Andrew Keith Walker

Andrew Keith Walker is a writer and podcaster. He used to be a successful tech entrepreneur and digital designer who sold his companies (one was bought by Apple) and was lucky enough to swap the London tech start-up rat race for a better pace of life and a home in the woods of rural Suffolk. He is now the author of the humorous business book Screwproof, and the true crime book The Invisible Parent: The Dark Art of Parental Alienation, as well as currently working on a graphic novel and two sci-fi novels for a publisher. Andrew also gives talks about technology at universities, business schools and conferences around the world - you can find more of his writing on Medium - https://killdozer.medium.com/ (where he goes by the username Killdozer, after the cult 1974 TV movie), and at www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkeithwalker.

Andrew moved to London in 1996 and worked extensively in the creative industries and media – as a digital designer, creative director and lead copywriter on campaigns with Aardman Animation, Disney, Xbox, Vodaphone, Nokia, Microsoft, Universal Music, Universal Pictures, Time Warner, BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Xbox game titles and international sports events. As a journalist, Andrew covered digital election stories for BBC Radio 4, and wrote for The Guardian, The Independent, Huffington Post and The BBC College of Journalism. Andrew has also regularly appeared on Sky News, CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg and BBC Radio. He was also a founding partner of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and worked extensively in online child safety and digital education. Andrew was the first person to interview a world leader live with a Twitter Q&A audience and pioneered the use of social media with the Press Association, the BBC and ITV.

Originally from Bournemouth, he went to Edinburgh University and graduated with an MA (Hons) in politics and then took a postgraduate degree in multimedia technologies. He became a research fellow in Animation, Computers and Cognition at the Loughborough University School of Art and Design (LUSAD), working with legendary children’s writer and animator John Grace, and founded his own creative agency (Thin Martian), making websites, animations, online games and mobile apps in 2000.

In 2009 he co-founded the first company to track politicians on Twitter and supply feeds of breaking news to newspapers and television (Tweetminster.com), and in 2010 helped create Musicmetric, a data mining company that tracked audience behaviours in music, film and TV (now part of Apple).

Andrew loves to travel and has delivered lectures worldwide on digital technology and culture. In addition to his writing projects, he also produces and hosts podcasts on fintech, banking, and artificial intelligence.

He lives with his wife (she’s a clinical psychologist – which comes in handy for a tech-obsessed writer) and their two children, Penny the dog, some shrimp, tropical fish and ten pet rabbits. In his spare time, he writes and directs community theatre, teaches ukulele at a local primary school, and plays session guitar for local music producers and artists.