In the morning, after a hearty breakfast, attendees learned about Modern UI, with Andrew explaining the new Windows experience and design principles that manifest themselves in this new style of application. Later in the day, after lunch, Andrew built upon the essential idea for an app and took people through the process of turning it into a fully fledged Windows Store application.

There are only a few more Windows 8 Design and UX workshops coming up, so why sign up to attend one now. Want to see what the day involves and what past attendees thought of the day? Then simply watch this video:

The event was lively and buzzing with award winners and creatives. Images of the winning designs featured in the annual were projected onto our large displays, taking over entire walls of Modern Jago.

The main feature of the night including handing out of awards to the best in book, this year that included:

• Nike+ Fuelband (with digital partner R/GA)
• Nike+ Kinect (with digital partner AKQA)
• London 2012 Olympic / Paralympic opening and closing ceremony (with digital imaging services supplier, Crystal CG)
• Meet the Superhumans / Thanks for the warm up (with communications agency 4Creative)
• Herb Lubalin (with design agency Spin)
• Election Issue (by Bloomberg Business Week)
• Space Lab (by Google Creative Lab and YouTube)
• Make TV (with creative producers Party Inc.)
• P&G Best Job (with Anonymous Content)
• Axe Super Sensories (written by BBH London)
• Axe Anarchy (also by BBH London)
• Tiny Tim: Livin in the Sunlight (created by Layzell Brothers / Blinkink)
• The Guardian: Three Little Pigs (produced by Rattling Stick)
• Women’s Aid (with agency WCRS)

For more information, pick up a copy of The Annual with this month’s edition of Creative Review.

It was invite only, but we took plenty of pictures from the night so you can see how the event went down. Remember, you can come along to any of our open events at Modern Jago, or even host your own for free, mi casa es su casa. Just get in touch.

Digital Wallet Foundry, an event series designed to encourage the development of digital wallet applications, continued on the week of April 15^th with the latest event focussing on facilitating and supporting loyalty and identity services. The week also played host to an exciting 48 hour app building hackathon. We covered the first day and now we’re able to share the results of the week and winners of the hackathon.

A team from Lloyds Banking Group – made up of digital project manager Ravi Jain and digital graduate Jay Bashir – claimed victory on the final day of the Loyalty & Identity week; with a proof-of-concept app, dubbed Verify Me. The proposition of the app was to ease customer verification during point of sale that requires credit or identification checks, for example; a phone contract or tenancy agreement. Plus the app would check for applicable incentives that might be available to the consumer. All of this would be done at check-out via the touch of a button on your mobile phone. No need for paper Ids or lengthy processes for credit checks.

Experts were on hand throughout the week offering talks and in-depth sessions to help attendees and teams identify the roles and responsibilities of the key industry players and where opportunities exist for innovation.

“Here was a team of true corporate employees, quite unfamiliar with the world of start ups and hackathons,” says Payment Pioneer, Julian Wilson who was one of the experts on hand throughout the week. “They came together without an idea, yet their solution was creative and pragmatic: it turned an asset (currently an operational cost) into a driver of two real new revenue streams.  It solved a real recognisable frustrating problem: signing up to a contract on the spur of the moment,” Julian added, before elaborating further with: “The most exciting and impressive thing about this app, is that it not only solves a real problem but does so as a logical extension to systems which already existed,” systems which were ready and waiting for the right thinking to augment and reimagine. “Without change in strategic direction or diversion, as simple as a new button on the LBH banking application and a different use of their existing identification and credit checking services. They deserved to win,” he concluded.

What was Digital Wallet Foundry experience like for the winning team? “The presentations on the first day gave us a great insight into the industry and purposes of the event. We had the support of the Microsoft guys, the FreedomPay platform and independent developers (at Digital Wallet Foundry) to actually make it into a solution we can take back to our organisation and develop further,” explained Bashir; “There’s been a lot of knowledge sharing and a lot of innovative thinking.” “We’ve definitely had interest and there is definitely weight behind the idea, so hopefully we can progress it further,” added Jain.

