Kate O'Neill, professional global keynote speaker

As a globally recognized keynote speaker and thought leader, I deliver transformative insights at the intersection of technology, business, and human experience. My talks inspire and equip leaders to navigate digital transformation while creating meaningful human experiences at scale.

Selected speaking engagements demonstrate impact across sectors:

- GLOBAL LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION
    - United Nations: Multiple keynotes on data-driven innovation and human experience
    - World Government Summit (Dubai): Future of work presentation to world leaders
    - Amsterdam's Future-Readiness Initiative: Strategic city transformation
- FORTUNE 500 & ENTERPRISE
    - Executive keynotes for Google, IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, Cisco
    - Digital transformation strategies for Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Charles Schwab
    - Innovation workshops for HCA Healthcare, Northwestern Mutual
- SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE
    - Tech Innovation: Talks at Google series, Etsy Engineering Day
    - Academic Leadership: Guest lectures at Cambridge, Harvard, Yale
    - Industry Events: INBOUND, O'Reilly Strata + Hadoop World London

Speaking topics include:

- • The Tech Humanist Approach to Digital Transformation
- • AI Ethics and Responsible Innovation
- • Future-Ready Leadership in a Tech-Driven World
- • Creating Meaningful Human Experiences at Scale

Available for keynotes, executive workshops, and strategic advisory sessions. Past audiences have included C-suite executives and senior leaders from Fortune 500 companies, tech innovators, and global organizations committed to responsible digital transformation.

Professional Keynote Speaker

The Tech Humanist Show

The Tech Humanist Show is a multi-format program exploring how data and technology shape the human experience. Available as both a podcast and video series, the show features in-depth conversations with influential thinkers and leaders in ethical AI, privacy, and emerging technology. Distinguished guests have included Dr. Rumman Chowdhury (former Twitter Director of ML Ethics), David Ryan Polgar (Founder of All Tech Is Human), Dr. Safiya Noble (author of "Algorithms of Oppression"), and Yanis Varoufakis (former finance minister of Greece and author of “Technofeudalism”), among other visionary voices shaping the future of technology and humanity.

Creator, Host, Executive Producer

KO Insights

KO Insights is a premier strategic advisory firm transforming how global organizations navigate the intersection of technology and humanity. We specialize in human-centric digital transformation, AI ethics, and meaningful innovation at scale.

Our expertise delivers measurable impact through executive advisory services, transformative keynotes, and strategic workshops. We help organizations harness emerging technologies while prioritizing meaningful human experiences and responsible innovation.

Select client engagements showcase our impact across sectors:

- Guided a FORTUNE 50 TECH GIANT in developing ethical AI frameworks and human-centric product strategies
- Partnered with a GLOBAL CONSUMER BRAND LEADER to revolutionize their digital customer experience across 100+ markets
- Led digital transformation strategy for a MAJOR HEALTHCARE NETWORK, focusing on patient experience optimization
- Advised a LEADING SMART CITY INITIATIVE on human-centric IoT implementation
- Facilitated strategic innovation workshops for MULTIPLE FORTUNE 100 EXECUTIVE TEAMS

Our client portfolio includes Fortune 100 corporations, global tech leaders, prestigious universities (including Harvard, Cambridge, Yale), major healthcare institutions, government agencies, and the United Nations. We've worked with recognized brands such as Google, IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and McDonald's, delivering transformative insights that drive both business success and human benefit.

We share our insights globally through books, articles, and thought leadership collaborations with major organizations. My upcoming book "What Matters Next: A Leader's Guide to Making Human-Friendly Tech Decisions in a World That's Moving Too Fast" (2025, Wiley and Thinkers50) continues this tradition.

Founder & CEO / Chief Tech Humanist (Expert Consultant/Advisor, Author, Speaker)

Professional Global Keynote Speaker

Leading Authorities, Inc.

BigSpeak Speakers Bureau

Keppler Speakers

London Speaker Bureau

Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve

Have consulted on strategy projects for Fortune 500 clients, including go-to-market consumer strategy for a new pharmaceutical device, as well as providing expert input on trends for client projects from time to time.

Consulting Strategist / Member of "TalentBank" Panel of Experts

Deep Focus

Stepped in temporarily to lead strategy definition for a client roster including household-name consumer brands and global organizations.

