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Thinking Digital hits the North East

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 18, 2013

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It’s that time of year again when the world’s top techies descend on the North East of England for the esteemed Thinking Digital Conference.

And as avid supporters of the conference since launching six years ago, the MobiCart team will once again be attending the three-day event.

Attracting talent from the globe’s technology, media, science, industry and arts sectors, Thinking Digital welcomes speakers from across the world to Gateshead and Newcastle to share their pearls of wisdom with the audience.

Today saw the first round of speakers announced. This year’s bill of savvy speakers include Mike Bracken, former digital director of Guardian News and Media, Horace Dediu, who was crowned “the new king of apple analysts” by Fortune Magazine, Ed Parons, Ordnance Survey’s first CTO, and Graham Hughes, a British film-maker who recently completed a four-year journey to every country in the world without ever stepping onto a plane.

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Celebrating Newcastle, the ‘Silicon City’

2 Comments Posted by on June 16, 2011

Publication: The Journal
Written by: Paul Smith

IN MARCH, the UK editor of The Next Web – a popular technology blog with global reach and appeal – wrote the following: “Mention the UK technology start-up scene to anyone outside the country and they’ll probably think of London’s vibrant scene around the Old Street roundabout, or maybe clusters in places like Cambridge, or at a push the North East of England around Newcastle.”

The comment resonated deeply with me. It was the first time I’d seen an influential tech commentator suggest what many of us had suspected – that something extraordinary was occurring in Newcastle, and the region as a whole.

What is happening now feels profoundly different to events of the past. We’re experiencing a perfect storm of ideas, commitment, passion and importantly, realisation.

We have brilliant people who are discovering and collaborating with one another. Above all, there is a sense of self-sufficiency. Digital start-ups are collectively becoming their own support network.

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