Cleanweb February - Lightning Talks

After so many of you braved ice and snow to make our last event in January we’ve definitely got a treat for you this month.

More fantastic talks & people! Free food & drinks! Live streaming! New venue! Oh my!

When and where

The second cleanweb UK meetup of 2013 is taking place on 25th Feb, at Forward Technology’s lovely event space (http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/venue), with more than double the capacity of our last venue.

After leading with a talk about Building Sustainable Cities from Honest Buildings, we’re opening up the floor to the community, for a series of lighting talks.

New to lightning talks?

For those new to the format, lightning talks are simply short talks, designed for ease of participation.

If you’re working on an interesting project, or found something cleanwebby and worth sharing, and you can fit into 5 minutes, then here’s your chance to share it with a community of like minded people. We've put together a quick guide for anyone thinking of speaking here, to answer a few common questions. (http://www.cleanweb.org.uk/speaking_at_a_cleanweb_event.html)

Extra perks this month

Also, because Forward are such wonderful, wonderful people, not only are they opening up their bar to us, and providing the pizza - all gratis, but they’ll also be helping us livestream the talks, and record them to put up here.

Huzzah!

Programme:

6:30 - 7pm: Doors open 7pm - 7:25 Nick Katz, Honest Buildings (https://www.honestbuildings.com/site/team/) Building Sustainable Cities from Honest Buildings Nick will be talking about how Honest Buildings is using the web to share information about projects happening all over the world, to reduce the environmental impact of construction, and create a more transparent industry.

7:30 - 7:45 Break: Refreshments, chit chat, networking etc. 7:45 - 8:30 Lightning talks: bite size talks and presos from the cleanweb community: Lily Ash Sakula from Bethnal Green Ventures (http://bethnalgreenventures.com/) - Why you should quit your job and apply to work on your project at BGV.

Robin Houston from Kiln.it (http://www.kiln.it) - Opening up the Carbon Map

Jamie Andrews from Loco2 (http://loco2.com/) - Making trains easier than planes.

Michael Solomon from Profit Through Ethics (http://profitthroughethics.com) - People Power will drive sustainability

Jason Neylon from uSwitch (http://www.uswitch.com/) - ICT4S

We still have a couple of slots left! If you have a project you want to tell everyone about, here's the place to do it!

8:30 - later: Onwards to Brewdog: comfortably the best beers within walking distance of Forward.