Ray Hammond

Europe's Most Experienced and Widely Published Futurologist

Ray Hammond is Europe’s most experienced Futurists. For over 35 years Ray has been writing and speaking about the trends that will shape the future. His long record of accurate foresight is unique in Europe and he is now living in the future he first described 30 years ago.

"What is the Global Brain? It’s called Google"

Topics

Digital Disruption: Changing Customer Expectations
Understanding Government Digital Delivery
The Impact of Digital Technology on Healthcare
The Role of Clean Tech in the Future of Transport
Robots, AI and the Future of Work and Employment

Languages

He presents in English.

How he presents

Ray’s inspirational and riveting speaking style – coupled with his long experience of public speaking – ensures companies are happy to trust him with even the largest and most important audiences. At ease with audiences of any size, Ray describes himself as being "at home" on a stage.

Publications

2017
The Black Hole
Emergence (republished - previously released in 2000)
2014
Scary:Wonderful - The Next 50 years
2012
The World in 2030
2005
EXtinction
2006
The Cloud
1996
Digital Business - Surviving and Thriving in an On-Line World
1984
The On-Line Handbook. The world's first book to identify the potential of the internet

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In Detail

Ray is also a successful and proven business leader and serial entrepreneur. He has hands-on experience of creating and selling profitable businesses. Today, Ray is the author of 14 books about the future, a body of work which he began in 1980 and which stands as testament to the long-term accuracy and reliability of his foresight. His 1984 publication, The On-Line Handbook, was the world’s first book to identify the overwhelming importance of the Internet and to identify "search" as the key driving force behind all future on-line advertising and digital commerce. In 2010 former President Mikhail Gobachev presented Ray with a U.N. Gold Medal for Services to Futurology.

What he offers you

Ray projects an inspirational and breath-taking vision of the future to help your audiences navigate the hyper-competitive virtual economy. This vision is interpreted from a business, climate, social, political, and economic perspective providing a rounded view of how best to prepare your organisation for what the future holds.