Upcoming Events
Past Events
29 January: The Brain Training Meetup in Shoreditch
What is The Brain Training Meetup? It is a community of the friendliest life-long learners, where we bring together a collection of speakers devoted to transforming the way you learn... [...]
13 February: VivaTech Tour London: Girls Just Wanna Have Funds
VivaTech, Europe's biggest tech event held in Paris annually, is holding an exclusive meetup in London! For the third consecutive year Viva Technology, happening in Paris 11-13 June, will be [...]
8 December: London Met’s Christmas Market
London Met’s Christmas Market is coming to town next Sunday, 8 December at the Old Truman Brewery’s famous Sunday UpMarket. Looking for something different this Christmas? Look no further as [...]
8 October: Create a Small Business Brand
What do you want to be known for? How can you create that special flavour, making you stand out from the crowd and connect with people who will love what [...]
25 September: Introduction to Social Media & Content Planning
Social media presence is nothing without engaging content to share through it. Great content is worthless without ways to spread them to reach your target audience. Content and social media [...]
17 September: Marketing Strategy for Growth – Solid Foundations
Marketing strategy is essentially about how do we compete on a crowded, noisy and overwhelmed market. How can you differentiate yourself, highlight the most amazing benefits of your product and create [...]
3 July: Crowdfunded: how to choose the right platform & design a great campaign
Since the first time the word crowdfunding was used in 2006 by Michel Sullivan many new platforms have risen. Equity crowdfunding alone has grown by almost 300% in the past 2 years only [...]
26 June: Introduction to Social Media & Content Planning
Social media presence is nothing without engaging content to share through it. Great content is worthless without ways to spread them to reach your target audience. Content and social media [...]
23 May: Marketing strategy for growth – Session 1
SESSION 1 Marketing strategy is essentially about how do we compete on a crowded, noisy and overwhelmed market. How can you differentiate yourself, highlight the most amazing benefits of your [...]
5 June: Finding the people who buy from you – Session 2
SESSION 2 Understanding to whom you want to sell your product or services is ground zero, the most important part of building an effective marketing plan. Within this session, we [...]
12 June: Why & how to build a meaningful brand? – Session 3
SESSION 3 What do you want to be known for? How can you create that special flavour, making you stand out from the crowd and connect with people who will [...]
19 June: Digital marketing 101 – Session 4
SESSION 4 Digital marketing offers a lot of great opportunities for your business but if you don’t have a strong plan in place or aren’t using the right tools for [...]
16 May: Legal Considerations for Startups
Longmores Solicitors LLP will be hosting this presentation on some essential legal points for new businesses, including the following areas: Business and company formation – what legal structure is most [...]
3 April: Introduction to Social Media & Content Planning
Social media presence is nothing without engaging content to share through it. Great content is worthless without ways to spread them to reach your target audience. Content and social media [...]
28 March: Raising Investment
Buckworths is a law firm based in London working exclusively with startups and high growth businesses operating in the UK. This session looks at the options for raising investment, the schemes [...]
19 February: Accelerating Exceptional Founders – Immersive Workshop
This is a chance to join Dan Simmons the Founder of Propelia in this unique Immersive Workshop. In an age of ever shifting disruption, uncertainty and influence, Propelia's unique approach [...]
15 February: Cybersecurity for Small Businesses
43% of cyber attacks target small businesses. This cyber-security session is ideal for SMEs who want to train, educate and implement best cybersecurity practice in their organisations. The amount of [...]
12 February: Know your target audience well: sell better
Understanding to whom you want to sell your product or services is ground zero, the most important part of building an effective marketing plan. Within this session, we are going [...]
12 February: Silicon Roundabout “Meet a Startup” – Full-stack developers
Silicon Roundabout: "Meet a Startup" event Meet 10-15 startups and tech companies in a fun format! Hear speeches from senior startup tech teams and network with other developers in London, [...]
11 February: Should I learn to code/Find a tech co-founder/Outsource my MVP
Do you have an idea for a tech startup but don't know where to get started? Are you tired of going to countless meetup looking for a tech co-founder? Wondering [...]
10 February: Startup Sprint Final Pitches
Start-up Sprint is a 48-hour learning-by-doing weekend that teaches entrepreneurial skills to University students in an extreme hands-on environment. This year, a total of over 70 students from 4 Universities [...]
5 February: Introduction to social media & content planning
Social media presence is nothing without engaging content to share through it. Great content is worthless without ways to spread them to reach your target audience. Content and social media [...]
31 January: How to Build a Meaningful Brand for Small Businesses
What do you want to be known for? How can you create that special flavour, making you stand out from the crowd and connect with people who will love what [...]
