WHILE the two-day Thinking Digital event will bring the world’s technology experts to our doorstep, it will also showcase some of our top talent to the world.
Among the list of speakers is Andy Redfern, co-founder and CEO of Gateshead-based Ethicalsuperstore.com – the green online retailer which has over 90,000 customers and sells 5,000 products.
The business runs on an innovative mix of open-source and custom-written software developed by the in-house team.
Meanwhile, Paul Smith, from Low Fell, Gateshead, hit the headlines this year for travelling from Newcastle to New Zealand using social networking website Twitter.
Mr Smith took part in yesterday’s Thinking Digital university event in the opening social media masterclass. Also representing the North East at Thinking Digital is James TerKeurst, director of the Institute of Digital Innovation (IDI) based at the University of Teesside. The IDI acts as an innovation catalyst for the region and manages the DigitalCity Fellowship programme which is currently creating new digital businesses at a rate of three a month.
To Journal readers Matt Ridley is perhaps better known as a financial chief than a scientist, but the former Northern Rock chairman is an accomplished science writer and was the driving force behind Newcastle’s International Centre for Life. Mr Ridley’s books, which include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue and Genome, have sold over half a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and have been shortlisted for six literary prizes.
The science expert, who stepped down from the helm of now-nationalised Northern Rock at the start of the bank’s crisis in 2007, will sit on a panel discussion tomorrow on ‘unconventional wisdom’.
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