David Rowan

Non Bullshit Innovation (Penguin). WIRED UK founding editor. Investor Grammarly Improbable Cerebral Kitopi. Community at david(at)

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Today Penguin publishes my book Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World’s Smartest Minds. It took me to 20 countries from Peru to China to find the real thing. Because there's too much "innovation theatre" out there. Seems it's 30% off today https://t.co/8NZKRpllw8

[David Rowan @iRowan]

@auren Totally. Festivals > conferences (our health-tech festival 💊https://t.co/xsnddpysnp has a DJ set from a former UK Minister of Health, a longevity strand involving a mobile sauna, and hands-on demos of surgical robots)

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Festivals beat conferences - https://t.co/bC15u8iSxu ftw

[Satgana @satgana_]

🌍 As climate challenges rise, #ClimateAction events like🔥THE HEAT by @iRowan & VOYAGERS drive real solutions. Satgana's Anil Maguru joined leaders sparking impactful change. Huge thanks, David & team! 👏

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Our stretch goal for https://t.co/bC15u8jqn2, the first VOYAGERS climate-tech festival next Friday, was 300 people. Today we're at 550 amazing founders, investors, writers, scientists + more coming to Harwell Campus near Oxford. So we added a few final tickets. Join us.

[David Rowan @iRowan]

My latest project: a climate-tech festival called ����THE HEAT that will celebrate the creative science-based entrepreneurship behind decarbonisation https://t.co/bC15u8iSxu

[Harwell Campus @HarwellCampus]

Join us at THE HEAT 🔥 on Sept 20, from 10am-10pm.

This climate-tech festival merges innovation, creativity, and urgency. Expect inspiring stories, workshops & demos with 400 attendees & top speakers.

Limited early bird tickets: https://t.co/GaIZh7mVFc

#climatetech #theheat

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Still long on humans

[Marja @brutalgardener]

Very human-like Slush talk by @iRowan at Beyond the Paradigm Shift event. AI is here and we can certainly outsource work to it, even thinking - but we as humans have compassion, love and curiosity

[David Rowan @iRowan]

@LauraTurner_PR Thanks Laura

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Authors gotta hustle, even if that means getting the Prime Minister of Moldova unwittingly to endorse your book… Thanks Moldova Digital Summit team

[Dorin Recean @DorinRecean]

Moldova Digital Summit started today.

Digitalization is ongoing & we’re ready to enhance technology further to make things easier, faster & more accessible for everyone.

@GuvernulRMD’s priority is to automate processes & make them more efficient for our citizens and businesses.

[David Rowan @iRowan]

@kristjanlepik @VOYAGERSHQ @Siftedeu Thanks @kristjanlepik for your engagement

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Thanks @Siftedeu for explaining how I went from editing @WiredUK to becoming an accidental climate-tech and health-tech VC… after setting up the not-for-profit @VOYAGERSHQ community https://t.co/18AVPZstI2

[David Rowan @iRowan]

I’m moderating a big climate-tech event today in a giant tent in a forest south of Tel Aviv, where the goal is to be “carbon balanced” and re-use/offset everything. Other event organisers, please take note.

[Startup Nation Central @sncentral_]

Big events are notoriously unsustainable, but that’s changing now thanks to Israeli innovation. Propelled by innovators from across the country, the Climate Solutions Festival is “raising the bar for sustainable event production.” Click here to learn how 👉https://t.co/Io612VxHUp

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Loving the opportunity to bring outside talent to collaborate with Britain’s leading applied-science campus

[Harwell Campus @HarwellCampus]

Harwell Campus is growing, fast.

Over the next few years, our generational investment in the campus will see us grow from around 6,000 people today to over 12,000.

To ensure we’re making smart investments in our future we’ve appointed a new Expert Advisory Group.

[David Rowan @iRowan]

@neerajarora Neeraj, I hung out with you, Jan and Brian in December 2013 to write the @WIRED cover story that was WhatsApp’s first big media outing, and even then Jan and Brian questioned aloud the ethics of such an acquisition. You knew. Stop playing the wounded naïf. https://t.co/iGVwhVoB64

[David Rowan @iRowan]

@Rovingheights Proud that my book made it to Lagos. Thanks @Rovingheights for stocking it

[OneLeap | Transformation + Strategic Innovation @oneleap]

We’ve pulled together the OneLeap team’s top Four Must-Read Books to Kickstart Your Corporate Entrepreneurship in 2022! Read more: https://t.co/05WSY324Ry

Got some other suggestions? Comment below!

#readinglist #innovation @rgmcgrath @ChrisSerendip @iRowan @priyaparker

[David Rowan @iRowan]

The Guardian knows how to write headlines

[David Rowan @iRowan]

@MStothard @Siftedeu @firstminutecap It’s just like journalism except you get an extra three or four years before you have to fess up to your mistakes… Welcome to the transition, Michael!

[David Rowan @iRowan]

@jmj @semil Sending an update today for our VOYAGERS Climate-Tech Fund that includes invitations to weekend retreats and our Zoom book club (as well as 6 kickass new investments). We started with the peer-support community - the fund evolved out of that, to enable founders to back each other

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Only time I’ve been ahead of a fashion trend

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@AlinaIvan_ @apburden Well thank you Alina, I appreciate that

[David Rowan @iRowan]

Worrying new symptom leading BBC News right now - the woman on the left grew an EXTRA ARM with no hand attached. And how heartless of her friends to mock her… #PhotoshopDisaster