Jason Bradbury
Most senior teams now agree AI matters. Far fewer can say what it changes about their specific business this quarter. The gap between abstract enthusiasm and operational decision sits at board level, and it widens every month a leadership team relies on vendor decks for its mental model of the technology.
Jason Bradbury is a technology broadcaster and AI keynote speaker who helps senior audiences build a working mental model of where artificial intelligence is going and what it changes for their sector.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Jason Bradbury
- Twelve years presenting The Gadget Show on Channel 5 trained him to make emerging technology legible to a general audience without diluting the substance. Boards get the same treatment.
- His 2026 keynote The AI Advantage introduces a “6 Degrees of AI” framework that maps AI impact across sectors, giving audiences a structured way to read their own industry rather than a generic overview.
- He completed MIT’s Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy programme, anchoring the keynote content in a formal commercial-AI curriculum rather than vendor marketing.
- He combines keynote and host roles in the same booking. For technology summits and innovation days that need a credible anchor across the whole programme, this removes a casting decision.
Biography highlights
- Presented Channel 5’s The Gadget Show from launch in 2004 to 2016, twelve years of prime-time technology broadcasting.
- Multiple Guinness World Records set on the programme, including fastest jet-powered street luge at 186.41 km/h.
- Author of the Dot Robot techno-thriller series for Penguin Random House: Dot Robot, Atomic Swarm, Cyber Gold.
- Completed MIT Sloan’s Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy programme.
- Has sat on judging panels for the BAFTA Video Games Awards and the Media Guardian Innovation Awards.
- Keynote and hosting work with Vodafone, Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sony, Audi, BMW, BP, Disney, Porsche, Salesforce, Royal Caribbean and BT.
Biography
Twelve years on Channel 5’s The Gadget Show is, among other things, twelve years of explaining emerging technology to an audience that did not study engineering. Jason Bradbury presented the programme from its 2004 launch through 2016, by which point he had also set multiple Guinness World Records on air, the most cited being a jet-powered street luge clocked at 186.41 km/h on the show’s 200th episode.
The broadcasting work sits alongside a second strand of authorship. The Dot Robot series for Penguin Random House (Dot Robot, Atomic Swarm, Cyber Gold) is technology fiction for younger readers, and the same instinct runs through his keynote work: take a complicated technical subject, find the human stakes, hold attention.
The keynote material has tightened as AI has moved up the boardroom agenda. Bradbury completed MIT Sloan’s Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy course, and his 2026 talk The AI Advantage introduces a “6 Degrees of AI” framework intended to give business audiences a structured way to read AI impact in their own sector rather than a generic horizon scan.
He is most commonly booked by organisations that want a single credible figure to anchor a technology day, keynote on AI in the morning, host panels in the afternoon, hold the room. Clients across that work include Vodafone, Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, BMW, BP, Porsche, Disney and Salesforce.
Key speaking topics
- Artificial intelligence for business audiences
- Sector impact of generative AI
- Future of work and automation
- Emerging consumer technology
- Robotics and autonomous systems
- Innovation and product disruption
- Technology event hosting and moderation
Ideal for
- Technology summits and innovation days that need a single anchor across keynote and host roles
- Sales kick-offs and customer conferences using AI as the headline theme
- Boards and executive offsites looking for an accessible read on AI sector impact
- Awards ceremonies and brand events with a technology adjacency
Audience outcomes
- A working mental model of where AI is heading across the next decade, mapped to the audience’s own sector
- Sharper questions to ask vendors, internal teams and consultants about AI claims
- A concrete sense of which AI use cases are credible now versus speculative
- Reduced sense that AI is a single undifferentiated wave, replaced with a structured view of where it lands
Talks
A 2026 keynote built around Bradbury’s “6 Degrees of AI” framework, designed to give business audiences a sector-specific read on AI impact.
Key takeaways:
- A structured framework for mapping AI impact onto the audience’s own industry
- A grounded view of which AI applications are operating reality and which are still vendor narrative
- Practical questions to take back to internal AI strategy and procurement conversations
A keynote focused on artificial intelligence over the coming decade, covering sector impact, workforce implications, and ethical questions.
Key takeaways:
- A clearer picture of how AI will reshape specific industries over the next ten years
- A read on the workforce and job displacement questions executives need to answer
- A sharper sense of the ethical and governance issues that will land on senior agendas
A wider-angle keynote covering AI alongside energy, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, robotics, sustainability and the future of work.
Key takeaways:
- A map of which emerging technologies are converging and where
- A clearer view of the socio-economic forces shaping the next decade of innovation
- A sense of which long-horizon technology bets sit closer to commercial reality than the headlines suggest