Sessions

Poker, Business and Risk - Caspar Berry

Using Poker as a metaphor, Caspar's workshop will give people a better understanding of how risk and uncertainty work in order to empower them to take more risks in their professional and personal lives. Learn how organisations can get the most from their people when they are allowed to experiment, take risks and explore their world.

Happiness as your business model - Tara Hunt

The business of happiness continues to grow as consumers are presented with more and more choice. When there are several options available, why not go for the path of least resistance? Why not spend your hard earned money on something that exponentially increases your life satisfaction?

Of course you want your customers to be happy! But how do you build happiness into your business model without it coming off as a marketing pitch? This workshop breaks down the core elements of true happiness as defined by the American Psychological Association and how you can start rethinking your products and services as enablers to customer happiness. 

Entertainment meets the Geek: Steve Jelley & Eric Lindstrom
This workshop will provide content owners a framework for business issues and details on how to implement internet video strategies for their content. At the end you will be ready to engage in those hard decisions all content owners are facing.

You will also hear how Hollywood TV, at both the mega hit and low spectrums is going to change, by pushing the envelope on multithreaded narratives. What most people assumed was a distribution or production challenge, is quickly becoming a defining moment in creative storytelling's mutation in drama and documentary formats.

Technology is the enabler; like paper, silent film, the talkies, broadcast radio, and broadcast TV, the internet will impact how stories are told, not just sold.

9.00 Day 3 open

9.10 Session 5: Mobile 2.0 - Panel debate
Gerard Grech, Director, Strategy & Business Development, Orange Group
Vikesh Patel, General Manager, EMEA & India, Motorola
Mark Selby VP, Sales and Industry Collaboration Nokia
9.35 Q&A

9.45 Greg Dyke interviewed by Andy Allan
Interview
Q& A

10.30 Break

10.55 Session 6: Unconventional Wisdom

Aubrey De Grey, Author & Biogerontologist Methuselah Foundation
Q&A
Carl Honore, Author, In Praise of Slowness
Q&A
Dan Lyons, Senior Editor Forbes (aka Fake Steve Jobs)
Q&A

12.45 Delegate lunch

14.15 Session 7: Globalisation – opportunity or threat?

Jessica Flannery, Co-Founder kiva.org
Claire Nouvian, Writer, filmmaker and environmentalist
Q&A

15.20 Break 

15.40 Session 8: Management & Leadership

Richard St John, Success Analyst and Author of 8 To Be Great
Dan Pink, Author, A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation
Doug Richard, Entrepreneur
Q&A

17.30 Conference close – Reflections

17.40 Geek Dinner - sponsored by the BBC (Pitcher & Piano)

Thinking Digital Thursday 22 May


7.30 Registration 

9.00 Welcome to Thinking Digital 2008
Herb Kim, CEO Codeworks
Kate Bulkley

9.10 Session 1: The Future of Media

Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor Education and New Media, Channel 4
Eric Lindstrom & Steve Jelley, Videojuicer
Lee Daley, Former CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi UK
Q&A

10.40 Break  

11.10 Session 2: United We Stand

Kluster.com
Ian Kennedy, Head of Technical Operations for Europe, Cisco
Tara Hunt, Co-Founder & CMO Citizen Agency
Q&A

12.30 Delegate lunch and networking 

13.45 Sean Phelan, Founder of Multimap
How to sell your company to Microsoft

14.10 Digital Demo with Steve Clayton CTO of Microsoft’s UK Partner Group
Demos; Photosynth / Seadragon / Photostiching / Pop(mash-up network)

14.35 Joint MS Q&A - Digital Distinction Award

14.50 Short break

15.10 Session 3: Happiness

Helen Fisher, Advisor for Match.com and founder of Chem.com
Caspar Berry, Poker guru & advisor on risk
Jonathan Harris, Digital Artist
Q&A

16.40 Break

17.10 Session 4: The Singularity

Ian Nield, Futurologist BT
Ray Kurzweil, Futurist and Author
Q&A

18.30 Day 1 Closing Comments

19.00 Thinking Digital Party (The BALTIC Level 1)