Jay Tuck

Keynote by Speaker Jay Tuck

Snowden, NSA, Cyber Warfare – The face of modern warfare:

• Qualifications: US defence expert Jay Tuck was combat correspondent for ARD German Television in both Gulf Wars. He is author of a widely acclaimed book on electronic intelligence activities, “High-Tech Espionage” (St. Martin’s Press), published in fourteen countries. His reports on security policy, espionage activities and weapons technology appear in leading newspapers, television networks and magazines throughout Europe. In the June edition of Playboy he published an investigative report on Germany’s drone war in Afghanistan. He just returned from Holloman AFB in New Mexico, where he filmed exclusive TV footage of US killer drones for news channel N24. His talks include numerous illustrations, exclusive photographs and video.

Keynote by Speaker Jay Tuck

Understanding Abu Dhabi:

• Qualifications: Jay Tuck has deep understanding of the Middle East. As founder and CEO of Airtime Dubai, a leading media company in the region, he has produced over 250 weekly half-hour segments – in Arabic – for Al-Jazeera Television. As a businessman, he has travelled the region extensively. As combat correspondent for German Television, he reported from two Gulf Wars. As keynote speaker, he has appeared before the Chambers of Commerce in Dubai and Hamburg, the Emirates Economic Summit, as well as the World Bank.

Keynote by Speaker Jay Tuck

Aftermath of the Arab Spring:

• Qualifications: Jay Tuck has deep understanding of the Middle East. As founder and CEO of Airtime Dubai, a leading media company in the region, he has produced over 250 weekly half-hour segments – in Arabic – for Al-Jazeera Television. As a businessman, he has travelled the region extensively. As combat correspondent for German Television, he reported from two Gulf Wars. As keynote speaker, he has appeared before the Chambers of Commerce in Dubai and Hamburg, the Emirates Economic Summit, as well as the World Bank.

Keynote by Speaker Jay Tuck

Science journalism in mainstream media – Why the hysteria?

• Qualifications: The American journalist Jay Tuck has spent his life in the newsrooms of mainstream media. He has worked at CBS News in New York and at German Television in Hamburg. For several years he has been producing “Understanding Tomorrow”, a thirty-minute television magazine on science and technology. He is networked with leading scientific institutions of the world, including Fraunhofer, MIT, Max-Planck-Institutes and the Nobel Laureates of Lindau. And he is very disturbed by irresponsible science reporting.

Keynote by Speaker Jay Tuck

Investigative reporting and social media – When news gets bad:

Qualifications: Hear the suggestions of a reporter who covered – and uncovered – hundreds of serious scandals in politics and business for a major European broadcaster. American journalist Jay Tuck has produced over 500 documentaries and news segments for network television on subjects ranging from organized crime & espionage to political affairs & police corruption. He knows the covert tools and tricks of the trade. He also knows responsibility, having spent fourteen years as Executive News Editor of ARD-Tagesthemen, Germany’s primetime daily news program. Listen to his behind-the-scenes insight into the newsrooms of today’s media.