Techpreneur Expo Show Guide 2015

EVENT GUIDE & PLANNER

TECHPRENEUR 2015 3RD & 4TH DECEMBER OLYMPIA LONDON THURSDAY 10AM-6PM | FRIDAY 10AM-5PM

The Event for Start-up and Early Stage Techpreneurs 10,000 Techpreneurs in one venue Seminars By Leading Experts Start, Scale and Sell YOUR START-UP MASTERCLASS Alternative Funding Opportunities 120 Exhibitors NETWORKING

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09 SEMINAR AGENDA

10 EXHIBITOR LISTINGS AND FLOOR PLAN

SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON TECH’S MOST EXCITING BUSINESSES

Welcome to Techpreneur, showcasing some of the most exciting tech professionals in the industry, sharing their stories, giving advice and guiding tech start-ups towards greater success.

This is your show guide to all things tech at this year’s show, there is a broad and exciting mix of tech-based tools, expert speakers, and some of the most exciting new businesses in the tech world.

Bringing together a host of exceptional speakers and incredible companies that can provide the products and support to help you and your business move forward; attend a variety of expert-led educational seminars, discover inspirational emerging tech companies, and build valuable business connections.

The Techpreneur seminar hall will host some of the most interesting and informative talks at this year’s show.

These seminars will look at the challenges of establishing a tech business as these highly successful and experienced tech gurus share some of the vital knowledge they learnt on their journey to success.

Techpreneur is running alongside The Business Show, the largest exhibition for

anyone starting or growing a business with a wealth of opportunity, advice and information for entrepreneurs and business leaders, further to the resources dealing with the specific issues that burgeoning tech companies face.

Scattered throughout The Business Show are a selection of the most dynamic and progressive tech companies in the UK, this guide will help you find the most relevant suppliers, and provide descriptions of the incredible experts to be found speaking at Techpreneur.

We hope this show will provide you with the tools and knowledge necessary to help you accomplish your business goals and have a great Techpreneur.

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WHAT’S AT THE BUSINESS SHOW? There is a great amount to see and do at The Business Show this year.

With 170 expert-led training sessions, 12 masterclasses, 350 exhibitors, a world record attempt, and opportunities to pitch to an expert panel of millionaire investors, there is a wealth of incredible features designed to help business leaders enhance their business and become better business people.

BILL MORROW

HOW TO ENSURE YOU NEVER GET FUNDED

THURSDAY, KEYNOTE HALL 2, 11:45 - 12:15 A Serial entrepreneur, Bill has been creating, building and selling businesses for the last 25 years. He is CEO and co-founder of Angels Den, the angelled crowdfunding platform, and he has recently been named the most influential

Bill Morrow will captivate you with his energetic and thoroughly entertaining presentation on the hazardous process of securing funding.

person in alternative finance by City AM. Bill has been making his own investments since selling his international financial recruitment company to a Wall Street bank in 2001. Bill is passionate that every credible business looking to grow, in

RESHMA SOHONI

DANIEL MURRAY

BUSINESS START-UP INVESTMENT EXPERT AND FOUNDER OF SEEDCAMP Since 2007, Seedcamp have supported almost 200 start-ups from ‘the pre-seed and seed stage’. For Reshma Sohoni, the company’s co-founder, starting the company was a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ – and now she’s helping start-ups achieve theirs Reshma has always combined technology and business from university to today.

Getting degrees in both Engineering and Business (UPenn M&T) meant that from an early age she was cultivating a path that would always bring business and technology together. During the height of the dot com boom, Reshma worked in M&A and venture capital across B2B software and Internet services businesses in the US and India. She had a small helping hand in building MakeMyTrip (NASDAQ) in its formative days.

COO OF MADE.com, EUROPE’S SECOND FASTEST GROWING TECH COMPANY THURDAY, KEYNOTE HALL 2, 14:45 - 15:15

BRINGING FASHION TO THE FINGERTIPS As an online shopping enthusiast, Daniel Murray thought it would be great to have one big fashion wish list in one place. Since then, his idea has raised over £1.8 million for an app that has been named ‘Best New App’ by Apple in 34 countries.

