Mike Butcher

For over a decade Mike Butcher has served as Editor-at-large of TechCrunch, the breaking news site featuring technology, innovation, and stories on the world’s hottest tech businesses.

Mike is considered by Wired UK as one of the most influential people in the European tech world today. He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the Top 50 most influential British writers in technology. And as a keynote and technical speaker Mike explains the digital business world to all – everything from the European start-up ecosystem to tomorrow’s developments in AI. He offers understandable and actionable insights from inside the world of digital enterprise. As well as being a long-time writer and broadcaster he is also co-founder of TechHub, an international community of technology entrepreneurs working together in a London space that’s designed for fast-moving startups. TechHub has become the home of London’s fledgling tech community and has now supported more than three thousand growing enterprises.

Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including the The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Telegraph, and New Statesman. He has spoken to many of the world’s most prestigious audiences and he has interviewed some of the biggest names of the twenty-first century.

Mike Butcher has advised UK Prime Ministers and the Mayor of London on tech startup policy, as well as having been a judge on The Apprentice UK! GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK. He is the co-founder of The Pathfounder.com, TheEuropas.com [annual European Tech Startup Conference & Awards] and non-profits Techfugees.com and Coadec.com.

For services to the UK technology industry and journalism Mike Butcher was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of 2016.

You can contact Mike Butcher via a Specialist Speakers agent on 01455 633289 for both in-person and virtual speaking engagements in all territories.