Keynote SpeakersCarl Miller is a Technology Researcher and Technology Trends Speaker.
Miller investigates the hidden realities of the digital age and the influence of technology and AI on society.
His first book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab was published in 2018.
Carl Miller presents programmes for the BBC’s flagship technology show, ‘Click’.
He co-founded The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos in 2013 and CASM Technology in 2014.
An interest in revealing the true nature of power in the digital age unites his work in investigatory journalism, think tank research, and entrepreneurial technology development.
Awards include:
- The 2019 Transmission Prize for his writing
- Jointly won the 2021 US-Paris Tech Challenge for innovative responses to disinformation.
- He was tech partner to the winner of the Innovation of the Year Award at the British Journalism Awards 2022
Positions held include:
- Visiting Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London
- RUSI States Threats Task Force member
- Senior Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue,
- Associate of the Imperial War Museum
- Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe
- Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime member
- Global Network on Extremism and Technology member
- Challenging Pseudoscience Group member at the Royal Institution
“A necessary wake-up call”
He is regularly asked to appear on national and international media, including BBC and Sky News, to give his expert opinion on everything digital.
His investigations blend data and analysis with people and lived experiences.
He came face-to-face with hikikomori – ‘the departed’ – in South Korea who only live online, lived in a political-technology commune, had a knife held to his throat and become involved in the struggle for control of an online assassination market, all to help us understand how the digital revolution is causing traditional power structures to crumble and evolve, and how this process is changing all of our lives in ways we may not have noticed.
Carl has written for The Economist, The Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, Wired, New Scientist, The Telegraph, the Atlantic, and the Guardian.
Carl Miller Tech Trends Speaker
From corporate giants like Shell to the British Parliament and Home Office, Carl speaks to audiences worldwide about what the digital revolution means to them and how they can stay ahead of the curve.
In particular, Carl discusses the influence of technology and AI on society.
Carl is available to speak on the following topics:
- The Hidden Reality of Power Today. How the most precious commodity of the digital age is being fought over, won, lost and transformed. From politics to journalism, business to crime, Carl will talk about his year-long journey to track down the nature of power today and show where it has gone and the shape it now takes.
- Understanding Risk and Volatility in the Digital Age. Carl will explain the significant and often hidden risks that digital technologies have created, whether it is a crisis of law enforcement, the production of fake news, enormous market disruptions, or the undermining of political systems.
- Digital Crime and Cyber Security. Carl draws on going on a cyber-crime raid with the police, going to the largest annual gathering of hackers in Las Vegas, and even trying to do some cyber-crime himself to show how we’re all living through an extraordinary moment: the worst crisis of law enforcement in the history of modern policing.
- How to Win the Digital Revolution. From hackers to cybercriminals, citizen journalists to fake news merchants, information warriors to digital presidents, what lessons can we all learn from those on the front lines of the digital revolution?
- Information Warfare Began with Cats. Where did information warfare come from? How do people do it? What are the tools and techniques in this strange new kind of conflict, and where will it go next?