Grabble is the UK’s fastest growing mobile commerce app, co founded by Daniel. Evolved from the web into a mobile focused product, he has created one of the UK’s most loved fashion apps, which has also been featured as the “Best Shopping App” by Apple alongside Zara and Topshop. Dan has previously worked in a film studio as a screenplay researcher, in publishing and creative advertising, and eventually in media.

Over this time, Dan has worked with major technology brands like Amazon, Spotify, and Intel, helping them define their creative PR strategies for engaging the youth market in the UK at various agencies.

THURSDAY, KEYNOTE HALL 1, 12:30 - 13:00

JULIEN CALLÈDE

any part of the world, should have the opportunity to access funding. Since founding Angels Den in 2007, he has changed the rules on angel investing and led the way in making investment truly accessible to great businesses.

THURSDAY, KEYNOTE HALL 1, 11:00 - 11:30

Co-founder and COO of MADE.com, Julien Callède and his team are continuing to take the online high street by storm. By offering original furniture design at affordable prices, it’s no wonder this retailer is only getting bigger and bigger…

Past experience in the sourcing business enabled Julien to realise the potential in the furniture design industry for innovative entrepreneurs, and with a wealth of knowledge in operations and management, Julien founded MADE. com together with his business partner Chloé Macintosh and school friend Ning Li. Originally from Nantes in Western France, but now based in London, Julien achieved a master’s degree from the hugely prestigious Ecole HEC PARIS university before moving onto his first job in retailing – door-to-door selling of educational books in the USA.

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EXCITING NEW TECH STARTUPS SHARE THEIR STORY The Pitch Finalist panel will be made up of three exciting business founders who’ve recently completed their journey through the exciting start-up competition – The Pitch having being selected from over 1000 initial applications.

We’re passionate about helping start-ups by shining a light on fantastic entrepreneurial talent, and over the years we’ve met some incredible small businesses, a lot of whom have gone on to do great things.

With our inspiring programme of awesome advice, ideas and

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events, we want to educate and empower entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups like you to succeed in business. Attend our panel session to meet three exciting early stage technology start-up busineses founders discuss their challenges, how they overcame them and what lessons they’ve learned along the way. Each entrepreneur has brought an idea to life literally from scratch, building and iterating their products to the point of being market ready – join in to ask any questions you might have to this exciting panel.

Find out more about entering The Pitch at www.ThePitch.uk

“The Pitch is the UK’s biggest small business competition. Running since 2008, the passionate team has been helping start-ups by shining a light on fantastic entrepreneurial talent, and over the years they’ve met some incredible small businesses, many of whom have gone on to do great things. With an inspiring programme of awesome advice, ideas and events, they educate and empower entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups to succeed in business. We’re proud to have partnered with such a positive and exciting competition doing so much for new businesses.”

HOW TO BOOK

START, SCALE AND SELL YOUR STARTUP MASTERCLASS

The masterclass is free to attend, however due to their popularity you’ll need to book your place to avoid missing out.

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Visit www.techpreneurexpo.co.uk Select ‘Start, Scale and Sell Your Startup Masterclass’ Select the time and day you’d like, fill out a few details and click ‘Book my seat’.

You’ll receive an email confirmation of your booking.

As the show dates approach, you’ll receive a reminder for you to confirm you’re still attending and secure your seat.

In this masterclass session, Bradley will be talking you through many of the key learnings from his experience of starting, growing and selling his technology business.

Bradley is a British born tech entrepreneur, founder of E-Tale (acquired by ChannelAdvisor in 2014), investor, vegetarian, dad, aspiring author & blogger.

In 2009, and without any investment or financial backing, Bradley founded a company called E-Tale. Over a 5-year period he grew this company from his basement, to working with over

100 of the world’s leading brands in over 40 countries.

