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Dan Lyons

Dan Lyons

Keynote Speaker: Author of "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble"

Dan Lyons Biography

Dan Lyons is the author of the NY Times Best-Seller Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble. Disrupted chronicles Lyons' experience as a marketing fellow at HubSpot, a Cambridge, Mass., software company.

Prior to his stint at HubSpot, Lyons was an editor of ReadWrite, a well-known tech blog. Lyons also served as a technology editor at Newsweek, and before that, he spent a decade covering technology for Forbes. Along the way, Lyons made some waves with a groundbreaking blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, which drew as many as 1.5 million visitors each month. Writing in the voice of a character called "Fake Steve Jobs." He began his tech writing career for PC Week in the 1980s.

As a tech journalist, Lyons covered everything from supercomputing to smartphones, writing Newsweek cover stories on Apple's iPad and Google's Android operating system, as well as important features on Facebook and Twitter. Lyons is fascinated by artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Singularity movement and was featured in a Discovery Channel documentary about the Singularity.

He has appeared as a guest on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business News and National Public Radio. Dan has written for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired and many technology trade publications.

In addition to his work as a journalist, Lyons' published three works of fiction and done some screenwriting for television. He has written an episode HBO's "Silicon Valley*. last book, "Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs," was a sharp satire about Silicon Valley, published in 2007 to critical acclaim. His previous books are "Dog Days" (a novel) and "The Last Good Man" (short stories).

As a fiction writer Lyons has been the recipient of both a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship and the somewhat notorious Playboy College Fiction Prize. He also was named one of the "Fabulous 52" in the 1996 Best Young American Novelists competition sponsored by Granta.

Lyons has spoken at corporate campuses and industry conferences and events, including the Web 2.0 Expo and Thinking Digital in Newcastle, England. He has taught at the University of Michigan. He has a B.A. (in "extremely liberal arts") from Bradford College and an M.F.A. from University of Michigan.

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Dan Lyons Speaking Topics

Selling to Cyborgs: How Business Must Adapt to the World of Google Glass and Constant Connection

Can you imagine being surrounded by intelligent sensors and interacting with them as easily as you talk with the people around you? Can you imagine being connected to the Internet so intimately and so constantly that you become part of it? Can you imagine glasses that connect you to a supercomputer and augment your intelligence so profoundly that you won't want to live without them? This world is just around the corner, and the Internet itself is going through a massive evolutionary leap into what author and technology expert Dan Lyons calls "the immersive Internet." It's a world where voice commands and gestures replace keyboards, where wearable computers and the "Internet of things" embed intelligence into everything around us, giving us profound new power to control our environment. In this thought-provoking talk, Lyons describes the emerging products in this space (Leap Motion's 3D controller, Google's Project Glass, Nest's "learning thermostat," the nascent "no user interface" movement, voice technology from Apple, Google and Nuance) and explores implications both profound and practical. Will all this technology change what it means to be human? Will it widen the "digital divide" between technology haves and have-nots? How will companies market to consumers who are empowered with so much information and computing power? How will we "sell to cyborgs"? This dazzling view of the future will leave your audience informed, inspired — and maybe a little bit freaked out.

The Social-Mobile Revolution: The New Mass Medium That Is Changing the Way We Work, Shop, Learn and Do Business

By 2013 there will be 1 billion smartphones on the planet, and by the end of this decade that number may soar to 5 billion. What happens when almost everyone on the planet is constantly connected to the Internet, and to each other, via social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+? What's being created is a new mass medium that changes virtually everything about our society. This new platform, with its ubiquitous, constant, peer-to-peer connections, is disrupting established industries, forcing us to rethink the definition of friendship and privacy, and utterly reinventing the way we entertain ourselves. Games like Farmville and Mafia Wars may be inane but people are devoting huge amounts of time and spending billions of dollars playing them. Apps like Foursquare are turning life itself into a kind of real-time video game. Sites like YouTube and Facebook have become performance spaces, almost a new kind of TV where everyone can be part of the show. In this entertaining and insightful talk, Dan Lyons explores the profound social implications and huge opportunities created by this new medium, and wonders, Are we ready for this?

What Would Steve Do? The 8 Simple Secrets to Apple's Success

Over the past 15 years Apple has gone from being nearly bankrupt to being the biggest company in the world, with a market value exceeding half a trillion dollars. How did they do it? Dan Lyons, author of the critically acclaimed book, "Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs," and one of the world's top experts on all things Apple, explains the simple principles that enabled Steve Jobs to lead Apple through the most amazing comeback in corporate history. In this talk, Lyons tells an engaging tale that captures the spirit of Steve Jobs and leaves his audience with eight rules that can be applied in any organization or industry. Why did Steve Jobs shun focus groups and trust its own taste instead? How does Apple evoke such strong responses from its fans and get thousands of people to line up outside Apple stores, turning each new product release into a kind of cultural event? Who was the little-known mentor who guided Steve Jobs in the early years of Apple and created the three words that have guided Apple’s marketing philosophy since its origins? Why does Apple dare to take risks while its competitors play it safe? How is that other companies sell products, while Apple sells an experience? What drove Steve Jobs to be such a fanatical perfectionist? Lyons spent five years writing the world’s most popular Apple-centric blog, "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," and hopes that the legacy of Steve Jobs will inspire a new generation of innovators and risk-takers who will dare to "think different."

