Ben Hammersley on Reconnecting Innovators and Policymakers in the Post Digital Age
Channel: IIEA
Date: 2012-05-08

About the Speech:

Ben Hammersley discussed how to translate the concept of innovation in an advanced knowledge economy, such as Ireland, from rhetoric to reality and presented a vision of the future of innovation.

He argued for a robust dialogue between innovators and policy makers regarding the role that information and communications technology can play in the demand-led innovation of the future. He identified trends arising from increasing digital connectivity and focus on the cognitive tool-kit that policy makers will require to generate, test and refine innovative ideas that work.

About the Speaker:

Ben Hammersley is Editor at Large of WIRED magazine; PM David Cameron's Ambassador to TechCity, London's equivalent of Silicon Valley; an author, technologist and writer, specialising in the effects of the Internet on modern society. He has worked for the BBC, the Times and the Guardian and is one of four members of the European Commission's High Level Expert Group on Media Freedom. Famous also for inventing the word "Podcast", his forthcoming publication is entitled: "64 Things you Need to Know Now for Then".