Interactive Minds was founded by Louisa Dahl, whose events in major Australian cities and annual Digital Summit has attracted speakers from brands like Airbnb, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Facebook. The objective for the Newcastle team is to bring speakers of this calibre to Newcastle on a regular basis.

The first Interactive Minds event, which will be held at the Crown Plaza Newcastle on 28 February, has drawn an impressive panel of speakers including Ash Rane from Google, Yoan Demarty from HubSpot and Andy Gallagher from local Virtual Reality Studio, VRXP. They will discuss the latest approaches to AI, chatbots, virtual reality, big data, disruption, and automation.