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Dr Patrick Dixon - Events

"Brilliant communicator who really cares about his audience and his clients"

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Presentations are usually heavily customised - watch this example for 400 European Petrochemical Industry executives on solutions to the crisis in logistics and distribution. Breakfast meeting.

Important information for event organisers and useful links

Dr Patrick Dixon has been ranked as one of the world's 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 - 2005) and is often described in the media as Europe's leading Futurist. He is widely regarded as one of the most powerful and effective speakers in the world on issues relating to future business success and many of the world's largest corporations are his clients. Every presentation is customised after close discussion with event organisers, to create a high impact, entertaining, provocative, very interactive and relevant multimedia experience for audiences ranging from 20 to 3,000 - in 2D or spectacular 3D imaging. Dr Dixon tests opinion of each audience with "straw polls" and probes what they actually think themselves about future challenges, often walks around audiences and engages them personally. See videos.

Most presentations are opening keynotes, setting the scene for all that follows. Dr Dixon works hard to dig deep into organisational strategy and culture, with the help of each client, and aims to bring practical insights that are vitally important to the future of the corporation, taking into account everything else in the programme, and the priorities of the senior executive team. There is an element of consultancy in most presentations: far more than an off-the-shelf standard lecture. Organisers usually feel after working with Dr Dixon that they have found a friend: someone who understands the huge pressures they are under to make a great success of their event, and who is passionate about helping them make it happen. That is why he usually arrives the day before an event, offers to write articles, makes himself available for media interviews, signs every book that organisers buy to give participants (yes he has signed 1,400 for just one event), publishes his presentations online, makes conference videos available on / from his website, provides free access to 300 other presentations, and the entire text of 6 books and so on.

There is usually a strong focus on the future in every presentation, while also addressing urgent challenges facing the corporation / industry right now. There is a warm, practical, personal dimension, reflecting the fact that Dr Dixon first trained as a physician, looking also at what it means for individuals, families and friends, connecting with passion and ending with an inspiring challenge to make a difference.

Presentations can be delivered in full 3D without special glasses using screens from 3m to 100 wide, with the Musion system. See examples of the power of Musion technology. Solid-looking objects, video and images can appear in front or behind Patrick Dixon, manipulated by him as part of his unfolding story about tomorrow’s world and the impact on your corporation. Multiple elements can twist and float mid-air, towards or away from the audience. Other virtual people can join him onstage, appearing life size.

For smaller groups, some clients prefer an entirely discussion-based futuring and strategy development exercise, where all the "work" is done by participants who rapidly build their own scenarios based on likely and less likely events. These are then used as a basis to challenge existing assumptions about strategy and to develop innovative ideas about products, services, markets, structure and internal processes. However the preparation process is similar with detailed analysis of where the company is and where it could be in future in the light of wider changes in the operating environment.

Dr Dixon is also regularly called on to chair large conference sessions and has done so recently for NCR, Google and for a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson.

Reasons clients engage Dr Dixon include:

* Identify new opportunities
* Product development
* Strategy development
* Reducing risks and impact of "wild cards"
* Brand strengthening - connecting with consumer emotion
* Innovative thinking
* Fresh customer insights
* Wider industry perspectives
* Promoting company to key clients as thought-leader
* Radical "out of the box" questioning of key assumptions
* Insurance policy against institutional blindness
* Team building, strengthening of corporate "tribe"

Examples of recent issues:

* What will be most important for users of mobile phones in emerging markets in the next decade?
* How can we improve commitment and loyalty in our senior management?
* What will be the greatest unmet health needs by 2020, and what new products will be needed?
* What will next-generation online markets look like, and why?
* What is the future for newspapers and TV, for paper directories and books?
* How can we protect our business from attack by activists?
* What should be our response to global warming?
* How should banks respond to increasing regulation and uncertainty?

"Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you"

* Biography - and frequently asked personal questions
* Wikepedia article on Patrick Dixon
* Client list - many of the largest corporations in the world
* Recent feature on tribalism and ageing (Financial Times)

More than a million video views by some of the 11 million different visitors to our sites, here or on our YouTube Channel or on Google Video. Dr Patrick Dixon has spoken at events in 53 countries.

