Public Speaking

Over the last fifteen years I have done a lot of public speaking, mostly about the IT industry. These have included keynote talks at major vendor and user conferences, roadshows, product launches, seminars, etc. Clients include IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, SAP, Compuware, Cognos - most of the major and many smaller vendors. During my time at Strategic Resaerch, and when I was Research Director at the GartnerGroup, I spoke extensively at all manner of event, throughout Asia Pacific. Most of the time I have received very good reviews and ratings. Read some testimonials.

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I have spoken on a great range of subjects, I can speak on many others. Recent topics include:

The Evolution of eBusiness

• How has eBusiness evolved from earlier IT applications, such as ERP?
• What’s the difference between eBusiness and eCommerce?
• The myth of the dot com crash — Why eBusiness is stronger then ever
• Why web services will change the face of eBusiness

Making Business Intelligence Work for You

• What is business intelligence, and where has it come from?
• Who are the major players? What is Microsoft doing?
• OLAP, data warehousing and data mining

Doing your own IT market research

• Free sources of IT analysis — using the Internet and other sources efficiently
• How do the IT analyst companies work? 

• The commoditisation of hardware
• Fewer software architectures
• ERP becomes eBusiness
• The rise of the Megavendor
• Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth
• Digital content convergence
• When everything is a service
• What ever happened to application development?
• Embedded computing
• Faster, cheaper, smaller