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HRH the Duke of York opens the Trampery

By Charles Armstrong | Monday, October 10th, 2011

This afternoon HRH the Duke of York (otherwise known as Prince Andrew) visited the new Trampery to meet the entrepreneurs working there and perform an opening ceremony. The Duke started by meeting Charles and Eric van der Kleij (CEO of the UK Government’s Tech City Investment Organisation) to discuss the state of the East London technology community. He then hosted a roundtable discussion with a dozen entrepreneurs where there was a lively discussion of the challenges faced by UK startups and ideas for measures that could help more businesses succeed.

After this the Duke walked through the Trampery workspace, stopping for a short demonstration of Fuerte’s augmented reality iPad application, before arriving in the newly-opened Trampery Studio where he met with influential figures from the Tech City community and additional entrepreneurs. Finally Charles gave a short speech welcoming the Duke, after which the Duke gave a speech and unveiled a plaque commemorating his visit.

There are some wonderful photographs from the Duke’s visit on the Trampery’s Facebook page.

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Charles Armstrong lecture to UCL entrepreneurs

By Charles Armstrong | Thursday, October 6th, 2011

This afternoon Charles gave a lecture to two hundred entrepreneurship students at University College London. He presented a vivid picture of Trampoline’s path from formation through investment, its first customer deals and growth. A video of the lecture is available on the UCL website.

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Crowdfunding presentation at British Library

By Charles Armstrong | Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Next Tuesday (27th April) I’m giving a presentation on crowdfunding at the British Library. I’ll be covering three areas:

  • How the venture investment landscape is changing and what it will mean for entrepreneurs.
  • The different models of crowdfunding and what they are suited to.
  • How Trampoline organised a successful equity crowdfunding project.

See the full details for time and location. Tickets cost £40 but if you contact us we can arrange a 50% discount for a limited number of guests. The event is organised by Keystone Law, a UK firm of solicitors mainly working with start-ups. They’re one of the few firms taking an interest in crowdfunding at the moment for which I applaud them.

UPDATE here are my slides from the presentation

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Information Age Autumn Forum

By Charles Armstrong | Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

London
Information AgeCharles Armstrong, Trampoline CEO, is presenting a session on “Social Analytics and Salesforce Performance” at the Information Age Autumn Forum. The event will be held at London’s Novotel St Pancras for an audience of IT leaders.

For more information visit the Information Age website.

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Leading Edge Forum

By Charles Armstrong | Monday, May 18th, 2009

London
Leading Edge ForumOn May 18th Charles Armstrong, Trampoline’s CEO, will be speaking at the Leading Edge Forum. Hosted by CSC, a global systems integrator and consultancy firm, the Leading Edge Forum is part of an annual programme to bring an exclusive audience of CIOs from Fortune 100 company together with the world’s leading thinkers on trends in enterprise IT.

Charles will be speaking on the topic of ‘IT and organisational change’ covering the greater productivity and innovation that new technology facilitates. “Historically,” said Charles Armstong, discussing the topic of his talk “IT’s responsibility in regard to organisational change has been primarily operational; making sure departmental systems could interoperate or bringing merged entities onto central infrastructure. However, as businesses focus on increasing agility and harnessing human capital, IT must prepare to take on new strategic responsibilities.”

For more information on the event, or to apply for place on the programme, please visit the CSC Website.

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Future World of Work

By Charles Armstrong | Thursday, May 7th, 2009

London
TelegraphThe Telegraph Media Group are hosting an interactive session at their London headquarters where Charles Armstrong, Trampoline’s CEO, will be presenting to directors of the capital’s leading companies. Charles will be speaking on the topic of “Informal Organisational Structures – how to become enablers of corporate agility”.

A business’ main asset is not its people, it’s how it encourages and allows its people to use their knowledge and experience. Companies are increasingly coming to the realisation that to truly excel in the coming century they must facilitate the organic collaboration which gets the best out of their workforce. As a thought leader in how IT systems can be used to enhance this natural way of working, Charles will be talking about how emerging technologies such as our own SONAR Expertise can be used to further increase productivity and agility.

If you are interested in attending this event, please see the flyer or contact Emma Reynolds emma.reynolds@e3unlimited.com for further information.

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Web Mission 2009

By Charles Armstrong | Sunday, March 15th, 2009

San Francisco
Web MissionTrampoline is delighted to have been selected as one of two Web Mission alumni to act as ambassadors for UK-based technology startups with global reach. Web Mission is organised by the UK Government (through UK Trade & Investment) to promote leading startups in America.