15 January: Projects Are Changing The Game
ProjectBay is an online platform where students and companies meet to execute real-life projects. Students can choose projects from a wide range of industries and companies can select students from [...]
15 January: Should I learn to code with Silicon Roundabout
Do you have an idea for a tech startup but don't know where to get started? Are you tired of going to countless meetup looking for a tech co-founder? Wondering [...]
13 December: Tender Workshop with Urbano Network
Urbano will be hosting its quarterly tendering workshop covering the key elements and gateways everyone needs to be familiar with when bidding for Local & Central Government contracts. The workshop [...]
13 December: Introduction To Startup Law
Buckworths will present on the subject of legal basics. This free legal session will cover the basic legal issues and documentation required by startups to get up and running. The seminar [...]
29 November: Introduction to Business Finance – Everything You Need To Know by Cottons London
Feeling overwhelmed with the admin side of starting a business? This session is for you. On the 29th November, Cottons London will join us to discuss getting organised to start [...]
16 November: IoT & Distributed Systems – Silicon Roundabout Event
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we live. This event will be focused on how Distributed Systems, IoT, Smart Devices and the New Internet will change the [...]
15 November: Introduction to Social Media & Content Planning
Social media presence is nothing without engaging content to share through it. Great content is worthless without ways to spread them to reach your target audience. Content and social media [...]
13 November: SEO Email Marketing Success
This e-commerce focused event is perfect for e-commerce owners, managers, and marketers who are keen to grow their e-commerce business. You will hear from experts on customer experience in email marketing [...]
9 November: Black Founders Entrepreneurial Meetup
9 November 2018 6PM – 8PM Accelerator London 35 Kingsland Road London, E2 8AA Tickets will be released soon. BOOK TICKETS
8 November: Raising Investment
Join Buckworths for our free Raising Investment Seminar. Managing Partner, Michael Buckworth, will discuss why SEIS is one of the most generous (and widely used) tax incentive schemes for investors [...]
18 October: Get started with your startup! Prototype your app MVP
Invest in Yourself and learn how to code an iOS app . Codica is an 8 week coding bootcamp for non-technical entrepreneurs. Join our workshop and take the first step [...]
18 October: The Pitch Workshop – Refining your Exec Summary and Pitch Deck
VC’s spend just 30 seconds to decide whether to give you a chance or not. Can your pitch deck and executive summary sell your startup? Intended Audience: Startup founders who [...]
18 October: Marketing Strategy for Growth
Marketing strategy is essentially about how do we compete on a crowded, noisy and overwhelmed market. How can you differentiate yourself, highlight the most amazing benefits of your product and [...]
24 October: Digital Marketing Tools 101
Digital marketing offers a lot of great opportunities for your business but if you don’t have a strong plan in place or aren’t using the right tools for the job, [...]
11 February: Startup Sprint Final Pitches
Sun, February 11, 2018 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Rise London 41 Luke Street London, EC2A 4DP Startup Sprint is an enterprise boot-camp for London University students which develops entrepreneurial ideas [...]
14 February: Building a Rich & Helpful Buyer Persona
Wed, February 14, 2018 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Accelerator London 35 Kingsland Road London, E2 8AA Understanding to whom you want to sell your product or services is ground [...]
14 February: Building a Rich & Helpful Buyer Persona
Wed, February 14, 2018 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Accelerator London 35 Kingsland Road London, E2 8AA Understanding to whom you want to sell your product or services is ground [...]
18 February: Hack For Good Final Pitches
Sun, February 18, 2018 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Accelerator 35 Kingsland Road London, E2 8AA Hack For Good is a 3 day bootcamp that will create social enterprises in London [...]
20 February: Introduction to Branding
Tue, February 20, 2018 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM Accelerator London 35 Kingsland Road London, E2 8AA What do you want to be known for? How can you create that [...]
21 February: What’s new? – Social Media Quarterly Update
Wed, February 21, 2018 6:15 PM – 8:00 PM Accelerator London 35 Kingsland Road London, E2 8AA Social Media is changing with every blink of our eyes. Platforms rise up [...]
21 February: What's new? – Social Media Quarterly Update
Wed, February 21, 2018 6:15 PM – 8:00 PM Accelerator London 35 Kingsland Road London, E2 8AA Social Media is changing with every blink of our eyes. Platforms rise up [...]
Accelerator Sports Day 2017
Our annual Accelerator Sports Day was the biggest and most competitive one yet! We love getting our community together and so recently invited all our startups in the building to come [...]
9-11 June: Three Day Start Up
9-11 June: Three Day Start Up The 3 Day Startup is an incredible 48-hour learning-by-doing, weekend workshop that teaches entrepreneurial skills to university students in an extreme hands-on environment. [...]
