Christopher Hire helps global cities and businesses adapt to the networked economy with innovation. More than ideas, Hire shares practical – do-able innovation supported by insightful data.
His sought-after specialist expertise is analyzing cities and business data by market segment, and providing new creative insight.
Building an Innovation Economy a business, industry & city at a time…
About Christopher Hire.
An Analyst people can actually understand.
As a data analyst and trusted advisor Christopher’s work since 1998 has involved the full spectrum of data including finance, company statements, infrastructure, technology, sustainability, assets, sensitive and private data. This has included multi-nationals, State & Federal Government, corporations and NFPs/NGOs.
In between he has taught across all socio-economic groups, including large and small corporate and government audiences, as well as charitable NESB (migrants) and regional areas.
Christopher Hire is Executive Director of Innovation at 2thinknow: www.2thinknow.com/company/executive-director-christopher-hire/
See also — ‘What Others Say’
Speaking engagements
As a speaker, Christopher offers an innovation view with an analysts eye, insightful, professional and always well received. He is the only speaker who can draw data and case studies are drawn from 2thinknow’s large data-set of global innovation economies.
And his slideshows are legendarily fun — that help reinforce the point.
Christopher’s primary goal is to do good by spreading the methods of innovation, so he prices a little differently to other speakers (hopefully this will save you some of your speaker budget!)
Global Ideas, Availability.
Christopher’s ideas ideas have been featured in the Boston Globe, Reuters, NY Times Freakonomics, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Fast Company online, national radio, blogs, government websites and a wide variety of newspapers from the Age in Melbourne, to To Vima in Athens, U.S. local news or La Stampa in Italy.
Christopher is about spreading innovative ideas, and ways of achieving them — and is happy to do interviews for your event. He wants to make sure his ideas align with, and deliver value to your event and delegates.
Presentation Clients
Over 13 years as a speaker and presenter, Christopher Hire has delivered training and conference presentations on a variety of technology, change trends, innovation and analyst topics for government and business.
For presenting on technological change & innovation over 13 years, his audiences have included:
- Corporates: [3M, Kelloggs, ML & others]
- Federal Court of Australia
- Federal Govt [Defence, DOH, Industry, Meteorology & others]
- Internationals — e.g. British Consulate General / FCO
- Local Councils: e.g. South Sydney Council
- Politics: Labor Party [ALP training]
- Insurance: NRMA Insurance / IMA / IAG
- NSW State Government [OSR, STA, State Rail, Environment]
- Management Consultants e.g. PWC
- Media & publishers e.g Random House
- Sports Teams — e.g. Sydney City Roosters Football Club
- Utilities [Transgrid, Origin, CitiPower]
- Unions e.g. MEAA Union / Walkleys
- Victorian State Government [DIIRD, DBI, Human Services]
- Zurich Insurance
For the amazing feedback see > ‘What Others Say’
Speaking Fees, Costs & Calendar of Locations.
Rather than to-and fro over fees, there’s a current fixed fee table here for 2011 – 12 here.
Fees start at a very reasonable $5,000 depending on how your location and event, fits into a global schedule. The goal is to ensure that the most interesting speaking engagements are delivered each year.If an engagement fits into our calendar there are no airfares ex-Australia to pay!
Posted soon.
Speaking Resources.
Innovation Websites.
The Innovation Cities Program – is a resource site on innovation economies across the world. It has visitors from over 1,000 cities each month. See http://www.innovation-cities
The 2thinknow family of sites for the business of innovation, includes — http://www.2thinknow.com and attracts over 1,000 unique visitors per month.
Social Media for innovation events.
Christopher has several thousand twitter followers across his related accounts, and these will follow your event as he live-tweets as appropriate. The 2 main accounts are:
He responds to tweets, can be contacted on LinkedIn as well
Resources for conference organisers / attendees
- Slideshare Account for 2thinknow
- LinkedIn Discussion Community as well
More Information.
To contact Christopher Hire for presentation enquiries click here
There also is an extensive further FAQ on speaking and training here.
