Karl A L Smith

Co-Founder at Agile World

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

42632 Followers

Karl A L Smith lives in Scotland and works globally. He has focused his life on problem solving, to fix the everyday problems of humans.

He has always been fascinated by how technology can augment the lives of humans;

"My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human experience."

He has been named in the Top 100 Thought Leaders and Influencers to follow in 2021, 2022 by Thinkers360 and is currently ranked number One Globally by Thinkers360 as the Thought Leader and Influencer for Agile and the Future of Work.

Karl has been involved in voluntary work since his teens and has been a driving force in the formation of many initiatives that are focused on education as a pathway to personal and financial freedoms. He was involved in the creation and operations of the largest online free Agile festival in history with over 800 conferences and events in February 2021 to celebrate 20 years of Agile, Agile20Reflect Festival as a Trustee and CTO, also setting up Access Agile.

Karl A L Smith is a co-founder of Agile World talk show with Sabrina C E Bruce. The voluntary entertainment, media and education ecosystem Agile World https://agile-world.charity/ includes Agile World Broadcast Media https://agile-world.news/ Agile World Institute https://agile-world.institute/ and Agile World Resources which is five separate initiatives joined together into one digital experience https://agile-world.org/ and Think Agile an agile think tank https://agile-world.info/. Agile World now Incorporated and is based in California and continues to grow. Agile World Broadcast Media talk show has been set up along language and communication lines and is now available on Amazon as a free podcast https://www.amazon.co.uk/item_name/dp/B08JK3MBDL/

He is an avid learner and polymath from school to Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, Middlesex University and later Napier University his knowledge sits across design, engineering, science and the humanities. He is best known for launching new business capabilities or optimizing existing ones and provides consultancy service globally.

Karl A L Smith is a prolific writer in spite of his dyslexia, his blog is widely reposted and syndicated https://karlsmith.info/. He has been recognised for his work to date by the British Computer Society with a Fellowship FBCS.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Edinburgh
Speaking Topics: Business Agility, Servant Leadership, Digital Transformation, Service Design, Customer Experience, IoT, User Experience

Speaking Fee $10,000

Karl A L Smith	Points
Academic	75
Author	1454
Influencer	431
Speaker	103
Entrepreneur	1190
Total	3253

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

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Agile World Better English talk show interview with founders of Agile World
December 15, 2021

Karl Smith, Polymath, Influencer, Authority UX UI, AI, IoT
December 15, 2021

Agility in business Karl A L Smith talks to Engati CX
December 15, 2021

Featured Topics

Business Agility coexisting hierarchy and networks to accelerate business

Business Agility building flexibility into the business DNA, customer and staff engagement and ability to adapt regardless of the situation. Observable through meticulously defining and organizing the structure of companies, creation of unified job titles, and allocate resources (i.e. personnel) to improve efficiency and increase productivity. Supporting the making of strategic decisions with regard to company hierarchy and personnel infrastructure.

Blockchain the Backbone of IoT Security

Emergent technologies like IoT require secure infrastructure, data architectures and operational risk management the only technology to afford this capability is private blockchain.

Customer value Optimization requires knowledge and insight (data analytics) in the right mix

Machine to machine engagement and interaction is logical and mappable with simple analytics, humans are not. Humans operate as wildcards in complex and often unconnected systems, how can they be understood and facilitated as they move through their engagement lifecycle to optimize value?

Agile World

Co-Founder

http://agile-world.charity

Company Type: Enterprise

Business Unit: Agile World is a Corporation based in California that is creating free Agile education and training

Theatre: Global

Media Experience: 28 years

Last Media Training: 09/12/2012

Last Media Interview: 11/25/2021

Areas of Expertise

5G 31.82

Agile 100

AI 31.43

Analytics 31.00

AR/VR 31.31

Autonomous Vehicles 32.14

Big Data 40.85

Blockchain 40.23

Business Continuity 32.09

Business Strategy 40.16

Change Management 52.37

Cloud

CRM 42.38

Cryptocurrency 31.64

Culture 35.06

Customer Experience 67.75

Customer Loyalty 45.80

Cybersecurity 30.16

Design Thinking 37.40

Digital Disruption 36.83

Digital Transformation 46.63

Diversity and Inclusion

Edtech 51.90

Emerging Technology 35.40

Entrepreneurship 33.76

ERP 30.06

Fintech 35.83

Future of Work 100

Govtech 36.32

Health and Safety 30.31

Health and Wellness 38.33

Healthtech 32.06

HR 31.06

Innovation 33.79

IoT 49.33

Leadership 37.10

Lean Startup 53.50

Legal and IP 36.05

Management 31.64

Mental Health 33.01

Mergers and Acquisitions 30.15

Mobility 33.89

Predictive Analytics 32.59

Proptech 30.86

Retail 31.19

Risk Management 32.87

Social 52.27

Startups 43.31

Sustainability 31.20

Ecosystems 30.32

Public Relations 51

Smart Cities 30.69

DevOps 32.33

Industry Experience

Aerospace & Defense

Automotive

Consumer Products

Federal & Public Sector

Financial Services & Banking

Healthcare

High Tech & Electronics

Higher Education & Research

Hospitality

Insurance

Manufacturing

Media

Oil & Gas

Pharmaceuticals

Professional Services

Retail

Telecommunications

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4 Academic Awards

MSc Master’s Degree | Interactive Technologies for eCommerce
Napier University
June 23, 2006

Information Management, organisation and management theory & approaches to knowledge management.

Web Design and Development, user-centred approach, site management, marketing and security issues.

Database Systems, DB architecture, analysis and implementation.

Interactive Systems Design, user-centred design, usability paradigms and principles, design envisioning techniques, prototyping techniques and reporting of contexts in interactivity on HCI.

Business Transformation technology and business transformation, socio-technical systems, process mapping and activity theory.

E-Commerce, E Business strategy, ERP, CRM, Ethical/legal and regulatory frameworks, effective e-business systems development and deployment.

Very Large Databases, data warehouses (DataMart), Data Mining, Analytics, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), web browsers and search engines, optimisation, recovery and backup (resilience and continuity), database connectivity technologies.

Tags: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology, Change Management

Postgraduate Certificate in Design and Technology Education
Middlesex University
June 16, 1989

Technology has become fundamentally important to art, design and culture and the skills associated with the once-separate creative and technical worlds increasingly overlap. This is a highly practical course with an emphasis on collaboration and experimentation. You will benefit from your lecturers creative, academic and technical expertise, and you'll be encouraged to step out of your comfort zone and tackle something new.

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Karl A L Smith

Co-Founder at Agile World

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Speaking Fee $10,000

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Agile World

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