David Rowan

• Founder & Editor-at-Large of Technology Magazine WIRED UK.
• Keynotes on Future Trends across multi-sector and multi-product areas from AI, VR, Blockchain, Payments.
• Google Zeitgeist,  Chair of the G8 Innovation Summit, TED Global in addition to hundreds of corporate keynotes.
• Disruptive Technology and how companies can protect themselves from it.

David Rowan is the well known founder and Editor-at-Large of WIRED UK, the award-winning technology-and-innovations magazine that stays ahead of the trends transforming our world. He is an expert authority and highly in demand speaker on the subjects of innovation, technology and future trends.

In the past year alone David has taken over 120 flights to investigate the companies and entrepreneurs changing our world, recently spending time with the founders of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Spotify, Nest and countless other disruptive startups from Israel to China. He’s interviewed influencers ranging from will.i.am, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, Google CEO Eric Scmidt to media mogul James Murdoch, futuristic architect Zaha Hadid, Prime Minister David Cameron and Tim Berners-Lee on stage at places like MIPCOM in Cannes. 

David’s work at WIRED for over a decade keeps him at the forefront of innovation and change. He travels the world meeting trend setters, innovators who bring out the latest, gadgets services and apps that help improve life.

He writes stories about AI to VR, new approaches to manufacturing, new business models, innovation in established businesses that effect all sectors. He is well versed on advising companies on how they should react to disruptive technology and innovation.

David Rowan – Speaking Details

David is an expert in his sector and one of the most in demand speakers worldwide on business, innovation and disruptive technology and future facing themes. He has chaired and moderated high-profile events for the UK and French governments, for Google Zeitgeist and TED Global, for international banks and Fortune 100 companies.

He relates emerging technologies and changing business models to a variety of sectors from finance and manufacturing to aviation and e-commerce. Many established companies book David to learn about how they can develop a culture of innovation. His presentations are typically rich in concrete takeaways, lively case studies, video clips, engaging images, and fast-paced energy. By way of demonstrating David’s cross sector appeal here is a snapshot of recent keynote bookings:

Recent Examples of David Rowan Keynotes in 2017:

What artificial intelligence means for finance (Shanghai)
What a bank can learn from the digital disruptors (New York)
Why the advertising world will never move this slowly again (Madrid)
How technology is changing what we need from real estate (Arizona)
How smart companies are innovating (Las Vegas)
How will technology transform the seas? (Malta)
How the internet of things is redefining the relationships between business and consumers
How will emerging technologies affect insurance/ the legal industry/ motoring/ travel/ healthcare? (various)
Ten technologies shaping our future (Dubai)
The future of television (Sky TV, Venice)
New business models that are redefining industries (Berlin)
The future of food (Unilever)
The future of insurance (Lloyds of London)
The future of energy (UK National Grid)

Recent WIRED writing:

It’s time to copy China [special issue]
How an army of postmen is turning China’s rural stores into the world’s largest retail network
Facebook Messenger: inside Zuckerberg’s app for everything

His most recent awards include Techmark Technology Journalist of the Year, DMA Editor of the Year and British Society of Magazine Editors’ Editor of the Year.

He writes columns for GQ, Condé Nast Traveller, Campaign, The Times and The Guardian and has written long features for The Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine and Observer. At WIRED he has extended the brand into conferences, apps, and a consulting arm. David hosts WIRED annual innovation conference in London each year which features 50 of the world’s leading innovators all of whom he has personally invited.

In presentations, he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why ‘social commerce’ is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change the market in the next decade – and what you should be doing now to protect yourself. A brilliant story-teller, his presentations help individuals and businesses comprehend these changes in such a way as to allow them to use them to their advantage.

“I wanted to thank you for your time to moderate the G8 Innovation Conference on 14 June. You set the tone for the day perfectly, engaging the audience and steering the presenters through a very full agenda. The feedback from the day has been overwhelmingly positive, which is largely due to your dynamism, good humour and professionalism. The team here and I are extremely grateful for the part you played in making the day a success and helping to put innovation on the G8 agenda.” – Rt Hon David Cameron, Prime Minister, G8 Innovation Conference