Speaker Profile: Tom Scott

Tom Scott is a geek comedian. He's won two Student Radio Awards, once got in trouble with the Cabinet Office for his version of their Preparing for Emergencies site, and has been described as a "sometime internet funny man" by The Register. He runs the British part of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and accidentally spent a year as president of his students' union after running as "Mad Cap'n Tom".

His work has been shown on BBC One, Channel 4, and at the paraflows net-art exhibition in Vienna.

He also once got five gold runs on 'Blockbusters'.