Expertise

Futurist, strategic thinker, speaker and special advisor, Simon Moores has been closely associated with the origin of the expression 'Digital Divide'. His present focus is on cutting-edge innovation, disruptive technologies, threat management, financial crime and the evolution and direction of the internet and its ecosystem and includes:  Disruptive Technologies Internet & Digital RiskSocial MediaCloud ComputingTransformational Government

A former contributor to The Observer newspaper and columnist for Computer Weekly and Silicon.com, Simon has also appeared regularly on Sky News, CNBC and the BBC.

In a long career that has spanned a close involvement with the largest technology giants, Simon acted as a 'Technology Ambassador' for the UK government's Office of the e-Envoy during the time of Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The author of 'March of the Spiders', a Conservative Technology Forum report examining copyright laws in the digital economy, he was also a co-author of 'An Information Society at the Service of its Citizens - A Policy Framework for a 21st Century Conservative Government' and the Conservative Party’s 2005 'Digital Plan for Britain'. He has worked on several projects with the London School of Economics and is a director of the centre-right open market policy ‘think tank’, Aediles and has advised government, business and the media on the evolution, development and application of eGovernment, Internet-related technologies.

Simon is internationally recognised for his expert work on eGovernment, information economy, online espionage, Hi-tech crime and information security issues.

“Simon is a key person in bringing people together from all key players in the high tech security world from private industry, law enforcement, and academia. His activities in awareness building amongst the public audience made the Internet safer and computers more secure in general. All his presentations are of high value and are setting standards in the IT world.”  - Bernhard Otupal, Head of High Tech Crime Unit, Interpol General Secretariat.