Media Futures Conference 2009
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Beyond Broadcast

Friday 3 July, Bloomberg Auditorium, London, EC2

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Woudhuysen will explain how to use social insights to find out what the consumer really wants and to help create innovative content and platforms.

James Woudhuysen is Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. A physics graduate, he writes for Computing and spiked-online.com. He helped introduce Britain’s first computer-controlled car park in 1968, wrote about chemical weapons for the Economist in 1978, and devised an instruction manual for a word processor in 1983. He led an international multi-client study, e-commerce, 1988; proposed Internet TV, 1993; was manager, worldwide market intelligence, Philips Consumer Electronics, the Netherlands, 1995-7. He authored Cult IT (Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1999), co-authored Why is construction so backward? (Wiley, 2004) and co-authored Energise! A future for energy innovation (Beautiful Books, 2009). Woudhuysen has worked with most of the world’s top IT companies. [Read on at his site]