More About LJ Rich

A gifted musician from an early age, LJ Rich earned a prestigious scholarship to the renowned Royal College of Music before achieving an MA in music from the University of Oxford.

Before presenting, LJ was a top technology salesperson on QVC the Shopping Channel – and went to Edinburgh Festival as a stand-up comic – so she is particularly comfortable filling for time or doing crowd work.

Her career began in technology broadcasting as a Technology Sales Presenter for QVC, where she analysed emerging tech trends and made complex innovations accessible to viewers.  She later became a Technology Journalist at Virgin Media, launching a dedicated gadget segment to bring the latest consumer tech to audiences.

LJ Rich | Start of a Media Career

LJ joined BBC News in 2008 and quickly became a key figure in technology broadcasting. She has presented numerous shows, including Click and Click Live, and hosted the Let’s Talk About Tech podcast. She recently appeared on Radio 5 Live, talking about how humans are better than machines at a lot of things.

LJ Rich | AI and Creativity

LJ is a pianist with a deep understanding of technology who uses music as a bridge between logic and emotion. She sees AI and machine learning not as replacements for creativity but as powerful collaborators, regularly integrating them into her original compositions to push the boundaries of innovation.

Her passion for blending technology with creativity led her to NASA’s prestigious Datanaut program, where she collaborates with data scientists on groundbreaking projects. She also led a pioneering data sonification initiative, transforming complex datasets into sound.

LJ Rich | Areas of Expertise

Trends in AI and Society: LJ is proud to continue her long-standing association with the United Nations ITU AI For Good Global Summit. She hosts the centre stage event each year, gives creative musical performances, and invites speakers to present at this conference which now boasts 10,000 participants every year.

AI and The Evolution of Trust: LJ gives talks and Q&A sessions on AI with schools and libraries about how to understand trust and generative AI content, as she was concerned about technology leaving people stuck.

Future of Creativity: LJ believes machines (used well) can be a great companion to human creativity. Her many compositions, collaborations, and performances illustrate the importance and the joy of connectivity.

LJ Rich | Corporate Work

Beyond broadcasting, she is a sought-after speaker, having delivered the TEDx talk Glitching and hosted the United Nations ITU #AIForGood Summit. She keynotes and hosts high-profile events and evenings on AI, creativity, trust and the future of work with good humour and practical background knowledge.

She has provided corporate work for governments, financial services, banks, tech and public sector companies, and for clients in the cyber, travel, hospitality, law, streaming, creative, and marketing industries.

LJ Rich | Speaking Topics

– AI
– Change and Innovation
– Entertainment
– Future of Work
– International Women’s Day
– Neurodiversity
– Business
– Consumer Trends
– Futurist
– Marketing
– Cancer Awareness
– High Performance
– Imposter Syndrome
– Speaker Coaching

LJ Rich | Keynotes

Trust and AI: How to Lead and What to Believe (Business Transformation): Join LJ for an energising guide on upping your prompting game, verifying your chatbot outputs, and discovering how widespread GenAI use will affect much more than your social feeds.

Key Takeaways:

– Get wise to modern AI ‘tells’ in text and music as well as video and photos
– Current limits of AI, choosing when it’s better to use humans
– How trends like Agentic AI changes our connection to each other

Travel Tech and AI Futures (Travel/Hospitality/Events): Technology and the travel industry need each other, but what does the future look like? Where does AI fit in and how can my business stay relevant? This talk encourages attendees to examine how technology has the potential to create amazing experiences for the travel industry, taking in how AI can help, what to avoid, and how to make technology work for businesses and travellers alike.

Key Takeaways:

– Understand when AI isn’t a great idea
– How experience is more than logistics
– Gamification and Agentic AI in the travel and hospitality industry

Music, Technology, and the Future of Work (Cyber/Financial): LJ has forecasted tech trends for decades and was among the first in the UK to join social media. Music and technology have always entwined to give us clue son what the future might look like.

The Song Inside the Tune: Dancing With Data (Knowledge Work/Bio Tech): See inside your favourite songs as we explore the surprising ways music can be represented as data, and how businesses can benefit from seeing their work from a new perspective.

LJ Rich | Workshops

LJ now runs small group courses at large organisations and gives individual public speaking and presenter training to:

– Connect better with your audience
– Feel more confident about what your body is doing while presenting
– Handling fear and finding your best verbal delivery
– Prepare for TV or stage interviews

Previous workshops have worked on how to speak on camera, microphone technique, nerves and delivery style, dealing with unexpected activity, dealing with difficult questions, performing well on a panel, using a stage properly, and presentation makeover.

Why Choose LJ Rich?

If you’re looking for a unique and memorable show, LJ’s keynotes with live piano will provide surprising insight, relevance and emotional weight to your event. She uses music to reveal underlying technology trends and human behaviour. Plus an EmCee-musician-tech-keynote-awards-host is great value if you’re looking for one person to fill more than one role!

LJ Rich | Clients

Adobe, BBC, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oxford Nanopore, SAP, UNA, ZenDesk.

Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great British Speakers now to book LJ Rich for your next live event.  Contact us.