6 July: Freelance Bootcamp
6th July: Freelance Bootcamp We're running our Freelance Bootcamp on 6 July at Accelerator and if you're a creative individual then book your spot! During the full day bootcamp we'll be covering [...]
20 March: DigitalFWD London Meetup: VR
6.30pm - 8.15pm Theme: "Virtual Reality: The Actual Reality" After a long break, DigitalFWD is back with an action-packed evening exploring what is real in VR in 2017. You will have [...]
28 March: HackerNest London March Tech Social
6pm - 8.30pm HackerNest London March Tech Social HackerNest Tech Socials are a fun, relaxed way to connect with your local tech community. Atmosphere: chill, friendly, unpretentious, agenda-free (no sales pitch), [...]
Global Game Jam at Accelerator
From 20-22 January, in partnership with the School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University, we opened our doors and hosted a Global Game Jam event. Now the world's largest game development and [...]
Christmas Market 2016 Highlights
This year's Christmas market was a great success and saw the students making hundreds of sales across the day of trading at The Old Truman Brewery. Over 20 students and collectives, 10 stalls, 100s of [...]
14 November: Food Startups: how to create a winning sales strategy
6pm - 8pm Food Startups: how to create a winning sales strategy This workshop is designed for those small start-up businesses that have a finished food product ready for market [...]
20 October: To export or not to export? International Trade Opportunities
5.30 pm - 8pm To export or not to export? International Trade Opportunities The Department for International Trade (DIT) – London Region - helps small to medium businesses (SMEs) in [...]
20 September: Making sense of Information Security
6pm - 8pm Making sense of Information Security Learn how to protect your business and stay safe online with Lucidica. Threats & risks to small business Clarifying jargon e.g Spoofing [...]
Launchpad Bootcamp 2016
Launchpad kicked off earlier this week with the introductory Bootcamp! The 2-day event consisted of interactive sessions each laying the groundwork for the next 10 weeks. With over 30 students [...]
22 June: Startup Founders: Tough lessons learned
6.00pm - 8.00pm Startup Founders: Tough lessons learned Have an idea for a startup, already launched and building your startup, or just want to hear from those who've already been [...]
Marketing Summer Series
Ready to grow your business but unsure where to start? Does your marketing feel a little ad-hoc and reactive most of the time? Would you like to build a strong [...]
5 July: Build a Helpful Customer Profile
6.00pm - 8.00pm Build a helpful customer profile Understanding your customer is ground zero, the most important part of building an effective marketing plan. Within this session, we'll look at research methods [...]
12 July: Finding your brand positioning
6.00pm - 8.00pm Finding your brand positioning Today we are in the lucky position where most of us can vote with our buying choices. The growing competition and availability of [...]
19 July: Sales Cycle, Tools, Channels
5.30pm - 8.00pm Sales Cycle, Tools, Channels During this class, we are going to learn about the sales cycle in general and examine what this process looks like in your [...]
26 July: Social media and content marketing
5.30pm - 8.00pm Social media and content marketing In this high impact 2 hour session, we’ll look at various topics under content and social media marketing. Some of the topics [...]
2 August: SEO strategy and how to craft a good PR story
5.30pm - 8.00pm SEO strategy and how to craft a good PR story Our fifth session consists of two parts: first learn about the foundation of search engine optimisation with [...]
9 August: Marketing for Investment
5.30pm - 8.00pm Marketing for Investment In this final, two-part session we are going to learn about metrics, revenue models and growth trajectories interesting for potential investors. We will look [...]
24 May: Social Media Masterclass for startups
6.00pm - 8.00pm Social Media Masterclass for startups Fans, followers, profit: do we really need social media and can we convert 'LIKES' to '£££'? Social Media has transformed the marketing [...]
26 April: Crowdfunding for creatives
The Cass, Commercial Road Building The Parker Gallery| 11am -12.30pm Hear from creatives about how they’ve successfully run crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. You’ll get some great top [...]
21 April: Driving Traffic to Your Website
6.00pm - 8.00pm Driving Traffic to Your Website Built a great website for your business but need to know how to get people to it? Get advice on how to [...]
12 April: Branding for Startups
6.00pm - 8.00pm Branding for Startups Most people think that branding is about just making your business look pretty, but really great brands are so much more than that. A [...]
22 March: A Marketing Strategy to Attract Investors
6.00pm - 8.00pm A Marketing Strategy to Attract Investors A well thought-out marketing strategy is one of the foundation stones of any ambitious business looking to grow. But how do [...]
