"Mr Keen immediately captures his audience as he takes the stage... he makes direct eye contact with his listeners... He provokes, stirs the imagination, entertains and holds up a mirror to his listeners..."
Anne Rube, CEP, Bibliotheek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Keen was delightfully controversial, challenging us to think and think we did"
- Dick Kaiser, VP Content, Phoenix, USA
"Andrew Keen was an articulate and provocative speaker, excellent at making and defending his case."
- James Harkin, ICA, London, UK
“Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.”
- Loic Le Meur, Founder/CEO, Le Web, Paris, France
"In 2007 Andrew Keen was a keynote speaker at Online Educa Berlin, the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate and public service sectors in education and training. In a time when most people heralded the coming of a new age and dreamed of the freedom and opportunities of Web 2.0, Andrew Keen held a powerful and compelling speech on the democratisation of the web and the dangers of free software and community websites. He made a lot of people think twice about the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ and the unreliability of Wikipedia and Google. With a powerful mixture of provocation and humour, Andrew Keen did certainly not disappoint the more than two-thousand listeners at the Online Educa Berlin opening plenary. Andrew Keen proved to be a wonderful, challenging and engaging lecturer, one of the great speakers in the rich tradition of the Online Educa conferences.”
- Rebecca Stromeyer, CEO, ICWE.NET
"Andrew was a keynote speaker at the Arts Council of Ireland's recent conference on New Media, New Audiences? The purpose of the day was to explore the impact of new media on the ways in which artists are producing and presenting artistic work. Andrew presented an impassioned plea to artists to consider and engage with the challenge to their profession from the ready availability of user generated content on the web. He captivated the audience with his presentation and galvanised many into taking action. Feedback from the day, and Andrew's presentation in particular, was exceptionally positive - we are looking forward to a further opportunity to hear him speak in Dublin once again.”
- Annette Clancy, Organizer Arts Council of Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland
"Andrew Keen made a huge impression on the audience at the 4th edition of The Next Web Conference which took place in April 2009 in Amsterdam. By interweaving Dutch history, Web2.0 technology and the future of Media he showed us that we should always keep our eyes on both sides of the digital coin. Andrew Keen doesn't shy away from showing the often ignored, but all too important, downside of technology while staying positive and inspiring at the same time. A Keen keynote is Intellectually challenging, sometime sobering but never dull and always a mental stimulus for independent thinking."
- Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Founder, Next Web Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Andrew Keen argues his points with the passion of someone who truly cares about our future and the way we let new technologies shape it. In doing so, he often finds himself in a position to question the thinking of the media and technology professionals busy creating those very technologies. As a result he is an excellent speaker for any conference that wishes to make its audience think about the implications of the major changes we are experiencing."
- Monique van Dusseldorp, Programme Director PICNIC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Andrew Keen was terrific on our Couchiching Saturday evening panel this year. He can somehow infuriate, stimulate and inform, all at the same time. One thing he does, whether delivering a presentation or simply answering questions from the floor, is elevate the conversation by drawing attention to larger, social issues that are at play in the rapid changes overtaking public media and public affairs. And entertaining? Absolutely. The Couchiching Conference Program Committee was delighted that Andrew Keen agreed to participate in this year’s annual Couchiching Public Affairs Conference.”
- Gerald Filson, Chair, Couchiching Conference 2008, Canada’s oldest public affairs institute
"Provocative, 'out-of-the-box' thinking, but definitely never boring...The feedback was uniformly positive. Andrew Keen got everyone at my conference thinking."
- David Llewelyn, External Director, IP Academy, Singapore
"We picked Andrew Keen as the lead participant in our program entitled “Impact of the Internet on Traditional Media” for the Southern California Chapter of the World Presidents Organization, and the presentation, dialogue and Q and A was both insightful and engaging. Andrew was easy to work with, flexible on his approach, and I received several compliments on the program and his participation. Our attendees usually rate our members, and both the program and Andrew’s participation received very high ratings."
- Lee Hancock, WPO, Newport Beach, CA, USA
"Andrew Keen’s arguments and brilliant way of presenting convinced even the biggest critics of his theories".
- Gerald Schömbs, Deutsche Telekom, Berlin, Germany
"Andrew Keen caused a stir – a verbal jolt of healthy controversy – at our first annual conference. Book him!"
- Stephen Balkam, CEO, Family Online Safety Institute, Washington DC, USA
"Although provocative, Mr Keen addresses highly relevant issues for which he offers insights into possible solutions. CEOs members of the Quebec Technology Association were thrilled to have had the chance of both challenging and being challenged by this brilliant thinker."
- François Aird, CEO, CEDROM-SNi, Montreal, Canada
"We picked Andrew Keen as the lead participant in our program entitled “Impact of the Internet on Traditional Media” for the Southern California Chapter of the World Presidents Organization, and the presentation, dialogue and Q and A was both insightful and engaging. Andrew was easy to work with, flexible on his approach, and I received several compliments on the program and his participation. Our attendees usually rate our members, and both the program and Andrew’s participation received very high ratings."
- Lee Hancock, WPO, Newport Beach, CA, USA
