Video Archive: 2011 Top ∧
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Alan Cohen
Cisco
Alan Cohen formerly of Cisco and now at the high profile Nicira startup. Alan's terrific talk on information overload and what we can do about it is wonderfully supplemented by slides designed by Nancy Duarte, another #TDC11 speaker.
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Casper Berry
Embracing Risk
Funny thing about risk and uncertainty - we hate it. Try to engineer it out of our lives but, ironically, it may be that… "It is only because tomorrow is uncertain that today has any meaning at all."
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Dan Lyons
Newsweek & Daily Beast
The always insightful and entertaining Dan Lyons who joined us this year via Apple's Facetime from Boston, MA. In this often hysterical talk Dan shares his insights about Google, Facebook and Roxxxy the sex robot among other things.
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Dan Serfaty
Viadeo
Dan is the co-founder & CEO of perhaps the most under-appreciated company in the whole of social media. Dan tells us the story of where Viadeo came from, how it differs from LinkedIn and what professional social networking is like in the rest of the world.
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Heather Knight
Carnegie Mellon University
Heather Knight is a researcher at Carnegie Mellon and runs Marilyn Monrobot Labs in New York, which creates live robot theatre performances. Her work focuses on how we make robots more 'charismatic' and she’s joined on stage by Data the robot.
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Jer Thorp
Data wizard
A speaker at #TDC10, Jer returns to talk about his work helping the New York Times understand the 'life of a story' online. He also talks about his top-secret work helping build the NYC 9/11 Memorial.
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Nancy Duarte
Duarte Design
Nancy works with much of the Silicon Valley elite including Apple, HP and Cisco in helping create impact through their presentations. You need to watch this fascinating talk on the emotional rhythm you'll find behind the speeches of Steve Jobs and Martin Luther King.
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Steve Bathiche
Microsoft Applied Sciences
Steven's talk on his work at Microsoft was a huge hit, explaining how his team are working to make interfaces more intuitive, natural and 'transparent'.
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Dr Vincent Li
Angiogenesis Foundation
A spectacular talk that could literally save your life. Dr. Li shows how the introduction of simple ingredients like tomatoes can have a dramatic effect on preventing cancer.
Video Archive: 2010 Top ∧
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Andy Hobsbawm
Dothegreenthing
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.
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Brian Solis
Futureworks
Author of the new book Engage!, Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media.
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Christian Payne
Documentally
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.
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David Siegel
Documentally
David tells the story of information and discusses in detail the term semantic web.
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Don Levy
Sony Pictures
Don Levy is Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Sony Pictures Digital (SPD), a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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Gilbert Cockton
Associate Dene at Northumbria University
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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).
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Jer Thorp
Data wizard
Jer Thorp speaking at the Thinking Digital Conference 2010 about data visualisation.
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Joi Ito
Creative Commons
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.
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Jonathan Drori
23 ways to screw up a relationship
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.
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Julian Treasure
The Sound Agency
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.
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Ken Banks
Founder of Kiwanja & Frontline SMS
Ken Banks speaking at the Thinking Digital Conference 2010 about his companies frontlineSMS.com technology. He discusses how the technology they provide helps non for profit organisations and third world countries communicate effectively.
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Lets buy happiness
Performance
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Luis Von Ahn
Carnegie Mellon University
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.
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Mary Ann de Lares Norris
MD of Oblong Europe
Mary Ann de Lares Norris speaking at the Thinking Digital Conference 2010 discusses technologies being developed and deployed by Oblong in the field of gestural computing interfaces.
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Paul Miller
Gavurin
Paul is Managing Director of Gavurin a promising new software startup based in North East England.In this talk, Paul demonstrates Gavurin's G-View software which is a state of the art mashup between maps and statistical data.
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Ralf Herbrich
Project Emporia
Ralf Herbrich is the Director of Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs UK in Cambridge, England, which focuses on demonstrating and enabling new social experiences through development of computational intelligence technologies on large online data collections.
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Richard Titus
Daily Mail Group & Wired 100
The Managing Director of Associated Northcliffe Digital, Richard Titus, has a well-established history of innovation and making things happen. He was formerly part of the team that helped make the BBC iPlayer a huge hit. He was an executive producer for the award winning documentary - Who Killed the Electric Car and ironically was one of the very first owners of the Tesla sportscar created by his pal - Elon Musk.
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Robert Lang
Origami
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.
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Robert McKee
Storylogue
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.
