Imran Ali

Like a neurotic superhero, I have many identities...

• One of the founding partners of Carbon Imagineering, the emerging technologies think tank and product hothouse behind Fingertip, mee:view, Believr and Personomii...we're building the next generation of consumer internet applications...


• (Formerly, Deputy Director of Technology Research at Orange UK and part of the team that established Freeserve's R&D unit and Wanadoo's Research & Innovation division - each providing intelligence on emerging technologies, consumer trends and innovation strategy)...


• One of the founders of Rich Gibson's Internet of Values initiative...


• A board director for bmedi@, helping grow West Yorkshire's new media ecosphere...


• About to join enterprise news startup Ensembli as a non-executive director...


• A programme consultant and blogger for O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony brand and an occasional contributor to O'ReillyGMT...


• (A former writer and commentator for TechCrunch UK)...


• A contributing writer for Corante's Mobile Messaging 2.0 and Web Worker Daily...


• Bootstrapped OpenCoffee Leeds and BarCamp Leeds...
  


• A sometime graphic designer and software developer...


• Oh, I'm also the Fake Gaius Baltar

...but really, I'm a dreamer - fascinated by the transformative potential of world-changing ideas, people and technologies :)