Tuesday Keynote

Kate O’Neill

Founder and Chief Tech Humanist, KO Insights

Augmenting Your Work with AI While Preserving Human Judgment

The question facing treasury and finance leaders is no longer if artificial intelligence will transform how work is accomplished, but how to orchestrate its integration effectively without compromising the value of human expertise and strategic insights. In this visionary keynote, renowned Tech Humanist Kate O'Neill reveals how leaders and individual contributors alike can harness AI's transformative capabilities while preserving the irreplaceable human judgment that drives meaningful financial outcomes. Through compelling case studies and actionable frameworks, Kate demonstrates how the world's most successful organizations are creating competitive advantage by treating AI as a powerful amplifier of human wisdom, not a replacement. Attendees leave with a strategic roadmap for working and leading confidently in the age of intelligent finance.

Bio

Kate O’Neill is widely known as “the Tech Humanist.” A digital innovator for over 25 years, she is founder of KO Insights, a strategic advisory firm committed to improving human experience at scale. Her world-leading clients have included Google, Adobe, IBM, Yale University, the city of Amsterdam, and the United Nations. O’Neill’s prior roles include creating the first content management role at Netflix as one of the company’s first 100 employees and developing Toshiba America’s first intranet. Author of 5 books including her latest, A Future So Bright, O’Neill’s insights and expertise have been featured in WIRED, CMO.com, USA Today, and many other outlets. In 2020 she was named to the Thinkers50 Radar, a global ranking of top management thinkers.