Dr Norman Lewis

With over ten years experience in Telecoms innovation, Norman Lewis is recognised worldwide as an expert on future trends and user behaviours with regard to technology adoption. He has spoken on these topics at events all over the world. Norman is currently working on innovation at PwC. He was the Chief Innovation Officer at Open-Knowledge – a global consultancy on the emerging Enterprise 2.0 paradigm. He is a co-author of Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for innovation.

Prior to joining PwC and Open-Knowledge, he was the Chief Strategy Officer of Wireless Grids Corporation, USA and the Director of Technology Research for Orange UK, formerly the Home Division of France Telecom where he was at the forefront of developing an innovation framework for an integrated Telco approach to the emerging Web2.0 ecosphere. He was also previously an Executive Board member of the MIT Communications Futures Programme and a former chairman of the ITU TELECOM Forum Programme Committee.

Related Sessions

Saturday 31 October 2009, 1.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Rethinking Privacy in an age of Disclosure and Sharing


Publications

Serving the Digital Generation: Innovation for a new breed of customers, Tekco2.0 initiative
INNOVATING FOR THE FUTURE: Digital Kids and the customer of the future, STL Partners, London October, 2008


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