October Program - From Threaded Multimedia Conversations, over Business Grants, to Developer Competition and cool Start-Ups

Stephen Dunn - Guardian, Head of Technology Strategy

Mark Modena - Knowledge Connect, business support and grants for London based business

Kosso - Phreadz - founder of Phreadz - threaded multimedia conversation

Chris Thorpe - Developer Platform Evangelist - MySpace.com - launch of developer competition

Glenn Shoosmith - BookingBug - online reservation system

MiniBar October is supported by Guardian, Knowledge Connect Knowledge Connect and BookingBug

The MiniBar Mantra

MiniBar is a social evening in East London which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 (3.0) mayhem & fandango.

Here you can find people who will help you making your next project work. The event is what we call 'useful fun'. Usually there are 200+ of London's - and beyond - finest web entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, tech journalists, bloggers, VC?s, and technology freaks.

What we offer:

- Web-Entrepreneurs can present their start-up and tech ideas
- Presentations will be archived at openbusiness.cc/minibar
- Some start ups will be featured on O'Reilly GMT, the European O'Reilly blog

And of course, Free Drinks, A Lot of Fun and many Useful People

Who you will meet?

From famous digerati and tech investors such as Esther Dyson (angel investor in Flickr and delcious), Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu), to tech journalists (Guardian, BBC), bloggers (OpenBusiness etc), Open Source developers (Drupal, Ubuntu), web designers, Creative Commons enthusiasts, web entrepreneurs (last.fm, eCourier, Tioti) to many coders, media artists and other generally useful, interesting and hyper connected people.
Past presentations include: Drupal user group, Esther Dyson, Directionless.info, Magnatune, BookMoch, Tioti, Modfilms, BurnStation, Mix&Mash

More Info at: OpenBusiness.cc and barcamp.org/minibar