Twitter bio.

Chris Shipley leverages her talents as technology analyst, writer, photographer, catalyst, connector, and entrepreneur to make a difference in a confusing world.

Short bio.

Chris Shipley has documented, influenced, and predicted the impact of technology on business and society for more than 30 years. As a journalist, she covered the tech industry for leading publishing companies. As an analyst, she identified innovative startups and gave them a stage to launch their market-making products. As a catalyst, she has advised hundreds of companies on positioning, business modeling, and innovation practices.

Today, Chris consults with companies on the human and organizational challenges in the face of technology- and economically-driven disruption.

The detailed bio.

A leading technology analyst for more than 30 years, Chris Shipley is passionate about entrepreneurship as the driver of innovation, economic growth, and restorative sustainability. She has built a career identifying innovative startups that create market and drive positive and disruptive change. As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, Chris helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. If those companies were a portfolio, they would have a combined market value of more than $300 Billion.

Chris began her career at Ziff-Davis, where she worked as a writer and editor for 12 years before joining International Data Group (IDG) to lead DEMO. Chris has co-founded three companies, including the startup media and consulting firm Guidewire Labs. She spent the 2013-14 academic year as a Fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri in where she explored and developed best practices for journalist conducting real-time journalism. The following year, she joined MIT to launch Solve, an initiative to bring together the best thinking to address some of the world’s most intractable problems. Currently, she consults and collaborates with emerging companies and their leadership teams to build high-performance teams that innovate at startup speed.

Her work has won numerous citations, including the prestigious SVForum Visionary Award in 2010. She sits on the governing and advisory boards of a number of high-impact early stage companies. Chris holds BA degrees in Literature and Communication Arts from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.