Mike Walsh
Mike Walsh helps to prepare business leaders for what's next - In his current role as CEO of the consumer innovation research lab, Tomorrow, he provides an individually researched vision of your customers' behavior and how that will impact the future of your industry.
Author of FUTURETAINMENT and publisher of 'The Fourth Estate' blog read by thousands of professionals in the media and entertainment space, Mike's unique insights makes him an authority on the growing influence of new markets in the areas of breakthrough innovation and business transformation. Constantly traveling the world for the best ideas, he distils the most relevant insights into tailored keynotes that allow any audience to not only understand, but also start to influence the future direction of their industry. Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike takes an anthropological approach, scanning the near horizon for disruptive technologies and consumer innovations on the verge of hitting critical mass, and then translating these into usable business strategies. Involved in the online world since the 1990's, Mike founded and ran Jupiter Research, the market leading consumer insights house in the Asia Pacific, as well as worked in a senior strategy role for News Corporation in both the Australian and Asian markets. During the first web boom, he launched internet.com in Australia, creating the leading local technology news and events media network. Mike advises the CEOs and senior management teams at BBC, Fujifilm, Richemont, MSN, Star TV, P&G, Televisa, Hutchinson, Philips, Grey Advertising, Schwarzkopf, Roche Pharmaceuticals, BT Financial and HSBC. His new book, "The Divergence" (published 2012), charts the rise of online consumers in the fast growth BRIC markets. His research shows that tomorrow's web will be radically different to conventional Western models and will require entirely new engagement strategies. Mike's personal manifesto: "Everything is changing. How we live, how we work and how we play. But to understand the future you need to focus on anthropology (the study of human beings) not technology. After all, as interesting as it is when things change, the real magic happens when people do."
What he presents:
FUTURETAINMENT - Yesterday The World Changed, Now It's Your Turn
THE DIVERGENCE - When The Emerging World Rules The Web
UBIQUITOUS - Engaging Tomorrow's Mobile Consumer
NEXTLAB - Unleashing the Future On Your Company And Competition