Mike Butcher is Editor At Large of TechCrunch, the biggest breaking news site about the world’s hottest tech companies.
Mike has been named one of the most influential people in technology in surveys by The Daily Telegraph, GfK NOP, The Independent, Wired and The Evening Standard. He is a regular commentator on tech, appearing on CNBC, Bloomberg and the BBC, Sky News, and Channel 4, among others. He has been an advisor on startups to The British Prime Minister and the Mayor of London.
Mike founded the annual European Tech Startup Awards & Conference: TheEuropas.com, on June 16th 2015, and the exclusive event for early stage founders, PathFounders. He is also co-founder of TechHub.com, the co-working network for startups, and founder of the Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec.com).
In February he was listed as one of the Top 100 most influential people on Twitter in the UK. He has spoken at the prestigious Monaco Media Forum and Le Web, among many other conferences, and now he’s coming to Split to take part at Shift Conference as one of the first confirmed speakers.