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Keynote SpeakerCristina Criddle

Financial Times Technology Correspondent, former BBC Technology Reporter, Keynote Speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and Future of Work, Moderator, Event Host

Cristina Criddle is a technology correspondent at the Financial Times, specialising in artificial intelligence and social media. She is an award-winning journalist who has covered tech for almost a decade. She regularly breaks exclusive stories on tech companies such as Meta, Google, OpenAI, and TikTok. Cristina is a specialist speaker on Artificial Intelligence. She examines how AI has entered the consumer market, with the mass adoption of advanced models like Chat GPT becoming common. She can also speak to enterprise... Read More

Biography

Cristina Criddle is a technology correspondent at the Financial Times, specialising in artificial intelligence and social media.

She is an award-winning journalist who has covered tech for almost a decade. She regularly breaks exclusive stories on tech companies such as Meta, Google, OpenAI, and TikTok.

Cristina is a specialist speaker on Artificial Intelligence. She examines how AI has entered the consumer market, with the mass adoption of advanced models like Chat GPT becoming common. She can also speak to enterprise AI and how developments are transforming workplaces. She highlights the need for regulation, action, and agency as the AI arms race continues, raising huge questions for humanity.

Previously, Cristina was a technology reporter at the BBC, working across TV, radio and online, including on the Today Programme and BBC Breakfast. She also produced the leading BBC 3 documentary, the Instagram Effect, featuring exclusive testimony from insiders about how the platform impacts wellbeing.

In 2022, after writing a series of stories on the company’s operations in London and Europe, TikTok admitted in December that staff at ByteDance had tracked Cristina through her cat’s account in an attempt to identify her sources. She was the only British journalist this happened to, and the actions included surveilling physical location data as well as other personal information.

Popular Talks by Cristina Criddle

  • As we increasingly live our lives online, what is our interaction with technology going to be in the metaverse?
  • Corporate applications of the metaverse - hybrid working and using emerging technology VR/AR for training etc.
  • Social applications: how to form meaningful interactions/communities online
  • Moderating the metaverse, issues around abuse, regulation, competition
  • Monetising the metaverse: as a brand/business, as an individual
  • How Web3, crypto, NFTs come into this
  • AR/VR/Gaming developments
  • The ethical debates around what it means to be spending more time digitally