Alex Balfour – speaker headshot, click for downloadable/full size, credit: Matt Locke
Alex Balfour is a renowned speaker and is often invited to speak at conferences and events in the UK and further afield.
Current topics:
- Sport and Coronavirus
- The future of media consumption
- Technology and Innovation in Sport
- Your digital channels work, but how do you make them perform?
- Designing, building and managing world class digital services and teams
- London 2012: the digital games
Please contact him if you have a speaker request – he works with Jo at the Atlantic Speaker Bureau.
Recent feedback:
Alex Balfour reinforced that ‘digital’ is NOT a dark art, and the dynamic with service improvement is compelling from an operational leadership perspective!
the session on the Olympics showed what could be achieved in a short time using digital technology
Alex Balfour challenging the notion that you need to be experts to get things done
Event went “really well” and 92% found the event either “really good and informative” or “great, made me think differently”
Excellent presentation. Very inspiring
Fantastic. Would love to have him on our team
Fascinating. Really inspiring to see the possibilities of social media
blown away by the size of the digital challenge
great presentation
best presentation of the day
very interesting
not very often you get to hear about worldchanging comms practices
Your contribution was informative and entertaining and everyone learnt much about the role of new media…the feedback I received from guests suggest it was one of the highlights of the day
best presentation of the day
such great insight
hottest seat of the day
great keynote session
Very nice presentation
thanks again for the presentation, you were a great speaker
highest number of questions asked all day
A brill session and great to have you involved
very refreshing to hear ambitious but grounded thoughts
Past events include:
Speaking at the Asian Cricket Conference
2018
- UEFA masters education programme, London (with F2 Freestylers)
- UEFA sponsors summit, Monaco
- UEFA sponsors workshop, Nyon
2014
- Operational Delivery Profession Event (UK Senior civil servants)
- Entrepreneurs Organisation, Bahrain, keynote
- Chemistry Club, London, guest speaker
2013
- AXA Wealth digital leadership speech
- Symantec security symposium
- NHS Foundation Trust Network Communications leads
- Canadian Olympic Committee partner workshop, Toronto
- ESSEC Business School MBA class, Paris
- Presentation to global business team, Reed Elsevier
- Presentation to global digital team, HSBC
- DMX Dublin, Irish Marketing Institute
- The Story conference 2013, London
- Judge business school, Cambridge University
- Cambridge Union, Cambridge University
- Presentation to global comms teams, GSK
- Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
- Presentation to UK Govt Digital Leaders
- Presentation to BT Sport leadership team
2012
- Bocconi business school, Milan
- International Tennis Federation, international coaching seminar
- UEFA annual national marketing managers meeting, Rome
- European Business Group (Paris)
- Communicate Magazine – Olympic Comms legacy
- Inbound Marketing UK 2012
- Maximising Social PR, PR week London
- Association of International Broadcasters Post-Olympic briefing
- Econsultancy ‘Jump’, London
- Apps World Europe, keynote, London
- Royal Television Society, Digital World, London
- IAB mobile conference, keynote, Amsterdam
- Social Media Week, global keynote, London (video)
- Social Media Influence, London
- Open Mobile Summit, London
- London Business School Global Leadership Summit, London
- Digital Media Europe – World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
- Sport Tech UK, London
- SXSW, Austin (World Domination, new media for Global Events)
2011
- Nesta Hot Topics (video)
- Ubercloud, Cologne (video)
- Futuresource, London
- Hill and Knowlton’s Demistifying Digital, London
- Real World Digital, London
- MEI, London
- Editorial Intelligence “networked nation”, London
- Podium, London (video)
2010
- IBC, Amsterdam
- iMedia Agency summit, Brighton
- Social Media Influence, London (video interview)
- TVC CUTEC, Cambridge, UK
2009
- International Sports Management Conference, Lausanne
- Mobile Entertainment Market, London
- Media Futures, London
- Association of Online publishers summit, London
2008
- IIR PR Conference, London
- Pinkerton lecture, “using social media to inspire change” Institute of Engineering and Technology, London
- Media and Sports, New Rules of the Games, IOM, Athens, Greece