SPEAKER: JAMES BELLINI

Dr James Bellini is a futurist, conference facilitator and broadcaster. James is an expert in technology and the future outlook for business within the context of the Internet, virtual markets and related developments in e-culture and business re-invention. He focuses on key management challenges related to issues of collaborative commerce, new business ‘eco-systems’, future consumer trends and concerns about the security of digital information flows and transaction data

Dr Bellini is also a regular choice as moderator/chairman at leading conferences for business and government around the world.

James can best be described as 'an historian of the future' with a close interest in the interaction between emerging technologies and the challenges faced by current and future management.

After a Masters from Cambridge, a PhD from London School of Economics and a spell as university teacher he was the first British member of the renowned US-headquartered futurology 'think-tank', the Hudson Institute founded by Dr Herman Kahn. He subsequently joined BBC TV as presenter of The Money Programme, Newsnight and Panorama. This was the beginning of more than twenty years as a television programme-maker on business and politics, including three years with Financial Times Television and four years with Sky News. He was a senior consultant with the Henley Centre for Forecasting and the Economist Intelligence Unit and regularly works with leading IT names such as Hewlett Packard exploring the ??New Economy?. He is founder of Media Counsellors, a UK-based communications consultancy. He is the author of numerous books, special reports and analytical papers on social, political and business trends.

Recent speaking and conference moderating invitations have taken him to Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, the United States and to practically every country in Europe. His latest UK engagements include work with -- amongst others -- Institute of Management, London Business School, Lloyds TSB, Legal & General, Microsoft, Camelot, Arcadia, Colgate-Palmolive, Motorola, Compaq and DERA [the Defence Research Agency]. He was recently engaged by the UK Cabinet Office on the launch of its e-government strategy.