Peter Cochrane
With over 40 years of experience years in the creation of new technologies and business solutions, Peter has worked for and consulted with numerous governments and major international businesses. He is a Chartered Engineer who has worked with, created and managed teams and departments up to 2500 people with budgets in excess of £1Bn. His senior roles have seen him in CTO, CEO and Director positions in leading UK and USA organizations. He has also spent part of his career as a professor, advisor, and external examiner to major universities in the EU and USA.
Peter brings unique insights and experience to the solution of technology, people, and operational problems invoked by rapid change and intensifying market pressures. As a consultant he is often called in as the last resort to tackle problems that have defeated conventional wisdom and thinking. His international reputation is founded on crafting solutions that are both practical and cost effective in the long term. His expertise is vested in a thorough understanding of what technology can do today and what will be available tomorrow, how people will react, and the difficulties surrounding organizational change in rapidly developing situations. This can involve everything from strategic threat analysis through to detailed technology, organizational design, and roll out. Peter is also in demand as a speaker at international conferences and events, and is often invited to present at engineering and business schools worldwide. Initially trained and educated as a technician, engineer, scientist and technologist, Peter's experience spans: the laying optical fibre cables across the Atlantic; designing integrated circuits, Artificial Intelligence Systems and Human Interfaces; writing software; system design; building and running research, development and manufacturing operations. He has also had considerable experience as a consultant across most economic sectors, and as an entrepreneur and investor he has also created and managed numerous new start up companies. During the first 30 years of his career Peter was an employee of a large corporation, but he then ventured into consultancy and advisory roles with investments in the ventures market. He has also participated in education & academic programs at an international level for over 30 years. Technology should be our servant and not the other way around, but we have to be accepting of the change and advances it offers and be prepared to plot new routes to success. But in doing this we have to take care to inform and educate our politicians, leaders, managers and people as well as the wider populous.
What he presents:
Outsourcing Failure - Let Someone Else Do It!
A Good Idea Is Not Enough!
More Threats & More Promises
Boom & Bust - Transforming Science & Technology Into Sustainable Business
Over-Hyped, Overdue, Over-Complex, Overpriced
Too Little Too Soon
Optimization Optimization
Getting IT Badly Wrong
3G To Be Sidelined?
No New Economy?
New Technology - New Products - Making IT Happen
Broadband Won't Happen By Accident
Transparent Optical Networking
Networks That Live
Hal 9000
Chips With Everything
The Humanoid Condition
Hubble Bubble & Panic
Don't Silicomorphise Me
Change
Staying In The Race
Flouting The Law!
Flying Upside Down
Engineering With New Realities
Three Clicks
IT Literate Or Retired
Medicine In Crisis
The Ratchet Of Technology
A World Of Bits
The Virtual University
The Information Superfootpath
Business, People & Technology On The Move
Voice Over IP
Can We All Be Polymaths?
Time & Emotion
Bandwidth - The Lubricant of Human Progress
The Future Of Technology
Resistance Is Futile - And Dangerous!
Network Or Nowork
IT & Life Sciences - Two Disciplines Undergoing Revolution
Emmotional Bits Matter?
A Bigger Bang Per Buck
Mobility & Wireless or 'Mega-Flops & Micro-Wonders'