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Kate O’Neill is a digital innovator, chief executive, business writer, and globally recognized speaker widely known 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 honored with numerous awards, including “Technology Entrepreneur of the Year” and a spot on Thinkers50’s list of the World’s Management Thinkers to Watch. With six influential books under her belt, including Tech Humanist and A Future So Bright, as well as her latest, What Matters Next, she enlightens business leaders around the world about how to solve human problems at scale.

Read aloud before events. This document is formatted for easy printing for emcees or other speakers introducing Kate and includes suggestions for walk-on and walk-off music.

Kate O’Neill Keynote Intro (PDF)— also includes suggestions for walk-on and walk-off music

Headshots

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Headshot 3 (✨ new! ✨)
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Headshot 4 (✨ new! ✨)
Headshot 5 (older)
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Action headshots

Kate O'Neill in a yellow blazer, arms open wide
Saying her trademark greeting as she walks onto stage: "Hello humans!"
A wonderful event in early 2024
Kate leading a United Nations panel
Moderating a panel on how emerging tech can fight climate change at UN COP25 in Madrid 2019
Kate O'Neill at Cisco
Delivering the keynote at Cisco Marketing Velocity 2018
Bloomberg Quant event in 2024
Big smiles! Engaged and engaging
Kate O'Neill with handheld mic
Host/emcee of an event in 2023
Late 2023

Recent book cover images

What Matters Next - a Book by Kate O'Neill
What Matters Next (2025)
A Future So Bright book cover
A Future So Bright (2021)
Tech Humanist book cover
Tech Humanist (2018)
Pixels and Place book cover
Pixels and Place (2016)

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