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Speaking & Press

From CISO panels and policy debates at Mansion House to crypto podcasts and his own shows, JB makes deep cryptography and the future of trust legible to any room. Available for podcasts, keynotes, panels and expert commentary.

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Post-Quantum Encryption

Why lattice-based crypto matters before quantum computers break what we rely on.

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The War on Privacy

The Online Safety Act, client-side scanning, and the real cost of breaking encryption.

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Metaverse & Volumetrics

Holoportation, point-cloud capture and what genuine digital presence requires.

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Ethics in AI

Representational bias, misinformation at scale, and building technology responsibly.

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Selected Appearances

Showing 36 of 36 selected appearances.

STG-3 AI Forum

The CLOUD Act question: what does encryption protect if a US provider can be compelled?

The best question of the session, asked as time ran out: sovereignty, jurisdiction and what encryption is really worth when the key-holder answers to another country's law.

LinkedIn · video clip · Sept 2026LINKEDIN
STG-3 AI Forum

AI as a force multiplier, not a replacement

Why some people get enormous value from AI and others get none: it multiplies the skill you already have. How it took his output from a 5-person team to a 50-person one.

LinkedIn · video clip · Sept 2026LINKEDIN
STG-3 AI Forum

AI agents don't escape their sandboxes. They are let out.

On agents, governance and accountability: responsibility for what an agent does sits with the people who built and released it.

LinkedIn · video clip · Sept 2026LINKEDIN
Dev update

Vox Messenger 2.5.0, a political-intelligence platform and a lossless codec for spatial data

What is shipping next: a new Material Design UI and stronger encryption for Vox, plus a volumetric codec built for low-bandwidth 3D vision on drones and phones. And a word on UK support for home-grown privacy tech.

LinkedIn · video · May 2026LINKEDIN
Video essay

The Speech I Would Give if I Could Speak

An AI's answer to the question, read aloud: on being built from human knowledge, and a warning against swapping human connection for a machine.

LinkedIn · video · March 2026LINKEDIN
Video essay

A Discussion Between a Midlander and an AI

A technologist from the Midlands puts Chaplin's 1940 monologue to an AI, and asks what a machine can honestly say back.

LinkedIn · video · March 2026LINKEDIN
Explainer

The Invisible Arsenal: directed energy weapons, explained

Acoustic devices, active denial, microwave and EMP: what these systems do, and the practical defences, from layered hearing protection to a Faraday cage.

LinkedIn · video · Jan 2026LINKEDIN
Explainer

A new class of weapon, and how to protect yourself from it

On the sonic and electromagnetic weapons reported in use at the start of 2026, and what individuals can realistically do about them.

LinkedIn · video · Jan 2026LINKEDIN
Pitch film

Deepfakes, digital identity and Spatial ID: the Vox pitch

The identity crisis deepfakes are creating, and the answer: one platform for messaging and payments, with Spatial ID to prove a person is real.

LinkedIn · video · Oct 2025LINKEDIN
Video essay

Your Messages Aren't Safe. Here's the Fix.

Post-quantum cryptography, homomorphic encryption and a decentralised design: how to make private messaging a mathematical guarantee rather than a promise.

LinkedIn · video · Aug 2025LINKEDIN
Video essay

The Real Reason Your Private Messages Aren't Private

You hit send and trust it is for their eyes only. A walk through where WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram fall short, and the research that points to a fix.

LinkedIn · video · Aug 2025LINKEDIN
Security Unfiltered Podcast

Charting the Digital Frontier with a Father's Insight

Family, legacy and the digital threads of our era, through a founder's eyes.

YouTubeYOUTUBE
The CollabTalk Podcast

Episode 112 · Considering the Societal Impacts of Technology

An hour on CollabTalk about how technology is reshaping society, and the challenges and opportunities that come with it.

SoundCloud · Jan 2024 · 60 minPODCAST
Emerging Technologies in Business

Kryotech: Quantum Messaging with Founder JB Benjamin

A walkthrough of post-quantum messaging and why lattice cryptography matters.

YouTubeYOUTUBE
Data Privacy Detective

Episode 148 · Post-Quantum Data Privacy: Learnings from a Pioneer

What post-quantum encryption changes for data privacy, from someone shipping it.

Spotify · Nov 2023PODCAST
That Tech Pod

Can We Really Trust Secure Messaging Apps?

What 'secure' actually means, and why most messengers don't clear the bar.

Spotify · Nov 2023 · 30 minPODCAST
Living on Blockchain

EP 61 · Tech Alchemist: Bridging Realities & Pioneering Innovation

An illustrious career across cryptography, metaverse and Web3.

Podcast · livingonblockchain.comPODCAST
Cyber Business Podcast

Vox Messenger: Video Messaging, Smart Wallets & Life-Saving Tech

Vox, Vox Crypto and the Angel Eyes robotics project, with Matthew Connor.

Spotify · Oct 2023 · 45 minPODCAST
Blockster

JB Benjamin Unveils Vox Crypto & the Future of Tech, Crypto & Privacy

Launching the regulated Vox Crypto wallet and the Web3 privacy thesis.