Richard Peers of Microsoft, the event organiser, said “Hackathons have many purposes: social; skills; new ideas and hopefully coded examples of breakthrough solutions.  With Digital Wallet Foundry we tried to bring this format to corporations and the result is an unqualified success.  The solution from Lloyds was remarkable and they were the clear winner.  But it was the community that provided the spark and in that all participants and entrants can feel proud.”

You can view a full video of the results and an interview with the winning team here.

You can explore Modern Jago on your own or with your peers to learn about how you can use this creative & collaborative space for yourself, your organisation and your community. We’ll be holding these regularly so feel free to pop along to one or all of them, we’d love to see you.

Here’s a brief list of the Modern Jago crew that will be joining us at the Breakfast Club. Matt Ballantine @ballantine70, Mike Taulty @mtaulty, Martin Beeby @thebeebs, Andrew Spooner @andspo, Sara Allison @SaraAllison, Phil Cross @philcr, Jaime Keenan @jaime_keenan and Paul Lo @paullo.

The pot of coffee will be brewing from 7.30am at Modern Jago (Club Row, Arnold Circus, Shoreditch, London E2 7ES). When registering, please use the password ‘bacon’ to sign in. See you there!

The Backscratchers is a handpicked network bringing together innovative companies and creative talent for short-term projects and collaborations.

The launch event itself was a collaborative affair showcasing the talents of creatives across a range of media. A roving band of illustrators sketched guest portraits, Nail Something buffed and painted one-of-a-kind nail designs, and Cult Events served up canapes from locally sourced ingredients. Hendrick’s Gin and Vita Coco also came to the party with with all-important liquid refreshments.

Start something beautiful 

If you’re interested in joining Backscratchers or have a project in need of collaborators, head over to www.thebackscratchers.com. We’d love to see some beautiful new apps come out of these collaborations!

Our space = your space 

Modern Jago is available for events that foster learning, creating, collaboration and play in the digital space. If you’re interested in staging an event here, we’d love to hear from you. Plus: we also host co-working, Monday-Friday, 9am-5:30pm. Find out more here.  

Host your event at Modern Jago

To find out about hosting your event, meetup or workshop at Modern Jago. To find out more about what facilities are available from projection walls to a high quality PA system and check availability for the date you have in mind; simply e-mail us via booking@modernjago.co.uk and we can work with you to make it a reality.

Come to Modern Jago to work, meet and network

Modern Jago is a great place for individuals, start-ups, designers and developers working in the digital industries to work, meet and collaborate with each other.

Co-working opening times

• Open 9am – 7pm
• Monday – Friday

No need to book: Simply show up during the times above and sign-up to make the most of the space. Space isn’t exclusive, so be willing to share with like-minded teams and individuals. Who knows? It may be the chance meeting that changes everything.

The Digital Wallet Foundry continued on April 15^th, with the latest event in the series focussing on facilitating and supporting loyalty and identity services. This ongoing series is designed to encourage the development of digital wallet applications.

Experts are on hand throughout this week to help attendees identify the roles and responsibilities of the key industry players and where opportunities exist for innovation. The week kicked off with a day of setting the scene, great talks from industry experts and insightful questions from the audience.

Expert Speaker Sessions

Richard Peers of Microsoft welcomed the attendees before handing over to Payment Pioneer, Julian Wilson, to set the scene for the digital payments industry and offer an entrepreneurs’ perspective.  Julian highlighted that “vision, people, attitude and timing are as important as technical elegance” when building a business.”

With the exciting focus areas of Identity and Loyalty, Nick Norman of Consult Hyperion (specialists in mobile payments) was well placed to delve deeper into the logic and ecosystems before handing over to Rafaele Petruzzo, Director of Business Development & Innovation of Tesco Bank. Rafeale offered the perspective of both a retailer and a financial services provider; “Large retail stores effect mobile signal. This seems trivial but could stop enabling of mobile payments in-store”.

