Kate O’Neill is a digital innovator, chief executive, business writer, and globally recognized speaker widely known as the “Tech Humanist.” She is the founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory firm that enhances human experiences at scale through data-driven and AI-led interactions. Kate has worked with prestigious clients like Google, IBM, Microsoft, and...
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Kate O’Neill is a digital innovator, chief executive, business writer, and globally recognized speaker widely known as the “Tech Humanist.” She is the founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory firm that enhances human experiences at scale through data-driven and AI-led interactions. Kate has worked with prestigious clients like Google, IBM, Microsoft, and the United Nations, and she was one of the first 100 employees at Netflix.
Her groundbreaking insights have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and WIRED, and she has shared her expertise on NPR and the BBC.
Kate has been honored with numerous awards, including “Technology Entrepreneur of the Year” and a spot on Thinkers50’s list of the World’s Management Thinkers to Watch. With six influential books under her belt, including Tech Humanist and A Future So Bright, as well as her latest, What Matters Next (which was recently named to the Thinkers50 Best New Management Booklist), she enlightens business leaders around the world about how to solve human problems at scale.
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Speaker Programs
Human Wisdom Beyond AI Hype: Long-Horizon Thinking in a World of Instant Intelligence
AI gives us instant intelligence—answers, analysis, predictions—but it doesn’t give us wisdom about what matters, what lasts, or what we’re willing to trade away. In this keynote, Kate O’Neill reframes the conversation beyond the hype ...more
AI gives us instant intelligence—answers, analysis, predictions—but it doesn’t give us wisdom about what matters, what lasts, or what we’re willing to trade away. In this keynote, Kate O’Neill reframes the conversation beyond the hype cycle and offers a long-horizon lens for decision-making: how leaders can use AI as an amplifier while strengthening the human capabilities of judgment, context, and values-based discernment. Audiences leave with a practical framework for making technology choices that hold up over time—strategically, culturally, and ethically. ...less
Human-Friendly Tech Decisions in a Fast-Paced World: How to Gain Strategic Clarity and Make Better Tech and AI Choices
Making future-ready decisions that acknowledge the impact of AI and other technology and respect human needs and values can be a challenge. Identifying the tools you need to gain strategic clarity and make better choices ...more
Making future-ready decisions that acknowledge the impact of AI and other technology and respect human needs and values can be a challenge. Identifying the tools you need to gain strategic clarity and make better choices is an important step to secure the future of your organization.
Discover how the right framework can help you harness the benefits of modern technology while prioritizing humanity. ...less
Strategic Optimism for an Uncertain Future: Creating Frameworks for Your Organization—and Humans—to Thrive
The world seems more complex and uncertain every day — and the problems of the future are getting more urgent. While AI and emerging technology are often cited as problems we face, they also offer ...more
The world seems more complex and uncertain every day — and the problems of the future are getting more urgent. While AI and emerging technology are often cited as problems we face, they also offer tremendous opportunities to facilitate solving human problems at scale more efficiently than ever, while offering better human connectedness. But rather than lead with AI and technology as a solution, it starts with understanding what humanity is, what makes it special, and then using technology to amplify those characteristics.
The next few years are critical to make the best decisions about climate, geopolitics, labor economies, and more to set in place the best possible future for the most people, or at a minimum, the least damaging future for the most people.
So how should we think about navigating the future?
How do we make strategic decisions in a time of constant change? ...less
Data, AI, Technology, and the Impact on Humans: How to Make Technology Better for Business and Humanity
At a time when every business in every industry faces digital transformation or disruption due to AI, emerging technologies, new business models, fickle platforms, and evolving customer expectations, how can you be sure you’re making ...more
At a time when every business in every industry faces digital transformation or disruption due to AI, emerging technologies, new business models, fickle platforms, and evolving customer expectations, how can you be sure you’re making the right decisions and investments to secure your company’s future?
What’s more, with everything changing so fast, what can you do to prevent ending up on the wrong side of data breaches and overreaches, ethics and regulatory missteps, and PR nightmares? As relevant to non-profits as to financial services, to high tech, hospitality, or healthcare, in this keynote, Kate O’Neill pulls it all together and puts it in context.
She surveys the ups and downs of the AI, emerging technology, and cultural trends landscape and demonstrates how the decisions companies make have far-reaching impact both to their bottom line — and to the future of human experience as a whole. ...less
Human Experience in the Metaverse And What it Means for AI & Digital Strategy and Placemaking
On one hand, there is no “online” and “offline” anymore. On the virtual hand: welcome to life as a digital avatar. Whether you’re offering a product for purchase, a travel destination, a healthcare service, an ...more
On one hand, there is no “online” and “offline” anymore. On the virtual hand: welcome to life as a digital avatar. Whether you’re offering a product for purchase, a travel destination, a healthcare service, an education, or just about anything else, what you’re really offering is an experience — and wherever it’s happening, your customers increasingly expect these experiences to be integrated, contextually relevant, and meaningful. ...less
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