Ray Hammond Biography
Ray Hammond is a world-renowned futurologist, technology analyst and commentator on the digital age. He is a natural and charismatic performer; his speaking style is spontaneous, interactive and entertaining.
Best-selling Author
He is a best-selling author whose titles have been published in 44 countries and in 23 languages. Ray Hammond is also a regular contributor to ‘MIT Technology Review,’ ‘Computing’, ‘Business and Technology’ and ‘New Media Investor’.
He wrote the world’s first guide to on-line commerce and the Internet, ‘The On-Line Handbook’ (1984) and is the author of the best selling ‘Computers and Your Child’. His book ‘Digital Business: Surviving & Thriving in an On-Line World’ (1996) was described at the time as an inspiration to all those wanting to exploit the potential of on-line technologies.
Serial Entrepreneur
In addition to his writing career and academic work, Ray has been a serial entrepreneur, founding and developing his own businesses in the UK, USA and Germany before selling them advantageously.
Today, Ray provides keynote lectures, workshops and seminars on the digital future for the world’s leading corporations in between writing and lecturing at his universities.
Ray Hammond is a Contributing Editor to the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, USA, a visiting lecturer at the City University Business School, London, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a member of the World Future Society.
Speaking Topics
- Business
- Futurists
- Social Media
- Technology
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Ray Hammond News
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Ray Hammond’s Glimpses of the Future
5th April 2012
Futurologist , technology analyst and keynote speaker Ray Hammond, looks to the future with exciting predictions, including a possible cure for Alzheimers and glasses which will place computers inches from your eyes!
The Rise and Rise of Social Media Marketing
29th July 2010
Recent surveys have revealed the increasing influence and importance of social media and digital experts and speakers Ray Hammond and Clay Shirky look at what this means for the future of business and creativity.
Futurology speaker, Ray Hammond, offers a glimpse into our future lives
27th October 2009
The world renowned futurologist, technology anaylist and commentator on the digital age offers some interesting insights into new technologies and developments that will shape our lives in the future. From self-cleaning keyboards, living heart patches to silent artificial muscles - it's a brave new world
Ray Hammond has been elected a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF)
12th February 2007
Ray Hammond has been elected a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF)
Innovative Speakers Gather at TED 2012
28th June 2012
California is once again the sunny location for TED, the most innovative and exciting conference on the planet, where speakers with ‘ideas worth spreading’ gather to share their thoughts on technology, design, science, media, politics, the arts, and other insights on how to shape a better word.
Top Speakers Corner Talent at TED Global
14th July 2011
Speakers Corner’s varied and rich catalogue of unique and inspirational personalities is well represented at this year’s TED Global Summer conference in Edinburgh. Speakers in the Scottish capital include Nic Marks - Founder of the award winning centre for well-being; author and thinker Charles Leadbeater; percussionist Evelyn Glennie and TV scientist Brian Cox.
Noreena Hertz Finishes New Book
4th April 2013
Keynote speaker and leading futurist, Noreena Hertz has finished her most recent book, which will be published in the US and the UK in September 2013.
Tim Berners-Lee Wins Engineering Prize
20th March 2013
Inventor of the World Wide Web and keynote speaker, Time Berners-Lee, is going to be awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Kevin Kelly Believes Robots Will Take Over
26th February 2013
Kevin Kelly, the after dinner speaker and world’s leading specialist on the information technology revolution, believes that we should prepare ourselves for robots to take over our jobs.
Roger Martin Speaking at World Economic Forum
16th January 2013
Roger Martin is due to speak at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, along with Joseph Stiglitz and Tim Berners-Lee.
Ray Hammond Reviews
Ray Hammond has spoken and appeared at a number of recent corporate events. Please find some client speaker testimonials and reviews for Ray Hammond for a number of these events and conferences. If you would like some additional information as to how to book Ray Hammond for your corporate event, then please contact one of the Speakers Corner booking agents on +44 (0)20 7607 7070 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk
Ray Hammond is a dynamic, insightful and very captivating speaker. He had the audience on the edge of their seats.
Very good - and was greatly appreciated by the audience. The one area he may have done slightly better is to tie back the vision of the future to the audience and their company - some of the attendees were quite old school and required to much of a leap to get them to understand the total relevance
There were 3,000 attendees at our Networkers 2007 event in Cannes - they all loved Ray's inspiring presentation.
Ray Hammond was simply brilliant at our EPCA Conference in Monte Carlo. His interventions also added a lot of power and spirit to the discussions.
Ray's speech was uplifiting, inspiring and visionary. It made the event for us.
Ray Hammond was even better when he spoke to our management team in Lagos that he was in The Hague last year. Thank you Ray.
Ray Hammond kicked off our conference in a way that got the whole Scandinavian telecoms industry buzzing about future developments
Ray Hammond session was truly inspirational and thought provoking.
Ray, your message, personality and delivery style resonated strongly with the participants and with the Dow team. We had a lot of good feedback from many attendees in Budapest. Two of the Dow team members aspire to speak like you!
Ray Hammond is one of the best public speakers we have ever seen. Without a single note or slide, he delivered a rivetting, totally captivating one hour keynote speech at our Monaco Management Conference.
The feedback from our guests about Ray's speech has been extremely enthusiastic. He has 300 new admirers in the Belgian packaging industry.
Ray's talk made a real difference to our customer event in St-Paul de Vence. His audience ratings were very high.
The keynote lecture Ray Hammond gave at our conference was extremely impressive. Our students and post-grads loved hearing his insights.
Ray, we want to thank you again for the great session last week. You did exactly what we wanted - educated, informed, worried, created interest in the forthcoming trends as a whole as well as those in the CP sector. You connected with the group and set the tone for the detailed sessions to follow.
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