Welcome to another NENT event. We’re coming back to Newcastle for this one—Florita’s to be exact. We’ve been busy building products at Audacious and Thap and simply couldn’t host an event during January. Apologies for skipping January on you.

We’ve got another exciting event for you to come out get a drink, mingle, and hear some tech-related talks. If you’re interested, please sign up at Eventbrite.

We’ve a few unannounced speakers waiting confirmation.

The lineup

Alexander Horré Product failure? Life’s too damn short for that

The host of NENT. Alexander is from San Francisco. He now works at Thap in Boho One and is the Product Evangelist at happiest. Alex will give his talk on product failures and life is simply too short for it.

Mark Mullis Youth Coding Academy

Realising that all youngsters excel in different areas, Mark identified that the North East do not have a specific youth programme in which to learn to code, and as such is looking to develop a community in which to assist his vision. Look forward to an exciting topic in which input will be greatly appreciated.

David Maxwell (Maxwell Intelligence) New Business Venture

David is a long term supporter of DigitalCity Business and has a vast experience in Business and Market planning, focusing on the Digital and Creative sectors. David is launching a new business and we are extremely excited to learn what his new venture will entail.

Paul Lancaster (Founder of Plan Digital) No Email Day

Paul will be talking about how he ran a global campaign with nothing more than an idea, a smartphone and social media. Including ideas on how to increase your chances of an idea spreading virally, and how this was influenced from being part of Seth Godin’s ‘Domino Project Street Team’ and how this influenced ‘No Email Day’.

Over the past few weeks we’ve been focusing on how to take NENT forward. Our passion is to make a different kind of speaking environment that allows greater and better talks. Talks that can be about anything but related back to tech: New Tech, get it?

We want to share talks that are inspiring and informative: online using Tumblr and offline at our hosted event.

We’ve reached out, and folks have answered. We have a brilliant line up speaking at Boho One this Thursday. We also have some upcoming Tumblr articles shaping up as well. Heck—we even got speakers lining up for January! Slow burn we say.

If you’re interested in attending our boho event, sign up.

The lineup

Alexander Horre Apps Running Your Life

Alexander is from San Francisco. He now works at Thap, in Boho One. His bread and butter is Agile Project Management, and he loves design and coffee—a little too much coffee.

Tristan Watson Driving the North East Tech Scene Forward

Tristan is the founder of Love Your Larder (.com). His twitter bio calls him a ‘food pimp’. Tristan is an avid believer in sharing the power a startup can have. Have a coffee with this guy.

Tim Allison Trainer Angel: Guerilla Marketing at its Finest

Ex-Ad Man. Imaginator. Founder and MD of DarlingDash Creative Agency. Tim loves a good idea will drink eight beers talking to you about it. He just launched a new app too. Have a beer with this guy. He also boulders.

Mark Ryan Why I left Ireland for Newcastle: A Startup Life

Mark’s twitter bio states: Everyone needs a hug. Mark is part of the well-funded Ignite100 startup incubator in Newcastle. His company Blooie is tackling a grand idea. If you have a beer with this guy, you will lose. Seriously.

Kevin Mann Long Live QR-Codes: A Working Title

Kevin, a founder of NENT and Audacious, is back with another intriguing view on a piece of technology that is hitting mainstream. But is it going about it all wrong? Let’s find out.

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The QR-CODES are back. How creative can we get with putting a QR CODE on something? Stay tuned. It should be serious fun.

We have some unannounced things on the menu that might happen! If so, we’ll surprise you. We look forward to having you. Let’s build something great shall we?

Heads up people. We’re currently reaching out to some of our favourite people and influencers—or totally interesting new people—we’d love to hear give a little talk for us. Right now, we’re gearing up for our tentative November date at Boho One.

The November date will either be the 24th or 25th depending on certain speakers being able to attend on either date. We’re also planning out our January date as well, which will be in Newcastle.

If you want to speak, give any of our team a tweet. Lastly, if you got something fun to write about, that could be a speaking topic, we can post it as a tumblr article. We’ll give you full kudos.

Let’s get this ball rolling. Our third event should be a charmer.

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