Altimeter Group

Speaking

Whether you’re kicking off a major event or sitting down for an executive brainstorming session, Altimeter can help energize your audience. Altimeter’s partners are highly sought-after speakers who combine thought-provoking visions of the future with practical advice for the present. Partners are inspiring and entertaining, while at the same time eminently approachable. Partners have presented to a wide variety of public and private organizations in virtually every industry.

Altimeter’s audience usually falls into one of two groups:

• Leaders who see the potential of using disruptive technologies, but don’t know how to get started. They are fearful of losing control and want to understand how these strategies can help their organizations.
• Leaders who are seeking to take their organization to the next level by learning about industry trends and best practices, as well as how to prepare for the future.

Speech Topics

Whatever the audience, the speech is always customized for the group being addressed. Any of the below speech topics can be combined and customized to meet your events’ needs. A few current speech topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Creating A Coherent Social Strategy
• The Future Of Social Networks
• Convincing Your Curmudgeon – Getting Executive Buy-In For Your Social Strategy
• Get Engaged With Your Customers (Or Employees)
• Recruiting an Unpaid Army for Word Of Mouth
• The Customer Of The Future
• Developing –and Investing– in a Social CRM Strategy
• Rethinking Innovation in your Enterprise Strategy
• It’s The People Stupid: Designing a Social Experience
• Funding an Enterprise Strategy

Video Previews

Below are videos of past presentations by Altimeter Partners, which provide a preview of their engaging speaking styles.

• “The Groundswell. Harness the Tech to Connect” , Pre-Conference Interview, Brand ManageCamp, October 5-6, 2009 (Running Time: 6 min 45 sec)
• “How to Prepare for the Future of Search” , Excerpts, commentary & interview, SES San Jose, August 13, 2009 (Running Time: 7 min 33 sec)
• “Employees and Social Meda: A Corporate Dilemma“, Informational video courtesy of GuruTube.net, August 11, 2009 (Running Time: 2 min 21 sec)
• “The Future Of Social Networks” , Excerpts, SXSWi, March 2009 (Running Time: 1 min 41 sec)
• Nokia’s Ideas Project: “In the Future All Our ‘identities’ Will be Melded Together” , December 2008 (Running Time: 4 min 46 sec)
• “Creating A Social Media Strategy”, Authors@Google Series: Charlene Li , October 2008 (Running Time: 44:31)
• “The Death of the Grand Gesture”, Web 2.0 Expo NY: Deborah Schultz, September 2008 (Running Time: 14:35)
• “Groundswell” (Avenue A Razorfish Client Summit, May 2008) (Running Time: 32:43)
• “The Future of Social Networks” (O’Reilly GSP West, March 2008)
• “Strategies For Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies” (opens windows media video), PARC Forum, December 2007 (Running Time: 1:06:55)
• “Social Technologies: Your Customers Are Revolting” (Forrester Consumer Forum 2007) (Running Time: 9:45)
• “Social Technographics: Profile of Alpha Moms” (Forrester Consumer Forum 2007 (Running Time: 3:34)

Presentation Archives

Below are the latest presentations given by Altimeter Partners which are publicly available. For a full list of presentations, visit the Presentation Archive

• Tapping The Power of the Groundswell
• Brandworks 2009: Social Media Profiles & Strategies
• Innovating With Social Media In Government

Past Speeches

Satisfied audiences include Cisco, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Ketchum, Microsoft, Sony, Wells Fargo, Canadian Marketing Association, Advertising Research Foundation, and PBS. A full list of past speeches is also available.

Speaking Inquiries

Mel Blake
Monitor Talent
Phone: 617.252.2472
Email: mel_blake (at) monitor (dot) com