Drawing from his experiences as a successful serial entrepreneur, internet enthusiast and blogger, Boris offers a lively and unique perspective on starting up companies, networking your way to fame and glory (and riches) and current technology trends.

In 2010 he was proclaimed Technology Trendwatcher of the year and received the Dutch TWOTY Award.

His background as an artist, professional juggler, and graphic designer endow him with an interesting combination of technology know-how and creativity.

He coined several useful management theories such as ‘How to paint a white rabbit‘ , ‘The Domino Model of Success Causation‘ and ‘The Burning Cat Strategy‘. His entrepreneurial background lends all of Boris’s presentations a very actionable and success-oriented focus. Nowadays Boris publishes his thoughts on The Next Web Blog.

Boris is the Founder of The Next Web Conference and The Next Web Blog, a technology blog featured in the Technorati Top 20 Technology Blogs. Furthermore he founded Twittercounter.com, a popular statistics site for Twitter users, and Spread.us, a service that creates social reach for websites.

Earlier Boris founded other internet companies such as V3 Redirect Services, HubHop, and Fleck. V3 Redirect services was sold to Fortunecity in 1999, and HubHop was sold to the Dutch Telecom KPN in 2003.

Whether you want to discuss the latest in online technology or web marketing, Boris is an excellent source of knowledge. Boris’ years of successful technology management experience allows him to bring real-world examples to your meeting or convention.

Testimonials for Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

“Boris is something different! After participation and hosting various interactive marketing seminars around the world, I had the pleasure of being introduced and listening to an outmost interesting, inspiring and out-of-the-box speech presented by Mr. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. The seminar topic was “Evolve and innovate! Creativity, key trends and future opportunity in interactive advertising” and Boris rounded up the seminar with this spectacular performance: “How entrepreneurship, serendipity, the image of God and interactivity all come together in one vision of the future of technology and humankind”. I was amazed of the professionalism, enthusiasm and personal interaction shown by Boris . Simply brilliant and highly entertaining. Really fantastic performance and two thumbs up. A true breathtaking experience.”

Børge Sandengen, Managing Director at INMA

“Boris Veldhuizen van Zanten has been a speaker during several of the Media Plaza events. He is a passionate speaker who tells great stories based on his experiences. His stories are very informative and interesting and not only for entrepreneurs! Boris knows how to link ‘fun’ and ‘business’ and isn’t shy about admitting the mistakes he made and what he learned from them. His unconventional way of presenting provides a perfect mix between entertainment and education…”

Bas van de Haterd, Program Director at Media Plaza

‘Boris is a man who believes in progress, innovation and a truly interactive world. The fact that he not only believes this but also works on making it a reality is very refreshing. Boris is not scared to ‘walk his talk’ and that makes him very convincing during his talk’

Jeroen Smit, publicist and moderator for Fusion 06

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