About Mike Boland
Mike Boland, Chief Operating Officer at Triumph, has been active in discussions on emerging technology and local economic trends. In a 2017 interview, Boland compared the state of virtual reality to the early iPhone era, noting that the industry faces a "chicken-and-egg dilemma" where limited hardware adoption constrains content development and vice versa. He predicted that price competition, such as Oculus Rift's bundle price cut, would help address this, and argued that augmented reality would ultimately be a larger opportunity than VR due to its potential for all-day use across commercial sectors like retail and manufacturing. Boland advised VR companies to focus on accessible platforms like Google Daydream and Gear VR rather than high-end hardware.
Boland has also spoken about the "uberification" of local services, describing the on-demand economy as a transformation not seen since the commercial internet emerged. In a 2015 webcast, he discussed the rise of mobile-driven demand aggregation and its impact on how people work and buy. Separately, in a 2015 presentation on sustainable park management at the Presidio of San Francisco, Boland detailed the Presidio Trust's efforts to achieve financial self-sufficiency, reforest with disease-resistant trees, and create programs like a fish amnesty station to balance ecological stewardship with public use.
Source: AI-verified profile updated from Mike Boland's recent appearances.
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Transcript (2 segments)
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Mike Boland0:06
Hi everyone, I'm Mike Boland, analyst with BIA Kelsey, here with my colleague Mitch Ratcliffe. We'll get to an introduction in just a second. We're here to talk to you about our June conference, which is the BIA Kelsey Now Conference: Rise of the Local On-Demand Economy. The point really is to talk about the topic that's taking fire of the media, tech, and advertising worlds, which is the uberification of everything—services that you can summon on demand through your mobile device. There are a lot of moving parts to this, so Mitch, co-chairman of the event, tell us kind of the highlights.
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Mitch Ratcliffe0:37
It's going to be an incredible conference because we're talking about a change in the economy and in the marketplace that has not happened since the commercial internet came along 25 years ago. We're bringing together investors, technology leaders, and business leaders to talk about how the capabilities the enterprise has enjoyed over the past 20 years to increase their efficiency is going to go right into the local economy. Once that happens, there's going to be a massive transformation in how people work, how they buy, how they think about marketing, and what they do with their time and their attention. We're going to be covering all those things. It's really fitting to a lot of trends today. We live in an on-demand culture, very much conditioned by the mobile device to get whatever we want. The demand aggregation structure of these things to deploy service providers right when that demand is needed is doing a lot of interesting stuff. So that's going to be June 12th at UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco. BIA Kelsey Now: The Rise of the Local On-Demand Economy. Thanks for listening.
