MINDTREK LAUNCHPAD DEADLINE AUG 31 – WIN 20 009€ AND MORE!

HammerKit – a complete online studio for designers – was one of the last year’s Launchpad winners. Here’s what the company’s CEO Mark Sorsa-Leslie has to tell you:

“The MindTrek Launchpad Award was the foundation of our success in growing our business. We raised our seed funding and were selected as a TEKES NIY company at Level 1. This has enabled us to concentrate on building our community of users and developing our product to the next level.

We benefited directly from the prize of Technopolis incubation and actually won an important project from them as a result! We have gone on to win a Red Herring Global 100 award and attract users and visitors to HammerKit from 92 countries.

We are now in the process of developing HammerKit Studio, our online studio for web designers to create dynamic web experiences and change the way web sites are built for ever! MindTrek made this possible.”

If you think you’ve invented the next big thing, you’d better submit your entry now!
http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/launchpad

LAST CALL FOR NOKIA UBIMEDIA AWARD

This (Aug 21) is the last day to enter the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award (7 000 €). No need to say you should do it now or never: http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/ubimedia

Remember also the Apps for Democracy Finland (13 000 €) competition, deadline August 31st.
http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/democracy_finland

FROM THE TRENCHES: SOCIAL WEB WORKSHOP

Leading Silicon Valley experts and MindTrek 2009 speakers Chris Messina and Jyri Engeström are putting on a unique pre-conference tutorial on September 30th in Helsinki.

The workshop covers both high-level trends on the social web and the nitty-gritty of architecting a site for social interaction. You'll come away with business strategies and best practices for designing your site to make the most of the three building blocks of the social web: identity, relationships, and activities.

This is an exclusive opportunity to learn from industry experts in a high-intensity, interactive workshop: http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/node/96

MIGUEL SICART AT ACADEMIC MINDTREK

Miguel Sicart, Assistant Professor in games design at the IT University of Copenhagen, will hold a keynote speech at Academic MindTrek 2009. He received his Ph.D. in game studies in 2006. His book, The Ethics of Computer Games is published on MIT Press. He is currently working on developing a design framework for implementing ethical gameplay in digital games.

More about Miguel: http://www.miguelsicart.net

Check out the preliminary Academic MindTrek programme, online now!
http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/academic/programme

LAUNCHPAD IN FACEBOOK

There’s a new Facebook event page for the MindTrek Launchpad:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=253632350407&ref=mf
Join the effort to boost Finnish digital media, start-up culture, and entrepreneurship!

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

The preliminary conference programme available at http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/programme

REGISTER

Registration for the conference (Oct 1-2), Academic MindTrek (Sep 30-Oct 2), and Partner Sessions (Sep 30) ends on the 15th of September – don’t leave it until the last minute!  http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/registration

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