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Evan Solomon
CBC Television Broadcaster, Journalist & Author
Two time Gemini award winning writer and broadcaster Evan Solomon spends his professional life exploring the world of innovation, advances in technology, changing business paradigms, and creative approaches to managing and solving the complex challenges of sustainability in the 21st century.
A long-time print and broadcast journalist, Evan is the co-host of the two weekly news and current affairs shows CBC News: Sunday and CBC News: Sunday Night.
He is also the host of the Gemini award winning CBC Newsworld show about ideas in print called HotType. For four years he was the host of the Gemini award-winning show Futureworld, which explored the latest developments in technology and innovation. He also produced and hosted a series called The Change Makers, and a series for PBS in America called Masters of Technology. Evan was the co-founder, and for eight years the editor-in-chief, of Shift magazine, an award-winning international magazine about technology and culture. Most recently, he co-founded The Ingenuity Project, a dynamic new series that gathers the best and brightest minds from around the world in order to generate new solutions to the most pressing issues of our time. As part of this project, Evan is the co-editor and writer of the best-selling book Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything, which was nominated of the National Business Book of the Year in 2004 and the National Science Award in 2004. He is also the co-editor and writer of Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the Worlds Food Crisis, released in 2005.
Evans insightful views dispel many of the myths and hype not only surrounding the digital world but human progress in general presenting a unique, realistic picture of where things now stand, and where they may be headed.
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