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Thinking Digital speakers revealed

THE line up of speakers for the biggest event on the North East’s digital and technology calendar has been announced.

The Thinking Digital conference, which regularly attracts delegates from across the country to Tyneside with an international band of key players in the industry, has revealed its line up for May 2011.

Next year’s event, that has already seen 182 people sign up for tickets, will welcome Belgian serial entrepreneur Walter De Brouwer - European CEO of the company behind the One Laptop per Child initiative - to the region.

Also in attendance will be Nancy Duarte, who is considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on presentation development and design. She has built powerful presentations for hundreds of clients over the years. Most notably she created the slide presentation that was at the heart of Al Gore’s Oscar-winning ’An Inconvenient Truth’.

Joining her on the main stage will be Erin McKean, who likes to call herself a Dictionary Evangelist. She is the CEO of the new online dictionary Wordnik and was the editor in chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2e, and is the author of Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, and That’s Amore (also about words).

Other notables in the eclectic mix of speakers include Stockholm-based ‘trendspotter’ Magnus Lindkvist, North East media entrepreneur Caspar Berry, design mind magazine editor-in-chief Sam Martin and digital industry comedian Tom Scott.

For more information or to book your ticket go to www.thinkingdigital.co.uk.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .