Thursday 21 June 2012

Wired 2012: first speakers announced





After our inaugural event in 2011, Wired 2012 returns in October as a two-day conference celebrating the ideas, innovations and people reshaping our world.


We can officially announce that the first round of speakers at Wired 2012 -- organised in association with Telefónica -- will include: Troy Carter, manager of Lady Gaga and Founder and CEO of Atom Factory; David Karp, founder and CEO of Tumblr; Lily Cole, model, actress and sustainability champion; Ajaz Ahmed, founder of digital agency AKQA; digital marketer Stefan Olander, who is responsible for many of Nike's innovative campaigns; Mona Eltahawy, an award-winnign columnist covering Arab and Muslim issues; designer and architect Thomas Heatherwick; former head chef of El Bulli Ferran Adrià; artist Alexa Meade; Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology Simon Baron-Cohen and Maria Popova, editor of Brain Pickings.


By: Wired.co.uk Staff,


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/21/wired-2012-speakers-announced

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