Martin Geddes
CIO, Strategy Director, BT Design
Martin Geddes is Director of Strategy at BT Innovate & Design, a division of BT Group. He is acknowledged as one of the leading thinkers and analysts on the future of the communications industry. He has a specialist interest in the future of voice and personal communications, as well as the application of multi-sided market structures to the telecoms industry.

Following a period as an independent consultant, he was Chief Analyst at STL Partners, where he co-founded the Telco 2.0 Initiative. This is designed to catalyse business model innovation and collaboration across the telecoms-media-technology ecosystem. He has provided consultancy to many multi-national network operators and equipment vendors on strategic issues, as well as being a key contributor to Telco 2.0 research and conferences.

For the period 2001-2004 he was a technology specialist at Sprint in Overland Park, KS, when started a popular strategy blog, and was also named on 8 (now granted) US patents. Prior to entering telecoms he was as an IT consultant at Oracle Corporation.