A conversation on the future of Voice AI in Media with Mukul Devichand of BBC
Registration
Details
6:30-7:00 - Event Registration
7:00-8:00 - Mukul takes the stage
8:15 - networking at drinks at Allsop Arms pub (137-143, Gloucester Pl, Marylebone, NW1 5AL)
Mukul Devichand founded BBC Trending, the BBC’s “global bureau on the internet,” and edited it from the tail end of the Arab Spring through to the rise of the Alt-Right. Now he is the Executive Editor of Voice + AI for the BBC.
This event is in partnership with the Columbia Business School Alumni Network.
Where
The Sammy Ofer Centre
LT14
117 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5PT
Speakers
Mukul Devichand
Executive Editor of Voice + AI
BBC
Mukul was borm in Wales and was the original creator and editor of the Webby award-winning BBC Trending unit as well as the solutions-focused journalism unit BBC World Hacks. Both teams are based in London and create digital video output, text, podcasts and radio shows for the BBC World Service and BBC News website. Previously he was a presenter and producer for BBC Radio 4. His work includes programmes such as Crossing Continents, Analysis, From Our Own Correspondent and The Report. He has also presented Our World, a BBC World TV show. In 2009, with Crossing Continents producer John Murphy, he won a One World Media Award for their reporting in Mumbai slums.