SPEAKER: BRUNO GIUSSANI

Internet and mobile communications expert

Author of "Roam. Making Sense of the Wireless Internet"

Bruno Giussani is a recognised specialist on technology trends and their business and social implications, with a main focus on the "wireless Internet", e-business and m-business.

A "realistic futurist" Bruno is able to communicate what is happening in this fast changing area, and the implications of these changes, simply and in a way which audiences can apply to their world.

His experience is international which means that he can bring a global perspective to his speeches.

He is fluent in English, Italian and French.

Bruno Giussani is the author of Roam: Making Sense of the Wireless Internet [italian edition: Senza Fili. L'equivoco dell'Internet mobile, e come uscirne] and the Director of Innovation of 3G Mobile, a Swiss mobile communication company.

He is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Tinext, a software and web-services company which he co-founded in 2000 as well as Tinet, one of the first Swiss Internet services companies, and in 1995. He lectures on the Management of Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne) and is a frequent speaker at Internet and wireless conferences.

Prior to his current activities Bruno was the Director of Internet Strategy at the World Economic Forum and an award-winning journalist; European Editor of The Industry Standard magazine; European Internet columnist for The New York Times; technology columnist for L'Hebdo, a Swiss weekly newsmagazine, and Bilan, a Swiss business monthly.

He has also held political and business editorial positions for several other magazines and newspapers in Europe and was awarded the Swiss Prize for Journalism for his articles on information technologies.

Bruno is one of the 50 people profiled in Europe's A-List. The Movers and Shakers of the European Cyber-Scene, by Liza Roberts (February 2001).

He is a member of the advisory committee of Transitions Online, a Prague-based independent news organisation covering 28 countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet regions, and is an advisor to Netaid, a New-York based organisation fighting poverty in the developing world.

He co-operates with the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto and with the Center for the Global Dialogue in Zurich/Rueschlikon.