Turing Festival: Essential Events

Just over a week to go until the Turing Festival 2012 so I thought I would round up some more events which I think are essential for Scottish tech startups. Some events have an entrance fee although many of the events across the Festival are free to attend.

Startup Pitch Clinic

Startup pitch clinic is taking place on the afternoon of the first day of the Turing Festival. All too often, tech entrepreneurs get out-dated advice on “how to pitch”, “what investors need” etc. Turing’s Startup Pitch Clinic will provide hands on lessons from someone who actually knows what they are talking about. Brian Caulfield is former tech entrepreneur who now sits on the other side of the table as an investor. He is leading the session and going to be helping Scottish startups get their investment pitch sharp.

Ticket Price: Free

Link: https://startuppitchclinic-turing.eventbrite.com

Produce Management Debate

On the second day of the Turing Festival David Farquhar and Mike Kennedy from Northface Ventures will host this open debate. The aim of this session is to discuss how can lean principles be applied to the role of Product Management in enterprise class software development.

Ticket Price: Free

Link: https://debate-turing.eventbrite.com

Music Hack Day Scotland
Ticket Price: FreeStarting on the Friday and running through the night until Saturday evening; Music Hack brings together musicians, makers, experimentalists and digital tinkerers to craft ingenious musical projects in 24 hours. musical archive footage from National Museum Scotland, gig and band information from concert website Songkick and music available on services like Soundcloud and This Is My Jam. Participants may choose to make apps, web services, hardware, art, instruments or just plain music – it’s wide open, provided it’s music-related.

Ticket Price: Free

Link: https://www.turingfestival.com/music-hack-scotland

Startup Party

Wrapping up Turing Festival is the Startup Party. DJ’s, An amazing not to be missed party at Summerhall, home of the TechCube. With peers celebrate the highlights of this year’s festival, with DJs and Musicians from the Music Hack Day Scotland event. One of the ticketed event at the Turing Festival however the  price includes drinks and nibbles.

Ticket Price:£10

Link: https://startupparty-turing.eventbrite.com

As well as these great events there is also the headline act on the opening day of the Festival, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. There is a great competition where you can win free tickets to the talk, all you have to do is submit a questions you would like to ask Woz and RT the link to enter.

Personally, I’m really looking forward to the Turing Festival and hope to attend as many sessions as possible. What will you be going to? Have I missed something out?