Innovation Speaker


Innovation speaker across cities in USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Innovation Speaker at Conferences & Events: Christopher-HireExecutive Director, Christopher Hire, is available as a professional innovation speaker.

As a leading analyst, Christopher Hire speaks about innovation in global markets, and analyzing urban innovation economies. Hire created the Innovation Cities™ Program and Index from his Innovation Cities research since 2005 (and city indexes since 2007).

Professional Speaker: Conferences

Hire can access 2ThinkNow city benchmarking data for city and urban development conferences. For industry conferences and company events, Hire will use 2ThinkNow library of industry case studies for innovation strategy. For association or NGO conferences, Christopher talks about civic and social innovation.

Articulate, knowledgeable and with a refreshing lack of jargon, barrow-pushing and other tech-talk …A delight to work with.” What Others Say about Christopher Hire

Innovation Analysis: Change & Futurism

As the leading innovation analyst, Hire predicted the GFC in 2007 as a “2008 September shock event”, the Australian stock-markets decline, the strong performance of Germany vs. U.K., and dangers to U.S. economy. Hire provides analysis of future events, and methods for workshop planning strategic responses.

Professional Public Speaker

Hire is a a professional analyst with 13 years experience in business, data, government and infrastructure data and teaching. He can explain change  in every day language, using graphs, colorful models, some light entertaining stories and enlightening slides (a few public samples).

Innovation Practitioner Speeches

Christopher delivers a selected number of speeches, and training annually, in between leading innovation analysis for the Innovation Cities™ Program. As a professional speaker and trainer, Hire has14 years experience presenting to delegates including Government, Corporate (Random House, Toyota, 3M, Lend Lease) and NGO (Associations, Church Groups, Clubs).

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Other: Innovation Events & Training products from 2thinknow

Innovation Events. The Local Innovation Forum™ event by 2ThinkNow provides your community answers on finding the opportunities of an emerging innovation economy. Available globally, if you have the venue, this is a great value option.

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Innovation Training. The Innovation Course™ from 2ThinkNow is hands-on innovation training. These innovation training workshops  teaches team innovation skills to management, professionals & teams. Available in many cities globally.

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