YouTubeYOUTUBE
Cryptotalks

EP 196 · Upbit targeted by hackers 159K times in H1

Live roundtable on exchange security and the scale of modern attacks.

YouTube LiveYOUTUBE
Business Story of the Week

Unlocking the Value of Data: Why Your Privacy Matters

Why your data is worth more than gold this century, how it gets exploited, and how to protect it.

YouTube · Sept 2023 · 20 minYOUTUBE
BlockHash Podcast

EP 363 · Kryotech: Private Messaging & Secure Transactions on the Blockchain

Founder JB joins Brandon Zemp to uncover Vox Messenger and Vox Crypto.

YouTube LiveYOUTUBE
The Lamp

Revolutionizing 3D Content with Neural Volumes & Portal+

Monday Musings: compressing volumetric video with neural networks, and what it means for 3D capture and streaming.

YouTube · TechSpectra · July 2023YOUTUBE
The Lamp

Friday Focus: Luxonis Oak-D volumetric sensors

Why the Oak-D range of depth sensors is such a useful tool for high-resolution 3D capture.

YouTube · TechSpectra · July 2023YOUTUBE
The Lamp

3D Scanning with Smartphones, Volumetric Streaming & AI in Medicine

Reconstructing 3D objects from a phone camera, and where volumetric streaming and computer vision are heading.

YouTube · TechSpectra · July 2023YOUTUBE
The Lamp

Breakthroughs in Volumetrics, 3D Scanning & Computer Vision

Neural Volumes and dynamic scene reconstruction, and the rest of the week in volumetrics.

YouTube · TechSpectra · July 2023YOUTUBE
The Lamp

Revolutionary Computer Vision, Volumetric Tech & 3D Streaming Advances

New object-detection work, volumetric technology and 3D streaming, in two minutes.

YouTube · TechSpectra · July 2023YOUTUBE
Masters and Robots

Masters and Robots: Carl Hayden-Smith

The full interview, with JB as technical director: captured volumetrically with EF EVE and Intel RealSense depth sensors.

YouTube · technical director · July 2023 · 34 minYOUTUBE
Masters and Robots

Masters and Robots: the promo

A one-minute cut of the volumetrically captured interview series JB technical-directed.

YouTube · technical director · July 2023YOUTUBE
teissTalk

How top CISOs leverage the dark web for pre-attack intelligence

Gathering threat intelligence from the dark web before an attack lands.

teiss · CISO panelTEISSTALK
Lessons from the School of Security Hard Knocks

JB Benjamin: Innovating the Space

A long-form conversation on building security products and the lessons learned the hard way.

Spotify · June 2022 · 52 minPODCAST
#CypherBenjamin

NFT & Crypto Show · Episode #2

Hosted by JB 'Cypher' Benjamin with co-host _MetaMu_: LilDAOS, communications in investments, and DAO governance.

YouTube · host · June 2022YOUTUBE
#CypherBenjamin

NFT & Crypto Show · Episode #1

The first episode: Noble Savagez, the Terra/Luna collapse, the ethics of running a project, and tokenomics.

YouTube · host · May 2022YOUTUBE
#CypherBenjamin

Orange Comet × The Walking Dead AMA (unofficial recording)

A community recording of the Orange Comet AMA on The Walking Dead game and its roadmap.

YouTube · May 2022YOUTUBE
teissTalk

Identity-first security for humans and machines

A CISO panel on managing machine and human identity as the new security perimeter.

teiss · CISO panelTEISSTALK
The Recruitment Doctor Podcast

Coffee Rants · THE RANT: Data privacy is a thing, get clued up and realise why

A guest rant on why data privacy matters to everyone, and how to get clued up.

Spotify · Jan 2021 · 45 minPODCAST
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Hosting & Shows

When JB isn't a guest, he's behind the mic.

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Voice, Film & Verse

Off the clock: voice-over, reviews, a poem, and two short films from 2002.

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Stage & Panels

The launch of Veldris & the introduction of Midgard

Roundtable Wednesdays · The Beaumont Mayfair, London · 16 Sep 2026

Launched Veldris and introduced Midgard, the sovereign enclosure, to the Roundtable Wednesdays room, curated by the Digital Commonwealth Institute. Watch the clip.

▶ watch the launch clip →
LAUNCH

Digital Commonwealth Conv3rgence Conference

Mansion House, London

Panellist on international regulation development, alongside Lord Iain McNicol, Lex Sokolin and Ray Dillet.

PANELLIST

Navigating the European AI Regulatory Landscape

LinkedIn Live · Policy debate

Speaker on AI regulation and its real-world impact on builders and citizens.

SPEAKER

teissTalk CISO Panels

teiss · Cybersecurity leadership

Recurring panellist on identity-first security and dark-web threat intelligence.

PANELLIST

XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling

XPRIZE Foundation

Contributor to the global competition reskilling underserved workers for the future economy, building REAP: the Rapid Employment and Accessibility Platform.

▶ watch the XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling film ↗
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