computer, import images from your social network, or use beautiful artwork created by MOO’s Designers. The stationery you print with MOO is as individual as you are.

Inition 3D Printing and 3D Scanning Workshop

Weds 30th May

Inition, a pioneering creative 3D technology and production company, are opening the doors to their Shoreditch Demo Studio to provide a workshop on 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies. This is a unique opportunity during the festival to gain hands-on experience with some of the latest 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies and learn from some of Inition’s experts who have been working with these technologies since 2006

Brightsolid – connecting people and places through digital innovation

Weds 30th May

An introduction to brightsolid and our new offices. Come and meet our team at this informal drinks reception.

ConnectedUK – PLATFORMS

Weds 30th May

The technology that underpins the new connected home will be vital, it will need to please the audience with its simplicity, thrill the advertiser with its opportunity and inspire the creatives with its potential. Our third session seeks the thoughts of some of the platforms that hope to be players in a multiscreen environment.

Ticket price: £25 per event for members (UKIE, PACT, BIMA, IPA) / £50 per event for non-members

An evening of networking and cinema.

Weds 30th May

A relaxed evening for digital creatives and the start-up community to come together and pretend we’re working whilst watching brilliant short films, hearing from their creators while talking shop and making important business connections.

Cinema seating for the films, bar for the networking. See you there.

Hosted by Inkerman Road

Appsjunction Demo & Pitch Night & Network with Developers

Weds 30th May

Appsjunction – Where ideas meet developers & investors – is back again this time as a part of Digital Shoreditch initiative!

There are hundreds of app developers in London and thousands of people with an App Idea in their head. Let’s Make them meet then. AppsJunction invites YOU to its popular networking event where developers and people with ideas come together in a friendly casual atmosphere, to get to know each other and lay the foundation of many exciting partnerships.

Brainient & Albion Open House

Thurs 31st May

At Brainient, we focus on helping advertisers, agencies, publishers and ad networks make their video ads more effective. If you are interested in video advertising and want to know how to make the most of your campaigns and media spend, join us at our Open House event, brought to you by Brainient & Albion.

See how we Shine!

Thurs 31st May

Want to know how to make a banner
Want to know how to make a mobile app
Want to know how to make a website
Want to know how to make the most of social media for marketing

This is your opportunity to come and see the inner workings of a small digital agency.

Discover DS2012

Select a day below to get started.

Inspire

Monday 21st May

Innovate

Tuesday 22nd

Career

Wednesday 23rd

Capital

Thursday 24th

Identity

Friday 25th

Mobile Hackathon

Weekend 26/27th May

Growth

Monday 28th May

Next

Tuesday 29th

Brands

Wednesday 30th

Play

Thursday 31th

Summit

Friday 1st June

A big thank you to our partners and sponsors this year: