Speaker

Mike Beeston

Founder

Mike's career started in the advertising industry working for Saatchi and Saatchi in London, after which he co-founded Razorfish and then Fjord, both leading companies in digital design and innovation. He is also a smallholder and part-time sheep farmer.

More recently, Mike co-founded a social business accelerator called La Différence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This initiative is aiming to build a sustainable ecosystem of social businesses in the Kivu provinces of Eastern Congo to drive progress towards the twin goals of prosperity and peace in the region.

Talks

23:12

How To Read The Digital Tea Leaves

Mike Beeston•Social change

Chairman of a global design consultancy, smallholder and part-time sheep farmer, Mike tells us how the digital will become more present in our everyday lives, and how the physical will maintain the digital.

DO Wales

2012

Scrappy thinking