Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, will give the opening keynote address at the MLA North East one-day conference to be held at the Centre for Enterprise, University of Teesside, on Thursday 22 November. The MLA-NE Regional IT Conference is entitled “Bits to Blogs 2007″ and Liz” presentation is called “From Audience to Avatar? Transformational Technologies for the Cultural Sector”.