Martin Ellis

The Corporate HandymanHEADHUNTER

(at least Mum didn’t call me Colin)

Martin Ellis

Why me?

Sweeping Generalisations:

• “I don’t have time for social media”

• Spend more time looking back than ahead

• Still tell their children to “get a career”

• Don’t use Skype instead of the car

• Regard “Infrastructure” as something physical

Do 585 LEP board members have

an informed view of the future ?

3D Printing

“Bigger than the internet, the

steam engine and Henry Ford’s

production line”

Ping Fu: Co-founder of Netscape

3D Printing

• Rapid prototyping – faster to market

• Introduces mass personalisation

• We can make new things

• We can move production local

• We can move production home

• Eliminates waste and stock

• Reduces/eliminates transport, storage

As things are, do we risk building

bridges to our past ?

3D Printing

Other Layers…

• The young already see email as ancient

• The Cloud

• Work: BYOD/COPE

• The use of the car has been in decline since 2000

• Self-drive car technology is coming

• The under 24’s are under-employed

• Town Centres are dying

• Face recognition technology

• Nanotechnology

• The use of “Bitcoin”

• B2A/A2A

• Wearable technology

Killer Questions for lep’s…

• The fastest growing jobs didn’t exist a few years

ago. That trend is likely to continue. How do you

think we should prepare for that?

• Do LEP board members have an informed view of

the future, and if not, what’s to be done?

• Broadband or bridges ? Funding or flair ?

• How do LEP’s prove their worth by 2015 ?