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Known around the world as the “Tech Humanist,” Kate leads a global conversation on the impact of emerging technology on human experience at scale. Kate advises leaders of the world’s best known and most admired organizations, as well as those facing the greatest upheaval, on how to succeed long-term by taking a human-centric approach to digital transformation, innovation, and readiness for the future. Her signature themes of Tech Humanism and “Strategic Optimism” prepare them to navigate an increasingly tech-driven future, climate change, and other issues around rapid and complex change — and to do so in ways that benefit people as well as business. An expert strategy, insights, and foresights consultant/advisor, author, and keynote speaker focused on helping businesses navigate transformation — digital transformation and otherwise — in a human-centric way, Kate has been shaping the conversation for years around the potential for meaningful human experiences that could scale into the future (including data, IoT, algorithmic optimization, connected experiences, automation, behavioral targeting, ML/AI, etc).

Her world-leading clients have included many of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies as well as other organizations facing complex change like Google, IBM, and Adobe, universities like Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale, cities such as Amsterdam and Austin, and the United Nations.

Kate is founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory firm committed to improving human experience at scale, even — and especially — in data-driven, algorithmically optimized, and AI-led interactions.

Author of 5 books including Pixels and Place, Tech Humanist, and her latest, A Future So Bright, Kate’s insights and expertise have been featured in WIRED, CMO.com, USA Today, and many other outlets. She has been featured and quoted in a wide variety of national and international media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, and she has appeared as an expert commentator on the likes of Marketplace, NPR, NBC News, and BBC World News.

Kate 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. She has also been named to the Thinkers50 Radar, a global ranking of top management thinkers.

Keynote: The Tech Humanist Future: How Business Can Confront Uncertainty and Win By Making Technology Better for Humanity, AI, Automation, and the Future of Meaningful Human Experience