PAST SPEAKERS

25 February 2019

Who else has spoken at TDC?

With 16 years of incredibly inspiring speakers and performers here are a small selection of our previous speakers.

Click on each one for more information about them.

Noah Kagan (2024)

An Advocate for Entrepreneurs

Jon Carmichael (2022)

Astronomical Photographer

Simona Francese (2019)

CSI Scientist

Dave Evans (2018)

A Silicon Valley legend

Imogen Heap (2017)

MiMu Live and Explained

Anita Sengupta (2017)

An aerospace engineer

Tom Scott (2016)

Explainer Extraordinaire

Amber Case (2016)

Experience designer and cyborg anthropologist

Julian Treasure (2016)

spoken vs. digital conversations

Rory Sutherland (2010)

Insightful Adman

Moon Ribas (2018)

Cyborg Artist

Mikko Hypponen (2016)

THE HACKER HUNTER

2024 SPEAKERS

Jennie Maizels

An Old School 3D Artist

Francesca Rosella

A Newcastle United Tech Collaborator

Parmy Olson

A Bloomberg AI Columnist

Jo York

A Tech Startup Whisperer

Mark Schenk

An Origami-Inspired Engineer

Paul McMurray

A Tech4Good Intrapreneur

Jackie Bell

An Astronaut Trainee

Tom Chatfield

A Technology Anthropologist

Kit Chapman

A Science Adventurer

Charles Fernyhough

A Neuroscience Innovator

Anne-Maartje Oud

A Human Behaviour Expert

2023 SPEAKERS

Mhairi Aitken

An Artificial Intelligence Ethicist

Yasmin Ali

A Hydrogen Energy Engineer

John Beamson

A Leadership Drill Sergeant

Helen Czerski

An Oceanic Physicist

Lewis Dartnell

A Post-Apocalyptic Scientist

Dan Fitzpatrick

An Education Futurist

Ben McKenzie

A TV Star Turned Crypto Critic

Andrew Pontzen

A Supercomputing Cosmologist

Amanda Prorok

An Autonomous Transport Technologist

Andrew Szydlo

An Explosive Chemistry Educator

Sean Williams

A Generative AI CEO

Pam Warhurst

A Community Cultivator

Linda Yueh

A Banking System Stress Tester

2022 SPEAKERS

Nadia Finer

Shy Warrior

Francesca Rosella

Fashionable Technologist

Taha Yasseri

Computational Social Scientist

Maha Salem

Roboticist & UX Researcher

Jason Fried

Calm Workplace Advocate

Jimmy Soni

Innovation Investigator

Sugata Mitra

Educational Technologist

Sebastian Mallaby

Venture Capital Chronicler

Hassan Ugail

Visual AI Explorer

Kate Baucherel

Cryptocurrency Explorer

Samantha Kingston

Immersive Innovator

Austin McCasland

Reality Re-engineer

2019 SPEAKERS

Sam Aaron

Sonic Pi Creator

Mark Bakowski

Industrial Light & Magic

Jamie Bartlett

Political Technologist

Michelle Cortese

Facebook VR Designer

Dave Erasmus

Enlightened Entrepreneur

Sabine Hauert

Nano-Swarm Engineer

Jylda

Singer Songwriter

Emma Kendrew

Accenture Technologist

Dan Lyons

Disruptive Tech Journalist

Roger Mavity

Creative Conjurer

Chris Stokel-Walker

YouTube Investigator

Halvor Vislie

Media Disrupter

Maria Yablonina

Robot Innovator

2018 SPEAKERS

Ben Morris

ILM Jedi Knight

Paul Irwin

Pitch at the Palace Winner

Graham Richter

Accenture Blockchain MD

Ravinder Dahiya

Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering

Julie Freeman

Translating Nature

Yang Dan

Paul Licht Distinguished Professor

Mr Bingo

Illustrator & Rapper

Tatiana Simonian

Head of Media / Tumblr

Venkatesh Rao

Writer & Consultant

Sarah Wiseman

Emoji Analyst

Max Amordeluso

Alexa Evangelist

2016 SPEAKERS

L J Rich

MULTI-SENSORY EXPERIENCE

THIS WAS MY TENTH @THINKINGDIGITAL AND IT’S BEEN ONE OF THE BEST! LIKE A GREATEST HITS IT’S HAD EVERYTHING - ROBOTS, BIG DATA, AI, LIVE MUSIC, FUTURE TECH, BIG NAME SPEAKERS AND A LOCAL STARTUP COMPETITION WINNER. WELL DONE @HERBKIM AND THE #TDC19 CREW.

@graham_r_miller

Interested in speaking at Thinking Digital? We’d love to hear from you.

THIS WAS MY TENTH @THINKINGDIGITAL AND IT’S BEEN ONE OF THE BEST! LIKE A GREATEST HITS IT’S HAD EVERYTHING - ROBOTS, BIG DATA, AI, LIVE MUSIC, FUTURE TECH, BIG NAME SPEAKERS AND A LOCAL STARTUP COMPETITION WINNER. WELL DONE @HERBKIM AND THE #TDC19 CREW.

@graham_r_miller