Ian/epredator Hughes

Metaverse Evanagelist Feeding Edge Ltd

  • Southampton Hampshire

Metaverse Evangelist, TV presenter, taking a bite out of technology so you don't have to. Mixing tech with social change

Contact

Social

Biography

Ian Hughes a.k.a epredator when online, is a Metaverse Evangelist who set about leading a group of like minded individuals, in 2006 when at IBM, into virtual worlds like Second Life. This sparked a large community of over 8000 of his colleagues to do the same. Powered by an open way of thinking and string ideas across social media it led to a massive growth in interest from press and enterprises alike.
He is former IBM Consulting IT Specialist who has worked on leading edge emerging technologies for the past 23 years, and now an independent consultant and director of Feeding Edge Ltd, "taking a bite out of technology so you don't have to". A programmer since he was 14. As a gamer he has seen a massive increase in the capability and design ethics within games and the rise of online gaming. In 1997 Ian started working on all things web, changing his perspective on the technology and the business due the much richer mix of people involved in the web revolution. Graphic Designer, Producers and Programmers all having to work together.

As a public speaker he shares his experiences both of the growing virtual worlds industry, the changes in culture, personal experiences of challenging the status quo and leading through doing.

He writes and presents a thread on emerging technology on the ITV programme Cool Stuff Collective by Archie Productions, covering 3d printers, haptics, open source, scanning, virtual worlds.... First shown weekly Monday 13th September 2010 CITV (UK), with series 2 airing January 2011. Series 3 ran October-December 2011. So far totalling 39 shows.

He is chairman of the British Computer Society Animation and Games Specialist Group. Promoting the games industry and associated technology within the BCS but also reaching out to the games industry to help provide professional recognition to the development community.

Industry Expertise

Computer Software
Media - Broadcast
Computer Gaming

Areas of Expertise

Metaverse
Virtual Worlds
3d Printing
Maker Culture
Kids Technology

Education

DeMontfort University

Bsc 2.1

Information Technology

1990

Affiliations

  • http://www.bcs.org/category/13784
  • http://www.feedingedge.co.uk

Event Appearances

Life as a entrepreneur in a corporate environment

Global Entrepreneur Week  Manchester

2008-11-21

Washing away cave paintings

Smarter Technology   Online Second Life

2009-10-22

Metaverses for the CIO

Virtual Worlds 2007  San Jose

2007-10-10

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Sample Talks

Changing the world with emerging technology

Sharing some tales from recording The Cool Stuff Collective kids
ITV show and how the Future Tech elements in the show is actually threaded together to get more people into STEM subjects through maker culture.
From Metaverses to 3d printing, Arduino to Hydrogen Fuel cells and with the odd saturday morning custard pie, there is a lot of cool technology out there.
When it is all put together it shows us a path to an exciting future powered by people willing to share online.

Style

Availability

  • Keynote
  • Moderator
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Host/MC
  • Author Appearance
  • Corporate Training

Fees

$0 to $5000*Will consider certain engagements for no fee
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