These clients included Samsung, Unilever, LG, OKI, Xerox, and Hotpoint. In November 2014, Bradley and his team sold E-Tale to ChannelAdvisor, who are a US based public company.

Bradley wants to share with you the key learnings from his experience, so you can expedite your own start-up journey.

SPACE IS LIMITED, SO MAKE SURE TO SIGN UP AT WWW.TECHPRENEUREXPO.CO.UK FOR YOUR SPACE!

WHAT’S IN THE MASTERCLASS? Evaluating your idea, from start-up to scale-up, booking meetings with major brands, presentations and proposals, the competition and selling your company.

TIMETABLE | THURSDAY & FRIDAY These workshop sessions will last for up to 45 minutes 11.00

Evaluating Your Idea How to know if you are onto a winner!

12.00

From Start-up to Scale-up Preparing for the big time.

13.00

Booking Meetings How to get in front of big companies without a big budget.

14.00

The Competition How to speak about the competition and remain credible.

15.00

Selling Your Company Part 1 – When should you sell your company

16.00

Selling Your Company Part 2 – How to prepare for due diligence

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SIMON RICHARDSON

SHUFDY LTD

KPMG LLP

THE PAST & THE FUTURE FOR IBEACONS/ URIBEACONS/ EDDYSTONE

SAY NO TO ACCOUNTING FROM THE JURASSIC ERA

Simon Richardson is a serial entrepreneur with a number of business start-ups under his belt, including a specialist video games development company, where he signed an exclusive publishing deal with SONY for the PlayStation console.

Bivek Sharma is a partner at KPMG UK, specialising in accounting, tax and software. Bivek’s ambition to join the firm 12 years ago was due to the ability to use technology as a way of improving the lives of small business owners.

Simon has been involved in digital advertising and marketing for 20 years, including stints at a major publishing company and an advertising network. During the seminar, Simon will explain what these new pieces of technology are and, more importantly, what the market for them is. Using experience gained from relationships with tourist boards and commercial partners, Simon will explain the pros and cons, the dos and the don’ts of this hot technology area. There will also be some iBeacons being used during the presentation

Two years ago, Bivek set up the Small Business Accounting division at KPMG, with the ambition of transforming services to small and micro businesses. Bivek’s division deliver a broad range of accounting services, providing assistance with cash flow management, reporting and the significant issue of funding.

THURSDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 15:30 - 16:00

FRIDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 11:00 - 11:30

NIDHIMA KOHLI

MY BEAUTY MATCHES

FOUNDER OF EUROPE`S LARGEST ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR BEAUTY PRODUCTS Providing a trustworthy platform in the £380bn beauty market, in a short period of time My Beauty Matches has become a multiple awardwinner and counts the likes of House of Fraser and Boots amongst the UK’s top retailers to work with them.

With no prior experience in tech, Nidhima will be sharing her tips on how to build a multi award-winning business recognised by some of the biggest publications with a community size of 100,000 people with no funding and hence why The Guardian appointed My Beauty Matches as ‘Startup of the Year’ 2014.

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BIVEK SHARMA

In this seminar, Bivek will deliver a fascinating look at how your business can demand more from your accountant…without being charged any extra fees. Not to be missed.

ARIANA KUMAR

MARKS AND CLERK

AN INTRODUCTION TO TRADEMARKS AND WHY EVERY COMPANY SHOULD OWN ONE Ariana Kumar is a registered UK and EU trade mark attorney, qualifying in 2012 following a number of years working within the engineering sector.

Her work with Marks & Clerk sees her involved in all aspects of trade mark portfolio management and prosecution and works with clients in a variety of sectors including, retail, pharmaceuticals, auto-motive, IT and media.

