Mike Walsh - CEO, Tomorrow

There was a desire to get Mike back on Gulltaggen from all the partisipants on Gulltaggen 2009. The reason that participants gave was that he opened their eyes to new patterns in consumer behavior and how this affects the growth of new business models.

THE DIVERGENCE - Why The Future Of The Web Will Be Like Nothing You Know Today  

What we think of the Web today is only a fraction of its future potential. THE DIVERGENCE marks the point where everything we know about the digital world will change. In the coming years, the emerging markets of China, India and Brazil will rapidly overtake the West not only in their rates of economic growth, but as the dominant commercial and cultural influences on the development of the Web. How we interact, transact and entertain ourselves in the future will be shaped by new forms of consumer behavior never seen this side of Silicon Valley. Forget everything you know about West Coast Web etiquette. Tomorrow's Web will be a milieu of competing cultures - simultaneously a source of conflict and also a wellspring of consumer innovation.   Mike Walsh is a leading international authority on consumer innovation and the digital future. He is the author of Futuretainment and the CEO of the innovation research lab, Tomorrow. Futuretainment, published by Phaidon was described by Wallpaper Magazine as one of the most highly anticipated titles of 2009.

Mike has over a decade's experience in helping some of the world's leading companies and brands embrace new ideas. Constantly travelling the world for the best ideas – Mike curates the most relevant insights into dynamic keynotes and innovation workshops aimed at helping audiences to not only understand but also influence the future direction of their industries.

Mike has devoted his career to being digital. He ran the market leading consumer insights house Jupiter Research in the Asia Pacific, and held senior strategy roles at News Corporation in both the Australian and Asian markets. Through his company Tomorrow Mike has advised the CEOs and senior management teams of companies such as the BBC, Fujifilm, AGL, the ABC, MSN, Star TV, Foxtel, Televisa, Grey Advertising, Schwarzkopf, BT Financial and HSBC. You can find out more about Mike at www.mike-walsh.com