The World’s New AI Hub & Trump’s Dining Travesty with Chris Baker, Jag Sharma, Jen Campbell and Matt Webster - E98

What do royal banquets, AI startups, and the world’s best crisps have in common?

The UK plays host to them all - at least if Trump’s latest feast goes to plan…

The sands are shifting in the tech world, and our special guest Chris Baker is guiding us through the UK’s potential as a hub for AI companies, and changing trends in how consumers now purchase.

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This episode of Disconnected covers:

  • The UK’s ‘Goldilocks Moment’, and whether Britain can seize its chance to become a global tech and AI powerhouse 

  • How visa changes and international investments are reshaping where the world’s top tech minds and startups go

  • The rise of experience-driven, story-focused consumer behaviour

  • How social commerce, digital communities, and influencers are rewriting the rules of marketing and brand loyalty

Episode Highlights:

“The UK is in a Goldilocks moment, and we're seeing universities, bold startups, leading research and cutting edge supercomputing converging in the UK.” - 6:00 - Matt Webster

“I think the UK will be given a golden ticket, and they'll blow it in the wind and forget that it ever happened.” - 11:15 - Jen Campbell

“The UK has long suffered from a scale up gap where we get these brilliant startups... that are then just sold to US companies or even sold to European companies.” - 15:45 - Jag Sharma

“We really see at the moment, a really strong change taking place in consumer behaviour... moving away from what has historically been a very superficial market of consumerism, where people are buying brands and labels, to now one that is highly driven by experience.” - 21:45 - Chris Baker

“If brands are not doing an exceptional job of creating fresh stories, both through their content, as well as through the products themselves... they're being left behind, to be blunt.” - 24:00 - Chris Baker

Links & references:

Matt Webster:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattwwebster/

Jen Campbell:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/

Chris Baker:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbaker19/

Jag Sharma: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagsharma

https://www.instagram.com/jagsharma/

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