Jim Bottomley   

Mark Federman    

Entrepreneur, Futurist, and Management Consultant Most Requested Topics - Trend Convergence:    Strategies for Future    Success - Four-Dimension Planning:    Marketing and Selling    Strategies that Sing - Leadership Skills for the    Future

Jim Bottomley is a management consultant, entrepreneur, and futurist. Unlike other futurists who specialize in one trend category, Jim provides insight into trend convergence.

As an entrepreneur, Jim combines strategic planning and marketing strategy development with award-winning integrated e-business solutions. 

As a consultant, Jim has worked with many industries and government clients, helping them find consensus as to future direction, concentrating on trend analysis, marketing and sales strategy development, leadership and organizational change.

Jim offers unique customer-focused thinking models, combining humour, high-energy and concrete examples to make the future less threatening and actions more innovative.

Rave Reviews
“Mr. Jim Bottomley’s presentation addressed the topic in a very practical way and provided excellent advice and suggestions to the conference participants. His style is informative, engaging 
and entertaining, and we highly recommend 
Mr. Bottomley as a keynote speaker in the e-commerce field.”

President & CEO, Contact North/Contact Nord

Prominent Leader in the High-tech Community Most Requested Topics - What Haven't You Noticed    Lately? - Predicting the Future by    Anticipating the Present - Applied McLuhan for    Managers: New Tools for    New Thinking - Creating a Culture of     Innovation

Over a twenty-five year career in the high-technology industry, Mark Federman's experience has spanned disciplines including technology development, marketing, sales, and senior operational management.  

Attention is the most valuable commodity in business today. In the sea of information, if your customers and prospects don’t notice you, you’re lost to your competitors.  As a sought-out business strategist, Mark Federman focuses on helping organizations ‘see what they don’t see.’ He looks to the next phase of our knowledge society; the  open-source economy. Mark shares how our move to an open source information society – think weblogs, Linux, the reversal of privacy and partnerships – will change the way we think and work. 

Mark Federman, the co-author of McLuhan For Managers, is a dramatic, thoughtful speaker, who proposes that we can predict the future by anticipating the present.

Rave Reviews
“I came back from the festival buzzing, full of new thoughts and ideas... thanks to your carefully weaved comments and introductions, you had your eye on the ball all the time! Impressive!

Fiona Raby, author of Design Noir

Dr. James Canton  

Jim Carroll  

Renowned Global Futurist, Author, and Business Advisor Most Requested Topics - Technofutures: Leading-     Edge Technologies for the    21st Century - Creating Competitive    Advantages in a    Networked Marketplace - Megatrends That Will    Transform the    Marketplace, the    Workplace and Our Lives

Dr. James Canton’s presentations are based on over twenty years of leading-edge research with many of the most innovative companies and business leaders worldwide.  He shows organizations and individuals how to prepare today to meet the innovative new challenges of the digital future.

Dr. Canton is an Advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology, looking at the future of advance tech and its impact on business and economics. He has also recently been appointed to the Advisory Board of MIT's Media Lab in Europe, based in Dublin. Author of Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Technology Will Transform Business in the 21st Century, Dr. Canton’s entertaining and enlightening multimedia presentations are not to be missed.  

Rave Reviews
"Your skillful weaving of societal, business, technological and payments industry trends gave my team much to think about. The breakout groups we held following your presentation were highly energized and productive as a result of the material you presented."

President and CEO, MasterCard International

Strategic Futurist Most Requested Topics - Thriving on Change! How    to Create an Innovation    Culture - How to Adapt to the New    World of Business - What Comes Next? … and    What Should You Do    About It?

As a leading international futurist, Jim Carroll dedicates his time and expertise to making organizations, companies, and their people ready and able to adopt tomorrow today. Jim provides customized insight into cutting edge issues, helping you establish effective business strategies, discover significant opportunities, and deal with issues of corporate & organizational change.

As a frequent keynote speaker with some 1,000 presentations to his credit, Jim is recognized as someone who delivers. Clients value the time Jim takes to customize his speech, including the time taken to "know" their industry, their issues, and their concerns. Result – Jim provides a keynote or workshop that speaks directly to them.

Rave Reviews
"Across the board, you were considered an 'excellent speaker.' Your delivery was a unique combination of fact-based information and humour. It was especially impressive how you tailored your presentation...speaking directly about how global trends are affecting our industry made quite an impact."

Systems & Software Inc.

Dr. Paul Kedrosky  

Business and Technology Expert Most Requested Topics - The Rise and Fall of    Venture Capital - Disappearing Technology - Risky Organizations and    Why They Fail - Innovation Policies: What    Works, What Doesn't

Industry commentator and business professor
Dr. Paul Kedrosky takes a close, skeptical and sometimes bemused look at our fast-changing world of business for audiences hoping to better understand the business technology world around them. He wants participants to be as fascinated by it as he is, while also learning how to sort through conflicting claims and counter-claims from hyperbole-mad markets and media.

Paul’s presentations are accessible and engaging. He has a flair for stripping away academic jargon and journalistic bafflegab to reveal issues in a practical, reasonable way. His insightful commentary and analysis may not convert you into an economist, but it may keep you from needing to hire one.

A former VP and Senior Equity Analyst covering major internet companies like AOL and Cisco, Dr. Paul Kedrosky has commented on technology and business topics for CNN and ABC's Nightline, and written columns for the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Wired, Forbes, and Canada's National Post. The June 2004 issue of the Harvard Business Review featured his article on Syndication Feeds; "Countless data-generating events in your organization are candidates for syndication..." Are you ready?