Ian Pearson: data
Email: idpearson@gmail.com
UK Phone 01473 710870
Ian leads our futurology work. Up until the end of 2007 he worked for BT as their futurologist. He is involved mainly in consultancy, writing, PR and conference presentations, and gets involved frequently in the media. He is proficient in most aspects of the future, across almost every sector.
For general enquiries regarding consultancy or conference speaking, either contact Futurizon on info@futurizon.net, or email Ian direct on idpearson@gmail.com.
Brief biography
Dr Ian Pearson is a leading futurist, keynote speaker and after dinner speaker. All over the world, he has delivered over 1000 provocative talks about the future of many aspects of our daily lives - from work to leisure, fashion to climate change. He has written several books and appeared over 450 times on TV and radio.
Ian identifies and explains the key changes ahead in every sector of business and society that will arise as a result of rapidly changing technology, without use of jargon. He has a strong engineering background and uses that to interpret current R&D and drive his views on how fast things in each sector will change in the next 15 years. He explains often complex technological developments using ordinary everyday language, and shows why they are relevant to executives, in a provocative and entertaining style.
Ian graduated
in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Queens University, Belfast.
After four years in missile design, he joined BT where he worked in numerous IT
fields from performance analysis to cybernetics, looking at all parts of fixed
and mobile systems with numerous inventions. From 1991 until 2007, he doubled
as BT’s Futurologist, tracking and predicting new developments throughout
information technology, considering both technological and social implications.
He
is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, the World Academy of Art
and Science, the Royal Society of Arts, the Institute of Nanotechnology and the
World Innovation Foundation. In 2007 was awarded a Doctor of Science
degree by the University of Westminster.
Speaking Topics
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Futures
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Technology
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Business
strategy
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Pace of
change
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Innovation
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Environment
and sustainability
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IT
Sample Videos
Visionary example: Tedx Warwick presentation, the future of Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbPaTlE1Lv8
Typical business talk: Unions 2020: Future of work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1DMJAtkpM
Corporate interview: Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdlswK7uIKY
Corporate video: The future of TV, Ericsson video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ffEihjk1Fo
Educational video: Ultimate reboot, OU: http://sciencestage.com/v/24319/ultimate-re-boot.html
TV: BBC The Future Squad: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8428849.stm
Foreign language TV: Current brain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EZWlv_z67c (Italian)
TV & Radio exposure, books and
clients
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