Date: Thursday 29 October
Time: 5.30 – 8pm followed by food, drinks and networking
Venue: Great North Museum: Hancock, NE2 4PT
Cost: FREE to Codeworks Connect members; £20 to non-members

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“WHAT IS THINKING DIGITAL?” film now live at http://www.thinkingdigital.co.uk/blog/?p=84

A little more about Thinking Digital:

Thinking Digital is an annual conference where the world´s greatest thinkers and innovators gather to inspire, to entertain, and to discuss the latest ideas and technologies.

Defining exactly what to expect at Thinking Digital isn’t easy. The conference prides itself on the eclectic nature of the schedule. One moment you’ll be experiencing a first UK appearance of Live Mesh (as attendees where treated to at Thinking Digital 2008) and the next you’ll be hearing about the science behind love from the world’s leading expert.

For all the latest updates please visit http://www.thinkingdigital.co.uk or follow ThinkingDigital (http://twitter.com/ThinkingDigital) on Twitter.

SOME of the sharpest minds from the worlds of technology, media, mobile, culture and science wowed an audience of 400 delegates in North East England recently.

The Thinking Digital conference, which took place at the Sage Gateshead on 21-23 May, featured a hugely eclectic line-up of speakers – including a biologist who believes we can actually cure the ageing process, and one of the world’s leading inventors.

For more information please visit www.codeworks.net, www.thinkingdigital.co.uk or read the full article here.

Anyone who missed the event can catch the highlights on a special edition of Sky News’s ‘Technofile’ technology programme. Check it out at http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video?videoSourceID=1317150&flashURL=feeds/skynews/latest/flash/technofile_240508_1000.flv