Author Speaker Journalist
Kenn is a New York Times bestselling author on technology and business, a journalist at The Economist (and host of its weekly tech podcast), and a regular keynote speaker. He’s also an associate fellow at University of Oxford’s Said Business School.
Writing
Big Data and the Future of Business
BBVA BOOK CHAPTER, 2015: More isn’t just more. More is new. More is better. More is different. As businesses can collect, store and process more data, this changes what they do, how value is created and how organizations are run.
China vs US for AI supremacy
THE ECONOMIST, 2018: CHINA’S “Sputnik moment” came on May 27th 2017. On that day an algorithm thrashed Ke Jie, the world’s best player of Go, an ancient and demanding Chinese board game. Mr Ke’s defeat by AlphaGo, an artificial…
The Economic Implications of AI
CHATHAM HOUSE, 2018: Artificial intelligence will shake up the economy in counter-intuitive ways. It may dramatically increase productivity and potentially even create jobs. But poor countries’ development model may be clobbered.
Speaker
Kenn regularly serves as a keynote speaker, on-stage interviewer and an after-dinner speaker at public and private events. Clients range from inter-governmental meetings to Fortune 500 companies.
Author
Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, coauthored with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, was a New York Times bestseller, translated into 21 languages and a finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
Cukier and Mayer-Schönberger published a follow-on work in 2014, Learning With Big Data: The Future of Education.