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Carmel Speakers Bureau

featuring Mark Carmel's Circle of Champions

Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation

Michel Bauwens, after 20 years of experience as entrepreneur, prospectivist, and corporate manager, is the creator of the Foundation of Peer to Peer Alternatives.

After starting as reference librarian and analyst with the United States Information Agency, he started his business career as knowledge manager of British Petroleum, creator of the flemish digital magazine Wave, founder of two Belgian internet start-ups producing respectively intranet/extranets and interactive marketing services, Marketing Mgr. and European Manager for Thought Leadership for the web consultance US/Web CKS (later: March 1st). His last assignment was as eBusiness Strategy Manager for Belgium's largest Telco.

He is the co-author of a 3-hour documentary on the transhuman implications of current technologies (TechnoCalyps: the metaphysics of technology and the end of man), and co-editor of two French-language volumes on The Anthropology of Digital Society, a course which he taught for 3 years in Brussels. After a brief stint as university lecturer at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, he turned his full attention to the social entrepreneurship of the P2P Foundation. He lives with the extended family of his Thai wife in the north of Thailand.

Speaking Topics

Social change and how peer to peer affects society at large
Business logic and models associated with social innovation
Policy implications for political audiences, under the notion of the Partner State

Fee Structure:

$6,000 per one day engagement plus expenses
Keynote addresses: $6,000 plus expenses

Testimonials:

Pat Byrne, Holistech Australia:

"I was most impressed with your knowledge and approach - you do not "preach" as others sometimes do but more "engage and explain" and that is important to us and others."

Mark Elliot, Stygmergic Collaboration:

"a clear, focused and compelling proposal for the emergence of a new organisational paradigm ... I thoroughly enjoyed the talk and was very happy to have had the opportunity to further discuss all things p2p"

Franz Nahrada - Global Villages

Michel Bauwens is a thorough researcher who makes it easy for his public to comprehend the deep changes in todays economy. With a passion and diligence comparable to Adam Smith, he looks at the traits of the upcoming most powerful mode of production that humankind has ever invented, the one that is truly setting free the full potential of individuals and collectives through self-detemination, autonomy and infinite networking.

His speeches and even more his in-depth seminars are mind - openers and lead to activate the sense for a whole range of opportunities in today's seemingly saturated world of business.

- Thomas Ermacora, webentrepreneur & futurist:

"Michael Bauwens belongs to this new generation of progressive, involved and hyperconnected intellectuals who develops a deep and continuous analysis of the social web phenomena, particularly how P2P impacts people and society at large, and what potential for positive change this sharing sphere comprises. Not only that, his foundation is a gem - a platform for interactive reformation. "

- Damien Mulley, on the Reboot 9 intervention:

"Michel Bauwens’ talk was great. He’s a good speaker and his topic was very engaging. I hope the presentation is available somewhere. It’s one of those kind of talks where you get excited that maybe we can change the world and make it better."

Michele Bauwen