Connecting two digital hubs, why I came to London

Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by AdamWallace in Community, Hotel

Hi Everyone, Adam Wallace (@adwal) here from London.  I came here on a very last minute trip, not a lot of people knew I was going and I wanted to just take a second to explore with you why I came to London and why the Roger Smith Hotel is interested in connecting with London.  It short, I saw that London has become a hub for the digital scene in Europe and the Roger Smith Hotel has become a hub for the digital scene in New York, so there seemed to be a clear opportunity to connect.

From New York over the past three months I have been able to see that there is a vibrant digital scene in the UK that is centered in London.  The series of events that led me to a focus on the UK was when eConsultancy, a UK based Blog and community of digital marketers, wrote a profile piece on us at the Roger Smith Hotel.  It was not the piece that they wrote, but the buzz that came after it.  I realized how much credibility and influence they had and turned my attention to the UK. From there I modorated a great round table event that they put on in NYC and then started seeing other great things that were coming out of UK.

We became connected with Sarah Prevette who is the founder of Sprouter, a global online community of entrepreneurs.  She hosted a few events with us where many of the people she brought in had ties to the UK.  From her we met David Blumenstien, who led us to more ties in the UK digital scene.  From David we got introduced to Chinwag, which is an organization which connects the UK digital scene.  If you want to see just how vibrant the UK scen is, just take a look at their website’s list of events just for this week.  The Roger Smith then hosted two events with Chinwag’s Digital Mission to NYC put on by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

Well, you get the idea, all signs have been pointing to UK as being the hub.  So when Sarah Prevette invited the Roger Smith to be a part of a series of event here, it was clear that this is the place to be.  In addition to furthering connections between NYC and London with these organizations, tonight there is a Microsoft BizSpark hoilday party and tomorrow I’m very excited to be a part of SproutUp London which is the book launch party for Gary Vaynerchuk‘s  Crush It.  It is going to be a very exciting few days and I am happy for the Roger Smith Hotel to be representing in London!

Following London I will be in Paris for Le Web (more to come on that soon!).

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