Latest DiG Festival line-up announced

by Admin on August 21, 2013

The inaugural DiG Festival at Newcastle’s historic City Hall is just 6 weeks away and we are now able to release even more details about the line-up of speakers, sessions, topics and workshops.

There is a range of sessions to suits everyone, including, media, retailers, educators, start-ups, small business and much more.

Early bird tickets are on sale until 31 August, so HURRY!

 

 

 

 

Thursday 3 October

Speakers:

Keynote: (announcement pending)

Laurence Wolf, Brand Honee - The Birth of the Super Creative

Kerry Series - Solar Energy: Primary power source in 20 year or 100 years?

Rebecca Caroe - Native Advertising, will the newspaper industry adapt or die?

Melissa Hoyer - You are your own media

Ian Lyons - The Maker Movement & Drones

Panels:

Rebecca Caroe, Melissa Hoyer, Zac Zavos - Future of Media

Workshops:

99designs w/ senior UX designer Aleks Witko - Peeling layers of the onion

Events:

RDA Hunter / Newcastle Museum - 3D printing expo & cocktails

Friday 4 October

Speakers:

Keynote: June Huxley, Pandora.com - Video killed the radio star…or did it?

Nancy Georges, Retail in the Age of the Empowered Customer

Gavin Heaton, Stop Talking at Me, Nobody is Listening: The New Physics of the Consumerverse

Simon Suter, ReachLocal - Rethinking the Consumer Buying Process

Heather Snodgrass-Brine, Hello Darling - Nailing a Startup

James Croft, Go Make - From Universities to Bedroom Guitarists: How is Learning Online Changing?

Roger Pryor, Designing Education Futures

Suzanne Chadwick, Hudson Pro - Creative Sourcing & Employer Branding

Keynote: Catherine Caruana-McManus, IBM - Creating Smart Cities

Panels:

Future of Education w/ Roger Pryor, James Croft

Workshops:

Ideation at Work - The Innovation Process

Retail in the Age of the Empowered Customer w/ Nancy Georges

Events:

DiG Awards and Cocktail Party, Newcastle City Hall

More speakers, workshops and events to be announced soon.