About

Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized business strategist, enterprise architect, transformation consultant, futurist, analyst and in-demand keynote speaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in customer experience, digital workplace, technology strategy, and enterprise IT.

Dion is currently VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research where he heads up research and global client advisory into CIO issues, the Future of Work, and emerging technology in the enterprise. Dion is a leading industry expert on the topics of enterprise IT, digital transformation, digital workplace, social collaboration, customer experience, API strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, social business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), cloud computing, agile/DevOps, digital business, and IT strategy. His thought leadership can be found on ZDNet, Constellation Research, On Digital Strategy, and the Enterprise Irregulars. He also co-authored Web 2.0 Architectures for O’Reilly as well as the bestselling Social Business by Design (John Wiley & Sons).

In 2017, Dion was inducted as an Executive Fellow at the Tuck School of Business Center for Digital Strategies in support of their invite-only large enterprise CIO Roundtable program.

Dion was recently identified, through data analysis by Leadtail, as the #2 person globally most mentioned by CIOs:

Dion’s is currently ranked as one of the top 50 digital influencers worldwide as of April, 2020 by Digital Scouting. He was also ranked recently as the #2 influencer in the world on the subject of digital transformation in a data-based analysis by Onalytica as well as a top cloud industry influencer. Dion is also a top 10 influencer on the topic of machine-to-machine (M2M.)

You can consult Dion’s current research agenda for a list of upcoming insights and reports he is working on.

Industry Plaudits

Dion Hinchcliffe is one of the brightest minds in the nation today. For years he has helped individuals and organizations think through complex challenges. And for years he has proven he can glean trends and impart their relevance to decision-makers. He is world renowned for his thinking, speaking and writing powers. And perhaps above all he is known for his amazing ability to capture complex concepts in simple to understand graphics.

— Bob Gourley, CTO Vision, and former CTO of U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency

Dion has been featured or quoted in CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and numerous other national and overseas news sources.

You can also reach him by email at dion@constellationr.com.

Speaking Engagements and Industry-Leading Workshops

If you’d like Dion to speak at your event or provide one of his popular workshops on an array of technology and business subjects, please contact us via e-mail for details on current topics and availability.

Dion has delivered the following to clients around the world on 6 continents:

• Over 350 strategic workshops to business and technical audiences up and including the C-level.
• Architected over a dozen in-production cloud/SaaS services in the social, mobile, and enterprise industries.
• Keynoted or spoken at hundreds of leading industry conferences including CeBIT, Enterprise Digital Summit, KMWorld, IT Roadmap, Dreamforce, CIO Perspectives, AIIM Conference, IBM Connect, and many other top events.
• Written hundreds of analyses and overviews of Web strategy, digital/social business, and enterprise IT.
• Published and edited numerous books, white papers, and magazine articles on IT and business topics.

Dion’s Slideshare account has a sampling of his recent presentations.

Dion Keynotes Enterprise Digital Summit Paris 2016

Dion Keynotes API Strategy and Practice in 2015

Dion Keynotes at OSCON 2010

Older Speaking Engagements