Dan Lyons Videos

In Isolation With... Dan Lyons
Why Modern Work Makes Us Miserable | Dan Lyons | RSA Replay ...
The Truth Behind Tech Start-ups with Dan Lyons - YouTube

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What topics does Dan Lyons speak about?

Dan Lyons is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as News & Media, Blogging, Technology, Marketing, Innovation, Design, Social Media, Authors, Leadership, Business, Business Leadership and Literary.

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Dan Lyons is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including News & Media, Blogging and Technology. The estimated speaking fee range to book Dan Lyons for live events is $30,000 - $50,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Dan Lyons generally travels from Boston, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Gary Vaynerchuk, Ray Kurzweil and Dave deBronkart. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Dan Lyons for an upcoming event.

Dan Lyons Speaking Topics

  • Selling to Cyborgs: How Business Must Adapt to the World of Google Glass and Constant Connection

    Can you imagine being surrounded by intelligent sensors and interacting with them as easily as you talk with the people around you? Can you imagine being connected to the Internet so intimately and so constantly that you become part of it? Can you imagine glasses that connect you to a supercomputer and augment your intelligence so profoundly that you won't want to live without them? This world is just around the corner, and the Internet itself is going through a massive evolutionary leap into what author and technology expert Dan Lyons calls "the immersive Internet." It's a world where voice commands and gestures replace keyboards, where wearable computers and the "Internet of things" embed intelligence into everything around us, giving us profound new power to control our environment. In this thought-provoking talk, Lyons describes the emerging products in this space (Leap Motion's 3D controller, Google's Project Glass, Nest's "learning thermostat," the nascent "no user interface" movement, voice technology from Apple, Google and Nuance) and explores implications both profound and practical. Will all this technology change what it means to be human? Will it widen the "digital divide" between technology haves and have-nots? How will companies market to consumers who are empowered with so much information and computing power? How will we "sell to cyborgs"? This dazzling view of the future will leave your audience informed, inspired — and maybe a little bit freaked out.

  • The Social-Mobile Revolution: The New Mass Medium That Is Changing the Way We Work, Shop, Learn and Do Business

    By 2013 there will be 1 billion smartphones on the planet, and by the end of this decade that number may soar to 5 billion. What happens when almost everyone on the planet is constantly connected to the Internet, and to each other, via social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+? What's being created is a new mass medium that changes virtually everything about our society. This new platform, with its ubiquitous, constant, peer-to-peer connections, is disrupting established industries, forcing us to rethink the definition of friendship and privacy, and utterly reinventing the way we entertain ourselves. Games like Farmville and Mafia Wars may be inane but people are devoting huge amounts of time and spending billions of dollars playing them. Apps like Foursquare are turning life itself into a kind of real-time video game. Sites like YouTube and Facebook have become performance spaces, almost a new kind of TV where everyone can be part of the show. In this entertaining and insightful talk, Dan Lyons explores the profound social implications and huge opportunities created by this new medium, and wonders, Are we ready for this?

  • What Would Steve Do? The 8 Simple Secrets to Apple's Success

    Over the past 15 years Apple has gone from being nearly bankrupt to being the biggest company in the world, with a market value exceeding half a trillion dollars. How did they do it? Dan Lyons, author of the critically acclaimed book, "Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs," and one of the world's top experts on all things Apple, explains the simple principles that enabled Steve Jobs to lead Apple through the most amazing comeback in corporate history. In this talk, Lyons tells an engaging tale that captures the spirit of Steve Jobs and leaves his audience with eight rules that can be applied in any organization or industry. Why did Steve Jobs shun focus groups and trust its own taste instead? How does Apple evoke such strong responses from its fans and get thousands of people to line up outside Apple stores, turning each new product release into a kind of cultural event? Who was the little-known mentor who guided Steve Jobs in the early years of Apple and created the three words that have guided Apple’s marketing philosophy since its origins? Why does Apple dare to take risks while its competitors play it safe? How is that other companies sell products, while Apple sells an experience? What drove Steve Jobs to be such a fanatical perfectionist? Lyons spent five years writing the world’s most popular Apple-centric blog, "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," and hopes that the legacy of Steve Jobs will inspire a new generation of innovators and risk-takers who will dare to "think different."

Dan Lyons Videos

In Isolation With... Dan Lyons
Why Modern Work Makes Us Miserable | Dan Lyons | RSA Replay ...
The Truth Behind Tech Start-ups with Dan Lyons - YouTube
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