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Jay Tuck
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- Jay Tuck, bestselling author, television producer and investigative journalist, is one of the world’s most visionary speakers. Amidst our changing times, he has specialized in the ground-breaking world of artificial intelligence. With decades of experience in IT and television journalism he can be an exciting addition to your event!
Biography
Meet Jay Tuck
The New York born journalist Jay Tuck launched his career with the US Department of the Treasury in Washington DC and CBS News in New York. He later moved on to a distinguished career in international news. In Germany, he produced over 500 investigative segments for network television, including NDR-Panorama and WDR-Monitor. He served as combat correspondent on the battlefields of Kuwait, Iraq and Ukraine, as well as on aircraft carrier USS Truman in wartime. He has military clearances in eight countries. Jay Tuck writes for Focus, Le Point, Stern, Welt, Time Magazine and Die Zeit. He was employed for many years as Executive News Director at ARD and has significant expertise in defense, espionage and weapons technology.
He is author of acclaimed books on defense. His investigative book on Russian espionage, High-Tech Espionage (St. Martin’s Press, New York) was published in fourteen countries. His book on artificial intelligence, Evolution Without Us (Plassen Publishing) is a best-seller in Germany, also published in China. The German Ministry of Defense purchased 10,000 copies for distribution to their armed forces. His current work, “AI and Modern Warfare,” (Econ Publishing) examines battlefield experience with AI in the Ukraine War.
Jay Tuck is also an internationally acclaimed speaker on artificial intelligence. He is booked regularly by private banks and financial institutions, media and medical events, law enforcement and armed forces, such as the Officers Academy of the German Army in Hamburg or the World Bank. His TED-Talk on artificial intelligence reached more than five million views in the internet.
In his recreational time, Tuck is a runner. He was the first American ever to complete the Siberian Ice Marathon in Omsk.
Professional Experience
Author & Keynote Speaker (1985 – today) (Europe / USA)
Appearances
Aramea Asset Management, BearingPoint, Berliner Sicherheitskonferenz (BDK), Bundesinnenministerium, Clausewitz Gesellschaft Führungsakademie, CMS Hasche Sigle, Datenschutzbeauftragter Thüringen, Deloitte, Digital Mind Change, German Engineers Conference, Xing Digital MindChange, GIZ Stakeholder Tag, Diconium Talks, Goethe Universität Zukunftssymposium, Hamburg-US-Economic Forum, Hamburg@Work, Handelskammer Hamburg, Handelskammer Lübeck, Handelskammer Cologne, Handelskammer Dubai, Insurance.Dialog, Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, MEADFA Dubai, N24 TV, n-tv, Patrizia Real Estate Fond, Private Banking Congress, Pro7 TV, ServicePlan, Social Media Week, Sonar Istanbul, Sparkasse Wiesenthal, Springer Messe, Tagesschau 24 TV, TEDx Forum Hamburg, University Leiden NL, Vodafone Enterprise, WAZ Future Forum, World Bank and Xing.
Consultant (1985 – today) (Europe / USA)
Jay Tuck consults for international companies on media politics, as well as strategies for business in the Middle East.
Airtime Dubai Ltd (2004 – present) (Dubai, UAE)
- Founder and CEO of international media company serving Arabic broadcasters in the MENA Region ().
- Executive Producer of An Kathab. Broadcasting weekly to 30 Million viewers in Arabic on Al-Jazeera News Channel, this high-tech news magazine presents the latest on the urgent science and technology issues that are changing our lives.
- Producer of over 500 network television reports for German Television, including award-winning films and feature-length documentaries for National Geographic Television, 3sat, N24 News Channel, MDR-Television, Phoenix Channel and ZDF-German Television.
- ARD German Television Network (1971 – 2004) (Hamburg, Germany)
- For over thirty years in positions of major editorial responsibility at ARD, Europe’s largest television network.
- Executive News Editor of ARD-Tagesthemen (1996 – 2003). Responsible for all aspects of broadcast content on leading daily network television news magazine. All work in the German language.
- War Correspondent in two Gulf Wars (1991 & 2002). Covered the fighting war under combat conditions for ARD-Tagesschau. Reported from Saudi Arabia, post-war Iraq and traveled with the first convoy into liberated Kuwait, facing hostile fire repeatedly. Filed over 100 network television and radio items from the war zone, responsible for content, as well as the health and safety of the ARD crew.
- Foreign Editor of ARD-Tagesthemen (1989 – 1996). Responsible for assignments, communication, satellites and travel of ARD’s 42 foreign correspondents.
Voice Talent / Announcer (1969 – present) (Europe / USA)
- Professional announcer for high-end television, radio & cinema commercials. Clients have included Agfa, Airbus, AOL, Bacardi, Bertelsmann, Coca Cola, DMB & B, Deutsche Grammaphon, Exxon, Gordon’s Gin, Haynes, Jim Beam, Joop, Lufthansa, Link Entertainment (New York), Manhattan Transfer (Miami), Marlboro, Mercedes, Nintendo, Peugeot, Sony Music, Springer & Jacoby, Southern Comfort, Telekom and VO Whiskey. Voice samples are available at web site
- Narrator in original version of the Hollywood film “Alone in the Dark” starring Christian Slater.
- NDR & SWF Radio (1969 – 1978): “The Jay Tuck Show”, as satirist and disc jockey.
Education
Antioch University, BA (1963 – 1969) (Yellow Springs, Ohio)
- Bachelor of Arts Degree (economics)
- Work-Study jobs included social work in Harlem, journalist at Mooresville Times in Indiana and radio station manager at WYSO Radio in Ohio.
Videos
Topics
AI and Health: Saving Millions of Lives
AI and Warfare: How it is Shifting the Global Balance of Power
Pesticide by The Thimbelful: The AI Revolution in Agriculture
Faces, Forensics, Fugitive: AI in Law Enforcement
Where Have All the Brokers Gone?: AI Empties the Stock Market
Books
KI und der moderne Krieg
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KI und der moderne Krieg
Evolution ohne uns: Wird Künstliche Intelligenz uns töten?
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Evolution ohne uns: Wird Künstliche Intelligenz uns töten?
High-Tech Espionage
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