Kicking off London Tech Week!

Kicking off London Tech Week! #LondonIsOpen

As leading partner of London Tech Week, Cocoon Networks were delighted attend the official launch

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London – 14 June 2017:
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London is Open! What a start to the festival week!
As leading partner of the 2017 London Tech Week, Cocoon Networks were delighted to start off this festival week at the official London Tech Week launch together with over 800 tech aficionados.Held at the Digital hub Here East (Olympic Park), the affair was truly a celebration of a very much ‘open’ London, as Mayor Sadiq Khan emphasised in his keynote. Deemed a tech hub city truly on the forefront of research and despite Brexit, London is expected to continue to draw in talent and investment from all over the world to its rich tech and thriving tech development landscape.
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Robot Sarah
When entering, we were greeted with a great taster of what London’s tech scene has to offer! Apart from robots, applications were utilising AI to create new shapes in a dance studio, whereby dancers interacted with AI. Alternatively attendees could challenge enemies in a VR world!

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Press Release: Supported by the UK government Cocoon Networks London powers 2nd China-UK Hi! Technology Festival

China-UK Hi! Tech Festival: Driving Sino-British collaboration in Industry 4.0

Supported by the UK government Cocoon Networks London powers 2nd China-UK Hi! Technology Festival

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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

London – 12 June 2017:

After a sell-out success last December, the China-UK Hi! Technology Festival returns to Cocoon Networks London for its 2nd edition on June 14th – 16th 2017. Cocoon Networks London is an innovation centre connecting UK startups with Chinese capital.
Most recently, tech pioneer and former Head of Level39 Eric Van der Kleij appeared on Bloomberg to announce the launch of his ‘Centre for Digital Revolution’ based at our Cocoon Networks London Headquarters. Based within a custom built hub, C4DR will partner and co-invest with leading corporate organisations and invest in promising start-ups spanning AI, IoT, blockchain and robotics.
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China-UK Hi! Technology Festival returns to Cocoon Networks

China-UK Hi! Tech Festival returns to Cocoon Networks

Cocoon Networks London expects over 2000 visitors to its 2nd China-UK Hi! Technology Festival

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London – 07 June 2017:
The China-UK Hi! Technology Festival is a key part of the London Tech Week. As THE Sino-British event of the year it connects tech start-ups, tech professionals, investors and policymakers from both countries to form excellent business relationships.
The festival will open with a global startup contest powered by China’s largest (and the world’s 5th largest) cloud computing provider Alibaba Cloud in connection with Cocoon Networks.
Days 2 and 3 of the festival will see an unveiling ceremony followed by a series of keynote speeches, panel discussions, Q&As, workshops and networking opportunities with a cadre of highly accomplished representatives from industry, government and academia. Discussions will centre on the innovation and investment opportunities between China and the UK in Industry 4.0’s emerging smart technologies, such as Fintech & Blockchain, AI, Smart Device, and Greentech.
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WHAT: 2017 China-UK Hi! Technology Festival
WHEN: June 14th - 16th, 2017, 9 am - 9 pm/rolling basis
WHERE: Cocoon Networks London, 4 Christopher Street, EC2A, 2BS Continue reading “China-UK Hi! Technology Festival returns to Cocoon Networks”

Tech Pioneer Eric Van der Kleij launches Industry 4.0 Tech Centre at Cocoon Networks London

Tech Pioneer Eric Van der Kleij launches Industry 4.0 Tech Centre at Cocoon Networks London

C4DR and Cocoon Networks collaborate on helping UK and Continental Startups to expand to China

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Eric Van der Kleij appearing on BloombergUK tech pioneer Eric Van der Kleij appeared on Bloomberg on May 27th to announce the launch of his new venture C4DR ‘Centre for Digital Revolution’, a multi-city business development hub comprising a built-in international corporate foundry, a series of startup challenge programmes targeting key industry verticals, and an in-house 4IR think tank.

Based within a custom-built hub inside the Cocoon Networks Innovation Centre, C4DR will partner and co-invest with leading corporate organisations looking to build new solutions using 4IR technologies, and invest in promising startups spanning artificial intelligence, internet of things, blockchain and robotics, all within a specialised environment. The Centre will work with high-potential startups based in the hubs to help them win business both within and beyond the C4DR ecosystem, while simultaneously delivering sustainable benefit to both business and society.

