Madhumita Murgia

Award-winning journalist and TedX speaker, Madhumita Murgia is an expert in the field of technology, health and science. On top of being a confident speaker, Murgia reports on major news, trends and innovations in technology across Europe and the rest of the world. She currently works as a senior technology correspondent, where she uses her extensive knowledge as a leading voice in the world of emerging technologies.

Murgia worked her way from the bottom, starting as an intern for multiple different magazines, such as Wired Magazine, Popular Science and Nature publishing group - the publications were all based in the United States. These roles saw her covering breaking medical news along with science and technology. By March 2014, Murgia was acting as Associate Editor of Wired UK based in London, and was responsible for editing the start section of WIRED which covered science, tech, engineering, medicine, health and design.

Murgia speaks about cutting edge technologies, innovation and their social impact, making appearances on the likes of BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, the Media Show, BBC World News, BBC Tech Trent on the World Service and Sky News. Murgia provides expert knowledge to a huge variety of audiences and a highly regarded individual within her field, often speaking at international events. These international events include Digital-LifeDesign in Tel Aviv, Pioneers Festival in Vienna, InnovFest Unbound in Singapore and Advertising Week in London.

As a regular TEDx speaker, Murgia is no stranger to entertaining, captivating and informing audiences while talking about her passion and expertise; technology. Murgia is often known to discuss ‘how data brokers sold my identity’ along with ‘how stress affects your brain’, while also engaging the audience with major news, trends and innovations in technology. As a speaker, Murgia's charisma and confidence shine through from the moment she steps onto the stage. Equally as knowledgeable as she is passionate, her ongoing commitment to the technology industry drives her to educate her audience.