Gemma Milne
Creative science nerd obsessed with tech, design, Irn Bru and pi
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- Co-Host of the Science: Disrupt podcast, interviewing Illustrious Founders, Nobel Prize Winners and other big name Innovators in science around the world
- Journalist, Commentator and Judge who has worked with The Guardian, The Financial Times, Adweek, The Drum, SXSW, Cannes Lions & Dubai Lynx
- Was previously the Tech Innovation Strategist for Ogilvy & Mather’s innovation team, Ogilvy Labs
- Considered one of London’s most influential women in tech, with accreditations from BIMA, Code First: Girls, Craigslist & Women Who Tech
- Mentor to startups in the Digital, Social Enterprise and Deep Tech & Science spheres
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Gemma is a Scottish creative science nerd obsessed with tech, design, Irn Bru and pi. She is Co-Founder of Science: Disrupt – a community organisation and media platform of podcasts, editorial and events connecting the innovators, iconoclasts and entrepreneurs creating change in science. She acts as an advisor to and connector within the science industry on entrepreneurialism, disruptive communications, commercialising research and increasing openness and diversity. Gemma is also a Tech Journalist, and speaks regularly at innovation, science and technology festivals (e.g. SXSW, TEDx, Hello Tomorrow and WPP Stream). Her expertise splits between the world of science innovation through Science: Disrupt – namely: science startups, new research methods and deep science advancements (space technologies, biotech, health technologies, future of energy etc); along with the world of more general tech innovation through her work as a journalist. She writes for The Guardian, The Drum, Adweek, Imperica and OgilvyDo.
There’s been a shift in the startup ecosystem. With high competition to invest in consumer apps and basic tech solutions, and a hunger to solve the bigger problems across the globe, deep tech and science startups are the latest desire of the VC. From biotech and health, to energy and space, startups coming out of Postdocs and PhDs are proving to be both lucrative and genuinely useful to those in the know. Why is this move happening now; who are the main players; and how can entrepreneurs, investors and corporates start to play in these growing areas of disruption?
My experience of losing my identity with my job
The argument against robots stealing our jobs
On disrupting science, and making researchers the new entrepreneurs
How does hacking actually work and what an be done to stop it
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