Generative AI Speaker

Every organisation now has generative AI; almost none has an answer for what it does to the people who use it. Dr Kate Barker’s generative AI keynotes move audiences past the tooling conversation to the performance one: how executive judgement behaves when persuasive answers are abundant (her research finds 86% of executives have accepted an AI recommendation they privately doubted), why decision-making gets faster but not necessarily better, and which human capabilities decide the gap between organisations running the same models. Fluency now arrives free, and work-slop is what it leaves behind, documents polished enough to pass for finished thinking and hollow enough that the reader has to redo them. What the machine cannot do is scattered rather than neatly bounded, and that jagged edge is where human judgement has become the scarce input again.

Chief Futurist at NEOM and the world’s first Chief Futurist, Dr Kate draws on doctoral research across six thousand executive leaders and advisory work with more than one hundred Fortune 500 companies. Her sessions on generative AI are booked where the technology is already deployed and the leadership question has become the urgent one. The industry that builds these systems and the institutions that adopt them rarely sit in the same room, which is what makes an engagement in San Francisco worth taking.