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Katie Drummond
Transform how your organization navigates AI and emerging technology with Katie Drummond, global editorial director of WIRED. Katie works with business leaders on AI strategy, digital transformation, and technology leadership, bringing insights from managing award-winning teams across four continents and earning Emmy, Peabody, and Online Journalism Awards.
Katie Drummond is the global editorial director of WIRED, where she shapes how millions of readers understand artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and the forces reshaping how we work. Katie leads WIRED's content strategy across four continents and all platforms. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Global News and Entertainment at VICE, she drove audience growth through platforms like TikTok and Twitch, earning an Online Journalism Award and overseeing teams that won Emmy, Peabody, and National Press Club honors. She also served as deputy editor of Bloomberg.com. Katie's value lies in her dual perspective: she both reports on technological transformation and manages teams through it. At VICE, she expanded operations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America while navigating rapid platform shifts. At WIRED, she oversees journalism that holds the world's largest technology companies accountable while identifying genuine opportunities in AI. This combination means she can separate hype from substance and offer practical guidance rooted in real-world leadership. Audiences leave Katie's talks with a clear framework for collaborating with AI rather than competing against it, concrete examples of how organizations have adapted to technological inflection points, and an honest assessment of both the opportunities and risks that generative AI presents for business leaders today. Book Katie Drummond to give your audience the insider clarity they need to act on AI with confidence, not fear.
Katie leads WIRED's global editorial strategy and previously scaled VICE's digital operations across five continents, giving her a rare operational lens on how organisations actually navigate platform shifts and AI adoption. She separates signal from noise in the generative AI landscape, translating technology company accountability reporting into frameworks leaders can use when making resourcing and capability decisions.
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Katie Drummond draws on her editorial leadership at WIRED and VICE to frame talks around a dual-perspective model — separating technology hype from substance using real-world organisational examples — and delivers a framework for AI collaboration grounded in her direct experience managing newsrooms through platform and technological shifts.
Katie Drummond speaks on artificial intelligence and generative AI, digital transformation and the future of work, and technology accountability and emerging platform shifts. She is Global Editorial Director of WIRED, where she leads content strategy across four continents, and previously served as SVP of Global News and Entertainment at VICE, where her teams earned Emmy, Peabody, and National Press Club honours.
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