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AI alongside broader changes in society, economics, technology and the way people and organisations respond to emerging trends, informed by a trendwatcher covering societal and economic shifts.
AI within a wider futures practice spanning technology, society and organisational change, from a futurist working on emerging technology and its business consequences.
AI through ethics and human agency, including questions about which decisions and activities society chooses to automate, informed by a futurist writing on technology and human values.
Technology investor and commentator with decades of perspective on emerging technology, examining policy, ethics, investment and the longer-term governance of AI and other emerging technologies.
Former world chess champion who faced a machine capable of beating a human champion and later wrote on human-machine collaboration, drawing on that experience to examine competition, collaboration and the changing relationship between people and AI.
Links between AI and business model change, including how new capabilities can shift where organisations create and capture value, drawing on work in strategy and innovation across sectors.
Futurist working across technology, industry and environmental systems, examining AI as part of interconnected physical, industrial and ecological systems.
AI adoption in incumbent companies, including the organisational factors that influence how quickly established businesses respond to new technology, informed by an entrepreneur and adviser on innovation inside established organisations.
AI at city and national scale, including its use in public infrastructure and services, drawing on experience advising governments and corporates across Asia on AI and smart cities.
Founding editor of WIRED UK who has spent years inside fast-moving technology companies, examining how companies are applying AI and how real-world adoption compares with the claims made around the technology.
AI events can span technology, business adoption, governance, ethics, the future of work and customer experience. The right speaker depends on whether the audience needs to understand the technology itself or what it means for their organisation.
A technical audience may want a researcher or practitioner with direct experience working with AI systems. Executive audiences may prefer a speaker who can connect AI with strategy, organisational decisions and people. Policy and governance events may call for a different background again. Speaker Ideas can shortlist around the purpose of the session rather than treating ‘AI speaker’ as a single type.
Vanessa Evers
How people behave around intelligent machines and how those behaviours influence AI-enabled systems, from a computer scientist specialising in human-computer interaction and social robotics.