Amer Iqbal

Amer Iqbal is an innovation consultant and keynote speaker who has guided dozens of Fortune 500 companies to build the business of tomorrow. He is the author of the upcoming book "The 5 Ways to Innovate" and hosts the Riding the Wave of Innovation podcast. He helps organizations think, act and behave more like a startup in order to reimagine their future in a digital economy.

Iqbal has spent the last 20 years leading innovation at some of the world’s top companies, including Meta (Facebook) as the Former Head of Digital Transformation, APAC where he enabled digital agencies and consulting firms to drive enterprise-wide digital transformation for their clients through the use of Facebook's platforms and products. He also served Deloitte Digital as the Former Head of Strategy of Strategy & Innovation SEA where he helped to scale Deloitte Digital from the ground up to the leading digital creative consultancy in the region, helping numerous clients on their digital transformation journey.

He has been interviewed as an expert on CNBC, has been featured on the Nasdaq billboard in Times Square, and he was a finalist for Financial Review’s 2011 Young Executive of the Year and Tigerhall’s Thinkfluencer of the Year in 2022 as well as a winner of Deloitte’s CEO’s Award in 2017.

Iqbal has presented to over 20,000 people on some of the world’s largest conference stages. His writing has been published in Fast Company, The Economic Times and WARC.