(Photo: Signal by Rachel Docherty)
About This Event
Whether you’re a corporate professional, recent graduate, current student or have any other background, determining what your current work environment lacks and being able to transition successfully to a tech startup environment is an invaluable skill to possess.
This panel discussion will help empower you to explore technology & entrepreneurship by sharing practical advice from those who’ve been there. We’ll highlight the differences, pros and cons between startup and other more traditional workplace environments, and also cover how to successfully network with startups, their founders and employees, while avoiding common pitfalls associated with traditional networking.
Takeaways
- Find out how to make yourself relevant and integral to startups today – don’t wait for a job offer to begin your transition.
- Understand which components of startups can provide a fulfilling experience to you personally.
- Understand what you can do at your current job to best position yourself for success in entrepreneurship.
About the Instructors
Liz Elfman Marketing Manager,
Google’s Campus London
Liz Elfman is a marketing manager at Google’s Campus London, a space for entrepreneurs. Previously, she served as head of London marketing at General Assembly. Prior to working in tech, Liz worked in corporate consulting.
Say hi on Twitter @lizelfman
David Benigson Founder & CEO,
Signal Media Ltd
David is Founder and CEO of Signal, the country’s leading media monitoring and marketing intelligence company. An experienced technology expert and entrepreneur, David founded Signal with his two colleagues in his parents north-west London garage in 2013. Fast forward three years and Signal is already changing the face of media analysis with its purpose-built intelligence platform.
A law graduate, David has had experience as an advisor for the Jamie Oliver Foundation and worked for platforms, ‘A Little Bird’ and ‘The Creative Directory’ before founding Signal.
With access to over 3.5 million news and blog sources every day, Signal’s large-scale text analytics system unlocks knowledge and insight from unstructured textual data, enabling organisations to solve complex information challenges and providing a competitive advantage for their clients.
David believes Signal’s success is down to the importance of their core pillars to: monitor (get signal), analyse (get insight), act (get results) and measure (learn and evolve).
“We see the world in real-time, not in a 24 hour news cycle”
