May 22

Written by: James Burke
Thursday, May 22, 2008

The ThinkingDigital website contains the conference programme and a list of speakers as well as an interesting "zeitgeist" page that draws in del.icio.us, flickr, technorati, twitter (hashtags) and vimeo feeds relating to "thinkingdigital" tags.

The conference has its own online space provided by backnetwork intended to provide a platform for networking etc. but a quick review of activity on twitter and people tweeting with #thinkingdigital highlighted some additional and valuable delegate driven dynamic "reporting" activity:

• Ian Forrester, Head of BBC Backstage,  was videoing all of the talks and almost immediately uploading them to www.blip.tv and then linking them to the conference programme via the Backstage "Live from the Thinking Digital Conference" blog and
  
• Jure Cuhalev performed a great task of "live blogging" entries to his blog
• Jas Dhaliwal wrote an excellent blog post re: day 1 @ Thinking Digital complete with some videos and presentations
• A number of articles were also written by the North East "The Journal" and "Evening Gazette" online newspaper: nebusiness.co.uk

I believe that 21st Century Media have been videoing all of the talks and it would be great to see these videos after the conference is over together with the presentation slides presented in a similar vein to Startup School 08 using the Omnisio web service.

I am sure that a good percentage of the delegates attending today were unaware of all the online "Thinking Digital" that was being actively carried out around them via phones and laptops (unfortunately with battery power only) as they watched the speakers.

Thinking Digital is delivering what it set out to do and I hope that the organisers Codeworks look at ways to capture, disseminate and continue this conversation once the conference is over to make for an even better conference next year.

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Update - complete list of BBC Backstage "Live from the Thinking Digital Conference" video links below:

Day one

Session 1: The Future of Media
-- Matt Locke
-- Eric Lindstrom & Steve Jelley
-- Jeremy Silver

Session 2: United We Stand
-- Darren Thwaites
-- Ian Kennedy
-- Tara Hunt

An Entrepreneur's Story
-- Sean Phelan

Thinking Digital Tech Demo
-- Steve Clayton
-- Q&A

Session 3: Happiness
-- Helen Fisher
-- Caspar Berry
-- Jonathan Harris

Session 4: The Singularity
-- Ian Neild
-- Ray Kurzweil (via Teleportec)

Day two

Session 5: Mobile 2.0 panel debate
-- Gerard Grech
-- Vikesh Patel
-- Mark Selby
-- Bradley de Souza

Greg Dyke interviewed by Andy Allan

Session 6: Unconventional Wisdom
-- Aubrey de Grey
-- Carl Honore
-- Dan Lyons (a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs)

Session 7: Globalisation - Opportunity or Threat?
-- Jessica Flannery
-- Claire Nouvian

Session 8: Management & Leadership
-- Richard St John
-- Dan Pink
-- Doug Richard

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