Rachel
Botsman
Speaker Profile
Rachel Botsman is a social innovator who writes, consults and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through network technologies. She wrote the influential book What's Mine is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing The Way We Live. TIME magazine recently called Collaborative Consumption one of the '10 Ideas That Will Change The World'.
Her thinking on how technology will change how we work and live has been widely published in WIRED, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, The Economist and Fast Company. Rachel has a monthly future tech trends column in the Australian Financial Review.
Rachel has presented at high profile events including WIRED, The Clinton Global Initiative, TEDx, HP, Google and No.10 Downing Street. She was recently named by Monocle as one of the top 20 speakers in the world.
A former director at President Clinton's Foundation, Rachel is currently partner in the Collaborative Fund, a leading source of seed capital and strategic support for creative entrepreneurs who want to change the world.
She received her BFA (Honors) from the University of Oxford, and undertook her postgraduate studies at Harvard University.
Rachel is currently working on her next book on the future of trust and reputation. To view her work please visit www.rachelbotsman.com and www.collaborativeconsumption.com.
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Client Comments
Client Comments
- Rachel Botsman was a brilliant speaker at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. She captured imaginations when speaking about how collaborative technologies are reshaping our relationships and reinventing the world around us in life-changing ways. Rachel is on the vanguard of an extraordinary movement and is sweeping us up with her as she creates new paths into the future.
Clinton Global Initiative - If you weren't already convinced that collaboration is the current world wave - in politics, business, life - then listen to Rachel Botsman on the subject! Her talk at Microsoft Research both provoked and inspired, setting off an active conversation that continues to this day and world-wide within the company.
Microsoft Research - I would recommend Rachel to anyone! She listened to her briefing and her material was excellent for our audience. Her delivery was also highly engaging with the right mix of substance, humor and passion.
LimeBridge (Aust) Pty Ltd - Rachel Botsman was captivating, relevant to our theme and an outstanding presenter. We were grateful to have had Rachel kick start our 3-Day Conference.
PropertyInvesting.com - Attendees at the Sydney Digital, Marketing & Media Summit 2011 were delighted and inspired with Rachel's though provoking and forward thinking presentation on Building a Collaborative Brand. Rachel possesses the skill and wisdom to excite and broaden the minds of any audience.
Elite Media Group - Rachel's presentation was on topic, interesting and engaging. Our audience was thrilled with her presentation. The anecdotal feedback has been fantastic for both Rachel and her content.
Hewlett Packard - The audience responses we have received about Rachel's presentation were overwhelming. I don't think anyone knew what to expect from her but everyone walked away completely blown away by what she had to say. We have had such interest in her from within HP as well as from audience members in general. Thank you, thank you, thank you for recommending her!
Hewlett-Packard
Topics
Speaker Topics
- Collaborative Consumption: A Game-Changing Opportunity
- Brand 'We'
- Welcome to the Reputation Economy
- Our Wired World
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Topic Synopses
Collaborative Consumption: A Game-Changing OpportunityRachel explains why hot start-ups to governments to Fortune 500 giants are embracing the Collaborative Consumption economy, named by TIME as one of the '10 Ideas That Will Change the World'. She will explain why consumer behaviors are shifting to a world where we value access over ownership, experiences over more stuff, and how this rising culture and economy will transform how we live, work, create and consume. This address can be tailored to a corporate or public sector audience.
Brand 'We'
Rachel explores the big question on business leaders' minds these days: how are social brands built, managed and spread? She uses a range of global examples from hot start-ups to Fortune 500 stalwarts to explain why collaboration, creativity and community are the new brand loyalty. Her story-based approach brings to life different ways to integrate the latest digital tools into a strategy in ways that create genuine value from the power of online collaboration.
Welcome to the Reputation Economy
In this presentation, Rachel reveals why we are heading towards an economy where reputation will become a cornerstone of the 21st century, a currency more powerful than our traditional credit history. She explains why reputation is critical in marketplaces built on trust and how different sectors are starting to use reputation data in ways that are immediately relevant to both our personal lives and to business.
Our Wired World
In a world where game-changing technologies are evolving at a staggering rate, how do you stay ahead of the curve and figure out what's coming next? Rachel connects the dots on key future technology and innovation trends that will transform consumer behaviors and disrupt sectors over the next decade. She mixes practical insights with cutting-edge examples to help your company think about what you should be doing now to protect and reinvent yourselves.
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