TICKETS go on sale today for an inspirational technology and design conference that organisers hope will bring together a community of the curious in Merseyside.
TEDx Liverpool is a spin-out from the TED conference, an annual event where world-leading thinkers are invited to talk about their passions in 18 minutes or less.
TED’s mission is “ideas worth spreading” – and, as part of that mission, it encourages people to set up their own smaller TEDx events.
Now Herb Kim, who organised an earlier TedX conference in Liverpool in 2009, has teamed up with Dave Brown, of software firm Apposing, to hold another TEDx Liverpool.
The theme of the event, which will be held at FACT, in Wood Street, on Tuesday, November 1, is “A mobile future”.
The keynote speaker will be Mills – full name Matt Miller – the co-founder and “Chief Wonka” of London digital agency and mobile specialist Ustwo.
UsTwo employs some 80 people in London and Sweden, and has worked with companies including Sony, H&M, and the BBC.
Mills says he is “very much the Ustwo mascot and lives and breathes mobile as the Willy Wonka of the app industry” – and calls Ustwo “a cash- positive, non-venture funded, idea generating mothership”.
Ian Wharton, creative director at software publishing and development company Zolmo, has also been confirmed at a speaker.
He recently worked with Jamie Oliver to create an app showcasing the celebrity chef’s recipes.
TED started life in 1984 to bring together people from the worlds of Technology, Entertainment and Design. The central TED event is held in Palm Springs every spring.
It has attracted speakers from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton, and from Stephen Hawking to Peter Gabriel.
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