- FUEL: Powering Your Business With The New Web - Schedule

FUEL

Powering Your Business With the New Web: London, 13th June 2008

Registration

08:00 - 09:00 Pick up your pass and grab a coffee

Morning Sessions

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome to Fuel
Ryan Carson, Carsonified's co-founder and director, explains the aims behind today's event
09:15 - 09:40 The new rules of business - Ryan Carson (Carsonified)
Consumers have changed, markets have changed and businesses must change. Transparency, integrity and interaction with customers is on the agenda. Ryan shows you how the web can help you transition your business, showing case studies of companies that are leading the way
09:40 - 10:25 Build a community around your brand - Tara Hunt (Citizen Agency)
It used to be "content is king": this is no longer enough. Today's web is all about a two-way conversation between business and customer, and building a community around your products and services. Community expert Tara Hunt explains best practice community building, including Twitter etiquette
10:25 - 10:50 Case study: Virgin - Alex Hunter (Virgin)
Big company, big marketing budget right? Wrong! Find out how with limited budget and time, Virgin garnered public support through grassroots online marketing that helped launch Virgin America
10:50 - 11:20 Break
Refreshments and networking
11:20 - 11:45 Grab the limelight - Stefan Fountain & Daniel Spronk (Soocial)
Discover how to grab attention for your company or product in an information-overloaded world with guerilla tactics. Find out how Soocial got results with innovative campaigns that helped them stand out from the crowd
11:45 - 12:30 Cheaponomics - Keir Whitaker (Carsonified)
Trim hundreds from your IT budget, streamline your workflow, collaborate more effectively, measure more accurately, project manage more productively - all with the latest low cost, high performance web apps
12:30 - 12:40 Partner Presentation: Nic Halstead (Fav.or.it) and Stewart Townsend (Sun)
Can a $14bn organisation really help a startup, if so how? Find the answers from a Startup who is now working with Sun to gain more outreach and support than they ever expected.
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
Food is provided, then there's time for networking

Afternoon Sessions

14:00 - 14:40 Websites that work - Paul Boag (Headscape)
Your website is the always-on, public face of your company. It's also the gateway through which you interact with customers. This session will explain why copywriting and design are critical, and give you practical hints and tips into how you can instantly improve your website
14:40 - 15:10 Case study: Innocent Drinks - Ted Hunt (Innocent)
An insight into how Innocent create the perfect blend of design, copy, blogging, video, newsletters, social elements and more as told by their Digital Manager.
15:10 - 15:20 Partner presentation: Choosing Your Technology - Clive Howard (Howard/Baines)
Ideas on how to build and deploy great Web 2.0 solutions fast, minimise cost now and over time and easily integrate your app with leading networks and services for free.
15:20 - 15:30 10 Things I've Learnt - Steve Pearce (Poke)
A view from the other side. 10 quick insights into how to get the best from your design and development agency.
15:30 - 15:50 Break
Refreshments and networking
15:50 - 16:30 Standing on the shoulders of giants - Andrew Scott (Rummble)
Why reinvent the wheel? Many of today's most popular sites and services (Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Google Maps) offer APIs, a way for you to use their data to enhance your products. Andrew will give a non-technical overview to how these services can help promote, enhance and even form the backbone of your service
16:30 - 17:00 Case study: Moo - Richard Moross (Moo)
Insanely popular and successful start-up Moo.com produces business cards, stickers and greetings cards from your Flickr pictures. CEO Richard Moross tells the company story, from start-up to present day - focussing on how they've based their business on an API, and how they've grown the company

Evening

17:00 - 19:00 Drinks Reception
Join us, the speakers and fellow attendees for a drinks reception in the Jarvis Suite foyer.

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