This seminar will explain what a trade mark is, why trademarks are important and how a company may obtain one. There’ll also be a focus on the legal requirements for trade mark protection, the importance of using a trade mark once obtained and actively enforcing your trade mark. It will also touch on how trade mark protection may assist you in situations involving counterfeit reproduction of your goods.

THURSDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 11:00 - 11:30

EMMA COX

GRABBLE

DO YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND YOUR CUSTOMER? Emma Cox is currently head of product at Grabble, the fastest growing mobile fashion app in the UK. She leads a multi-disciplinary design team that is passionate about solving complex customer problems, with simple and delightful experiences.

Everyone knows understanding your customer is essential to successfully developing and marketing your product, but what does understanding your customer mean?

How do you learn about your customer?

And once you understand them better, how do you apply this knowledge to your product development and marketing? I will walk you through the techniques I use with my team to develop early and growth stage web and mobile products based on customer insight.

THURSDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 11:45 - 12:15

JASON DUTTON

JPD ASSOCIATES

GAME OVER. LIFE AND BUSINESS LESSONS FROM A VIDEO GAMES MASTER Having left school with no qualifications, Jason Dutton has since gone onto run a video games company worth $136m. He has spent 25 years in the video games industry as a journalist, marketer and executive, working on some of the most well-known brands in the world – Zumba, Cooking Mama, Civilization, Star Trek, Jaws, F1GP, Robocop, Xcom and many more.

What can Space Invaders, Pacman and Angry Birds teach any growing business and why the hell did we pay $1.6M for a hastily drawn picture of a dragon on a napkin? How can you make your marketing remarkable and why did ET destroy Atari? Please join me for the answers!

FRIDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 14:45 - 15:15

MICHAEL WILKINSON

CROWDCUBE

CROWDFUNDING - A REALITY CHECK An International Business graduate from the University of Manchester and University of Queensland, Michael Wilkinson has been driving the equity side of Crowdcube since becoming head of equity investment in 2012.

FRIDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 11:45 - 12:15 Coming from an SME background, Michael has a passion for All things novel and disruptive, and firmly believes that the entrepreneurial approach will solve global challenges and can revolutionise the environment we live and work in.

Equity crowdfunding has changed phenomenally since Crowdcube coined the phrase back in 2011. It is now the go-to form of funding for start-ups and established companies alike. Michael has experienced this change first hand since joining the company in 2012; he will talk about how the industry and the company has changed over the last three years and what the future might hold.

NICOLA LUCAS

NOCKOLDS SOLICITORS

ONLINE BUSINESSES LEGAL MOT – DON’T GET CAUGHT OUT Nicola Lucas specialises in dealing with company and commercial law, with disputes including insolvency, contracts, shareholders disputes, and share purchase disputes. Nicola works with businesses through their complete business lifecycle, from the start-up process right through to the selling and buying stage, including acting for investors.

This seminar is aimed at those who need a legal health check for their online business. The session will give those dealing in online trading a snapshot of the laws that affect your trade and website, and outline how those laws and regulations are different from other methods of trading to help you measure up. All delegates will receive a FREE legal MOT checklist.

FRIDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 12:30 - 13:00

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CHRIS SMITH

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE

WHAT IS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY? As of December 2012, Chris Smith has been part of the Business Outreach team, organising and delivering IP education and awareness events to a range of businesses across the UK through exhibitions, webinars, seminars and workshops.

Successful businesses understand the importance of protecting their intellectual property for brand names, new inventions, new designs and creative work. IP will account for a large part of the value of most businesses. This seminar will help you understand the four main areas (trade marks, patents, designs and copyright).

FRIDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 15:30 - 16:00

JAMES NICHOLSON

TEMPO WEB DESIGN

JASS SARAI

PWC

TMT PREDICTIONS 2016 THURSDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 14:00 - 14:30 Jass Sarai is head of PWC’s UK Technology Sector, a role that sees him lead the services PwC provides its clients within the sector, ensuring they receive insight, analysis and value to help them develop and implement strategies.

