Hull Digital Developer Group - April Meetup

We are delighted to announce our next Hull Digital meetup. We've got a couple of cracking speakers lined up for you.

Location: Fudge cafe restaurant (http://www.fudgecafe-restaurant.com/)
Date: 28th April
Time: 6:30pm

Big thanks to Rosie and the staff of Fudge for having us.

The event will be held in the upstairs area of Fudge, so please go straight up.

Food and drink will be available to buy on the evening.

Who will be talking?

John Pawlett

About John

John Pawlett is the Founder of FastGrowth.co.uk (http://fastgrowth.co.uk/) a full services marketing consultancy that specialises in online lead generation, helping small businesses grow.

John has lived in Switzerland since 2001 and only recently moving back to Hull.

Prior to marketing online full time he opened the first Lap Dancing Club in Hull!!

The Talk

Finding new clients is dead easy and I will show you how to do that but what most forget is the hidden resources in your business with the clients you already have I will help you unlock the potential in your clients.

If you don’t have clients and are just starting out I will give you half a dozen techniques to get your first one.

Also time permitting I will show you dozens of ways to get new clients but more importantly how to get more from your existing clients and sell more services to people you know that already trust you and are willing to pay.

This is lead generation made easy you can also use it to make your clients more money!

Matt Seward - "Can HTML5 reverse the decline of the web?"

About Matt

Matt graduated from Brunel University (BSc Industrial Design) in 1995, during which time he also worked and studied in Italy.

His career began at Apple Computer Europe where he developed web skills producing sites in 9 languages for 12 countries.

Matt left Apple to help build a London based agency, winning contracts with Mattel, Barclays, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Cisco. They were exciting times with projects that really pushed the boundaries of Internet technologies.

Before establishing kilo75 in 2000, Matt worked as an Executive Producer at Ogylvy Interactive, project managing large projects for Nestle and Unilever amongst others.

Today Matt is involved with all aspects of design and development. He loves the process of applying design thinking to all our work, making the Internet work as hard as possible for our clients.

Outside of work Matt is also a trustee of Leeds Housing Concern, a social housing charity in Leeds. Also a member of the LSx Management Team. LSx is the Leeds Web Festival, organising design and technology events all year round.

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattseward

Twitter: http://twitter.com/mattseward

The Talk

In August last year Wired Magazine declared "The Web is Dead. Long live the Internet" ( http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1 )

In Matt's talk he'll review some of the innovations in HTML5 that he believes could unlock a new era of creativity in web design. With references to recent projects by kilo75 and others we'll explore some possibilities and limitations of this technology and ask where HTML5 should reside in a modern-day web developers toolkit?

We'll have the normal great chat and networking before and after the speakers. The talks will be commencing at 7pm.

See you there!

John