2015 Guest Speaker

Roger Dennis is the founder of Sensing City in New Zealand - an initiative to incorporate sensors and a data overlay into the rebuild of Christchurch. He consults in foresight, innovation and large scale change. He is based in New Zealand, and supports government bodies and companies across Asia, Europe and Australasia. He is part of the core team for Future Agenda – the world’s largest open source foresight programme (www.futureagenda.org). He also works with a virtual team around the globe called Growth Agenda (www.growthagenda.com). Dennis led the 2007 Shell Technology Futures programme for the Game Changer team in The Hague and co-wrote and edited the book that resulted from the programme. Before this he was at egg – the pioneering European internet bank, where he worked in London on areas as diverse as the online gaming industry and deploying financial services on smart-phone.