Central Working, the crowded open seating area at Campus London, doesn’t just make great coffee; it is playing a central role in brewing new start-ups. Entrepreneurs, like the java they sip by day and the beers they drink to unwind in the evening, benefit from infusion and fermentation, and Central Working provides that plus filtering. "To put it bluntly, if Central Working wasn’t there, we wouldn’t be here,” says Shawn Zvinis, founder of Subscrib, a retention service for bricks and mortar shops.Read more

It’s no accident that John Earner, a star social gaming developer, is behind Space Ape Games, an under-the-radar London start-up that is aiming to become “the Pixar of mobile gaming.” Earner is a member of the city’s Playfish mafia. Like the original team at PayPal, which famously went on to create the next generation of exciting companies in Silicon Valley, Playfish alumni are having a huge impact on London’s gaming sector.Read more

Joanna Shields, a scheduled speaker at London Web Summit, was recently appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the UK’s Tech City Investment Organisation and the UK's Business Ambassador for Digital Industries. Prior to this she was Facebook’s European boss. She has also held senior positions at RealNetworks, Google, Bebo and AOL. While CEO of Bebo she helped secure its $850 million sale to AOL, the most successful exit of a consumer Internet company in the history of the UK’s tech sector.Read more

Global digital advertising spend broke through the $100 billion barrier last year, according to eMarketer, meaning that desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile advertising now accounts for about 20% of the market. While the milestone made for eye-catching headlines, it represents only the first phase of an inexorable revolution which will see the advertising and marketing communication industry go entirely digital within a decade, predicts Mark Read, head of strategy and CEO of WPP Digital, a scheduled speaker at the March 1st London Web Summit.Read more