Keynote SpeakerJay 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.