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Rory Sutherland
Ogilvy Group UK
Rory Sutherland was born in Usk, Monmouthshire in 1965 and educated at the local Haberdashers’ school and at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
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Tom Wujec
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.
Video Archive: 2009 Top ∧
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Adrian Hon
Founder of Six to Start & telegraph columnist
Adrian is the Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of Six to Start, and is one of the world's leading alternate reality game designers.
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Alex Hunter
Brand 2.0, why people should love you
Alex spoke about creating brand loyalty, what makes people love a brand, how to keep them loving you and what to do if you find youself in a situation where people are not loving your brand.
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Andy Redfern
CEO of ethicalsuperstore.com
Andy is the co-founder and CEO of the innovative online retailer EthicalSuperstore.com.
Launched in 2006, EthicalSuperstore.com already has 90,000 customers and a range of 5000 products. Operating from Team Valley, Gateshead, the business is bucking the current retail environment with 50% year on year growth. The business runs on an innovative mix of open source and custom written software developed by the in-house team.
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Ben Hammersley
Wired UK
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Caleb Chung
Beauty & Magic
Full presentation from Caleb Chung - inventor of the Furby and the Pleo - at the 2009 Thinking Digital conference.
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Chandler Burr
The Science of Perfume
In this talk he discusses and shows how different elements of scent go into making a world class multi-million dollar perfume.
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Curtis Wong
Creator of World Wide Telescope & MS Research
Curtis Wong is Principal Researcher and group manager of Microsoft’s Next Media Research group focusing on Microsoft’s future interactive media technologies. He has authored more than 45 patents pending in areas such as interactive television, media browsing, visualisation, search, gaming and learning.
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Dan Lyons
Newsweek & Daily Beast
Returning to Thinking Digital in 2009, Dan talks about how Newsweek magazine is responding to the challenges facing print journalism, as well as his hysterical commentary on Apple, Google, Microsoft and others.
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Darius Pocha
MD of Enable Interactive
Darius began his career as a freelance graphic designer working for the big advertising agency networks.
In the late ‘90’s he became fascinated by the creative possibilities of digital media and moved into the interactive space with agencies Reality and CTPi. He was one of the founders and Creative Director of digital arts magazine Com[a].
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Emer McCourt
BAFTA winning producer of Human Traffic
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Hans Rosling
Gapmider and Trendalyzer
Hans presented at the 2009 Thinking Digital conference via videolink from the Institute, and demonstrated the use of animation to show statistical data of change over time.
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Harry Dmec
Former MD of Red Bull
The former Managing Director of Redbull talks about connecting with your customers and how this helped him win his legendary show down with Tescos.
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James Terkeurst
IDI, Teeside University
James TerKeurst is Director of the Institute of Digital Innovation (IDI) and a Member of the DigitalCity Board.
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Johnny Chung Lee
Research into Interface Technology
Full presentation "Research into Interface Technology" given by Johnny Chung Lee, of Microsoft at the 2009 Thinking Digital conference, held at The Sage Gateshead 13 - 15 May 2009.
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Matt Mason
The Pirates Dilema
Full presentation from Matt Mason, Author of The Pirates Dilemma: How Youth Culture Reinvented Capitalism.
His book looks at the problems and opportunities created by the rise of piracy and on the potential of piracy as a business model.
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Matt Ridley
Author of the Rational Optimist, former Chairman of Northern Rock
A talk by Matt Ridley at The Thinking Digital 2009. Matt is the author of The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture and Francis Crick. His books have sold over half a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and have been short-listed for six literary prizes.
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Michael Shermer
Why people believe weird things
Full presentation from Michael Shermer - founder of The Skeptic magazine and columnist for Scientific American.
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Oonagh Cassidy
Live Performance
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Sancho Plan
Live Performance
The Sancho Plan create new interactive entertainment experiences for the 21st century. Fusing animation, music, gaming, technology and performance.
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Tara Hunt
You and your whuffie factor
Tara was welcomed back to Thinking Digital this year after being one of the top rated speakers in 2008, and failed to disappoint with her presentation which focused around the concept of Whuffie.
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Tara Shears
Disturbing the Universe
Tara Shears full presentation "Disturbing the Universe" from the Thinking Digital conference, held in NewcastleGateshead 13 - 15 May 2009.
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Tom Scott
Geek Comedian
Tom provided some light entertainment, giving his take on new ways to show statistical data (following on from Hans Rosling's trendalyzer presentation)
