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Katie Prescott

Technology Business Editor at The Times, Co-host of The Times Tech Podcast, Tech Commentator of the Year, former BBC Business Presenter and Correspondent, Moderator, Keynote Speaker on AI, Technology and Trends, Event Host
  • Leading Tech Commentator – Tech Commentator of the Year (2024 UK Tech Awards) and The Times Technology Business Editor, formerly with BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.
  • AI & Digital Disruption Expert – Reports on tech’s impact on business and society, co-hosts The Times Tech podcast, interviewing leaders like Satya Nadella and Sam Altman.
  • Accomplished Speaker & Moderator – Hosts and moderates major events like London Tech Week and The AI Summit, working with top global brands.
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Katie Prescott's 2025 biography

Katie Prescott – Award-Winning Tech Journalist & Broadcaster, Times Technology Business Editor

Named Tech Commentator of the Year at the 2024 UK Tech Awards, Katie Prescott is one of the UK’s best-known technology and business journalists – a familiar writer and voice to millions as The Times Technology Business Editor and, before that, a Senior Lead Business Presenter for Radio 4’s Today Programme and a Business Correspondent across BBC News.

For readers, listeners and viewers across Times platforms. Katie reports on the dynamic changes across the tech, media and telecoms sectors and their impact on business and our everyday lives, particularly in relation to Artificial Intelligence. She’s a weekly columnist for the newspaper’s award-winning business section and hosts some of the major events staged by The Times.

Alongside The Sunday Times’ West Coast Correspondent, Danny Fortson, Katie hosts The Times Tech podcast. Each week sees a fresh interview with pioneers in tech, from the brightest start-ups to the tech giants, as Katie and Danny chronicle the AI revolution. Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Sam Altman at OpenAI are just some of the senior tech leaders she has spoken to.

Katie is a highly accomplished Keynote Speaker, Moderator and Event MC at events such as London Tech Week, the AI Summit and Retail Week. Clients have included Dell, The Investment Association, Accenture, Innovate Finance, the British Chambers of Commerce, The Airport Operators Association and the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She is well placed to host and facilitate at conferences and other events requiring her expertise in technology, artificial intelligence, the metaverse, business, finance, media, digital disruption and cyber security.

At the BBC, Katie worked across all the corporation’s major news outlets as the on-screen face and voice explaining and analysing the tumultuous changes wrought by COVID-19, the European debt crisis and new technology. She has travelled extensively for her work, from Tanzania and Rwanda to China and America as well as working as a journalist in the BBC’s New York Bureau.

Katie is writing a book about Tech Entrepreneur Mike Lynch, to be published by Pan Macmillan later this year. She has a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford and lives in London with her two children.

Katie Prescott's 2025 talks & topics

Harnessing AI for Business

We are in a special moment for business. Artificial intelligence will have the same impact on white collar office jobs that steam power had during the industrial revolution.

Is this another dot com bubble? Are investors putting too much money into this; into anything that has even a hint of Artificial intelligence about it. Are we in the new dot com bubble?

The speech looks at the infrastructure being built to cope with the demand for AI and questions whether governments can keep up with Big Tech when it comes to spending and therefore crucially control over the technology.

Katie will reflect on the interviews she has done with Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Alex Kendall of British driverless vehicle company Wayve and others to look at the most exciting developments in the sector at the moment and what key players are saying about what they are doing.