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Big Data Expert Hadean joins Cocoon Networks London

Big Data Expert Hadean joins Cocoon Networks London

Launched in 2016, Hadean is a revolutionary distributed compute platform that transforms the way enterprise extracts actionable information from Big Data. The platform allows a single developer to run massive scale algorithms using their existing tool chain, and most importantly without the need for any engineering, maintenance or infrastructure support. This typically results in a product release exponentially faster than currently offered by existing Big Data solutions (www.hadean.com).

Since March 2017, Hadean has taken a membership at our Cocoon Networks London premises and is currently working with eight global customers across finance and risk management; healthcare and genomics; and enterprise and business analytics.The team is focussed on making their platform publically available in late 2017.

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Hatching the power of connectedness, Cocoon Networks to bridge the UK tech scene to the East

Hatching the power of connectedness, Cocoon Networks to bridge the UK tech scene to the East

 

Cocoon Networks London was successfully launched on 8 December at 2016 China-UK Hi! Tech Festival.
In partnership with Department for International Trade of the UK, London & Partners, London Tech Advocates, Tech City London, National Eastern Tech-transfer Centre of China, Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone of China, ChinaEquity Group, Tus Holdings and other partners, Cocoon Networks successfully host the two-day festival that hails ‘Golden Era’ of Sino-UK collaboration, investment and technology transfer with launch of London hub and venture capital funds.

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Forbes - UK-China Links Hatch For London’s Hungry Startups And VCs

Forbes - UK-China Links Hatch For London’s Hungry Startups And VCs

 

Rebecca Fannin , CONTRIBUTOR

London is getting closer to China at least in startup and venture circles. Just as it took a while for Silicon Valley to get comfortable doing deals and expanding in the Chinese market, it’s now London’s turn. It seems as if fear of missing out has replaced fear of failure in London, finally.

A few years ago, mention China to a UK audience of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and hardly anyone raised their hands to show they were involved in the Chinese market. Not anymore. I attended the launch of Cocoon Network’s co-working and innovation center in London’s startup district Shoreditch and met plenty of founders, deal-makers and investors eager to learn more about China. They snapped photos of slides showing how the Chinese market has progressed from a nation of copiers to innovators with some truly breakthrough ideas and business models, and proving how much the Chinese venture market has grown over the past decade to become the second largest in the world and risen to become the third-ranked nation worldwide for number of patent applications.

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Inaugural China-UK Hi! Technology Festival marks launch of innovation centre

Inaugural China-UK Hi! Technology Festival marks launch of innovation centre

 

Cocoon Networks hails ‘Golden Era’ of Sino-UK collaboration, investment and technology transfer with launch of London hub and venture capital fund
The first day of the inaugural China-UK Hi! Technology Festival takes place at the newly-opened Cocoon Networks London.
As part of Cocoon Networks ecosystem, Cocoon Networks London provides 70,000 sq ft of office space and is set to be a prime destination for promising startups in the technology and creative industries. The Cocoon Networks ecosystem will provide collaborators with opportunities to upskill, meet investors, develop and manage new IP and bring commercial ventures to new markets.

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Staying legal online as an entrepreneur: data protection and documentation

Staying legal online as an entrepreneur: data protection and documentation

 

Staying legal online as an entrepreneur: data protection and documentation

In this blog, Cocoon Networks’ service provider LawBite will illustrate the legal issues that an entrepreneur needs to consider when trading online. In particular, LawBite will focus on data protection issues and the documents required for your website.

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新浪(Sina)

新浪(Sina)

 

以“双轮驱动:科技创新与体制机制创新”为主题的2016浦江创新论坛在上海开幕。由科技部和上海市政府共同主办的高层次、开放式、国际化科技创新论坛,由“非凡中英创新论坛”开始正式拉开序幕。全球百位政坛、企业、学界知名人士齐聚黄浦江畔,共话创新、洽谈合作,中国科学技术部部长万钢与英国大学与科学国务大臣Jo Johnson作为两国部长领衔探讨启动两国创新引擎。Cocoon Networks作为主宾国英国的合作伙伴,全程助力浦江创新论坛与非凡中英创新论坛。

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