Imran Ali

I'm a dreamer - fascinated by the transformative potential of world-changing ideas, people and technologies :) One of the founding partners of Carbon Imagineering, an emerging technologies think tank and product hothouse based in the UK and US.

FormerlyDeputy Director of Technology Research at Orange UK and part of the team that established Freeserve's R&D unit and Wanadoo's Research & Innovation division - providing intelligence on emerging technologies, consumer trends and innovation strategy)

Variously, a graphic designer, blogger, developer...a board director for bmedi@, Ensembli.com; a blogger and programme consultant for O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony brand and an occasional contributor to O'ReillyGMT, TechCrunch UK and Corante's Mobile Messaging 2.0.

Bootstrapped OpenCoffee and BarCamp events in Leeds (UK) as part of a regional tech initiative called .north.