Norman Lewis is recognised worldwide as an expert on future trends and user behaviours with regard to technology innovation and adoption. He has spoken on these topics at events all over the world. Norman is a visiting research fellow at the newly established Hungarian think tank, MCC Brussels, where he concentrates on the EU’s digital sovereignty strategy and its increasing attacks on online content and speech.
Formerly a director at PwC, responsible for running their crowd-sourced innovation programme, he was also the director of technology research at Orange UK for a decade. He has played numerous advisory roles to startups, the latest as an Advisory Board Member of Bubbletone Blockchain in Telecom – the world’s first decentralised mobile roaming service.
He was also previously an executive board member of the MIT Communications Futures Programme, and a former chairman of the ITU TELECOM Forum Programme Committee.
He is a co-author of Big Potatoes: the London Manifesto for Innovation.