Nick Bilton

Nick Bilton is a journalist, designer, UI specialist, technologist, author, hardware hacker, and researcher. He holds a position as a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and was formerly the New York Times’ technology and business columnist and the lead blogger for the paper’s Bits blog. He is also the author of I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works; Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship; and Betrayal. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Bilton has worked in numerous different industries within the context of design, research and development, technology, and storytelling – all with a focus on how technology is shaping our brains and lives. His presentations focus on the future of technology trends and how this evolution affects how we will do business in the future. He is a great choice for a forward-looking talk on innovation, media, technology, society, and generations (and how they fit into the workforce). He uses an extremely visual speech style, integrating video, slides, and interaction with the audience in order to engage his listeners and drive his message home.

Acclaimed Author. I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works explores the effects our byte-sized culture is having on our brains—looking at key research taking place in neuroscience and memory labs around the world. He also explores how technology will affect our culture, work, and brains when we look two to 20 years out. Hatching Twitter looks at the beginnings of the social media giant, and through unprecedented access and exhaustive reporting, he provides an intimate portrait of the men who accidentally changed the world and what they learned along the way.

Bilton’s columns and articles for the New York Times have led to investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and Congress. In late 2011, he began questioning the Federal Aviation Administration’s arcane rules banning Kindles and iPads during takeoff and landing, and his reporting helped push the FAA to initiate a committee reviewing its rules. Bilton writes regularly about Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Silicon Valley, and his columns have covered gun control, privacy, voting, free speech online, and digital culture.