I am a writer, analyst, commentator, and strategist. Some say I have keen instincts and razor-sharp insights about technology, business, people, and the mixture of all three.
I have covered personal technology for more than 20 years, and have garnered the reputation as an industry pundit. I look at technology not with an engineer's zeal for elegant code, but with a human eye for usefulness, practical advancement, and social change. As a product analyst, I meet each year with about 500 companies as they are developing and bringing new products to market in order to help them position the technology in the marketplace. As a technology writer, I talk about technology at the point where it meets and impacts people.
I am perhaps best known as the Executive Producer of the DEMO Conferences, the technology industry's premier place to launch new information technology, product, or service. As executive producer, I create the program, interviewing hundreds of companies each year and inviting only a handful to use the DEMO platform as a launch pad for their new products. DEMO is as much about ideas as it is products and technologies. Since 1996, I have used DEMO to introduce ideas such as Web-based software (ASP Services), application servers, device computing, social agents and user interfaces, and much more.
In the Spring of 2004, I co-founded Guidewire Group, a technology research firm focused exclusively on emerging companies and markets. As lead analyst and editorial director, I develop the company's research methodologies and guide its editorial products.
