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Hertfordshire Showcases the New Internet Pioneers

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The University of Hertfordshire is hosting a free event, called ‘An audience with the new Internet Pioneers’ on Tuesday 17thApril. The evening features some the leading innovators from the tech-world. It runs from 5.30-7.30pm at the Weston Auditorium and is open to both students and business people. The aim is to engage and inspire the audience with presentations from pioneering companies such as Groupon, Ginicam, Winkball, The Sun Online and StudentBeans.com. 

The University of Hertfordshire is suitably placed to host the event having won the prestigious title of The Times Entrepreneurial University of the year award in 2010.  The evening is part of the University’s 60th Anniversary celebrations.

The speakers include James Eder (Co-Founder of StudentBeans) Glen Richardson (COO of Ginicam), Kieran Hill (Business Development Manager of Winkball) and Gary Thompson (former Associate Editor of The Sun Online). The speakers and special panel guests will openly discuss and debate, with audience participation, their views on current and future Internet innovations.

Steve Sampson, who is a Director of Ginicam and a Director of Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxbourne said, “I’m sure the open, frank and fast paced discussion will be seriously entertaining. I hope the attending students and businesses get a realistic feel for what it takes to embark on the road less travelled. I’m sure angel investors, VC’s and journalists will have a lot to gain from the event too.”

An Audience with the new Internet Pioneers is in aid of the charity Teens Unite Fighting Cancer. It will be preceded by the Internet Showcase from 9am-5pm in the de Havilland Campus Atrium at the University of Hertfordshire.

Free tickets are available from www.internetpioneers.co.uk. 

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For more information, please contact Matthew Blakemore, Tel 01707 278000, Email: matthew@ginicam.com 

Notes to Editor

About the organisers

  • Ginicam, a tech start-up currently in private beta, are the event’s headline sponsors who are based at the University of Hertfordshire’s Innovation Centre.
  • The University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield will be hosting the event at their Weston Auditorium capable of seating 450 people.
  • Teens Unite Fighting Cancer is a dedicated charity dedicated to improving the lives of young people aged between 13-24 with life limiting illnesses.

About the University of Hertfordshire

  • The University is the UK’s leading business-facing university and an exemplar in the sector.  It is innovative and enterprising and challenges individuals and organisations to excel. 
  • The University of Hertfordshire is one of the region’s largest employers with over 2,300 staff and a turnover of almost £231 million.
  • With a student community of over 27,700 including more than 2,900 international students from over eighty-five different countries, the University has a global network of over 170,000 alumni.  
  • The University of Hertfordshire was awarded ‘Entrepreneurial University of the Year 2010’ by the Times Higher Education (THE) and ranks in the top 4% of all universities in the world according to the recent THE, World University Rankings.
  • Did you know? University of Hertfordshire students worked on the special effects in Clash of the Titans 2, X Men and Captain America – We are creative

Tel 01707 278000, Email: matthew@ginicam.com