Biography

Kate O’Neill is helping humanity prepare for an increasingly tech-driven future by teaching business how to be successful with human-centric data and technology.

Kate’s expertise in integrated experience strategy and human-centric digital transformation comes from more than 20 years of experience and entrepreneurship leading innovations across technology, marketing, and operations, developing human-centric, data-guided, and brand-aligned growth and retention strategies for companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500s. She created the first content management role at Netflix; was founder & CEO of [meta]marketer, a first-of-its-kind analytics and digital strategy agency; led cutting-edge online optimization work at Magazines.com; developed Toshiba America’s first intranet; and held leadership and advisory positions in a variety of digital content and technology start-ups. Kate is now founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic consultancy committed to improving human experience at scale.

Whether in convention centers to audiences of thousands, in board rooms, or one-on- one, as a “Tech Humanist,” Kate advocates for the future of meaningful human experiences by helping corporate and cultural leaders re-think how to succeed long- term by taking a human-centric approach to digital transformation and readiness for the future.

She is a vocal and visible advocate for women in technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership — she was featured by Google in the launch of their global campaign for women in entrepreneurship. Author of four books including her latest, Tech Humanist, Kate’s expertise has been featured in CNN Money, TIME, Forbes, USA Today, Men’s Journal, the BBC, and other national and international media.

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Analytics are People: Understanding Data's Role in Meaningful Experiences

Every day our physical surroundings and our digital interactions are converging more and more, through data analytics, wearable technology, social media, surveillance, sensors, and more. To very real degrees, our human experiences create a targeted feedback loop, defining our opportunities, our relationships, our knowledge, and, ultimately, our selves.
In this compelling keynote address, leading strategic thinker Kate O'Neill explores the relationship between meaning, intention, data tracking, and human experience, with practical insights on how businesses can create more meaningful and profitable relationships with customers, and how we as individuals can empower ourselves to define our own experiences both online and offline.

Trend Smarts: Staying Ahead of the Meaningful Trends in Your Business

Between 3D printing, Big Data, the collaborative economy, and more, it sounds and feels to many business owners and marketers like the present has become the future. Add to that: search disruption and the emergence of new social channels seemingly every week, and you have what for many is a truly foreign landscape. But these trends and cultural changes are impacting businesses and our lives right now, in every industry. Are you prepared for how they might impact your business?
In this compelling keynote address, leading strategic thinker Kate O'Neill describes how data, technology, digital, and cultural trends are changing, the opportunity these changes have to impact human experiences, and how businesses large and small can make the most of the opportunities.

Tech Humanist: How to Make Technology Better for Business and Better for Humans

Every day our physical surroundings and our digital interactions are converging more and more, through data analytics, wearable technology, social media, surveillance, sensors, and more. To very real degrees, our human experiences create a targeted feedback loop, defining our opportunities, our relationships, our knowledge, and, ultimately, our selves.
In this compelling keynote address, leading strategic thinker Kate O'Neill explores the relationship between meaning, intention, data tracking, and human experience, with practical insights on how businesses can create more meaningful and profitable relationships with customers, and how we as individuals can empower ourselves to define our own experiences both online and offline.

Transformation, Automation, and the Future of Meaningful Human Experience

Every day our physical surroundings and our digital interactions are converging more and more, through data analytics, wearable technology, social media, surveillance, sensors, and more. To very real degrees, our human experiences create a targeted feedback loop, defining our opportunities, our relationships, our knowledge, and, ultimately, our selves.
In this compelling keynote address, leading strategic thinker Kate O'Neill explores the relationship between meaning, intention, data tracking, and human experience, with practical insights on how businesses can create more meaningful and profitable relationships with customers and how we as individuals can empower ourselves to define our own experiences both online and offline.

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I definitely recommend Kate as a keynote speaker at any type of professional event. Her experience creates an arsenal of expert subjects she can share to inspire a variety of audiences.
– Event Organizer
Thank you for the amazing Keynote presentation. You have a brilliant vision for how society and business can innovate and mature data creation, ownership and use. Your perspective on dystopian and utopian analysis in deploying new solutions or technology was eye opening and provides clues to help resolve opposing views that have previously been elusive. I connected with your messages and your call for us to own what we put into code and how we use data! Well done!
– Michael Landau Michael Landau, Strategic National Account Manager, Veritas Technologies LLC

Booksby Kate O’Neill

A Future So Bright

Tech Humanist

Pixels and Place

Lessons From Los Gatos

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