Top international speakers revealed for North East conference

The roster of speakers for the North East’s Thinking Digital conference has been revealed, and includes a 16 year-old scientists, a former BBC presenter and a technologist for Google Maps.

Set to take place on May 23rd at The Sage Gateshead, the 6th annual conference presents a wide variety of innovators and thinkers.

On the list of speakers is Ed Parsons, the first CTO of Ordnance Survey and now Geospatial Technologist for Google Maps; Horace Dediu, the “new king of Apple analysts”; Jack Andraka, a 16 year-old scientist who won the 2012 Intel Science and Engineering Fair for his pancreatic cancer detection test; and Karen Dillon, the former editor of the Harvard Business Reveiw.

Elsewhere, former presenter of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World and current ‘Bang Goes the Theory’ presenter, Maggie Philbin will speak, along with British filmmaker Graham Hughes, and Aza Raskin, the former design lead for Mozilla and co-founder of Massive Health.

Thinking Digital founder and director Herb Kim, said: “Thinking Digital has built a reputation for attracting the world’s best thinkers and speakers. We are genuinely blessed to have such a roster of rock stars make the journey from around the globe to Tyneside in May for Thinking Digital 2013. We look forward to creating a fabulous experience for the entire Thinking Digital community.”

Tickets are priced at £225+vat until Thursday, March 28. More information can be found here: http://www.thinkingdigital.co.uk/.