Day 1: Joi Ito
Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons and founder and CEO of Neoteny, a venture capital firm focused on personal communications and enabling technologies.
Day 1: Christian Payne speech
An experienced journalist, Christian Payne (AKA Documentally) maintains and host blogs and podcasts with readers and listeners in over sixty countries. With a hand in social media, citizen journalism, professional photography and audio and video podcasting.
Day 1: Jonathan Drori speech
Jon is Director of Changing Media, a consulting company that works with Government and other public bodies to develop creative and business strategy to help them to engage hard-to-reach groups.
Day 1: Don Levy speech
Don Levy is Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Sony Pictures Digital (SPD), a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Levy directs the corporate communications, marketing and public relations for SPD’s operating units including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Online Entertainment.
Day 1: Andy Hobsbawm speech
A pioneer of the UK internet industry, Andy still remember the buzz of watching users from around the world interact with his earliest Web site, the world’s first commercial eZine PowerPC News, following the release of Mosaic in 1993. Andy established the first international Internet agency in 1994 and was a founding director of leading British new media company Online Magic that merged with Agency.com in 1997.
Day 1: Rory Sutherland speech
In 1990 Rory Sutherland was a junior copywriter, working on American Express, Royal Mail and an obscure American company called Microsoft. In early 1993 he and his art director suggested that perhaps Microsoft might extend sales of its Office suite by bundling it with “a modem thing”, hence enabling people to share their files over something called the Internet. This was eventually presented to some people in Redmond, WA, who rightly decided it was a very silly idea indeed.
Day 1: Tom Wujec on 'The Marshmallow Challenge'
Tom Wujec is a Fellow at Autodesk, the world’s leader in 2D & 3D design technology. As a recognized thought-leader and award-winning innovator, Tom works with the Fortune 500 to foster innovation practices at all stages, from strategic and business planning to the design and implementation of digital design tools.
Day 1: Brian Solis speech
Author of the new book Engage!, Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has influenced the effects of emerging media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and publishing.
Giveway Music: Performance
Formed in 1998, the group comprises four sisters: Fiona (fiddle/guitar/whistles/backing vocals), Kirsty (accordion/lead vocals), Amy (drums/percussion/backing vocals) and Mairi (keyboards/backing vocals).
Day 1: Luis Von Ahn speech
Professor Luis von Ahn works in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests include encouraging people to do work for free, as well as catching and thwarting cheaters in online environments.
Day 1: Robert Lang speech
Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for over forty years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with over 500 designs catalogued and diagrammed. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created.
Day 1: Julian Treasure speech
Every business is making sound, but most are doing it unconsciously and damaging their sales, customer satisfaction, staff productivity and marketing effectiveness in the process. Getting your sound right can improve your bottom line fast. The Sound Agency helps clients achieve better results through the better use of sound – in branding, communication, retail or public spaces, offices and product design.
Day 1: Robert McKee speech
Robert McKee’s Story Seminar is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Over 50,000 people have attended Robert’s courses over the last 25 years, and his former students have gone on to win 36 Academy Awards and 158 Emmy Awards. So influential and well-known is his Story Seminar that it was featured in the Nicholas Cage/Spike Jonze film, Adaptation.
Day 2: Paul Miller speech
Paul is Managing Director of Gavurin. In an earlier life, Paul directed many economics and economics related subjects for clients that included: Office of Fair Trading, Office of Deputy Prime Minister, Department of Culture Media and Sport, Department of Trade and Industry, UK Trade and Industry, Nominet, HSBC, Lombard Finance and many others.
Day 2: Gilbert Cockton speech
Gilbert Cockton is a Professor in Northumbria University’s internationally renowned School of Design, a short walk from the Sage over the Millennium Bridge and up the banks of the Tyne. His research interests focus on garnering and exploiting human insights for design and evaluation.