5 February: Table Sports Grand Final
5.30pm-10.30pm After a round of lunch time play-offs, the fun really begins in front of a sold out crowd of friends, colleagues and previously defeated enemies! Come and join us [...]
21 January: Low Carbon Entrepreneur Workshop
10am - 12pm Low Carbon Entrepreneur Workshop Do you have a business idea that will help to reduce carbon emissions in London? Great, because Boris wants to know about it. [...]
14 January: IoT MEET UP
6.30pm - 8.00pm IoT for Water Industry,Smart Slums,IoT powered by consumer Come and hear from Internet of things pioneers,emerging smart cities start ups and impact creators. The fascinating variety and [...]
Christmas Markets – a record-breaking year
The Christmas Market project this year was full of festive cheer, record-breaking sales and Christmassy sparkles....18 students, 10 stalls, 2 markets, 15 hours of trading, 134 items sold, 4 well deserved Student Enterprise Awards, 100s of [...]
Creating Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns – GEWUK event
During GEWUK week Accelerator hosted a Crowdfunding event in association with General Assembly. It was a great night packed with useful advice and tips to help us “make it happen” [...]
18 November: Creating Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns
6.00pm - 8.00pm Figure out if your project is crowdfundable and learn how to develop your project, idea, or app for crowdfunding success. Crowdfunding is changing the creative funding landscape for [...]
4 & 18 November: Fashion Business Bootcamp
2.30pm - 4.30pm Fashion Business Bootcamp aimed at students and graduates Develop a Business Model Canvas to plan out your fashion business Identify your customer and market and make plans [...]
10 November: How to Negotiate Your First Big Deal
6.00pm - 8.00pm Learn invaluable communication skills to swimmingly negotiate your first big deal! In this workshop we will cover: How to realise your bargaining power How to fully prepare your bottom [...]
Vietnam x Accelerator
Today Accelerator welcomed a delegation of officials from the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology lead by Director General Dr. Dam Bach Duong. The group of 20 are on a [...]
30 November: Presenting Your Numbers to Investors
6.00pm - 8.00pm Are you a startup founder preparing for investment? When it comes to the numbers what should you include? When you’re in front of potential investors you have [...]
Freshers Fair 2015
On Tuesday and Thursday last week, the Student Enterprise team headed to London Metropolitan University campuses for Freshers Fair. Packed with students from across all the Faculties, Freshers Fair was [...]
Accelerator Sports Day
On Tuesday, Accelerator had its first ever Sports Day! We invited all our companies to Haggerston Park for an afternoon of team games – including egg-and-spoon relays, sack races and [...]
10 December: Marketing Strategy Session
6.00pm - 8.00pm Ensuring marketing spend delivers more customers Thanks to e-commerce, price comparison sites, online reviews and social media, there has never been so much choice… or competition! Consumers [...]
From Idea to App Store
On Tuesday, Accelerator hosted ‘From Idea to App Store’ – a speaker event as part of Digital Shoreditch Open House 2015. We had the chance to hear from a panel [...]
Digital Storytelling workshop with Nick Watt
“Just like search was a decade ago and social was five years ago, content marketing is the next digital media revolution.” Yesterday, Nick Watt from Digital Doughnut gave a workshop [...]
Creative Freelance Bootcamp: Day 2
Freelancing involves doing more than just producing work – for the second day of our bootcamp, participants focused on the other aspects of working for themselves. When starting out as [...]
Creative Freelance Bootcamp: Day 1
The first part of our Creative Freelance Bootcamp was on Friday! This was a great introduction to freelancing, given by Accelerator’s Creative Enterprise manager, Emma Thatcher. We had a very [...]
Digital PR Workshop with Calacus
On Thursday Accelerator hosted a Digital PR workshop led by David Alexander, Managing Director of Calacus – with consultant Becky Williams. The workshop provided lots of useful tips for developing and [...]
Startup Advice from Rackspace MD
In October, we were fortunate enough to hear some marketing and startup advice from the Marketing Director for Startups at Rackspace, John Webb. For those who missed it, John talked [...]
Last Friday's Creative Enterprise Day
Last Friday at Accelerator, as part of Creative Enterprise Month we hosted the Now or Never: Creative Career Day. A day packed full of events for Designers and Artists showing [...]
Crowd Mentoring Session 1.0
Have you ever heard of Speed Dating? Our Hatchery participants took part in something cooler yesterday. The first Speed Mentoring Session in Accelerator London that we called Crowd Mentoring was a [...]
Guest speaker wows Fashion Marketing students!
This afternoon at Accelerator we hosted our weekly Fashion Marketing program for students from London Met university. This meeting is going to be one to remember however, as the CEO [...]