Katie Linendoll

Why organisations work with Katie Linendoll

• She turns a roomful of non-specialists into an engaged audience for technology content. Two decades on national television, including The TODAY Show, The Rachael Ray Show and CNN, have given her a delivery style built for general audiences, not engineers.
• She has reported on the field at the level executives actually consume it, from CES and E3 to NASA’s undersea labs, which gives her keynotes the specificity of a journalist rather than the generality of a futurist.
• She is one of the most experienced corporate tech emcees working today. IBM, Dell, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, Deloitte, GE and Lenovo have used her to host their internal and customer events.
• Her technical foundation is real, not borrowed. She earned networking certifications before finishing high school and holds a degree in IT New Media from Rochester Institute of Technology, which is what makes her tech segments credible to a technical audience as well as a lay one.

Biography highlights

• Emmy Award winner as associate producer for ESPN’s SportsCenter.
• Emmy-nominated co-host of A&E’s We Mean Business.
• Regular technology contributor on The TODAY Show, The Rachael Ray Show, CNN, CBS Early Show, The Weather Channel and CBS Sports Radio.
• BS in Information Technology, New Media, Rochester Institute of Technology, Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.
• Silicon Valley Visionary Award recipient.
• Has hosted and keynoted for IBM, Dell, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, Deloitte, QuickBooks, GE, Lenovo and SAS.

Biography

Emerging technology rarely arrives in a form that a general business audience can absorb. The vocabulary is technical, the demos are made for engineers, and the implications for the rest of the organisation get lost between the press release and the boardroom. The work of translating that material into something a non-specialist leadership team can act on is its own discipline.

Katie Linendoll has spent over two decades doing exactly that on national television. She is a regular technology contributor on The TODAY Show and The Rachael Ray Show, and has appeared on CNN, CBS Early Show, The Weather Channel and CBS Sports Radio, where she covers AI, mixed reality, consumer devices and the science behind them. She has reported from NASA’s undersea labs and from post-typhoon recovery zones in the Philippines, and is a fixture at CES, E3, Comic-Con and Maker Faire.

The technical grounding is real. She earned networking certifications before finishing high school, holds a degree in IT New Media from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, and started her career as a producer at ESPN, where she won an Emmy for her work on SportsCenter. A&E’s We Mean Business, which she co-hosted, earned her a second Emmy nomination.

That combination of broadcaster craft and technical fluency is why companies including IBM, Dell, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, Deloitte, GE and Lenovo book her to host and keynote their events. She is the speaker organisations choose when they want the technology story told sharply to an audience that does not read the trade press.

Key speaking topics

• Emerging consumer and enterprise technology
• Artificial intelligence and mixed reality for general audiences
• Innovation and reinvention in established companies
• Women in technology
• Technology for social and humanitarian impact
• Event hosting and emceeing for tech-led conferences

Ideal for

• Corporate conferences and customer summits in technology, financial services and consumer brands looking for a credible host who can carry technical content
• Internal kick-offs and town halls where leadership wants to set a tone on innovation without resorting to a futurist abstraction
• Sales and partner events that need an Emmy-level presenter to anchor the programme
• Diversity, women-in-tech and STEM-focused programmes

Audience outcomes

• A clearer working picture of where AI, mixed reality and adjacent technologies actually stand right now
• Specific examples of how established companies and public-sector organisations are using emerging tech, with the detail intact
• A sense of which tech stories matter for their business and which are noise
• For women-in-tech briefs, a candid account of building a technology career through media, told from inside the industry