Maarten Lens-FitzGerald instigates movements that shape the future as a keynote speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur. He advises c-level and boards of local and international top companies on the new opportunities of the conversational channels. His book ‘Voice – the conversational revolution: insights and opportunities’ came out in 2021.

To explore the opportunity of Voice & older adults he successfully initiated Project Zilver. An international non-profit, multi-stakeholder consortium where he works with Google, and the Dutch Government. His last achievement was the foundation of the Dutch Voice Coalition where large industry partners from media, insurance, university, and research centers work together on sovereign, open, inclusive and trusted voice technology.

Previously Maarten founded and successfully exited the largest Augmented Reality platform Layar and the future of work platform Teamily. Voice is Maartens 5th new medium, after AR, mobile, email, and web.