Gemma Milne

Gemma Milne speaks on the cultural impacts of science and new technologies focusing on innovation in business start-ups, and on the role of women within the world of STEM. Gemma is a Technology & Science Writer & Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute.

Gemma Milne has delivered keynotes at SXSW, TEDx, WPP Stream, Cannes Lions and Dubai Lynx. Having started her career as a mathematician and inevitably going into finance, Gemma migrated from finance to advertising. She moved on to become Tech Innovation Strategist at Ogilvy Labs and then to her current role as a new technologies consultant, producer and writer, working with companies such as The Ideas Foundation and The British Science Association. Gemma writes and podcasts for The Guardian, Singularity Hub, The Drum, Adweek, Imperica & Ogilvydo and specialist technological publications on change and progress within the world of science.

Co-founder of Science; Disrupt, Gemma brings together innovators with industry. She markets new ideas and organises events that showcase talent that may lack a platform. In recognition of her work Gemma was recent winner of an FDM Every Woman in Technology Award for inspirational female founders of a stand up less than two years old.

Gemma Milne has spoken recently for:

HSBC Small Business Conference
Financial Times Cybersecurity Day
WestVisions
Hello Tomorrow
Conde Nast Inspiration Session
Business Continuity Institute Annual Conference
Retail Week

Gemma Milne is author of Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It.

‘Stop following the news until you’ve read Gemma Milne’s persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking’
David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK