A longtime journalist and editor, Nick Parish helps run London-based Contagious in North America, directing and developing content for its award-winning quarterly briefing book, frequent special reports, various web platforms and leads client-based consulting projects, focusing on emerging innovative technology, non-traditional marketing and future-facing business intelligence. He's spoken at dozens of leading industry events including the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, SXSW Interactive, IDEA, CaT: Creativity and Technology, Yahoo! Provoke Summit, the CreateTech, FutureFlash, Internet Week New York, The Marketing Agencies Association Worldwide, Interesting New York and more. He resides in Brooklyn and enjoys fly fishing, dystopian fiction and any music that sounds like it could have come from Detroit.