Keynote SpeakerDr Stephanie Hare

Dr Stephanie Hare is an author, consultant and keynote speaker who focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence on business and society. Her book Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics examines the issues surrounding AI and Big Tech as well as its effects on humankind. Stephanie’s expertise sits neatly at the intersection of business, technology, governance and ethics in the current era of surveillance capitalism.

Stephanie was selected for the BBC’s Expert Women initiative and now commentates regularly on the BBC. She is a presenter of the broadcaster’s Artificial Intelligence: Decoded and is a regular contributor to the BBC World Service slot Business Matters. Stephanie is an engaging Event MC and moderator who mixes academic rigour with warmth and dynamic delivery when she is onstage.

Before becoming a global media commentator and communicator, Stephanie worked for Accenture, Palantir and Oxford Analytica. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian/Observer, WIRED, Harvard Business Review and The Financial Times, which selected Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics as one of its books of summer 2022. Dr Hare’s book is currently included on the syllabus of Harvard Law School.

Stephanie Hare has consulted and presented events for many firms and brands. These include LEGO, KPMG, IKEA, the Royal Society, the Vodafone Institute, BAE Systems, Citywire, CERN, Mishcon de Reya, the Internet of Things Alliance Australia, The Alan Turing Institute, Mayer Brown, 7 Bedford Row, Fujitsu, the Data Lab, Vistage and SOLACE, the UK’s leading network for public sector professionals.

Stephanie has a PhD and MSc from The London School of Economics and studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including a year at Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV). She held the Alastair Horne Visiting Fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford.