Jarred McGinnis is the co-founder of The Special Relationship, which has been recently chosen for the British Council’s International Literature Showcase. In 2015, he was the creative director for ‘Moby-Dick Unabridged‘, a four-day immersive multimedia reading of Herman Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’ at the Southbank Centre, involving hundreds of participants. Previously Jarred McGinnis was the Head of Research, Semantic Technologies, at the Press Association, investigating the role of technologies such as natural language processing and the Semantic Web in the news industry. He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 2006.