Short YouTube clips of different conference videos on various issues:

Economics, Finance & Financial Services
Banking - many of Patrick's clients are global banks, investment funds
Economics issues - Patrick creates a big picture of global trends
Insurance - Patrick has worked with many of the world's largest insurers

Technology
Technology - Patrick works with many of the world's largest computer, software, telecom, internet and biotech companies
Online communities - Web 2.0 - how online communities will drive your business
Mobile phones - future of telecom, wireless devices, virtual communities, positional advertising
Convergence and divergence - why all competitive advantage comes from divergence
RFID technology - impact on retail, wholesale, distribution and manufacturing

Health and Education
Health care - key trends in health, ageing, biotech, hospitals, clinics
Pharmaceutical industry - impact of the biotech revolution
Education - future of teaching in high schools, colleges and business school

Leadership, Management & Strategy
Change management - a recurring theme
Risk management - preparing for the unexpected
Innovation - smart innovation, open innovation and crowdsourcing 
Leadership - effective ways to drive organisations forward
Logistics and supply chain - critical issues in manufacturing and wholesale
Motivation - how to inspire people to make great things happen
Women at work - challenges for corporations in winning war for talent
Outsourcing - what is going to happen next

Marketing
Advertising - why traditional approaches are dead in an online world
Customers - how customer demands are changing and why
Customer focus - why many corporations need a reality check, to succeed in future
Marketing - future of marketing and brand development

Travel, Tourism, Energy, Resources and Environment
Travel - future of aviation, road, rail, shipping - for business and leisure
Biofuels - food for fuel? Next generation biofuels. 
Commodities - impact of emerging markets
Energy industry - future energy from oil, gas, coal, nuclear, renewables
Petrochemical industry - how the industry will change and why
Climate change - why the future is about emotion, not just the science
Sustainability - what does it mean for your business?

Other Topics and Types of Audience
Real estate - key trends in commercial and residential real estate industries
Retailing - developing the customer experience

Looking for other topics?  Search on Patrick Dixon's YouTube Futurist channel.

Here are some Google videos of one hour multimedia keynote presentations at conferences -

Future of phones, computers, consumer choices and lifestyle changes in emerging markets - staged multimedia event for 450 of MTN's global leadership team - South Africa 2007.

Future customer trends, consumers, marketing, products and services - event for 350 clients of Siemens, mostly Chief Technology Offices, or Chief Information Officers, from multinationals.

How the future of America will be dominated by older consumers, lifestyle choices and growth of financial and political power of senior citizens - presentation for national leadership team of AARP (American association for people over the age of 50) - 2005..

Future technology trends and what people really want - personally and in business - seminar for 25 leaders at Dimension Data in Johannesburg with video-linked audiences in three other site - 2007.

The Future of Education - lecture for 100 Head Teachers of US high schools (NAIS). What kind of education do tomorrow's citizens need? How does the way we teach people need to change? What kind of world do we need to prepare students for? - 2006.

Future trends and their impact on investment banking, fund management and related financial services - Credit Suisse seminar - 2006.

Future of Consumers, Technology and Communications - one hour presentation for 600 clients of Toshiba in Sydney. Major shift, new fashions and fads, convergence and divergence and the need to make a difference - 2006.

Future of the European Petrochemical Industry - logistics and supply chain - half hour keynote presentation for the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA). This is an example of a highly customised presentation for a specific audience - 2007.

How to Make Great Things Happen - presentation for 250 government workers organised by the Welsh Parliament (Assembly). Participants from health, education, police, fire services, social services, transport. Keys to effective leadership, change management and improved productivity - 2007.

Take Hold of Your Future - technology and other major trends affecting the future of large cororporations. Event for 2,000 clients of Fujitsu Siemens - 2005.

Futurewise - Six Faces of Global Change and the Future of Banking - keynote lecture to 400 financial intermediaries of UBS, with focus on fund management, financial services and wealth management - 2006.

Future of medicine, biotechnology, health care, the pharmaceutical industry - and related trends - biotech investors conference in Switzerland - 2003.

Future of Logistics, Distribution, Global Transportation and other Trends - client event for IBS - 2005.

Future of digital technology and other global trends - client event for 2000 CIOs and CTOs of Fujitsu Siemens on major trends and their impact on multinational business - not only in technology - 2006

Dr Patrick Dixon chairing conferences and running panel interviews

Google Zeitgeist CEO Summit - 5 minute intro of session on future of entertainment, media, advertising, online communities such as YouTube and perhaps the ultimate consumer experience - space travel with Virgin Galactic

Google Zeitgeist CEO Summit - Chairing session on future of broadcasting and the BBC - guest Mark Thompson, Director General BBC

Google Zeitgeist CEO Summit - Chairing discussion with co-founder of YouTube Chad Hurley - on meteoric rise of YouTube

Google Zeitgeist CEO Summit - Space Tourism and Virgin Galactic - Chairing session with remarkeable video of early flight, discussion and then closing with whole panel of 5 on range of issues relating to entertainment and virtual life

To discuss your event personally with Patrick Dixon phone +44 7768 511 390 (if necessary leave message). You can also e-mail Dr Dixon. If you wish, we can also put you in touch with organisers of previous events.

Booking Patrick Dixon for your event is easy: phone Karen O'Donnell at Leigh Bureau Ireland office +353 1 230 2322 or for US bookings phone +1 908 253 8600. Please DO mention that you got the number from this web page. Leigh Bureau is the exclusive agent for all bookings worldwide. If other agencies wish to book Patrick they should contact Leigh Bureau to discuss joint arrangements.

 

 

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