News Media & Podcast Interviews
(Speaking engagements below)
Media Interviews & Speaking Bookings: please email me; giles@nordspark.com
Note: Some of my Canadian news media interviews don’t show up due to Canada’s Bill C-27 and don’t appear on Google or Facebook.
Global News National on AI in Customer Service here. (Oct. 2024)
CTV News National Interview regarding Meta’s new parental controls here. (Oct. 2024)
Podcast Interview with Dr. Ana Melikian on being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence here. (July 2024)
Perspectives Podcast (Rome, Italy) Technology & the UN Sustainable Goals here. (Sept 2024)
Quoted in The National a Middle East news media channel, here. (Aug. 2024)
“Oh those Old Fitness Gadgets” Silver Magazine article, (Sept. ‘24)
BoredPanda reference on the cultural impacts of Memes. Here (Oct. 2024)
Medium Day speaking on Being Human in the Digital Age, here. (Aug 2024)
WIRED Magazine article, The Internet of Toilets, here. (2018)
Forbes Magazine on “Digital Mindfulness” interview with Douglas Laney here.
Podcast Interview, Afternoon Pint, via YouTube, on Digital Anthropology here (August 2024)
Global News National on Meta threatening to ban news content in Canada here (2023)
The Trust Report (USA) on digital identity and what identity means here. (June 2024)
Shift London Magazine (UK) on “Social Media & The Death of Privacy” here. (May 2024)
CTV News Atlantic interview regarding the right to disconnect here. (April 2024)
CTV National News on why phonebooks are becoming obsolete (a fun sort of interview), here. (April 2024)
CTV Atlantic on how the public perceives Artificial Intelligence here. (February, 2024)
How AI can be used for writing and the implications for content on CTV News here. (January, 2024)
CTV News Atlantic: Artificial Intelligence: Playing Catch Up. On risks, opportunities and creating guardrails. Here. (May 2023)
A YouTuber channel pulls my content from Medium on Story Telling (I’m ok with that!) here. 2024
Arab News, Newspaper, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: On TikTok and the impact on culture in the Middle East here. (March 2023)
CityNews 95.7 (Radio): The Todd Veinotte Show: TikTok & Surveillance in Canada. (March 2023)
CTV Live at 5: TikTok and Data Security Interview here. (February 2023)
CBC Radio One – Call-In Show on Artificial Intelligence. Here. (February 2023)
CTV Atlantic – On ChatGPT and the Big Bang moment for Artificial Intelligence (2023)
CTV Live at 5 – 50% of Canadians quitting their jobs in 2023 & the role technology plays.
CTV Atlantic – Teens and Social Media Use
CTV Live at 5 – Maritimers Social Media Reaction to Ukrainian Prime Minister Zelensky Speech in Parliament
CTV Atlantic – Social Media and the Freedom Convoy
Global News – Teen Vandalism and Social Media
Ottawa, The Morning Rush, Radio – Devious Licks interview
CBC Radio One – Type A Show interview
Silver Magazine – Robots and the elderly article
Forkast News – Crypto’s Animal Farm Moment article (2022)
Speaking Engagements
Upcoming: Security & Geopolitics in the Digital Age, January 2025, London, UK for ISMA
Social Media Day Halifax – Challenges for Social Media Marketing, June 2024
Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) – Data Breach Preparedness and Communications – 2022
Konika-Minolta Canada – The Digital Workplace & Culture Post-Pandemic 2022
Konika-Minolta Canada – The New Digital Workspace – 2021
Digital Nova Scotia – The World of NFTs & Cultural Impacts
Social Media Day Halifax – The Future of Social Media (panel moderator) 2022
Social Media Day Halifax – Digital Marketing Trends 2021 (virtual)
Nova Scotia Teachers Union – Keynote – Social Media in Education – 2019
Canadian International Council (CIC) – Keynote – Digital Technology and Diplomacy
Conference Board of Canada – Workshop – Social Media in Public Policy
…and many others. I’m available for structured workshops, inspiring keynotes on the future of humanity in the digital age and media interviews.
