Chris Heuer

Chris Heuer

Founder, Social Media Club; founder, Alynd

Speaker, BIL 2008

Chris Heuer is a visionary who focuses on how things could be instead of how they are, making his life’s Noble Pursuit the healing of the world through technology imbued with humanity, for the purposes of humanity. After investing over two years with Deloitte focused on Social Business and Engagement Strategy, he left the Big Four Consulting firm to build his latest startup Alynd , which has redesigned the context of collaboration based on the fundamental and thoroughly researched principles of building trust and maintaining alignment. Chris has been pioneering new spaces in the digital world since 1994 with the launch of his first agency, Guru Communications, out of South Beach, Florida in 1994 and the local content play Virtual Community Network he launched in 1995. He has created software, online community, real world community, social change, corporate change, government ecommerce and numerous startups over the past two decades. You may know him from the global non-profit Social Media Club, which Chris founded in 2006 after attending the first BarCamp in the summer of 2005. He was also an associate producer of the original BIL Conference serving in an advisory capacity (see Chris Heuer’s photos of the first BIL here ).

Bio from the period BIL record (source).

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