Spencer Kelly
Presenter • Speaker • Host
Spencer’s story
(So Far)
Spencer Kelly is the BBC’s longest serving and most experienced technology presenter and journalist. He’s an internationally-known face of technology, and has hosted Click, the BBC’s worldwide Technology TV programme, since 2006. For more than 20 years he’s travelled the world, documenting how science and innovation is changing people’s lives. He also presents the BBC Radio 4 series Understand: Tech & AI.
He’s a proud geek, and is known in the industry for using his informal style and easy-going humour to explain technical topics to a broad audience.
His life-long love affair with technology has allowed him to write, direct and present hundreds of short films, and seen him win Tech Personality of the Year, lose Celebrity Mastermind (by a whisker), be awarded an honorary doctorate of Technology, front Panorama and present at the BAFTAs.
Work with Spencer
On-air and on-stage
LIVE EVENTS
Spencer has spoken at over 200 live events about the latest technologies, demystifying concepts like Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Digital Transformation, Blockchain, Augmented Reality, Quantum Computing, the Metaverse and the Future of Work. He tells some great stories about his life on the road as a technology tourist, and what we can all learn from how different cultures approach innovation.
BROADCASTING
Spencer has been a fixture on radio and international TV for more than 20 years, making programmes in countries across the technology spectrum. From playing a robot at ping-pong in Japan, to the life-changing impact of just one SIM card on the townships of South Africa, he has filmed in 360 at the Large Hadron Collider (it made him cry), underneath one of the Fukushima nuclear reactors, and walked on Mars with NASA. Kind of.
LIVE EVENTS
Spencer has spoken at over 200 live events about the latest technologies, demystifying concepts like Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Digital Transformation, Blockchain, Augmented Reality, Quantum Computing, the Metaverse and the Future of Work. He tells some great stories about his life on the road as a technology tourist, and what we can all learn from how different cultures approach innovation.
SPEAKER AGENT:
Michael Levey
The Speaking Office
BROADCASTING
Spencer has spent 20 years making programmes around the world. From playing a robot at ping-pong in Japan, to the life-changing impact of just one SIM card on the townships of Johannesburg, he has filmed in 360 in the Alps and in the Large Hadron Collider, underneath one of the Fukushima nuclear reactors, and walked on Mars with NASA. Kind of. As well as hosting Click, Spencer has appeared on Radio 2, 4 and 5 Live, and podcasts
SPEAKER AGENT:
Jacquie Drewe
Curtis Brown Ltd
Spencer in action
Peek into the wEird world of the technology tourist
