Amber Dawn MacArthur (born 27 June 1976) is a Canadian television and netcasting personality, bestselling author of two books, and keynote speaker.
She previously hosted and produced a show for Xbox called "Girls Go Geek" alongside her brother Jeff MacArthur and Christopher Dick that features women in technology.
[7] In 2024, Amber MacArthur was honoured as one of DMZ's Women of the Year[8] for her work driving innovation and progress in the tech industry.
She has moderated sessions with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former FBI Director James Comey, business coach Tony Robbins, literary icon Margaret Atwood, and many other leading public figures.
[15] Upon graduation, MacArthur worked in her hometown of Charlottetown at CBC Television, as an associate reporter from April to July 1999,[16] and the San Francisco radio station KQED.
[16] On 28 August 2006, MacArthur announced on her blog[17] that she was leaving her position at G4techTV and would no longer appear on Call For Help, Torrent, or Gadgets and Gizmos.
Segments since have ranged from former sex trade workers blogging the Robert Pickton trial, to a Toronto Transit Commission/Google Maps mashup.
They convinced her to stick around for two more months, after Rogers Communications promised her show would be weekly on the Citytv network and on G4techTV Canada,[19] reformatted, as of January 2008 as Webnation V2.
[20] (CTV's parent company; CTVglobemedia bought out CHUM Limited in June 2007, with the exception of the Citytv network, which was sold to Rogers.)
[16] In June 2005, MacArthur started the weekly video podcast commandN, which covered technology trends both online and offline.