Strategy Consultant

Known globally as the "Tech Humanist," Kate O'Neill is a leading voice on AI ethics, responsible tech, and human-centric digital transformation. As a sought-after expert, she advises Fortune 500 leaders and speaks at high-profile events worldwide on navigating our tech-driven future while prioritizing human experiences.

Kate's unique blend of "Strategic Optimism" and tech expertise has made her an in-demand consultant for organizations facing complex challenges in emerging technologies, climate change, and rapid digital transformation. Her insights help businesses innovate responsibly, balancing technological advancement with human values.

Career highlights:

- Author of six books, including the forthcoming "What Matters Next: A Leader's Guide to Making Human-Friendly Tech Decisions in a World That's Moving Too Fast"
- Shortlisted for the prestigious Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award
- Featured expert on BBC, WIRED, NPR, and other major media outlets
- Pioneering roles: First content management position at Netflix, built Toshiba's first intranet

With over 25 years of cross-functional expertise in technology, strategy, and innovation, Kate has consistently been at the forefront of digital industry practices. Her work spans from data analytics and IoT to AI and machine learning, always with a focus on creating meaningful, scalable human experiences.

Recognized as "Technology Entrepreneur of the Year" and "Strategist of the Year," Kate continues to shape the global conversation on how businesses can thrive in the digital age while making a positive impact on humanity.

For more information, visit: http://www.koinsights.com/about/about-kate-oneill/

Latest book available for pre-order at: 
https://www.amazon.com/What-Matters-Next-Human-Friendly-Decisions/dp/1394296428/

Kate O'Neill

UNDP

Strategic Foresight Advisor

The UNDP Futures Fellowship brings together futures and foresight talent from around the world to enhance the UNDP's foresight capabilities and use foresight and futures skills to identify and sort signals into emerging trends and stories that can help shape policy and strategy towards achieving the UNDP's Strategic Development Goals.

Futures Fellow

Flux Trends

Identifying, researching, writing about, and presenting on new consumer and business trends, specialising in the future of finance and macro socio-economic trajectories.

Partner : Director of Foresight

The Future Starts Now

Co-author of The Future Starts now, published by Bloomsbury Business.

Author

Metanomic™

Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Fleet Street Publications

As the head of the FSPInvest business unit, I was responsible for publishing and promoting stock market investment research products and services for the Fleet Street Publications retail investor division: FSP Invest. Fleet Street Publications is the South African office of international publishing group, Agora.

The role included setting and achieving sales targets, business development, reporting to the international head office, and managing a team of marketers and professional financial analysts to develop, write, research, and market new investment advisory services, publications, educational products, and events for the retail investor market.

Core functions included: Direct marketing, product management, subscription management, online marketing, email marketing, content creation, copy writing, product development, copy editing, event management and statistical analysis.

Publisher & Head of Marketing, FSPInvest

McNab's Wellth

The role included:

- 360 degree marketing and brand management
- National sales and export market growth and development
- Developing the McNab's Energy Foodbar range and the McNab's Energy Brew shot product ranges
- Representing the McNab's brand at various international trade events including the Anuga trade show in Germany and the Fancy Food trade show in New York

Marketing Manager

ADSAT

The role included:

- Assisting the CEO and Sales and Marketing Manager pitch for new business and prepare sales and marketing reports.
- Writing radio adverts for customers.
- Producing the Nando's corporate radio staff show.

Marketing Assistant /Radio Content Producer

I'm a futurist, economist, strategist, trend analyst, avid reader, and published writer, open to all kinds of opportunities. 

I believe trends should yield insights, insights should drive innovation and policy, and strategy should deliver quantifiable results. 

I like smart designs, new ideas and the individuals behind them. 

Join me on my mission to understand the world and create a better future for all of us who live in it.

Bronwyn Williams

Uniquely human “skills”? 

Oh no. Honey.

If there is a metric, a definition, a KPI, or a job description for it, it’s a target. And a matter of time…

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(At best it’s not skills but irrationally (“un” skills?) that are “unique”?)

Keynote Speaker | C-suite x Government Strategic Foresight Advisor | 4 x Author

According to a Workday global survey, 83% of employees believe that AI will make uniquely human skills more critical, not less. Here are five human-centric skills that will matter more than AI in 2026, along with evidence, trends, and how we can actually teach them.  https://lnkd.in/eC3TJQSz

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