Traveling Geeks

In London and Cambridge we interviewed, blogged, meet up’d, vlog’d, traveled, tried to avoid jet-lag, tried to make our wireless modems work, and … well, just did what geeks do. Here’s the schedule (past-tense):

5 July, 2009 Sunday	London
	Note- Events marked Open event were open events – ticketed or free events where you could have met and interact with the geeks. Other events were privately hosted.
4:30pm At: JuJu (private)	Digitrad meet-and-greet
5pm At: JuJu 316 – 318 King’s Road, Chelsea, SW3 5UH, London Open Event tix req’d	Traveling Geeks TweetUp 200+ folks.
	Organizer: Ted Shelton and The Conversation Group (SF & London)
6 July, 2009 Monday	London
8:30am-10:00am Nuffield Room, Savoy Place (private event)	Breakfast with Intel UK The geeks met with Tristan Wilkinson, director for public sector EMEA at Intel, and Perveen Akhtar of Intel PR in advance of Reboot Britain.
10:30am-5pm Reboot Britain At Savoy Place Open event reg req’d	Reboot Britain Howard Rheingold, Craig Newmark, Robert Scoble and other geeks spoke at Reboot Britain, and all of us participated! See RebootBritain online
	Steve Moore, Jess Tyrrell and officials from NESTA put on a conference about moving forward in the new economy.
7-11pm At: BT Tower, Maple Street, London	Reception and dinner with NESTA and BT executives, including BT CEO Ian Livingston, JP Rangaswami (MD, BT Innovate & Design) and invited guests.
7 July, 2009 Tuesday	London
10am-2pm At: NESTA 1 Plough Place	US/UK Speed Date with Seed Camp Winners and UK Leaders Basekit Groupspaces Huddle Kwaga Moo Qype School of Everything Skimlinks Spotify Stupeflix Ubervu Zemanta
	Reshma Sohoni and Sherry Coutu
3-5pm At: BT Centre 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ	Meetings at BT with JP Rajaswami and team
6-7:30pm At: Guardian Kings Place, 90 York Way, London Open event	Guardian podcast with the Traveling Geeks Robert Scoble, Sarah Lacy and JD Lasica discussed the future of news and the emerging media ecosystem with questions from the Guardian and possibly the BBC. The Geeks participated in the Q&A session from the audience while posting thoughts and commentary in a backchannel. 100-120 people.
	Organized by Matt Wells of The Guardian
8pm At: SOHO House 40 Greek Street W1D 4EB	Agency.com dinner
	Coordinators: Sophie Austin, Vicky Nairn, Andy Hobsbawmn
8 July, 2009 Wednesday	London
11:45am-1pm Location: Malmaison, Charterhouse Sq. (private)	Traveling Geeks lunched with Skype
9 July, 2009Thursday	London
10:30am-12:30pm At: Accel Partners 16 St. James’s Street London, SW1A 1ER	Accel Partners luncheon Company presentations by Seatwave, Playfish, Alfresco. Weeworld, Mind Candy, Wonga. With breakout groups and lunch 11:30-12:30
	Sonali deRycker
1:30-4:00 pm At: The Swan at the Globe	Econsultancy Roundtable The Geeks will participate in a roundtable discussion with reps from Essence, AKQA, iPerceptions, Unique Digital, Manning Gottlieb OMD, Photobox
4:00-5:30 pm	Econsultancy Large Organisation Innovators Discussion Groups and Tea
	Clare Laurie, Ashley Friedlein, Econsultancy
7:30-11pm Location: 50 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UD	TechCrunch Europa Award The Geeks were on hand at this big awards show and social event. Doors open at 6, awards show at 8.
	Organizers: Mike Butcher and Rassami Hok Ljungberg.
10 July, 2009 Friday	Cambridge
7:45am	Depart from London hotel by coach/tour bus
10am-11am The Pitt Building, Cambridge (Invitation only)	Round table: The Innovative Mix – University, Consultancies, Corporates & Spin-outs.
	Karyn Barnes, East of England International, Cambridge
11:15am-1:00pm The Pitt Building, Darwin Room, Cambridge Open Event reg req’d	Energizing your Business through Social Networks plus Show & Tell How businesses should be using social media/ social influencing marketing. An interactive event led by Omobono TG Panel:Robert Scoble, Susan Bratton, Renee Blodgett & JD Lasica Open Event: Open Networking and elevator pitches.
	Karyn Barnes, East of England International, Cambridge
1:00pm	Depart for Cambridge Consultants Ltd.
1:15-2:15pm	Lunch at Cambridge Consultants including product demonstrations and discussions
2:15pm	Depart for Cambridge West Site.
2:30-3:00pm Nokia Labs, U. of Cambridge	Nokia Research Lab
	Karyn Barnes, East of England International, Cambridge
3:00-4:00pm Microsoft Lab, U. of Cambridge	Microsoft Research
4:00-5:00pm	University of Cambridge Computer Science Lab
7:30-10:30pm Peterhouse College	Networking Reception & Dinner	Taylor Wessing Inc.
	Karyn Barnes, East of England International, Cambridge
11 July, 2009Saturday	Cambridge
11am	Walking tour of Cambridge
2pm Fitzwilliam Museum	Tweet up at the Fitzwilliam Museum – Darwin Exhibition
	Marked events were open to the public but the Geeks were also accessible at paid-admission events like Reboot Britain & TechCrunch Summer Party.