Thinking Digital

The Thinking Digital conference could not happen without the support and shared vision of our sponsors and media partners.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their much valued support.

If you are interested in sponsoring the Thinking Digital conference or becoming a media partner, find out more here.

Gold Sponsor

At Microsoft we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.

We run our business in much the same way, and believe our three core business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are:

• Platform Products and Services Division: includes the Client Group, the Server & Tools Group, and the Online Services Group
• Business Division: includes the Information Worker Group, the Microsoft Business Solutions Group, and the Unified Communications Group
• Entertainment and Devices Division: includes the Home & Entertainment Group and the Mobile & Embedded Devices Group

We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realise their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.

Silver Sponsor 

blueboomerang.com is the online business directory from the UK's largest privately owned media company, Haymarket. Serving up quality contact information on an easy-to-use site, blueboomerang.com provides the right contacts, right now, to professionals working in advertising, creative, marketing and media, as well as a range of other business sectors.

Now blueboomerang.com has teamed up with Haymarket's industry leading sites; Brand Republic, Campaign, Marketing, Media Week, Revolution, Direct Response, Marketing Direct, and Promotions and Incentives  so that your advert on blueboomerang.com will also appear on of Haymarket's marcomms sites - putting your company in front of a potential audience of 363,180 monthly unique users.

Visit the Digital Marketing , Advertising, Creative and Media, Direct Marketing and Market Research  sections of blueboomerang.com to see what it's all about...

Media Partners

New Media Age is the UK’s only weekly magazine dedicated to interactive media and marketing. It is essential reading for anyone using the web or mobile to communicate with their customers and for companies providing the services that make these communications possible. Whether you need to know what new technologies are emerging that could give you the edge or how some of Europe’s top brands are developing successful interactive strategies, you’ll find it in NMA or at http://www.nma.co.uk/

For more information please contact andy.oakes@centaur.co.uk

The Chinwag community is a focal point for digital media practitioners in the UK and beyond. We aggregate expertise, fact and opinion, and act as a connecting rod for ideas and talent across the new media industries...

We are the UK's leading online publisher of best practice internet marketing reports, research and how-to guides. We also publish buyer's guides and have the largest directory of UK e-marketing suppliers.

Founded in 1999, we now have over 62,500 registered users and around 175,000 unique site users per month. Our weekly newsletter is sent to 22,500+ e-marketing professionals.

E-consultancy also provides a job listings channel to help both candidates and recruiters.

VIP Sponsors

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Our principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.

BT in the North East - An active player in the region

• BT directly employs over 4,500 people in the North East
• BT makes a financial impact of over £203 million a year in the region
• BT spends over £15 million a year with local suppliers
• BT has major research contracts with universities in Durham and Newcastle
• BT is making a capital investment of £370 million, replacing equipment at more than 175 exchanges by 2011 in the North East as part of its 21CN initiative
• BT's CSR activity in the North East exceeded £400,000 last year
• BT's in-kind contributions amounted to over £485,000 in 2005
• BT people in the region donated £18,943 to charities through BT's Give As You Earn Scheme
• Over 100 BT people work as community volunteers in the North East region and a further 24 are school governors

Nigel Wright specialise in a range of industry sectors and professionally qualified disciplines and can provide search, selection and database solutions to meet your recruitment needs, nationally and internationally. The teams are able to handle executive and senior management roles, through to junior and entry level for permanent, temporary and contract roles. Nigel Wright are structured around four key industry sectors; Business Support and Professional Services, Consumer, Industrial and Manufacturing and Public and Third sector.

Nigel Wright's specialist consultants are committed to delivering a quality service; most have an industry background and will have experience of dealing with key companies in your sector. This depth of knowledge and expertise ensures that the professional and unique service offered to our clients and candidates is second to none.

Our dedicated IT team handle roles from support and development through entry level to middle and senior management, including directors, across all IT disciplines on permanent and contract basis.

Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco brings the most innovative communications solutions to all aspects of the public sector and is committed to ensuring that these organisations are able to take advantage of the same advanced technologies available to the modern business. In doing so, sectors such as education, healthcare, central and local government are best placed to offer the most efficient, contemporary services to their citizens. For more information go to http://www.cisco.com/

At Convergys, we're a global leader in relationship management. We deliver a broad range of customer and HR solutions, backed by technology, business analytics and consulting services that help create valuable relationships between our clients, their customers and their employees.

One NorthEast is the Regional Development Agency (RDA) for North East England. Our vision is of a vibrant, self reliant, ambitious and outward-looking region which promotes the benefits of living, working and doing business here.

Part of our work to drive growth in the regional economy is making sure that businesses understand how they can use ICT to boost their efficiency, and we have funded a number of innovative projects to develop the ICT infrastructure of the region as well as supporting the digital sector.

Badge & Lanyard sponsor

BlueKiwi offers software that enables collective work within enterprise social networks. They're trying to turn the enterprise Intranet (and Extranet) into a tool that is much more efficient for employees than their current Intranet.

The software allows employees to manage their own "Supply Chain" of information. Employees publish information on their identity, competencies, expertise and know-how within the professional social network. The most consistent and most active information, as well as individual employees and communities within the enterprise are made visible.

Internet café & Wifi sponsor

The Onyx Group prides itself on helping organisations maximise their professional advantage by minimising their data and information risks. This is achieved through the provision of dynamic and leading edge networks, hosting, security and managed services.

Partners

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