Join thought leader and experienced technology sector expert Jess Sarai as he identifies the developments that should shape industry strategic thinking and how exactly these will manifest in the coming 12 months for companies working in the technology, media, telecommunications (TMT), and other industries.

MARK LONGBOTTOM

SOCIAL MEDIA GURU

INSTAGRAM #ENJOYING #ENGAGING THURSDAY, TECHPRENEUR HALL, 16:15 - 16:45

HOW TO RANK YOUR SITE ON GOOGLE IN 2016 AND BEYOND James Nicholson is vastly experienced in the online marketing world, with over nine years’ SEO experience. He works with both small and large businesses, ensuring their name dominates the first page of Google. James is director of the highly successful www.seodesk. co.uk & www.digitalmarketingdesk.co.uk, working with over 200 UK clients in helping them achieve page one rankings for their business.

In this seminar, James will discuss the latest ways of ranking your website in 2015. Tactics from years gone by have changed a great deal, so you need to ensure you are up to date with the latest techniques. James will also advise how you can avoid Google penalties such as Google Panda and Google Penguin.

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Mark Longbottom’s social media consultancy is based on skills and experience he has continuously practised and developed since 1982. He works with clients to enhance and manage their own online presence effectively, building their use of relevant and available technologies to the highest level.

Mark focuses on building long-term relationships to deliver his clients’ information to wider networks of businesses and people, learning from his and the activity of 1000s of people in his creative network, PLATFORM58. Mark will be discussing and showing the benefits and values of Instagram.

Sharing tips, tricks and how to enjoy being inspiring and creative on Instagram. Sharing his journey of 500,000 likes in less than 10 months, connecting this to 33 years of genuine creative social networking.

The audience will learn about the basics as well as some advanced user Instagram activity, learning simple and practical lessons that they will be able to use immediately.

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Ariana Kumar Marks and Clerk

An Introduction to Trademarks and Why Every Company Should Own One

11.45

Emma Cox Grabble

Do You Really Understand Your Customer?

12.30

Bill Morrow Angels Den

How to Ensure You Never Get Funded

13.15

Shweta Jhajharia ActionCoach

Building the Ultimate Sales and Marketing Machine

14.00

Jass Sarai PWC

TMT Predictions 2016

14.45

The Pitch Finalists Panel

Attend our panel session to meet three exciting early stage technology start-up business founders

15.30

Simon Richardson Shufdy Ltd

The Past & the Future for iBeacons/ URIbeacons/ Eddystone

16.15

Mark Longbottom

Instagram #Enjoying #Engaging

FRIDAY 11.00

Bivek Sharma Head of KPMG Small B usiness Accounting

Say No to Accounting From the Jurassic Era

11.45

Michael Wilkinson Crowdcube

Crowdfunding - A Reality Check

12.30

Nicola Lucas Nockolds Solicitors

Online Businesses Legal MOT – Don’t Get Caught Out

13.15

James Nicholson Tempo Web Design

How to Rank Your Site on Google in 2016 and Beyond

14.00

Nidhima Kohli My Beauty Matches

Female Techpreneur: How to Build a Community of 85k People With No Funding

14.45

Jason Dutton JPD Associates

Game Over. Life and Business Lessons From a Video Games Master

15.30

Chris Smith Intellectual Property Office

What is Intellectual Property?

Seminar sessions run for 30 minutes, spaces are first come first served, get there early to ensure you get a seat! * Content and speakers are subject to change. The digital show guide and seminar timetable will be updated online prior to the show, so please check www.techpreneurexpo.co.uk for the latest information.

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WHERE IS TECHPRENEUR? To access the Techpreneur Hall, enter through Olympia’s Grand Hall entrance and take an immediate right, and then continue on this path to the far wall.

We’ve carefully selected a range of relevant exhibitors to present their products and services at Techpreneur 2015. Their stands are located all over The Business Show and Business Startup. Maps will be available at the show, and if you have any queries, please ask one of our staff members.

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