Dr. David Potter, Founder and Chief Executive of Psion, Plc, was our evening speaker at the “Electronics Education Conference: 1996 and Beyond”, held at the end of May. In 1980, he founded Psion and has built a world-class development and engineering team. Dr. Potter is a governor and advisor on a number of academic institutions and a member of the London Regional Council of the CBI. This is the text of Dr. Potter's lecture.