This Week in the Village: Top Tech Events (23 April – 29 April)

Nina Fowler 2012-04-23 1

It’s a busy spring week in Berlin, with Germany’s biggest games conference, a hack and tell, and plenty of speaker sessions. Get out and into it!

Mon 23 April

Webmontag: Frontend Dev – speakers Lea Verou (“CSS in the 4th Dimension: Not your daddy’s CSS animation”) and Wooga developer Horia Dragomir.

WHEN 7.30pm
WHERE mobilesuite co-working, Pappelallee 78/79
HOW MUCH free with registration (limited)

Tue 24 April – Sat 28 April

DGT 12, Germany’s leading game developers conference, is on in Berlin this week. Buy a full ticket for all the inspiration you can handle or check out the free and one-off events.

WHEN All week
WHERE A wide range of venues, including Cafe Moskau and Computerspielemuseum on Karl-Mark-Allee
HOW MUCH €95-549, some free and one-off events

Tue 24 April

Spots for this week’s Berlin Hack and Tell meetup are full – but ping the organisers if you’ve got something great to demo and you might get a place.

WHEN 6.30pm
WHERE c-base Raumstation, Rungestrasse 20 (2nd backyard)
HOW MUCH Free

Wed 24 April

TESOBE Open Learning is a TED-style chance to discuss “hacker wisdom and topics of interest”, run by Berlin IT consultancy TESOBE. This month: SpatialDB on building location-based apps, Groupon developer Philipp on Node. JS and TESOBE’s James Morris on Backbone.JS.

WHEN 6 – 9pm
WHERE TESOBE, Osloer Strasse 16/17
HOW MUCH Free

Panel discussion (in German) about Berlin’s changing rapidly growing startup scene, featuring txtr‘s Christophe Maire and iversity‘s Jonas Leipmann

WHEN 7pm
WHERE Olswang Germany LLP, Potsdamer Platz 1
HOW MUCH Free with registration (you’ll need to be a media.net member)

Thu 25 April

This month’s Lean Startup meetup features Alex Osterwalder, co-author of bestselling innovation text Business Model Generation. A how-to for entrepreneurs and startups from an expert in business innovation.