Sam Shead

Tech Editor

About

Category: Business & Leadership

Track: VCs

Industry: Technology, Information & Media

Country: United Kingdom

Description

Sam writes and produces stories on the latest trends, developments, and challenges in the tech sector across the UK and Europe. He has almost 15 years of experience as a journalist, covering technology for some of the world's leading publications, such as CNBC, BBC News, The Financial Times, Forbes, Business Insider and Wired. During his career, he's made it his mission to find and tell compelling stories at the intersection of tech, business and policy. He's interviewed presidents, prime ministers, tech billionaires, and AI experts including Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio and Mustafa Suleyman. His work has taken him all over the world, with multiple trips to Silicon Valley (where he visited the headquarters of Meta, Google and Apple), and also to countries like Taiwan, Japan, China, Canada and Israel.