Proposed themes:

• eMarketing
• eCampaigns
• Internet communication
• Hyperthinking (creative thinking for the Internet Age)

Philip Weiss

A graduate of Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Philip Weiss works with leading corporations and institutions on the impact of the Internet on communication and marketing. After running a conference on ‘Doing Business with India’ in 1998, he started helping some of the top Fortune 500 companies in understanding how they could adapt to respond to the threats and opportunities brought on by the Internet.

In 1998, he founded the fast-growing Brussels-based Internet communication agency ZN (ZeitgeistNet), serving leading global clients from IBM to Bridgestone, Basell, Huntsman and others. To help his team and clients adapt their thinking to the Internet Age, he invented and developed the ‘Hyperthinker’ concept – a methodology for developing thinking skills best adapted to the Internet environment – and wrote ‘The Hyperthinker’, a book which summarises his thinking on the subject. This has lead to the Hyperthinker Experiement a site where these new technologies are tested in practice and a community is developing.

Philip Weiss speaks on a regular basis, leading the ‘Hyperthinker Series’ with companies such as eBay, IBM, P&G, Blackberry and OpenBC (now Xing). He has also been invited to speak and train at the Eurochambres Academy on eMarketing.

He is a passionate entrepreneur and loves to imagine the future and how to adapt your thinking to take advantage of the opportunities created by the changes we all face. He helps large corporations adapt to these difficult changes, having worked with them over the past decade.