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Thinking Digital gets bigger

The overwhelming clamour for tickets to one of the biggest events on the region’s technology calendar will see a simultaneous broadcast set up to accommodate 75 extra delegates.

Annual technology conference Thinking Digital has proved so popular so far that all 385 tickets for the three-day event had been snapped up by the end of January.

Organisers have now drawn up plans to set up a simultaneous broadcast of the conference from the main hall into an adjacent venue.

With The Sage Gateshead’s Hall Two now full, the organisers are hoping to turn the adjacent Northern Rock Foundation Hall into ‘Livecast Lounge’ with space for an extra 75 delegates to follow the conference proceedings on a giant video screen.

The event, which takes place from 25-27 May, is being organised by Codeworks, the region’s centre for digital innovation.

“Frankly, we had no idea that the Thinking Digital conference could grow so big, so fast,” says Herb Kim, Codeworks’ CEO. “The conference is less than 3 years old and we sold out the 2010 conference at double the rate of the 2009 conference.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .