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Donations Wanted for CoderDojo Leicester Kids Coding Club
Here is a request for donations from the organisers of CoderDojo Leicester who are looking to diversify the skills they offer to teach kids how to code… Dear Everybody, Our club has now been running for over a year and has grown gradually throughout. We now have an average of 15 weekly attendees with …
Open Coffee: Techstars Accelerator, Weds 19th Nov at DMU
Sarah Cochrane: Techstars Accelerator Programme Sarah Cochrane is a Techstars acceperator programme alumna now living in the Midlands, who co-founded vetinary healthcare startup VetCloud which was part of the Techstars London class of 2013. Sarah will describe what she learnt from the Techstars programme, and how it’s helping her in her current job.
Read MoreReviews.co.uk: Expanding The Development Team
Leicester startup reviews.co.uk are expanding their team and are looking for world class web developers, preferably full time but would also be interested in talking to any freelancers who want to work on a 6 month project.
Read MoreIBM at University of Leicester Startup Cafe, Tues 18th Nov
Here are details of the next startup cafe at University of Leicester, featuring speakers from IBM. This event welcomes non-students. You may be interested in our upcoming Business Start-Up Café event on 18 November. We will be joined by IBM executives speaking about developments in their business and how they can support start-ups and small businesses with their technologies. See …
Web Scraping in Action, Tues 11th Nov at Incubate
When you are exploring web based data there isn’t always an API. You have to resort to old fashioned web scraping, often using a good old regular expression in a scripting language but there there are some new libraries and tools to help. Come learn some modern techniques for web scraping from Dhiwa Thangavelu who does it professionally.
Read MoreDiscuss LeanConf, Tues 9th Dec at Incubate
Upon their return from LeanConf Manchester 2014, the biggest event in Lean Startups in the UK, Constantina Katsari and Paul Muston will share what they learnt with the rest of the group.
Read MoreNew Meetup Group: Leicester Data Hacking and Visualisation
There’s a new meetup group in Leicester for people interested in Data Hacking and Visualisation. “Leicester Data Hacking and Visualization Meetup is a community of people interested in manipulating data and visualization. We explore the full range of techniques for converting raw data into visible, shareable insights. We use techniques like scripting languages to collect and manipulate data. Representing data …
Bank Financing for Startups, 6:30pm Thur 6th Nov at Incubate
Liz Waddington, a Natwest business specialist with a passion for startups will talk about bank financing. Liz will present some exciting opportunities of ‘free’ money; that is grants or loans without interest rate.
Read MoreDigital Startups@LCB: Marco Mason & Google Glass, Tues 4th Nov
Design researcher and Marie Curie fellow Marco Mason will present an overview of Google’s Glass wearable augmented reality headset. Marco is currently conducting research into digital media design for heritage at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, jointly with the Massachusetts institute of Technology, and will discuss this as well as sharing details of an experiment …
Read MoreUniversity of Leicester Start Up Cafe, Tues 18 Nov
Tech giant IBM will be discussing how their cutting edge technology is being used to support entrepreneurs. Open to entrepreneurs, including local business leaders, academics and graduates running a business.
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