Dr Alex Connock

Dr Alex Connock is an academic in the media business and AI, who has written a trilogy of books spanning the contemporary media business — Media Management and Artificial Intelligence (2022), Media Management and Live Experience: Sports, Culture, Entertainment and Events (2024), and Entrepreneurship in Media and Entertainment (2025). All are published with Routledge.

He is also a leading international and industry speaker on the media business and how it is being changed by AI. Recent engagements have included Goldman Sachs, Warner Brothers, BBC, ITV, Liberty Global and UK government, all multiple times, and many others.

Academically, Alex is Senior Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, teaching AI, Marketing and Media Business courses at BA, MBA and EMBA level. He co-launched and ran Oxford’s postgraduate diploma in Artificial Intelligence for Business from 2021–3, and is Lecturer at St Hugh’s College, Oxford in Management. He won an Oxford award for Teaching Innovation in 2025 and an Oxford University award for Teaching in 2026.

Alex is also Professor in Media and Artificial Intelligence at Exeter University. In his previous business career he was six times shortlisted in Entrepreneur of the Year awards.