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Event Planner Resources

The bios, headshots, and other materials you need to promote your event.

Kate O’Neill is a digital innovator, chief executive, business writer, and globally recognized speaker known worldwide 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 named to the Thinkers50—the definitive global ranking of top management thinkers—and honored as “Technology Entrepreneur of the Year.” Her podcast, The Tech Humanist Show, won a Web Excellence Award for Best Tech Podcast. And her latest book, What Matters Next, was named to the Thinkers50 Best New Management Booklist.

With six influential books and over 25 years shaping the future of technology and humanity, 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 1 (✨ newest! ✨)
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Headshot 2 (✨ newest! ✨)
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Headshot 1a (alternate)
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Headshot 2a (alternate)
Headshot 5 (older)
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Action Shots: Kate speaking, hosting/emceeing, moderating panels, etc

At a wonderful event in late 2024
At a keynote in early 2025
At a keynote in early 2025
Kate O'Neill in a yellow blazer, arms open wide
Saying her trademark greeting as she walks onto stage: "Hello humans!"
At a book launch event for What Matters Next in early 2025
At AI & Data Day in Copenhagen, April 2025
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

Book Resources

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