Technology Strategist & Keynote Speaker
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Turning complex technology and change into stories audiences understand, remember and act on.
Technology Strategist & Keynote Speaker
Turning complex technology and change into stories audiences understand, remember and act on.
Matt Watts delivered an engaging and thought-provoking session that really connected with our audience. His insights were highly relevant to the challenges many organisations are facing today, and he communicated them with clarity and confidence. A compelling speaker we'd highly recommend for any event.
Dom Gryszan
Marketing Director, Logicalis UK&I
Ways I Can Help
High-impact talks that cut through the noise and leave audiences with clarity, motivation and practical takeaways.
Explore Keynotes →1:1 coaching for leaders and experts who want to communicate their ideas with confidence, clarity and lasting impact.
Coaching for Leaders →Helping organisations communicate complex change, transformation and technology in ways that people actually get.
Learn More →About Me
I started my career as an aerospace engineer at British Aerospace Filton. Since then I've spent over thirty years in technology, from the client/server era to AI, watching every wave of genuine transformation arrive and reshape everything.
I've spoken to audiences across 56 countries, and what people tell me afterwards is that they finally understand what's happening and they know what to do about it.
That's the most important thing I'm trying to do every time I stand up.
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The Approach
Most strategies fail because people don't understand them. Technology fails to land because it gets buried in jargon and abstraction.
I work with organisations to close that gap. Turning complex ideas into stories that land, stick, and drive action.
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Managing the Ripples, Riding the Waves
A framework for navigating constant technical change without losing sight of the genuine transformations that matter. AI, cyber, sustainability, not separate problems, but converging forces.
Security is Fundamentally a Thinking Problem
AI has industrialised social engineering, quantum threatens encryption, and the real risk in all of it isn't technical failure but a failure to think. From Bletchley Park to the decisions your leadership team needs to make now.
Digital Waste, Sustainability & the Energy Crisis
500 UK data centres and rising. 68% of stored data never touched again. There's an opportunity hiding inside the waste, and organisations that find it first will have the advantage.
Simplifying the Complex
Rapid IT advances, the explosion of cloud options, and growing pressure to extract value while managing commodity services. How does technology leadership balance the necessary-but-low-value with strategic investment?
It's All About Time
Technology advances now happen in weeks, not years. We have more capability than ever and less time than ever. How IT must evolve to meet compounding pressures head-on.
Watch me in Action
Watch a keynote close, complex technology narrative turning into a moment the audience will remember. Strategy meets storytelling on stage.
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The Books
Manage the Ripples, Ride the Waves
The framework for telling the difference between incremental change and genuine transformation, early enough to act on it.
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The Fourth Wave
The story of four waves that reshaped enterprise technology, and why AI really is different this time. Where the framework started.
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Insights
2026
When was the last time you invested in you?
Each year many companies give employees a personal development budget, and each year the same thing happens — good intentions, no action, and the budget expires unspent. When did you last treat your own development as a priority?
Read on LinkedIn →2026
Data centres in space!
Everyone has something to say about the SpaceX IPO. I'm not a finance person, but I have spent decades working around data centres — and that part of the story is something I can absolutely talk about.
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Sovereign cloud is NOT a product
My last post generated a wave of DMs challenging the position, most arguing that the right architectural approach lets a US cloud provider deliver sovereign cloud. It can't. Sovereign cloud is a state you have to genuinely achieve — and most organisations are nowhere near as close as they think.
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It is NOT a Sovereign Cloud
If a cloud provider is incorporated in the United States, or if its parent company is, the US CLOUD Act requires it to hand over data stored anywhere in the world. No contractual arrangement, no local subsidiary, and no sovereign cloud product tier changes that.
Read on LinkedIn →2026
What should I feel and do?
I've attended a lot of presentations over the years and I'm still amazed by how frequently at the end I'm left thinking, okay should I be feeling something? Or often more importantly, that was interesting but what is it that they want from me, or that they want me to do?
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The harvest now, decrypt later threat
At Bletchley Park, the Bombe didn't decrypt messages in real time. It collected and worked through traffic systematically, cracking keys on messages that had already been sent, for decades without anyone knowing.
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"Who gets fired if this fails?"
One question stopped a vendor presentation in its tracks. The silence that followed said everything about accountability, ownership, and what it actually means to have skin in the game.
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Manage the Ripples, ride the Waves
Why I wrote the second book, and why the framework that started with data storage turned out to apply to every technology transition I've lived through.
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Many Execs could be better speakers
When you're given a stage, you're being given an opportunity to change what people think and do. So why do so many treat rehearsal as optional?
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I'm selective about the work I take on, not because I'm difficult, but because the best results come when there's a genuine match. Tell me what you're working on and I'll be honest about whether I believe I can truly add value.
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