Dr Alex Connock is an Oxford 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. In a past life as a media executive he was six times shortlisted in Entrepreneur of the Year awards.