By fostering connections and communication between companies on either side of the Atlantic, Web Mission aims to promote Britain as a home of innovation and vibrant startup environment. Britain’s unique mix of talent and international outlook mean that it is an ideal location for startups with worldwide aspirations. Web Mission’s week of events (28th March to 3rd April) supports such companies by putting them in touch with the business leaders, journalists and opinion formers in Silicon Valley.

This award comes hot on the heels of being named one of Red Herring’s top 100 global technology companies. You can read more about Web Mission here and here. If you would like to schedule a meeting with is in San Francisco during Web Mission please get in touch.

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Community vs. Large Scale Barcamps

By emma | Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Before I even consider this, I think my title is ineffectual in actually grasping the differences I want to point out. This comes from a distorted sense of scale we have when it comes to barcamps. What makes a large scale camp large scale? 50 people, 100, 1000? And what makes a community camp community based? The people, the location, the feeling?

Some camps which I would consider very much community based, such as barcampcork are actually quite large (over 100 people), whereas others are much smaller (such as barcampnortheast with around 30 attendees), and yet both maintain a strong community feeling. On the other hand, barcamplondon 3 and 4 (neither of which were attended by significantly more than 100 people), didn’t come close to exuding that sense of community. How ironic that I live in London, and that’s where my local community is. I’m not knocking the London camps for not having that community feeling, I’m not even sure that it is something that organisers can even control, but is drawn out from the people that attend. And in reality, the types of people drawn to barcamplondon and quite different from the people drawn to barcampcork. Almost every attendee at Cork, with the notable exception of myself, has a vested interest in the Cork and wider Ireland geek community, whereas the London attendees either seemed somewhat blasé about the whole barcamp thing (are we that spoilt over here…?), or were in town for the barcamp.

We can also consider super-sized camps such as barcampberlin which I attended a few weeks ago, which was due to be attended by 600 people, and drew somewhere around the 450 mark (my guesstimate). It’s actually quite hard for me to make a comparison with berlin because of the nature of my attendance at the event. I travelled to berlin with a few friends, and very quickly we started hanging out with other Londoners at the event. I don’t believe I spoke to more than 5 local, or even Germany based, attendees throughout the entire event. This came down to the fact that I was very comfortable knowing my 10 friends, and knowing all of their friends, who happened, mostly, to be my friends too, and there was no need to break out from our group. Additionally none of the sessions were in any way discussion group oriented, and so there was no permission to engage with total strangers about mutually interesting topics. This makes it very hard to meet people.

Maybe it all comes down to my social networks at these various events, but I do have a strong suspicion, that this is influenced by the style of event, the type of people attracted to it, and the pre existing connections you go with. Could Berlin have been made as warm and welcoming at Cork? Probably not, but simply because the logistics of making an event that large work on a small community scale are virtually impossible. What about London? I think engaging the community in organisation would have been a big win. There was a feeling of isolation between the organisation of the camp and it’s attendees, which somewhat undermines some of the core principles. Ultimately I think any barcamp has the potential to feel “just right,” but the parameters for this kind of success don’t always lend themselves to “popular” destination such as Berlin and London.

All that said, I’d love to organise a community based barcamplondon. Who want’s to join me?

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BBC’s Free Thinking Festival 2008

By Charles Armstrong | Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Liverpool
Free Thinking 08As a part of the BBC’s Free Thinking Festival 2008, Trampoline CEO Charles Armstrong will be taking part in a debate on “What is the Value of Experience?”. Charles will be joined on the panel by Booker nominated novelist Andrew O’Hagan, brain scientist and writer Susan Blackmore and philosopher turned management consultant Robert Smith. The debate is taking place in Liverpool on 1st November and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in the following weeks.

For further information, or to book tickets for the event please visit the event page, or the BBC’s Free Thinking Festival website.


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10BigThings Global Forum

By Charles Armstrong | Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Sheraton Grand Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
10BigThingsThe 10BigThings Global Forum brings together software and ICT professionals with cutting-edge ideas, and insights from leading industry figures. It consistently attracts high-level decision-makers, providing an exceptional forum to meet and explore industry trends and opportunities.

Charles Armstrong, Trampoline’s CEO, will be speaking alongside Martin Sadler, Director at Hewlett-Packard’s Systems Security Lab; Duncan MacTear, Marketing Director for 4Projects; Mark Taylor, Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft; Greg Papadopoulos, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Sun Microsystems and Stuart Cosgrove, Director of Nations & Regions at Channel 4 with David Mitchell, Senior Vice President IT Research at Ovum chairing the event.

10BigThings is organised by ScotlandIS who aim to foster a world-class technology environment in Scotland that propels the ICT industry to maximise its impact locally, to exploit global opportunity, and to achieve growth and success.

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