Helping leaders to innovate for growth

Making complex emerging technology concepts simple and relevant for business decision makers,

  • Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers

    Kate has an in-depth knowledge of the developing landscape of blockchain technology, its history, applications, potential, and pitfalls. She works with businesses who are using blockchain, and her writing and speaking educates and inspires decision makers.

  • Virtual and Real Life Keynote Speaker

    Confident, relaxed speaker and facilitator in virtual and real-life settings. Experience from keynotes on the big stage to workshops with small groups, in real life and online. Book Kate Baucherel to bring new perspectives and inspiration to your upcoming emerging tech events.

  • Writing: Blockchain and Digital Skills

    Kate's broad portfolio of writing includes Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Crypocurrency (Business Expert Press, 2020), a 2014 book on digital skills for business, and pieces for a number of high profile online and print publications in the UK and USA including Growing with Blockchain (Novaro, 2020) and IT NOW Magazine.

  • Writing: Science Fiction

    Taking an innovative, futurist twist on emerging technologies, Kate authors the popular SimCavalier cybercrime thriller series - Bitcoin Hurricane (2017), Hacked Future (2018) and Tangled Fortunes (due 2020). She has also published a number of short stories in the Harvey Duckman Presents... series of Sci Fi, Fantasy Horror and Steampunk anthologies.

About Kate

About Kate

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Kate Baucherel BA(Hons) FCMA is a business development and strategy consultant specialising in the application of emerging technology in enterprise. She has held senior technical and financial roles in businesses across multiple sectors including utilities, manufacturing, leisure and software, leading several companies through their start-up and growth phases. Kate’s first job was with an IBM business partner in Denver, back when the AS/400 was a really cool piece of hardware and the World Wide Web didn’t exist, and she has enjoyed the journey to today’s awe-inspiring technical landscape. Her published work ranges from the challenges of technology adoption through digital ethics to fiction, and includes the SimCavalier sci-fi thriller series. Her latest book, "Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency" was published in March 2020. She holds a 2nd Dan black belt in karate, and has two children.
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Testimonials

  • What a fantastic and passionate Guest Speaker Kate Baucherel is. Her digital knowledge is amazing and she had our audience captivated at our recent Industry Digital Roadshow for the Digital Skills for Growth project, where Kate's skills align perfectly to the ethos of the project. I would highly recommend Kate and we are planning on inviting her to attend another Digital Roadshow in 2020. A very interesting and inspirational lady with a wealth of knowledge in emerging technology.
    Sue Gilbert

    Sue Gilbert

    Digital Skills for growth Project manager, Teesside University

  • Kate is an amazing speaker and powerful motivator. By using a combination of her advanced knowledge of technology, a superhuman imagination and a talent for storytelling, Kate not only makes future predictions about technology and the world we live in, but also inspires all types of people to imagine their own future. I had the pleasure of attending one of Kate's talks and I was genuinely inspired.
    Tom Johnson

    Tom Johnson

    Ethical Hacker and Social Engineer

  • Kate is not only highly knowledgable about IT, but she is also an excellent writer, speaker and moderator on the subject too. Having known Kate for the last decade, and it was a pleasure to be able to invite her to speak at our latest event, Blockchain Summit London, where she moderated a track for us. Although Blockchain itself is a highly complex concept, she demonstrated an excellent ability to talk about the subject in depth in an accessible and open way that everyone could relate to and engage with, which was a great asset to the conference. We recommend Kate's work highly and look forward to collaborating her again in the future.
    Georgina Wilczek

    Georgina Wilczek

    Conference Producer

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News and views on business challenges and the potential and dangers of emerging technologies

  • Blockchain
    Blockchain, Emerging Technology, News

    Blockchain book chosen by Harvard

    Kate Baucherel has been helping business leaders to use emerging technologies effectively for the past three decades. Her latest book “Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency” has been chosen by Harvard Business Publishing to add to their catalogue of learning materials and pair with their world-leading case studies. Blockchain Hurricane gives […]

  • Durian
    Blockchain, Emerging Technology

    Durian and the Value Chain

    While researching my latest book “Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency” in summer 2019, I came across an article from Fintechnews Singapore that intrigued me. “Millions of Durians Will Be Tracked on the Blockchain for Thailand’s Largest Durian Exporter,” it said. Having eaten the legendary smelly fruit (once and once only) […]

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    Blockchain, Emerging Technology

    E-Voting systems under the spotlight

    E-voting has been under the spotlight in the past few months, and as the world moves inexorably online in the face of COVID-19, how close are we to finding a real solutions? The adverse publicity around an apparently hastily-built voting app made all the wrong headlines as chaos ensued at the Iowa caucases. After all, […]

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