Speakers confirmed for Terra future 2009

Charles Leadbeater, one of the world’s most influential creative thinkers and author of the book We Think: mass collaboration, not mass production is to give the opening keynote speech at Terra future 2009.
In 2008, Spectator Magazine described Charles as "the wizard of the web". Accenture, the global management consultancy, has ranked him one of the 30 top management thinkers in the world and in 2007 the Financial Times ranked him the outstanding innovation expert in the UK.
Chris Parker of Ordnance Survey comments: “Having a speaker of Charles’ standing and experience is fantastic and indicative of the importance of location information. Geography is the stage on which all natural and human activity plays out. So when it comes to tackling the major challenges we all face, geographic information coupled with mass collaboration are essential ingredients.”
Alongside Charles, confirmed speakers for Terra future 2009 include Ian Pearson, futurologist at Futurizon a start-up futures institute, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, founding Chair of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and chair of Futurelab, as well and Robin Mannings, the BT expert on disruptive technologies and author of the book Ubiquitous Positioning.

Posted 18/12/2008 12:02 by Ordnance Survey