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Steven Overman has built his career as a pioneer at the intersection of major social shifts, media communication, and technology innovation for over two decades. He works on the front line of business and culture transformation, helping teams grow new ideas into massive international phenomena that generate billions of dollars of economic value, but even more importantly, new ideas that positively change the lives of people everywhere. He was one of the earliest members of the group that created and spread the message of the Digital Revolution at Wired magazine, even collaborating on the invention of the the ad banner for the world's first commercial website Hotwired (an early offshoot of Wired.) He helped create the Academy Award-winning movie Philadelphia, which transformed the global conversation about HIV/AIDS. He led the international launch of the world's first smartphone, the blockbuster Nokia N95, and went on to lead the creation of innovative marketing for a whole new category of affordable mobile technology that connected a billion new consumers to the internet, from India to Indonesia to Sub-Saharan Africa. As a strategy and innovation consultant for startups as well as Fortune 100 companies across a range of industry sectors, Steven has directly engaged with a broad range of leaders from the C-suite to the product and software design studio, from the R&D lab to the patent department. He has pored over state-of-the-art market research and consumer insight from nearly every corner of the globe, collaborated with the world's leading creative studios and advertising agencies, developed future scenarios for the shipping and logistics industry, imagined and evangelized concepts for sustainable hospitality and sustainability infrastructure for international brands, co-created award-winning youth marketing in countries and cultures around the world, and mentored young entrepreneurs. Steven is a frequent public speaker at industry events ranging from NorthZone Ventures CEO Summit, Cannes Lions EuroBest Festival of Creativity, Yahoo Mobile Senior Leaders Summit, and Nokia World, to the Conference Board, SIME Technology Conferences, PSFK, and other international thought leadership events, he has been quoted in Wired, Marketing Week, Fast Company and Business 2.0.
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