Zoe Cunningham, MD of Softwire gave a great talk on the future of loyalty and painted and exciting future for loyalty in digital. Zoe suggested that “gamification” will play a big role on creating engaging and rewarding loyalty experiences; “Badges as digital loyalty rewards are an exciting proposition,” consumers could be rewarded around number of purchases, frequency, time and more. Rafael Petruzzo highlighted that Tier 1 acceptable merchant integration must ensure loyalty AND payment processes are seamless & fast: “A second longer at the till could cost us millions,” he said.

The final expert talk was given by Christopher Kronenthal, CTO of FreedomPay, who revealed that “Payments was a transaction business, now it is an information business” before demonstrating their white label platform for the attendees.

The Hackathon

The afternoon focussed on dedicated face to face sessions with the experts around both the business and the technical side of digital wallet apps. We also saw the beginnings of the 48 hour hackathon competition unfold as teams began to develop and build their ideas.

Who will claim victory on Friday?

We’ll be posting a full recap of the results of the hackathon, which will be judged on Friday 19^th April. In the mean time you can get a deeper glimpse of Digital Wallet Foundry and keep track of what’s to come via #DigitalWalletFoundry

Curate it and they will come

The Backscratchers is a handpicked network bringing together innovative companies and creative talent for short-term projects and collaborations.

The launch event itself was a collaborative affair showcasing the talents of creatives across a range of media. A roving band of illustrators sketched guest portraits, Nail Something buffed and painted one-of-a-kind nail designs, and Cult Events served up canapes from locally sourced ingredients. Hendrick’s Gin and Vita Coco also came to the party with with all-important liquid refreshments.

Start something beautiful 

If you’re interested in joining Backscratchers or have a project in need of collaborators, head over to www.thebackscratchers.com. We’d love to see some beautiful new apps come out of these collaborations!

Our space = your space 

Modern Jago is available for hosting events that foster learning, creativity, collaboration and play in the digital space. If you’re interested in staging an event here, we’d love to hear from you. Plus: we also host co-working, Monday-Friday, 9am-7:00pm. Find out more here.  

Last month we explored how the term digital wallet has grown to mean many things to many people. What was once a container for payment instruments is now more a of ‘messaging layer’ for all sorts of data.   Within this view payment has become just one part (albeit an important one) of an overall ‘proposition’.

So assuming this is true then what else is happening in that digital wallet?

There are probably two classes of service that cover most of the ‘other stuff’ going on: Identification and Loyalty.

Identity:

Those of us from an IT background probably still think of Active Directory or LDAP (X.509) or RSA certificates when the word identity is used. In payment circles it may be KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti-money laundering). but in the context of a Digital Wallet, Identity may mean much more: can i access a building or a service? Am I able to drive a car or this car? Am i a member here? am I over 18? etc. Proving that we are who we purport to be &/or have the required privileges to do something, is critical. Digital Wallets connected to networks, can support identification services in many ways using a mix of things we know and things we own.

The second area we will look at is Loyalty:

Operating a loyalty program means the issuing of a coupon with an associated value and a list of places where it can be spent (redeemed).

A bit like a ‘closed loop’ currency that can only be spent on certain goods in certain places. And these controls were necessary for reasons of security and economics.

The principal justification of a loyalty scheme has always been to increase two things: propensity to buy and the value of a transaction (to generate more profit per customer for its ‘operator’). The arrival of smartphones and their ‘ecosystems’ of applications may be about to change things. Firstly the costs for operating and participating in a loyalty scheme have dropped rapidly. Secondly when smartphones plus network services are used to validate and identify the coupon, the owner and the goods: then theoretically (at least) most outlets could be participating in most schemes. So does loyalty start to look like a payment instrument…?

Once again we have invited some experts to help us to understand the considerations. We don’t profess to have the answers but we do plan to conceive some ideas and build some applications.

As a developer the event was designed for you.

What the DWF offers developers:

Expert opinions to help form or sanity check an idea; learn key techniques of agile product development; set up of your own AZURE cloud services expert tuition on Wallet, Windows 8 and Windows Phone app; free working facility at your disposal during the DWF week; all catering has been sponsored by Nokia;  help with writing your business case access to potential funding sources recognition and awards (for completed developments)

Places are limited so sign up now to attend free and make the most of this exciting opportunity.

