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You may have noticed the banner on our sidebar, that’s because we are official media partners for Future Of Web Applications London 2009.

FOWA is one of the major conferences in the european tech scene, and each years features inspiring talks from the most influential people in the industry. This year looks promising as always.

If you’d like to get the feeling, you can watch video recordings of previous editions. Inspiring stuff.

To celebrate summer finally hitting the UK, Carsonified are having an absolute scorcher of a sale!

10 seats at 50% off (save £167.50)
20 seats at 25% off (save £83.75)
30 seats at 10% off (save £33.50)

If youre not quick enough to grab one of the first 10 there is still a chance to save some pennies as the sale will continue with the further 50 discounted passes.

This special offer applies to 2 day conference passes to FOWA London 09 only.

Keep your ears to the ground to find out where and when to get your Summer Sale pass!

Update: The FOWA Summer Sale - http://thinkvitamin.com/ will launch on 9th July at http://www.carsonified.com/

At the beginning of the month, TechCrunch Europe announced The Europas, an event that “will honour the best tech companies and startups across the web and mobile scene from across the continent of Europe.”

Today voting opens, you can choose for each category the 5 finalists that will then compete to get the award.
These are the categories:

• Best Web Application Or Service (EMEA)
• Best Design
• Best Bootstrapped Startup (less than 3 years old)
• Best Social Innovation (which benefits society, EMEA)
• Best Enterprise / B2B Startup (EMEA)
• Best Cleantech / Environmental Startup (EMEA)
• Best European / Real World Gadget (EMEA)
• Best Entertainment Application or Service (EMEA)
• Best Mobile Startup (EMEA)
• Best Mobile Application (EMEA)
• Best Startup Founder(s)
• Best Investor (VC or Angel fund, EMEA)
• Best Investor Personality (EMEA)
• Best New Startup, Summer 2008-2009

Vote for your favorite startup!
The awards ceremony will take place in London from 6pm Thursday, July 9, at Delfina and will have a calvalcade of tech stars attending from the tech scene, including, amongst others:

• Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo
• Stefan Glaenzer, co-founder of Last.FM
• Sarah Lacy, author & TechCrunch editor
• Tariq Krim, founder of Netvibes.

I will be in London for the event, please contact me if you plan on attending and would like to meet.

Be sure to buy your tickets.

CloudCamps are unconferences, in the classic barcamp style, where early adopters, developers, businesses and end users exchange ideas about Cloud Computing. Topics range from the classic Infrastructure as a service (Joyent, Amazon Ec2, Nirvanix, etc), Platform as a service (BungeeLabs, AppEngine, etc), Software as a service (salesforce.com) to every new technology related to “the cloud”.

Here are the 3 european dates for this summer:

• June 11: Paris
• June 15: Barcelona
• July 9: London

If you are interested in cloud computing you should definitely attend one in your area.

On May 22nd, the italian and european startup scene will gather in Rome for TechGarage. Hosted at LUISS university, the event is one of the most important startup happening in Italy.
The event is organized by DPixel, which operates one of the few early-stage venture capital funds present in Italy, and for this year with the help of Telecom Italia.

TechGarage features a
start
up
competition
featuring
10
hot
and new european start
ups. These 10 finalists will have the chance to pitch their ideas and business plans to VCs and business angels. 3 winners will receive an award and a package of services from DPixel: accounting, legal and advising services that will guide the company to its next stage and prepare it to get funded. Many venture capital funds will be present as well as entrepreneurs, CEOs, bloggers and the best of the italian internet and media community. Given its smaller “size” compared to major events like TheNextWeb, LeWeb or Next, there will surely be opportunities to create more relationships, making it a networking event not to miss.

TechGarage will bring visibility to european startups and many opportunities to young and promising entrepreneurs who will be able to meet some of the most importan seed and venture capital fund, business angels and other entrepreneurs. They will also have the opportunity to meet bloggers and journalists so to get media coverage for their ideas, as well as meeting programmers and all kind of geeks.

This is the program for the day:
- 8:30‐09:25am
Guest Registration
and and 
Breakfast
- 9:30am
Introduction by Pier Luigi Celli, CEO Università Luiss
- 9:30 – 9:45

Keynote
 ‐
 Luca 
Montezemolo, 
Ferrari, LUISS 
chairman
- 9:45 – 10:15am

Keynote
 – 
Franco
Bernabe’, 
CEO Telecom 
Italia
- 10:15‐11:15am

Start
 Up
 Pitches
- 11:15‐11:40am
Coffee Break
- 11:40‐12:40pm
Start 
Up
 Pitches
- 12:40‐1:10pm
Closing
 Keynote
 by 
Saeed
 Amidi, CEO And President Plug & Play Tech Center
- 1:10‐1:30pm
Awards
to
the 3 Winning
Start
Ups
- 1:30pm
Lunch
- 2:30pm
Working Capital Camp

In the afternoon Telecom Italia will host its Working Capital Camp. WorkingCapital is a nice new initiative focused on high tech and innovative companies. Telecom Italia helps entrepreneurs by funding their companies with services. It is refreshing to see such a big company take interest in early stage innovative startups.

theStartup.eu is an official media partner for the event, so expect (hopefully) live coverage, startup presentations and interviews.
If anyone is planning to attend the event, send me a quick email and we’ll meet up!

In July 2009, 10 teams will have the chance to attend the third edition of  SeedRocket in Barcelona.

Inscriptions are officially open. The 10 selected teams will fly to Barcelona from the 8th of July to the 15th to be mentored and helped with the launch of their company or product. They will attend workshops and get to talk with some of the most important spanish startup gurus including folks from Telefonics, Infojobs.net, Trovit.com, BuyVip.com, eyeOS and Hostalia.
The workshops include topics about Facebook application development, MySQL, Flex and Cloud Computing.

The best projects will obtain €20.000 in funding with the possibility of a €100.000 grant.
The application in open to both european and non-ue entrepreneurs with a working prototype of their product.

We hope to see some great startups at the event!

Here is a summary of the most important upcoming events in Europe.
We will try to cover as much of them as possibile.

• April 20th: Mini Seedcamp London.

http://seedcamp.com/pages/london09


• April 21st: Geek’n'Rolla London.

http://www.amiando.com/geeknrolla.html


• April 24th: Nonic Bilbao.

http://nonickconference.com/


• April 28th: Amazon Web Services Startup-Tour London.

http://aws.amazon.com/startupproject/


• April 28th-30th: Internet World London.

http://www.internetworld.co.uk/


• April 29th: Working Capital Camp Catania.

http://www.workingcapitalcamp.com/catania


• May 5th: Next09 Hamburg.

http://www.next-conference.com/next09/


• May 19th – 20th: European Venture Market Berlin.

http://www.europeanventuremarket.com/


• May 22nd: TechGarage Rome.

http://www.techgarage.eu/


• May 27th: TechCrunch Nordic Talk Stockholm.

http://www.amiando.com/tcstockholm.html


• June 23rd: Fuel09 London.

http://events.carsonified.com/fuel/2009/london/