Turing Festival, August 23rd - 25th 2012

Turing Festival, Friday 23rd & Saturday 24th August 2013 - First Speakers and Tickets to be Announced This Week

This week is an exciting one for the Turing Festival, with two big announcements coming up.

Wednesday: First Speakers Announced
We've got some amazing speakers lined up and we'll be announcing the first group on Wednesday with many more to follow.

Friday, 12 noon: Earlybird Tickets Released Exclusively To Mailing List
On Friday we will release earlybird tickets exclusively to our mailing list. These tickets will be much cheaper than the standard tickets and will give access to every event at the Turing Festival on 23rd and 24th August 2013.

Ticket numbers are limited and have sold out quickly in previous years so sign up to the Turing Festival mailing list to make sure you don't miss out.

Check out the Turing Festival website to join the mailing list for exclusive offers and for information about the Turing Festival: http://turingfestival.com/

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Some interesting things happening at Social Media Week, worth a gander....

http://socialmediaweek.org/glasgow/

Glasgow calling Many of you in the past few weeks have been getting in touch to offer your help and collaboration for Social Media Week Glasgow. A big “thank you” to all of you!

Next Edinburgh Techmeetup
Wednesday 12th September from 6.30pm
Floor Appleton Tower

Unity 3D and Web Performance Optimisation

Speakers;
Chris Mann / Tiger Games and Callum MacDonald

Super Blog post from Brian Baglow

http://scottishgames.net/2012/08/30/compendium-of-interest-turing-technology-the-world-of-tomorrow/

Compendium Of Interest – Turing & Technology & The World Of Tomorrow A week ago, the second Turing Festival took place in Edinburgh. The inaugural event in 2011 was astonishingly good. Diverse, eclectic and expert, it pulled in speakers and participants from a hug...

TIGA Games Industry Awards - deadline 8th October...check it out

http://awards.tiga.org/

TIGA Games Industry Awards 2012 Celebrating the best in games.

The last day begins. It has been an incredible few days so far. Tech during the day and then out with NASA, National Geographic and VCs in the Fringe.

Meeting Woz tomorrow. May see some of you about town. Calm before the storm.

STUDENTS!

Due to the Turing Festivals funding contribution from the Open Innovation Project, we are pleased to announce that we are able to offer a limited number of subsidised tickets to Students. This offer applies to specific events, and metric cards wil be required.

Enter the promo code "students" on eventbrite when getting tickets for:

Thursday

CERN (main people from LHC all coming over) http://cern-turing.eventbrite.com/

National Geographic Explorers (NASA's Kevin Hand from JPL, Deep Sea Explorer Bob Ballard and more) http://nationalgeographic-explorers.eventbrite.com/

Friday

Citizen Science (Human Genographic Project, Genghis Khan's Tomb) http://citizenscience-turing.eventbrite.com/

Saturday

Security and Freedom (amazing freedom and tech with Twitter Joke Trial's David Allen Green, Ross Anderson and more) http://security-turing.eventbrite.com/

Future Medicine (Stem Cells, Robotic Limbs, Drug Discovery, MedTech) http://medicine-turing.eventbrite.com/



Please RT and spread the word. Want to get as many students into these incredible events as possible.

CERN: BIG QUESTIONS, BIG SCIENCE, BIG TECHNOLOGY CERN: BIG QUESTIONS, BIG SCIENCE, BIG TECHNOLOGY THURSDAY 23RD AUGUST Time: 9:00-12:00 venue: APPLETON TOWER, THEATRE 4 ticket: £15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is aimed at both t...

Bunch of great Lean Startup free events next week at the Turing Festival including the BBC and UCL Discovery Mission plus a debate on the fundamentals of Lean Startup hosted by Northface Ventures. http://debate-turing.eventbrite.com/

Debate: How can lean principles be applied to the role of Product Management in enterprise class sof DEBATE: HOW CAN LEAN PRINCIPLES BE APPLIED TO THE ROLE OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT IN ENTERPRISE CLASS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT?FRIDAY 24th AUGUSTTIME: 14:00-16:00VENUE: APPLETON TOWER, THEATRE 3TICKET: FREE -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Can anyone who can't now make the Aligning Interests VC and Angel investment event on Thursday hand their tickets back. We will need them to ensure that all the tech startups can attend. Cheers!
http://www.turingfestival.com/investment/

turingfest - Investment Promising to be one of this year's standout business sessions at Turing will be the Aligning Interests: Investors & Entrepreneurs, bringing together respected global players in the start-up investment world.

Woz dinner all sold out now. Make sure to get your tickets for his Playhouse gig next Thursday http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/steve-wozniak-turing/edinburgh-playhouse/

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We're still looking for a couple of volunteers for next week, if you're interested please email us at [email protected]