Our primary goal remains to encourage the development of wallet applications. In our first Digital Wallet Foundry we looked at how digital wallets facilitated payment services, we are now looking at how it supports loyalty and identity services. With the help of experts we will try to identify the roles and responsibilities of the key players and importantly where opportunities exist for innovation.

• Mobile wallets have to work harder than analogue wallets.  If we are to make a change to long held consumer behaviour we need to improve  speed, convenience, lower cost and  utility with no risk.  This session will bring into focus all these elements as Loyalty and Identity are central to the success of these criteria
• Example:  A customer uses their Mobile to seamlessly check their balance; buy a DVD in store; download a  music gift card; redeem a store discount voucher and check out whilst automatically topping up Loyalty card points.

Who will be here?

Developers, designers, industry leaders and people with a view. If you’re a one man band or a leader of a team of hundreds, if you have an application idea (or want one) this event is for you.

Why should I attend?

Sanity check, reject or conceive ideas with help from thought leaders and industry experts.

Then realise your idea in 48 hours with expert help on everything from coding to agile project development to business planning.

Please come prepared to do.

Loyalty & Identity: 15th April

You can register free now or check out the agenda below:

Agenda

Day One

Setting the scene for Business and Developers

09.00 – 09.30 Arrival and Coffee

09:30 – 09:35 Welcome – Richard Peers, Microsoft

09:35 – 09:45 Setting the Scene – Julian Wilson, Payment Pioneer

09.45 – 10.30 ID & Loyalty Ecosystem – David Birch, Consult Hyperion

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10.45 – 11.15 A Bank’s Perspective – t.b.c.

11.15 – 11.45 A Retailer’s Perspective – Katie Wadey, Group Director, TESCO

11.45 – 12:15 Loyalty Brief 1 – Zoe Cunningham, Founder Tech Talkfest & MD Softwire

12:15 – 12:30 ID Brief 2 – Christopher Kronenthal, CTO, FreedomPay Inc

12:30 – 13:00 Lunch

Learning the skills and Hackathon

13:00 – 14:00 Digital Wallet – Technical Overview – Andy Wigley, Microsoft.

14:00 – 18:00 Planning and Support Clinics:

· Azure User Group – Richard Conway

· Freedompay – Chris Kronenthal

· Idea Clarification & Business planning – Julian Wilson · Windows 8 & Windows Phone engineer support – Andy Wigley · Corporate Teams Support (pre-regd. entries) – Microsoft & Freedompay

14.00-22.00 Coding and doing (Just get on with it and tap into skills as you need them).

Day Two

08:00 – 18:00 Coding and doing.

08:00 – 18:00 Support Clinics:

· Azure User Group – Richard Conway

· Freedompay – Chris Kronenthal

· Idea Clarification & Business planning – Julian Wilson · Windows 8 & Windows Phone engineer support – Andy Wigley · Corporate Teams Support (pre-regd. entries) – Microsoft & Freedompay

Formal proceedings end here, however, developers are free to carry on working here.

Judging will not be held until the Friday (Day 5).

Day Five

12:00 – 12:30 Refreshments and set up

12.30 – 13.30 Project presentations (10 min’s per entry)

13.30 – 13.45 Judging

13.45 –14.00 Awards

Digital Wallet Foundry Objectives:

Bring diverse and competing parties together to share and learn Shape consumer propositions through collaboration Build proofs of concepts and/or applications.

Why attend as a developer?

Improve your understanding of Digital Wallet development & their ‘Ecosystems’.

Acquire new technical skills.

Build that application you have been talking about.

Secure help to develop your business case.

Have fun and eat free food!

Will Victory Be Yours?

The winning entry will receive a £500 dining voucher (in addition to the peer recognition and publicity for the products developed during the week.

For what constitutes a valid entry see here:

http://modernjago.co.uk/digitalwalletfoundry-terms-conditions/

REGISTER FREE NOW

This the second event of the DWF series and will combine Identity with Loyalty. Why not check out the winning teams video from the previous Payments centric week here.