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Digital Shoreditch, 35 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch, London, UK, E2 8AA. Tel: 020 7749 3742 Registered for England and Wales. Company No: 7201448. VAT No: GB798524079. www.digitalshoreditch.com


Our Mission

Digital Shoreditch is the festival celebrating the outstanding creative, technical and entrepreneurial

talent of East London and Tech City. The festival will run from May 21st to June 1st 2012 and will be

highlighting the thriving digital and tech talent from Clerkenwell to Stratford, Old Street to Bethnal

Green and Dalston to the City and beyond.

Our collective ambition for 2012 is to deliver London’s greatest digital and creative tech festival

ever. Our vision is to be as significant as South By South West within four years and be recognised as

one of the world’s premier events for showcasing the most talented companies and individuals

within the digital and creative technologies sectors.

Last Year

Digital Shoreditch’s inaugural festival in 2011 attracted contributions from 179 companies, where

over 2,000 people attended 50 events in the first week of May. Key contributors and sponsors

included:

The 2011 Festival showcased over 50 events, here is just a selection:

The Summit brought together the key brains, creatives and visionaries behind the vibrant Digital Shoreditch economy.

Interactive workshops where young people learned to create mobile apps that can change their world


SCAMP Conference - the eclectic creative conference looked at how digital is influencing creative industries and vice-versa.

The Family Day provided an opportunity for local creatives, companies and studies to exhibit outstanding digital interactives, installations and artworks.

‘What does digital mean for me?’ discussed the changing nature of promotion in a digital world.

‘Hacking Advertising’ discussed how brands could break the 4th wall of advertising and redefine the media landscape.

‘Lost Treasures’ mobile experience, discovering mobile campaigns, apps and culture, and WLM phone museum.

3D Avatar Experience – the public got to play with Inition’s cutting-edge 3D technology.

Last years Festival Guide may be downloaded at: http://bit.ly/DSguide2011

This Year

We are planning to showcase 500 companies and individuals for a phenomenal celebration of our

collective talent and capabilities, and aiming for attendance by tens of thousands of people in 2012.

The 14-day programme for 2012 will include talks, educational workshops, open studios,

exhibitions, family days, awards and parties that will engage, inspire and celebrate the cream of the

digital crop

The programme is designed to explore and represent a wide spectrum of industry areas, and will

attract executives working in areas such as advertising, branding, broadcasting, production, film,

mobile, gaming, web, and graphics, to facilitate B2B interaction and share best practice. The event

also provides a forum for media financiers, politicians, Arts institutes, the press and the public,

making it the ideal platform to display leadership, attract new business, gain further brand

exposure and recognition, and engage with other pioneering creative developers.

http://bit.ly/DSguide2011


We will also be announcing the winners of the Race For Apps Contest - http://raceforapps.com

Race for Apps is a competition to crowd-source mobile apps from the digital community for visitors,

businesses and journalists, coming into the local area during the 2012 games.

Founding Partners 2012

Our founding partners for 2012 are local companies and organisations including Unruly, Sports

Interactive, Taylor Wessing, Hackney Council, PlayGen, Vitamin T, Blick Rothenberg, and Queen

Mary, University of London.

Focus Days

Day Day’s Focus Day Day’s Focus

INSPIRE Inspiring young people to discover...

GROWTH Mentoring & coaching sessions to help businesses grow.

ACADEMIC Universities & Research - Post 18 students, post-grads.

NEXT TECH Emerging technology, Big Data and Mobile.

WORK Recruitment. Job fair and portfolio /CV review, freelancer and new talent.

BRANDS Branding, Marketing, Advertising and Social.

CREATE A day of unexpected consequences! 80% Female led creative

PLAY Games and Gamification

CAPITAL Funding and Startup businesses.

SUMMIT The best of Digital Shoreditch

PUBLIC Public Exhibition (over weekend)

JAM Game Jam & Data Hackathon. (over weekend of 26th and 27th May)


The Source

The Source is the first ever tangible directory that has been lovingly put together by Digital Shoreditch. This easily accessible guide highlights our thriving creative and technical scene and supports growth by ensuring that businesses can be found and connected. The Source spans the immense diversity across a wide range of industries that include advertising, arts and culture, gaming and entertainment, financial and legal services, education, IT and Web development and a whole lot more. Vol. 1 of The Source is available here:

http://bit.ly/DSsource

1008 Companies and Growing

Our emphasis is on nurturing an extensive and exciting community. We host monthly meetups, run

competitions and awards in collaboration with the Technology Strategy Board and other partners,

workshops, and news updates. Facilitating an enormous spectrum of individuals and companies to

connect and exchange ideas, generate greater openness, and provide opportunities for innovators

from all walks of life to contribute to a flourishing creative society.

Digital Shoreditch will be the UK’s largest digital event celebrating

creative, tech and start-up talent.