Keynote Speaker in Geneva

Switzerland hosts two of the platforms that define the global AI conversation, and Dr Kate Barker has stood on both: the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, convened by the ITU and the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Her Swiss engagements serve the institutions those platforms attract, from international organisations and policy bodies to global corporates headquartered on the lake. With the financial institutions among them she has a directly comparable mandate to draw on, a 14,500-person GCC retail and investment bank that brought AI and model risk under formal board oversight.

Her Geneva keynotes connect AI capability to institutional consequence: governance, the future of international work, and leadership for organisations whose decisions carry across borders. In her board AI governance sessions the difficult questions are institutional ones, chiefly whether the board is receiving the right information and whether it is governing at the right altitude rather than drifting into the operational. Her doctorate is from the Swiss School of Business and Management Geneva, a connection Swiss audiences tend to enjoy.