Can any one really answer that question? Beyond the metaphysics, however, Chris Shipley is a writer, analyst, commentator, and stategist known for her keen instincts and razor-sharp insights about technology, business, people, and the mixture of all three.
Technology Writer & Analyst
I have covered personal technology for nearly 20 years, and has 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 with 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.
Executive Producer: The DEMO Conferences
The DEMO Conferences have earned the reputation as the premier place to launch a new information technology, product, or service. As executive producer, I create the program for DEMO and DEMOmobile, 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.
Partner: Sentier Networks
Sentier Networks is a strategic media company that bridges the product-to-market knowledge gap for Europe's technology industry. The company delivers the research, mentorship, visibility and high-value networking opportunities that enables individuals and organizations to effectively transform innovative ideas into vital technology businesses.
Sentier Networks grew out of the realization that technology innovation is flourishing throughout Europe, yet in large measure European entrepreneurs do not practice disciplined product management and marketing to successfully commercialize their technologies. Moreover, the fractured nature of Europe's many and varied local markets does not encourage a pan-European technology innovation "eco-system."
Sentier Networks builds and animates the global community of senior IT influencers who are driving the research, development, product marketing, and adoption of innovative information technologies. The firm provides an array of research, market development, education, community management activities to foster and accelerate technology innovation and innovative companies to market.
Advisor, Board Member
In addition to specific project work, I serve as both informal and formal advisor and board member to a number of organizations. I sit on the Board of Directors of Sponsorwise, Inc., the National Board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, and the Technology Advisory Board of Fleishman-Hillard International (where, once in a cosmic twist of fate, Newt Gingrich and I sat on the same conference call and actually agreed with one another). I am also an Advisor to Phantom Technologies and PredatorWatch, Inc.
