The Digital Legacy Conference 2015

– Press Release

About The Digital Legacy Conference

The 1st Annual Digital Legacy Conferencewill take place at University College London Partners (UCLP) on the 23rd May 2015. It will bring together a range of academics and business professionals to help address areas relating to death and dying in today’s ever increasingly digitised world.

The Digital Legacy Conference is being organised by the end of life and digital legacy resource hub, DeadSocial. Confirmed speakers range from practicing experts in law and end of life care to technologists and PHD students.

The Digital Legacy Conference is one of the events happening as part of this year’s Dying Matters Awareness Week. Dying Matters is a national coalition with a strong focus on people talking about dying, death, bereavement and making plans for their end of life.

Tickets to the conference are free and can be attained at

Call for speakers

Seven speakers have already been confirmed for the conference. Two further speaking slots remain available should further, suitable speakers come forward. Those interested in speaking at the conference should email

What the Digital Legacy Conference hopes to address

We are living through the greatest period of change since the industrial revolution. Our end of life wishes, the way we prepare for death, remember the deceased and grieve have recently changed beyond recognition.The Digital Legacy Conference will explore some of these recent, behavioural changes and the subsequent impact on society at large. The areas examined will include:

  • The world ‘before the birth of Facebook’ (before Facebook/ BFB)
  • Digital legacy
  • Digital grief
  • Utilising technology to deal with death
  • Digital memory loss
  • Death in today’s digital world
  • MND, communication and digital legacy
  • Funeral streaming
  • UK Laws around digital assets and digital legacy
  • Preparing for our own digital death

The Digital Legacy Conference will be free to attendhowever prior booking is required. Tickets can now be attained from:

  • About DeadSocial

DeadSocial is a social enterprise that addresses death in meaningful ways by harnessing the power oftechnology, communities, research, innovation and art. DeadSocial’s free ‘goodbye tool’ enables their users to create ‘goodbye messages’ consisting of videos, text and images. These are saved and only distributed to the user’s social media sites and their DeadSocial profile after death. In doing so, users are able to bring their digital lives to a managed ending.

  • About Dying Matters

Dying Matters aims to raise public awareness about the importance of talking openly about dying, death and bereavement and of making end of life wishes known. It is led by the National Council for Palliative Care.

  • About UCL Partners

The venue for the conference has been provided by UCLPartners. UCLPartners is an academic health science partnership which aims to translate cutting-edge research and innovation into measureable health and wealth gains for patients and populations. The partnership is made of over 40 higher education and NHS members, and a central team providing operational support and clinical academic leadership through a not-for-profit company.

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Digital Legacy Conference links

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