Benjamin Southworth
Design, strategy, product and engagement consultant.Loves helping out startups. Also, musician, and tech pimp.

  Join Brian Solis the author of best-selling books The End of Business as Usual and Engage! for a night of cocktails and conversations on Monday 21st May in London at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden. He's in town for iStrategy and will be arriving early to spend time with those who are shaking things up in tech and business. The event...

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Back by very popular and extremely demanding demand - the now legendary #FMSB (Float My Social Boat)   Once again I'm offering four lucky people the chance to come aboard the Nb Midnight Star and crew her for the day. The experience will be one you won't forget in a hurry, just ask previous #FMSB crew members!   (or...

After what is often charitably referred to as "a hiatus", The Pony Collaboration are well chuffed to be playing a gig in that there London.

We'll be at The Windmill in Brixton on Sunday 22nd April, alongside The Welcome Committee, Dubious Caesar and Emilie Chytraeus. It's one of the pub's famous all-day barbeques and...

DUE TO ME NOT PAYING ATTENTION. I HAVE A GIG IN CAMBRIDGE AND WILL BE DRINKING IN LONDON ON SATURDAY. SORRY. I AM BAD MAN.

I am getting older, and as such i invite you have a drink with me, and should you wish to, spend the weekend with me, doing things that are fun.

Then I'll be at the brixton windmill watching The Pony Collaboration on...

GoSquared is partnering with Twilio, Pusher and GeckoBoard to bring you London Real-Time, a hack weekend held at White Bear Yard.

We're inviting you to come and build fantastic real-time hacks using our data and APIs.

http://londonrealtime.co.uk

A Political Innovation 'Translation Layer' Event at Adam Street What Policymakers Can Learn From GamingGaming & Gamification Speaker: Jude Ower - The PlayMob   A short talk followed by drinks & networking   Who should come? Politicians & their staff Campaigns & Public affairs professionals Policymakers Entrepreneurs...

Ignite started in Seattle about 5 years ago and is the brainchild of Brady Forrest, Technology Evangelist for O’Reilly Media, and Bre Pettis of Makerbot.com. Basically, it’s a presentation style where you are asked to present about something you love for 5 minutes. 20 slides. 15 seconds each. Think Pecha Kucha. That’s all you need to know....

The goal of Music Hack Day is to explore and build the next generation of music applications. It's a full weekend of hacking in which participants will conceptualise, create and present their projects. Music, software, hardware, art or the web, anything goes as long as it's music related.       Space at the event is limited and this...

On 8 August 2011, we launched Mint Foundry, our first ever graduate scheme. We set four makers the brief: Make something connected to the Internet that doesn't live on a screen. Sadly, their three month tenure with us is coming to an end. As a final farewell, we are hosting an informal presentation by our four graduates on what they've...

Red on Black Productions is launching Raptured, a new 6 part web series, on the 21st October, 2011 at The Driver in Kings Cross. (http://www.driverlondon.co.uk/3rd-floor-members-bar.html) Though the whole thing is under wraps til then (shhhh!), we wanted to invite you for a sneak preview on Thursday, 20th October, 2011. Yes. You will get to see it...

Come along to our offices in Old Street to hear about our new online platform, to find out how app teams brought their app to life and to play around with our new apps CyberMentors and Transit.  On the 19th of October you will have the chance to hear more about our new online platform, meet our supporters from the technology community and find out...

Following on from various debates about Coding For Kids on social media and in the media at large, Rewired State and Caper thought it would be a good idea to get some people in a room to discuss it further. We're hosting an informal barcamp style evening to gauge opinion, inspire some action and build networks around the idea. It's a...

It's nearly Christmas, and therefore the perfect timing for a festive themed Shindig. This year we will also be bringing together all the 'event' aspects of Chinwag, including Social Media Week London and the Digital Mission.

The event will start at 7pm at The Driver, close to Kings Cross. We'll be providing a merry drink or...

Nina Nastasia's rare gift of a voice is an intimate, winged presence that is able to either freeze or melt your heart; that can powerfully soar and twist, or brush ultra-gently against you, suddenly summoning goose bumps. Mojo commented on its ability to "suck the air out of the room". Picking over themes of love, longing and loss,...

Imagining a Humane, Efficient & Sustainable Economy

Michael Albert is visiting the UK this autumn and engaging in an extensive speaking tour. The talk is free, open to all and is co-sponsored by Cambridge Action Network and Anglia Ruskin University’s Justice and Community Research Unit.

Albert’s political activism dates back to the 1960s...

After a brief hiatus due to licensing issues Upbeat Open Mic is returning at a new venue.

Hooray!

The format is the same as it's always been - 15 min open mic slots followed by at least one stonking headline act that you probably won't be able to see for free anywhere else. Music, poetry and comedy are all welcome - turn up by about...

Russ and Al are leaving town forever. Come join us for heavy drinking and emotional speeches. We'll be in the Live and Let Live for 8.30 and the Empress much later.

Upbeat Open Mic was started by stand-up poet and compere alex iamb
in the short, soggy summer of 2008 with the intention of allowing Cambridge's creative types to play alongside established, experienced acts from all over the UK while offering free, high quality entertainment to all and sundry EVERY THURSDAY - WITHOUT FAIL.

We will be...

The Broken Family Band used to be someone, they used to be contenders but that towel was thrown in a long time ago. Now, rising from the ashes the infamous bite of Steven Adams rears it's ugly/beautiful head in the shape of Singing Adams. No, not 'The' Singing Adams (that was Steves solo project), a brand new band with brand new...