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“W. David Stephenson is one of the most forward thinkers I have met in many years.He is on the cutting edge and far exceeds ‘out of the box.’ His topics are relevant and timely. He will keep your attendees on the edge of their seats. He was a true asset to our conference as I know he will be to yours.”
–Win Schwartau, director, InfowarCon conferences
W. David Stephenson is a frequent featured speaker at regional, national, and international conferences on homeland security, Web 2.0, and creative strategy issues. Not only a nationally-recognized expert on these issues, but also a professional speechwriter and speaker, he is provocative, insightful, compelling — and frequently funny.
Stephenson weaves together knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, an award-winning background in crisis communications, and insights from scientific disciplines such as emergent behavior, chaos theory, complexity, and networking — combined with horse sense that always tries to find win-win solutions to complex issues that yield economic benefits such as cost and error reduction, new revenue streams, and collaboration.
Among other issues, Stephenson can speak to your group — or lead a customized seminar, on:
- Homeland Security 2.0
- win-win homeland security collaborations between government and industry
- “networked homeland security” strategies that help the public become self-directing in reponding to terrorism
- “Internet thinking” in homeland security.
Recent speeches & media appearances by W. David Stephenson:
- “Let my data go: the case for transparent government,” speech to New, New Internet conference, 2007
- “Is Technology Taking Over Our Lives?” (with David Weinberger), New England Cable News, 2007
- “Cartoon Scare,” (with Bruce Schneier) Weekend America, 2007
- “Fostering Emergent Behavior by a Networked Homeland Security Strategy: Chaos or Community?” International Conference on Complex Systems, 2006
- “Cybersecurity Strategy: From Hierarchies to Smart Swarms,” 2006, speech to Boston University Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security
- “Networked Homeland Security: transforming the public from pawns to partners,” remarks to the Wharton School DC Alumni Association’s “Powerful Leadership in Perilous Times” conference, 2006
- “Terrorist on the Internet”, guest appearance on NPR’s “The Connection”
- “From Minutemen to Smart Mobs,” speech to the 2004 IEEE Homeland Security conference.
- “Three Strategies to Encourage Homeland Security Collaboration,” Speech to the e-gov.com Homeland Security conference, 2003.
- “Making the Public Full Partners in Homeland Security,” Speech to the e-gov.com Homeland Security conference, 2002
- “Homeland Security Requires Internet-based Thinking,” speech to InfowarCon 2002.
- “A global, digital Manhattan Project for Homeland Security,” speech to the IEEE Homeland Security Conference, 2002.
