Dr Norman Lewis
visiting research fellow, MCC Brussels; co-author, Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for innovation

Norman Lewis is recognised worldwide as an expert on future trends and user behaviours with regard to technology innovation and adoption. He has spoken on these topics at events all over the world. Norman is a visiting research fellow at the newly established Hungarian think tank, MCC Brussels, where he concentrates on the EU’s digital sovereignty strategy and its increasing attacks on online content and speech.

Formerly a director at PwC, responsible for running their crowd-sourced innovation programme, he was also the director of technology research at Orange UK for a decade. He has played numerous advisory roles to startups. He was also previously an executive board member of the MIT Communications Futures Programme, and a former chairman of the ITU TELECOM Forum Programme Committee.

He is a co-author of Big Potatoes: the London Manifesto for Innovation and the author of

MCC Brussels reports ‘Manufacturing Misinformation: The EU-funded propaganda war against free speech’, and ‘Controlling the Narrative: The EU’s attack on online speech’.

Follow Norman on X: @Norm_Lewis

Read his Substack: ‘What a Piece of Work is Man!’

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Sunday 19 October, 17:15 Assembly Hall, Church House
Europe’s free-speech crisis: hype or reality?