One of Canada's podcasting pioneers, Maffin writes a blog that is followed by thousands of people in the media, technology and business communities around the world. He continues to host a national technology column on CBC Radio and is the past host of todradio.com and Real Life Chronicles.

Maffin is recognized as a thought-leader in business innovation and strategy to trend-spotting and technological advancements. In January 1999, he launched MindfulEye.com, an artificial intelligence firm that developed the patented Lexant technology to perform syntactic analysis on public opinion comments posted on the Internet and aired in the media, thus providing a "mood monitor" of stocks. The launch of MindfulEye.com precipitated a meteoric rise in his popularity as a technology futurist.

Tod Maffin's comprehensive understanding of high-velocity change and competition, hyper-innovation, trends and the accelerating pace of the world around us offer audiences an insider's viewpoint of what the world holds in store… and what lurks around the corner. Whether it's six months, a year.. or ten years away.

His energetic, upbeat, jargon-free and highly entertaining presentation style ensures that audiences are not only captivated and engaged , but entertained and motivated. He has addressed audiences around the world—from Stockholm to Berlin and from Romania to Australia—and is one of very few speakers capable of bringing an audience to their feet in a standing ovation at 7am. Maffin offers audiences a startling glimpse into the future we're facing, challenging our minds, expanding our horizons and opening up a brand new world of possibilities.

They're fickle, media-savvy, highly-connected and living on the cutting-edge of technology. The Facebook generation knows it is in the driver's seat in the workforce these days. Employers worldwide are scrambling to understand what makes this unique generation tick. If your organization thinks grooming your future leadership is about placing stale ads in papers and using old-school recruiting techniques, there's a nasty shock in store. Leading edge companies are harnessing and exploiting the powerful networking forces in social media Web sites like Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube to find and recruit the future workforce. In this presentation, Tod Maffin walks audiences through the minefield of challenges involved in this new world of talent management and delivers invaluable insights into the future generation of workers: where to find them, how to attract them, and, perhaps most importantly, how to keep them engaged, motivated and fully productive.

The tech bubble may be long burst, but it's left businesses with a challenging legacy: Providing always-available, on-demand service to customers. In this fast-paced and entertaining presentation, Tod will demonstrate how to use the tools you're already using to wow your customers. He'll also show your attendees real-world examples of how top companies in your industry are using the web, email, and other technology to predict your customers' needs and make your company available on-demand, without burning out your staff.

How will technologies like digital radio and PVRs impact broadcasting and adrates in the future? Tod will discuss the current state of the "converged"nation and its inherent myths, he'll detail the many risks in continuing toward further convergence, and most importantly will demonstrate some real-world opportunities that emerge from the looming trends.

Get your company or organization ready for the last year of the millennium in this fast-paced, entertaining glance at the future of business in your sector. Custom-written for your particular industry, this is the mostpopular presentation each year. BC Tel called last year's presentation "Excellent, upbeat and informative... [this] should be documented, analyzed and incorporated into our Marketing goals. There was so much useful information to assist us to be successful going forward!"

The education "system" means well, but it's slowly asphyxiating the future of education. In this provocative keynote address, Tod Maffin identifies the ways in which the education system is taking the "rough stones," ie, our children, and trying to grind and polish them, like a rock tumbler would, into a proper education. What actually ends up happening is we scrape away the culture and uniqueness intrinsic to each learner. This is one of Tod's most popular speeches, and his five steps to repairing the damage the education system inflicts on our children will have your conference delegates talking days after the address.

In a world where two thirds of kids spend more time in front of a computer than they do a television set, are we unknowingly re-shaping the learning patterns of children? Is living in a remote control world helping or hindering education? What are the five key things our networked world has already taught young people behind our back, and how are kids coping with learning in the hypermedia environment we've handed them? In this presentation, Tod gives audiences an insider's view of innovative learning research projects and a peek into the classroom of the future.

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