This episode Nelson chats with Allan Cook, Deloitte Digital’s very own Brit turned Californian Director of Digital Reality. Nelson and Allan dive deep into Allan’s journey through the media and tech worlds, which feature his experiences growing up across the world, following green cards to LA (via his father and a future girlfriend), and constantly working at the forefront of technology, the internet, and discovering how we as humans interact and get the most value out of them. Tune in to catch the story of this tech wizard/creative genius’ whose career path went from first pioneering technology at one of the most prominent film and media centers in the US (a job which he found in a newspaper ad) to now innovating entire technical landscapes and experiences through virtual and augmented reality across the Deloitte Digital practice.

Timestamps:

• Growing up and moving to California from the U.K. | 03:16.0
• What brought you back to the U.S? | 07:59.5
• When did creativity originate for you? | 09:27.6
• How did you end up with a job at The Getty? | 11:53.5
• How did you become part of the Television Academy? | 16:57.7
• How was going through these areas during great changes? | 18:52.2
• What is the catalyst that has created the most change? | 26:36.9
• Discussion on changing technology, generations, and virtual reality. | 39:20.4
• Nelson's two questions | 43:38.5