Carl Miller
Digital researcher, author and international speaker
Carl combines data and analysis with immersive, first-hand reporting to understand how all of our lives are changing. He’s tried to re-create himself from hidden data, visited information warfare bases, exposed autocratic states manipulating Wikipedia, interviewed fake news merchants, lived in a political-technology commune, met Taiwan’s digital democrats and become involved in the struggle for control of an online assassination market.
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Carl Miller: Decoding the Hidden Powers of the Digital Age
Carl Miller is an acclaimed investigative journalist, author, and global keynote speaker who explores the profound intersection of digital innovation and societal change. He has written extensively on how technology is reshaping power, politics, and culture, and is widely recognized for his ability to uncover and explain the hidden dynamics of the digital world to global audiences.
For over a decade, Carl has delivered immersive talks and led pioneering research on how digital technology is transforming power, business, and everyday life. His insights have reached audiences across Europe, North America, and Asia, including government bodies, global institutions, and leading universities. He is a sought-after speaker for technology, business, and policy events, recognized for his compelling blend of investigative rigor, real-world storytelling, and strategic vision.
Carl’s debut book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, won the 2019 Transmission Prize for its exploration of the hidden forces driving change in the digital age. The book traces his investigations across political tech communities, information warfare operations, and encounters with hackers, misinformation merchants, cyber-crime units, and digital leaders worldwide. His work reveals how emerging digital powers are transforming corporations, journalism, politics, and the global balance of influence.
Carl has led dozens of pioneering digital research projects, ranging from early warnings about online conspiracy theories and the challenges of digital literacy, to insights into cryptocurrencies, policing transformations, and the advent of SOCMINT—social media intelligence. His investigations have mapped the rise of digital politics, tracked online abuse against minority groups, and most recently, explored the roots and impacts of disinformation, information warfare, and hidden digital influence.
He is recognized for combining immersive first-person storytelling with rigorous evidence. His stage presentations draw on encounters with police cyber-crime teams, hackers, information warfare specialists, fake news operators, policymakers, and digital leaders. He helps audiences navigate vital questions about who controls AI, how crime is evolving, the mechanics of disinformation, threats to democracy, the upheaval in journalism, and the precarious future of digital business.
Carl’s expertise, global perspective, and compelling stories equip leaders, businesses, and policymakers to grasp the hidden forces reshaping society—and to prepare for what comes next.
Talks
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, show where it has gone and the shape it now takes.
Whether it is a crisis of law enforcement or the production of fake news, enormous disruptions to markets or the undermining of political systems, Carl will explain the important, and often hidden risks that digital technologies have created.
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.
From hackers to cyber-criminals, citizen journalists to fake news merchants, information warriors to digital presidents, what are the lessons that we can all learn from those on the front-lines of the digital revolution?
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?