..at the inaugural Thinking Digital conference, May 21-23 in Gateshead.
Some of technology's greatest visionaries will head to North East England from around the world in May to discuss the ideas and technologies that are set to fundamentally alter the way people live, work and play.
The inaugural Thinking Digital conference will seek to answer some of the key questions facing high level executives in the fields of marketing, technology, mobile and media, such as: what are the next big changes we'll see in the media? What will globalisation bring us next? Will mobile 2.0 ever show up? And is technology leading us down the path to utopia or to the extinction of the planet?
An exclusive audience of 400 people is expected at the two-and-a-half day event, at the Sage Gateshead on May 21-23, to hear from an eclectic mix of speakers including key players from the world's leading digital agencies and media organisations, including:
* Ray Kurzweil, a renowned futurist, Hall of Fame inventor and visionary who predicts that computer intelligence will surpass human intelligence in 2029
* Aubrey de Grey, a controversial biogerentologist who believes it is possible to engineer a cure for ageing
* Dan Lyons, the senior editor of Forbes magazine, who was outed last summer as the man behind The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. . .
* Tara Hunt, community marketing guru, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Citizen Agency
* Sean Phelan, the founder of Multimap
* Mark Selby, vice president of sales and industry collaboration at Nokia
* Jessica Flannery, chief marketing officer for Kiva.org, a web 2.0 social enterprise that helps entrepreneurs in developing nations
* Daniel Pink, Al Gore's former speechwriter and author of A Whole New Mind, which charts the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies
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http://www.thinkingdigital.co.uk/mediacentre/press_releases.phphttp://www.thinkingdigital.co.uk/home/What makes the exclusive audience of 400 people exclusive? Well, the £475 plus tax admission fee is probably one factor - about $1100. That plus the determination to travel to Gateshead, which is in the far north of England, about 250 miles from London.
