Dragons’ Den

Last year, the best teams of students on the Apps for Good course had the chance to pitch their work, ideas and prototypes to a panel of  ”dragons” at our Dragons’ Den events. This year we will be hosting the Apps for Good Awards.

The dragons assess their ideas for market focus, originality, mobile features, viral marketing effects amongst other criteria and vote if the apps should get funding for development to become fully-functioning apps that can be downloaded on Android Market.

Our Dragons’ Den events are attended by up to 150-200 people and our previous dragons include:

• Mark Schmid, Communications Director, Talk Talk
• Jo Twist, Commissioning Editor for Education, Channel 4
• Antony Marcano, Founder and CEO, Riverglide
• Jamie Murray-Wells, Founder, Glasses-Direct
• Scott Seaborn, Head of Mobile, Ogilvy Group
• Lopa Patel, Founder, Redhotcurry.com
• Ian Cleland Ritchie, Chairman, iomart plc
• Anthony Lilley, Chief Creative Officer and CEO, Magic Lantern
• Jogesh Limbani, Head of Open Innovation, Orange Labs
• Desigan Chinniah, Firestarter, Innovator & Geek, Mozilla