Kate O'Neill

What Matters Next: Human Leadership in an AI-Augmented World

As AI becomes embedded in everyday work, the most important leadership question is not simply what technology can do, but what humans should decide, design, and become with it. In this thought-provoking keynote, Tech Humanist Kate O’Neill explores how leaders can navigate AI-driven transformation while staying grounded in human judgment, meaning, ethics, and purpose.

Drawing from her work on human-friendly tech decisions, meaningful innovation, and strategic optimism, Kate offers a practical and inspiring framework for leading in an AI-augmented world. She will help leaders understand how to use technology to amplify human capability rather than diminish it, make better decisions amid uncertainty, and shape organizations where people and AI work together in service of outcomes that matter.

Bio:

Kate O’Neill is a digital innovator, chief executive, business writer, and globally recognized speaker known worldwide 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 named to the Thinkers50 – the definitive global ranking of top management thinkers – and honored as “Technology Entrepreneur of the Year.” Her podcast, The Tech Humanist Show, won a Web Excellence Award for Best Tech Podcast. And her latest book, What Matters Next, was named to the Thinkers50 Best New Management Booklist.

With six influential books and over 25 years shaping the future of technology and humanity, she enlightens business leaders around the world about how to solve human problems at scale.

Kate is on stage in Copenhagen.