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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.

Kate O’Neill’s 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 O’Neill 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, released January 29, 2025, What Matters Next.

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Preparing for the Future in a Tech-Driven World with Kate O'Neill

AI and Human Experience: Kate O'Neill - Tech Humanist & Future-Ready Business Strategist (2024 reel)

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Kate O'Neill - Behind the Scenes on media interviews for Tech Humanist around New York City

Kate O'Neill - Behind the Scenes on media interviews for Tech Humanist around New York City

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What Matters Next: Better Tech Decisions in a Fast-Paced World

Move Forward Confidently.
Making future-ready decisions that acknowledge the impact of 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.

Align Business Objectives with Human Experience
Improve business outcomes and learn how to make ethical tech decisions that benefit your business and the people it serves. This presentation can help you uncover how to make better strategic decisions by moving from questions to insights and foresights.

We can also discuss creating a model that aligns focus, purpose, values, and resources across your organization and much more—all to ensure that digital transformation and innovation efforts frame the future in human terms.

A Future So Bright: Strategic Optimism for an Uncertain Future

The world seems more complex and uncertain every day — and the problems of the future are getting more urgent.

We’re already living through a global pandemic of unprecedented scale, and 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 most people, or at a minimum, the least damaging future for most people.

So how should we think about navigating the future?
How do we make strategic decisions in a time of constant change?

Solving human problems at scale
While emerging technology is often cited as a problem we face, it also offers tremendous opportunities to facilitate solving human problems at scale more efficiently than ever, while offering better human connectedness. But rather than lead with technology as a solution, it starts with understanding what humanity is, what makes it special, and then using technology to amplify those characteristics.

Tech Humanism: How Data and Technology Shape the Future of Meaningful Human Experiences

A human-centric perspective
At a time when every business in every industry faces digital transformation or disruption due to 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?
The future of human experience.

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 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.

Pixels and Places: Human Experience in the Metaverse, and What it Means for Digital Strategy and Placemaking

Welcome to life as a digital avatar
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.

Testimonials

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

What Matters Next

A Future So Bright

Tech Humanist

Pixels and Place

Lessons From Los Gatos

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