Graham Brown-Martin is a leading figure of future trends, analysing various social, technological, political and economic factors that will affect our futures. Over the past 30 years, Graham has built his knowledge across a breadth of sectors including entertainment, education and technology. Today he is working to improve the future of learning with his start-up ventures and is highly sought as a keynote speaker.
After he left education at 15, Graham was passionate to pursue a range of opportunities. His career started with working for the Open University, where Graham was initially employed as a research assistant. Enriching his innovative mind, Graham transferred to work for the Academic Computing Service and began working with mainframe and minicomputers. It was at this time that the Micros in School programme was launched, and where Graham’s passion for education began. Knowledgeable in coding Graham joined the movement in the form of creating educational software and later joined Research Machines Ltd in Oxford.
As his knowledge and passion for technology bloomed, Graham joined forces with Lauretta Hill and founded Next Technology aged just 22. His company pioneered the technology sector, acting as one of the very first companies to work with the CD-ROM. Commended for being ahead of their time, Next Technology saw Graham work alongside tech giants such as Apple, SEGA, and Microsoft to name but a few. By the 1990s Graham was pioneering the future once more with video compression algorithms and later joined Digital Arts. Under his innovative watch, Graham was able to transform Digital Arts and today it is one of London’s biggest digital media firms designing for Adidas and Volkswagen.
Graham’s next business venture came along in the 2000s, founding Learning Without Frontiers. Passionate to improve the future, Graham founded Learning Without Frontiers to gather educational professionals to better the future of education. Today, Learning Without Frontiers is one of the globe’s largest summits, a testament to Graham’s business expertise. Graham also founded BeyondTomorrow.Global, an intelligence network setting out expectations for the future beyond the 22nd century. He is also the author of Learning {Re}imagined, a globally bestselling book focused on education.
Also the co-founder of regenerative.global, Graham today is found running strategic leadership coaching and public speaking addresses. Helping businesses and individuals to navigate the future, Graham is a pioneer in the sectors of education, technology and business and a leading industry authority. From small intimate gatherings to huge global summits, Graham is calm and confident when faced with an audience. A stimulating thinker, bringing new ideas to the table, Graham delivers an insightful and engaging speech. In recent years, Graham has performed to many high-profile clients including the likes of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. He is often seen speaking to children at schools across the country and has engaged with FTSE 100 companies too. A seasoned speaker and innovative thinker, Graham Brown-Martin is the perfect speaker to leave your guests inspired for the future.
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When appearing at corporate events, Graham Brown-Martin is known to cover the following topics:
- The Existential Crisis of Universities
- What Does AI Mean for Education?
- The Future of Learning
- Learning Re-Imagined
- Beyond Profit
- I Am a Virus- Innovation
- The Future of Work
- Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Beyond Tomorrow
- Beyond the Pandemic
- What is School For?
"Given the nature of global change, transforming education around the world is one of the deepest, most urgent challenges we now face. With this open but penetrating gaze, Graham Brown-Martin is an ideal guide through the complex terrain of ideas and innovations that might just create the new forms of education that we really need"- Sir Ken Robinson
"Graham Brown-Martin's keynote was a fantastic catalyst for our thinking"- Kieran, CEO and Principal of The British School, The Netherlands
"Graham Brown-Martin in an engaging, witty and most importantly prescient speaker who has an uncanny ability to weave observations about the past and present into inspiring and thoughtful insights we all must consider as we collectively shape the future"- Connie, MacArthur Foundation
"Graham presented at our recent Global Learning & Development summit, attended by international L&D professionals. His interactive and humorous keynote speech motivated the group to work collaboratively and 'wake up their brains' which sets us up for a great two days of sharing and learning from each other"- Jennifer, Global Learning & Development KPMG
"The opening keynote delivered by Graham Brown-Martin at the, Microsoft and Volvo backed, 2nd Corporate Innovation & Intrapreneurship conference in Zagreb was truly inspiring"- Zeljko, Curator and Event Director
"The 650 delegates to Learning Without Frontiers found themselves in an event that felt like a mashup of a music festival, a political convention, and freshman orientation at a college campus slightly a more slightly advanced planet"- The New York Times
Co-founder of Words & Ears
Co-founder of Regenerative.Global
Co-founder of Next Technology
Founder of BeyondTomorrow.Global
Founder of Learning Without Frontiers
Author of Learning {Re}imagined
