Dave Birss

Dave Birss is obsessed with creativity, what it is, how to make use of it, and why some people are better at it than others. It’s at the very centre of everything he does, and he is passionate about helping everyone to improve their creative thinking.

Dave’s talks are simple, easy-to-understand, funny, interesting, and captivating, and offer audiences tangible ideas that they can then implement in their own personal or professional lives.

As well as keynote speaking, Dave offers a number of training courses designed to help at every stage of the creative process, offers consulting work to a wide-range of companies to create better ideas and more successful innovation, and puts all his thoughts to paper, publishing a number of successful books.

Contact Great British Speakers today to book generative AI, creativity & Innovation Speaker Dave Birss for your next event.

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A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)Business & FinanceConsumer TrendsCreativity, Change & InnovationFuturistKeynoteMediaSales & MarketingSpeakerVirtual Speakers

More About Dave Birss

This love of the creative world has followed Dave Birss throughout his career. Starting out as Creative Director at media companies Mr Smith, and MRM Worldwide, payment company POKE, and advertising business OgilvyOne.

He would go on to become Heads of Culture and Innovation at ESI Media – the company behind newspapers such as The Independent – Head of Ideas at the School of Communication Arts, and Head of TV at the marketing organisation, The Drum, as well as being their Editor at Large.

Since then, he has used his vast experience to work with other companies to help them use creativity more effectively, through talks, workshops, and consultancies. In 2016 he founded OpenForIdeas.org, an online magazine to help professionals become more creative, and in 2019 he became a visiting Professor at Kingston School of Art.

He was also the presenter of the Future of Advertising podcast, where he aimed to demystify creativity in a professional setting.

Dave is a successful author, having published a number of books:

– A User Guide to the Creative Mind (2013) which was then updated and re-published in 2021

– Iconic Advantage®: Don’t Chase the New, Innovate the Old (2018)

– How to Get Great Ideas: A System For Smart, Extraordinary Thinking (2019)

– Friction: Adding Value by Making People Work For It (2022)

Dave is also a very successful course leader, and currently has half a dozen Generative AI courses on LinkedIn and is their top AI Course Leader with over 100,000 students.

Dave has created a slew of courses for LinkedIn Learning, with his most recent offerings focused on leveraging generative AI (like ChatGPT) for real benefit, and finding the perfect combination of human creativity and technology partnerships.

DAVE BIRSS – CORPORATE WORK

RECENT SPEAKING TOPICS

– Effective Creativity for Business
– Beyond the Brainstorm
– Boost Your Creativity
– Dot Collecting – The Habit of Great Creative People
– 10 Things I Learned From Busking
– How to Kill an Idea

DAVE BIRSS – WORKSHOPS

Prompt Engineering: A 1/2 day training session, equipping delegates with proven prompt frameworks to consistently get the most out of AI. Through this workshop, Dave aims to help drive innovation, improve quality, increase efficiency, enhance service, minimise risk, drive standardisation, get ahead of competitors, achieve greater ROI, and future-proof organisations.

AI For Teams: A 1/2 day training session, aiming to enhance your team’s abilities with ChatGPT and other AI tools. Benefits include delighting customers, creating consistency, driving innovation, increased output quality, accelerated workflows, less errors, and more business opportunities.

Managing AI: A 1/2 day training session, helping to equip and manage teams to get the most from generative AI. Dave aims to help you get ahead of any changes, avoid wasted investments, minimise risks, become an AI trailblazer, realise untapped potential, future-proof your business, and lead with confidence.

Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great British Speakers now to book creativity for business speaker Dave Birss for your next live event or corporate video.

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Testimonials

Everyone absolutely loved Dave’s presentation, and it was great to give our teams a different outlook on how data is evolving in really cool and interactive ways. As always, Dave’s presentation style is engaging, honest and really makes you sit up and listen. We’d love to work with him again.
Rachel Evans – Experian Data Quality

An excellent end. Very thought-provoking and engaging. Fantastic end to the conference. Really enjoyed this session. Left on a high. Great emphasis on how we should really stand for something. Lots to take away from this one. Excellent. Brilliant. Loved the interactive debates – this is just some of the feedback we have already had and I know there will be more of the same!
Tory Gillingham – AMDIS

Dave MC’d a conference I recently produced and did it with professional aplomb. He confidently conducted the stage, engaged the speakers, managed the audience and even filled dead space when the IT failed us. He went over and above what was asked of him. Next time I organise an event, Dave will be my first point of call.
Matt Desmier – Silicon Beach

Dave Birss is a British expert on creativity, advertising, branding and transmedia. Dave taught how to design and produce branded content. The quality of his work was extraordinary, which is why I highly recommend working with him. We hope to have a new opportunity to work with him in the future.
Fernando Acuña Díaz – Universidad Católica de Chile

I knew from the outset David was a talented communicator but his achievements since have quite simply been staggering. He has established himself as one of the most important contemporary voices; helping others understand the scale and complexity of climate change and other important environmental challenges. His depth of experience, his enthusiasm and optimism can not be commended more highly.
Alex Palman – Former Climate Change Communications Manager, DEFRA

To say that the crowd loved him would be a serious understatement. To every corporate event organiser and conference program director out there – do yourself a favour, and hire Dave to speak. It will be one of the best decisions you will make – and your attendees will be thankful.
Vladimir Vulic, Program Director, SPARK.ME

A brilliant resource for our creative teams across the UK. Simple, elegant, intelligent and relevant, ‘How To Get To Great Ideas’ debunks the BS around creativity and will elevate your thinking to produce more potent ideas.
Group Creative Director, Communicorp, UK