London Technology Week has been hailed a huge success, with 43,000 people attending, 228 events at 141 different venues.
The week of face-to-face events celebrating London’s global position as a hotbed of tech innovation, business successes, entrepreneurship and creative talent saw the capital buzzing with people talking about the latest tech innovations.
The event brought together domestic and international tech specialists and enthusiasts for a variety of networking, social learning and business events.
Events ranged from large conferences to intimate workshops, face-to-face investor meetings, pitching competitions and hackathons.
Gordon Innes, chief executive of London & Partners, said: “London Technology Week has, once again, been an enormous success.
“We’ve recently seen investments worth billions of pounds and thousands of new tech jobs created in the city and I’m confident that, off the back of this week, we will see similar announcements in the coming weeks and months.”
The event, which is now in its second year, was organised by media giant UBM in association with London & Partners and supported by Tech London Advocates and ExCeL London, who act as the Founding Partners.
Success stories include Skoolbo, an educational computer programme ran a transatlantic challenge during the week, in which they pitched London primary schools against their New York counterpart.
The five day challenge saw over a million questions asked with London primary schools beating their rivals after providing three times as many correct answers.
Major global brands, including Google, Amazon, Bloomberg, Accenture, Stack Overflow and Goldman Sachs, were all part of the week’s events, as well as home-grown London-based tech companies such as Funding Circle and Blippar.
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