Hacks/Hackers London

March 28, 2012 7:00 PM. 108 attended.

Hacks/Hackers London: Monthly Meetup

7.00pm
Cabbies and code: the making of Hailo
Russell Hall and George Berkowski, Hailo

A London taxi driver for 30 years Russell Hall, co-founder of Hailo, will explain the work behind the making of the disruptive and innovative black cab hailing app. He will be joined by head of product George Berkowski. George is also the Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum in the UK.

**PITCH SESSION**
(Two-minute pitches on any topic that might be of interest to the Hacks/Hackers community. Apply to take a pitch slot by emailing [masked])

PITCH 1: Sunny Hundal, editor of Liberal Conspiracy, presents rippla.com
PITCH 2: Adrian McShane introduces the e-book work he has been doing with Kernel Mag

8.00pm
How information spreads throughout social media
Paul Gesiak, DataSift

Paul former architect by trade, cognitive scientist by training and data scientist by choice will explain his work with extracting meaningful information from social data, with a particular focus on social media, swarm intelligence and human cognition.