clipboard data on every keystroke. Podcasting Burge hosted Emoji Wrap, a podcast from Emojipedia covering "global emoji news and trends" between August 2016 and December 2020 interviewing guests including Mark Davis, Myke Hurley, Jason Snell and Christina Warren. The Guardian notes that Google product manager Agustin Fonts was "hesitant about shifting to a water pistol" when discussing the Android gun emoji with Burge on the Emoji Wrap podcast. Public Speaking The Evening Standard reported that Burge "lectured on the history and social impact of emojis" at TEDxEastEnd at London's Hackney Empire in 2017. In addition, Burge has spoken at conferences such as The Next Web in Amsterdam, Smart Future in Riga, Design Matters in Copenhagen and Úll in Killarney. Institutions that have hosted Burge include Eton College, Eye Magazine, Google, London Design Museum, The British Library, and University College London. World Emoji Day World Emoji Day is a "global celebration of emoji" created by Burge in 2014. According to the New York Times, he created the day on "July 17 based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones". Burge told Axios in 2017 that "Tim Cook tweeted about [World Emoji Day] this year so I was kind of excited about that". In 2017 Burge discussed the origin of World Emoji Day and Emojipedia at AOL BUILD, attended the lighting of the Empire State Building "emoji yellow" with The Emoji Movie voice cast Patrick Stewart, Maya Rudolph and Jake T. Austin, and announced the winners of the annual World Emoji Awards from the New York Stock Exchange. Saks Fifth Avenue hosted a "Saks Celebrates World Emoji Day" red carpet event in 2017 which was attended by Burge. On World Emoji Day 2019, Burge attended the launch of an exhibition at the National Museum of Cinema and spoke alongside Unicode Consortium co-founder Mark Davis at The British Library. Burge claimed to “relax and enjoy it [World Emoji Day] at least once” in 2022, after stepping down from Emojipedia. Personal life Burge was born in Western Australia, and educated at Assumption College, Kilmore before graduating from Deakin University. In the spring of 2019 Burge moved onto a 53 ft narrowboat named Dottie M and gained popularity on TikTok with viral clips navigating rivers and canals of the United Kingdom. References External links Jeremy Burge's personal page 1984 births Living people Australian bloggers Australian podcasters People involved with Unicode