Keynote Speaker in Washington DC

Washington’s questions about AI are questions Dr Kate Barker works on daily, from the sovereign side: how governments adopt AI at national scale, what it does to public workforces, and how institutions keep accountability when machines enter the decision chain. As strategic advisor to the office of the UAE Prime Minister and Chief Futurist at NEOM, she brings DC audiences a rare vantage, the view from inside another government’s AI transformation. Her AI governance sessions press hardest on accountability, on the moment months after approval when the dashboards have turned green and nobody at the table can still say who owns the decisions the system now makes.

She is available in Washington for policy forums, government and institutional events, association conferences and board sessions, with a platform history that includes the United Nations and the OECD. A national workforce transformation programme she advised for a Kingdom-level government assessed more than 1.1 million citizens against future capability requirements and carried workforce metrics into Cabinet-level reporting, which is the detail a policy audience recognises.