Thinking Digital Conference in Newcastle

Opportunities for Business Expansion in North East England, we bring you the business network and offer you a free office during 6 months.

We have two purposes with the trip:
- The first purpose is to participate in the Thinking Digital conference on May 25 – 27 listen to the inspiring speakers and network with international colleagues. www.thinkingdigital.co.uk.
- The second purpose is to assist the participating companies in identifying new opportunities for business development and expansion in the UK and North East England with an optional programme on May 24 – 28.

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Visit Programme:

Monday May 24
Optional event
18:30 Joint walk from the Copthorne Hotel, Newcastle to the dinner.
19:00 Dinner hosted by the SEAGULL - The North Sea Connection – project.

Tuesday May 25
Optional event
08:30 Transport by bus from the hotel to the European Business Centre
09:00 Short presentations of the participants and the following key players with the opportunity of arranging dedicated meetings:
- Codeworks – www.codeworks.net
- Codeworks Connect – www.codeworksconnect.net
- Codeworks GameHorizon – www.gamehorizon.net
- IDI, Institute for Digital Innovation – http://idi-uk.org/
- Sunderland Software City – www.sunderlandsoftwarecity.com
- The Regional Development One NorthEast – www.onenortheast.co.uk
- The European Business Centre – www.europeanbusinesscentre.co.uk
12:30 Lunch and transport by bus from the European Business Centre to Newcastle-Gateshead.
Start of the conference programme
14:00 Participant registration
15:00 Workshops according to a programme, which will be published at the website www.thinkingdigital.co.uk.
17:00 Get Together and Networking event

Wednesday May 26
08:00 Walk from the Copthorne Hotel to The Sage Gateshead for the Thinking Digital Conference
08:30 Registration for new participants
09:00 Conference and networking opportunities according to the programme www.thinkingdigital.co.uk
17:45 Close of the conference programme day 1
19:00 Thinking Digital conference party

Thursday May 27
09:15 Conference day 2 and networking. The event starts according to the programme www.thinkingdigital.co.uk
17:00 Final conference networking event

Friday May 28
Flight return. 
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Flight information:

Please note!
As a participant you must order and pay the flight tickets yourself.

Flight examples with British Airways:

Monday May 24:
12:05 flight from Stockholm-Arlanda via London to Newcastle with arrival 16:55
Transfer by bus from Newcastle International airport to Copthorne Hotel Newcastle for check in.

Alternative:

Tuesday May 25
07:10 flight from Stockholm-Arlanda via London to Newcastle with arrival 11:10
Transfer by bus from Newcastle International airport to Copthorne Hotel Newcastle for check in.

Friday May 28
07:30 transfer by bus from Copthorne Hotel to Newcastle International airport.
09:10 flight from Newcastle via London to Stockholm-Arlanda with arrival 15:00
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Hotel information:
Copthorne Hotel Newcastle, The Close, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3RT
Phone +44 (0)191 222 03 33 www.millenniumhotels.co.uk/copthornenewcastle/index.html
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Introduction:
The SEAGULL project was started in 2007. The purpose is to create collaboration between partners in Sweden and North East England, which will lead to business expansions, knowledge transfer and growth. The projects partner are the Regional Development Agency, One NorthEast, in Newcastle and VINNOVA, Tillväxtverket and ISA in Sweden. This event is an activity arranged in cooperation with Dataföreningen and UKTI, UK Trade & Investment at the British Embassy in Sweden. For more information about the conference please have a look at www.thinkingdigital.co.uk, www.vimeo.com/2835418, www.tinyurl.com/6q8oss and www.tinyurl.com/3rgn9n. The conference is arranged by Codeworks – The Centre of Digital Innovation – just outside Newcastle –www.codeworks.net.

Business Opportunities in North East England:
The regional development agency One NorthEast offers Swedish companies a rent-free office space for 6 months within the European Business Centre in Newcastle. For more information please follow this link: www.europeanbusinesscentre.co.uk. Here you can get support with building your network and finding the contacts you will need for your business in the UK. For more information please follow this link: www.onenortheast.co.uk. During your time in Newcastle you will meet representatives for the Centre of Excellence for Digital Innovations and Businesses and visit the European Business Centre in order to discover what the business development opportunities are and what the One NorthEast offer could mean
for you in practice.

WELCOME!