Evan Solomon

Two-time Gemini award winning broadcaster and journalist, Evan Solomon is the host of the most watched national political affairs TV show in the country, CBC News Network’s Power and Politics with Evan Solomon. On the daily broadcast, Solomon interviews all the key politicians and powerbrokers who affect your life.

Solomon was the co-host of the Gemini award winning programs CBC News: Sunday and CBC News: Sunday Night, the weekly current affairs news shows. He covered events all over the world, from the recent elections in Iran, the navy’s battle against piracy in the Persian Gulf to the immediate aftermath of the Tsunami in Bandeh Acheh, Indonesia.

Solomon has also hosted the CBC shows Hot Type and the Gemini award-winning CBC show Futureworld, which explored the latest developments in technology and innovation. He produced and hosted a series called The Change Makers, and a series for PBS in America, called Masters of Technology.

He was the co-founder and for eight years the editor-in-chief of Shift magazine, an award-winning international magazine about technology and culture.  

A published author, Solomon’s books include the best-selling Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything, which was nominated for the National Business Book Award and the National Science Book of the Year, and Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crisis. Both books were recently re-released as Food and Fuel. He is also the author of the best-selling novel Crossing the Distance and two children’s books published by Penguin Books.

Solomon has worked as a journalist in North America and Asia, giving him a global perspective on the topics he addresses, from how technology will shape the way we are headed to the role politics plays in shaping our present and future.

• Change and Change Again

• Deep Impact

  Evan Solomon examines the implications of the technological age on our relationships with customers, colleagues, partners and our communities.
  
  As we've moved from the analogue world to the digital world, the biggest change has been from a world of "location, location, location", to "relation, relation, relation".
  
  In an age of information plenitude and tech parity, value shifts from access to understanding and perspective, from information to wisdom, and from technology to creativity. The most profound change is not about the technology, but about the nature of relationships. Evan leaves us with 10 actionable steps to manage high tech change, including the importance of going deeper in your relationships.

• Futureworld: Bringing Ingenuity To Crisis

• “An entertaining and stimulating message that captivated our discriminating audience. You received by far the highest rating of all our keynote presenters!”
  Ontario Society for Training & Development
• “...you managed to create a more personal, intimate relationship with the audience than we could ever have expected, which really enhanced the attendees' engagement.”
  The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
• “Your keynote presentation on the many innovations and technological advances happening in our world today and their impact on us as individuals and as part of a global village generated a real buzz among our attendees. Many surprising insights and discoveries were made by everyone in attendance and the unique yet realistic picture you painted of our world certainly had everyone thinking about the future.”
  Association of Corporate Travel Executives

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