Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE
Future of Work & Digital Transformation Speaker for AI & Information Technology
Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon works with technology organisations navigating a fundamental shift: how to build, deploy, and scale AI responsibly whilst adapting business models, workforce capability, and organisational culture.
Her sessions focus on helping leaders understand not just what emerging technologies can do, but how they should be applied in organisations that are simultaneously creating and being transformed by them — where speed, responsibility, and long-term value all matter.
Where Anne-Marie Is Most Relevant
Anne-Marie’s sessions are particularly valuable for organisations managing transformation across product development, business models, and workforce capability.
She is most relevant for:
- Technology companies, AI labs, and software firms integrating AI into products and operations
- Leaders balancing innovation with ethical responsibility, risk, and regulation
- Organisations rethinking business models as AI reshapes value creation
- Teams scaling engineering, data, and product capability in competitive talent markets
- Organisations looking to improve product quality, safety, and user relevance
- Leaders addressing skills gaps across technical and non-technical teams
Some Common Challenges & Anne-Marie’s Approach
Technology organisations face a paradox: they are building the tools that will reshape every other sector, yet many are grappling with the same internal pressures as their clients — skills shortages, cultural inertia, ethical blind spots, and business models being disrupted by the very innovations they helped create.
Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE understands the industry from the inside and focuses on where technology can be applied practically to improve decision-making, product quality, and organisational effectiveness.
⚖️ Equitable Practice
The systems you build reflect the teams that build them.
Anne-Marie shares how to identify and address bias across the full technology development lifecycle — from data collection and model training to product design and deployment — and why equitable practice is increasingly a commercial and regulatory necessity, not just an ethical aspiration.
🔄 Business Models & Ways of Working
AI isn’t just changing what technology companies sell — it’s changing how they operate.
Anne-Marie explores how the most forward-thinking organisations are rethinking their business models, delivery structures, and workforce strategies in response to AI-driven disruption, and what that means for the people, processes, and culture that underpin long-term competitiveness.
🧑💻 Human-First Design
The most powerful technology is the kind people actually use.
Anne-Marie explores why putting human experience, accessibility, and inclusion at the centre of product and systems design produces better commercial outcomes — not just better ethics — and how to build that principle into your organisation’s ways of working from the ground up.
🔐 Cyber
As AI capabilities grow, so does the sophistication of the threats. Technology organisations carry a dual responsibility: securing their own systems and helping clients navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape.
Anne-Marie equips leaders to build cyber literacy across your organisation, make faster and smarter decisions about risk, and lead with confidence in environments where the threat surface is constantly shifting.
⚖️ Inclusive Innovation
Diverse teams build better technology. In an industry that shapes how the world works, representation isn’t a side agenda — it determines the quality, safety, and reach of what you ship.
Anne-Marie makes the case for why inclusion is a technical and commercial imperative, and shows how to make it real inside your organisation.
Recent AI & Technology Keynotes
Specifically designed for technology companies, AI labs, software vendors, IT services firms, and digital transformation teams, these presentations address the urgent challenges facing technology leaders today.
The Tech Landscape and Why It Needs Diversity
Tech is a booming industry with growing importance in any given economy, yet suffers from a large skills shortage and low representation of women. Anne-Marie dissects the HERstory of the tech industry and what it means for future innovators.
Key Takeaways:
- A clearer understanding of the link between diverse development teams and safer, more equitable, and more commercially successful products
- Greater clarity on how to attract and retain diverse technical talent in highly competitive skills markets
- A more defined view of how to build fairness and rigour into AI systems, algorithmic decision-making, and product design from the earliest stages
Best for:
Leaders focused on product quality, innovation, and responsible AI
AI & The Future of Work
Robots are going to take our jobs eventually — in fact it’s already started. This is a comical, yet real, look at how AI is already reshaping technology organisations — and what this means for how work is structured and delivered.
Key Takeaways:
- A clearer understanding of how AI is transforming software development, product delivery, and internal operations within technology organisations
- A more defined view of how AI is reshaping business models and revenue streams as previously high-value technical work becomes commoditized
- Greater clarity on how automation impacts engineering, QA, data, and support functions across the workforce
- A stronger understanding of how continuous learning keeps teams effective as technology evolves
- A clearer view of the new opportunities — across products, services, and ways of working — that emerge through sustained engagement with AI
Transforming Fear into Fuel: the Continual Evolution of Tech
A session focused on how organisations respond to ongoing technological change — turning uncertainty into action.
Anne-Marie draws on cross-sector insights to help teams move from awareness to practical adoption.
Key Takeaways:
- A clearer understanding of why deep technical expertise becomes more valuable — not less — when combined with strategic, ethical, and human-centred thinking
- Greater clarity on where AI augments human skill and where human judgement remains essential
- Increased confidence across teams to engage with technological change as active participants and shapers, not just implementers
- A more defined view of how to turn technological disruption into differentiation for both the organisation and individual careers
Taking CTRL / She’s in CTRL
Anne-Marie shares practical ways to operate effectively inside organisations that are both building and being reshaped by technology
Key Takeaways:
- A clearer understanding of how to make effective use of AI within organisations that are both building and being transformed by it
- Greater clarity on how Employee Resource Groups support more inclusive environments where diverse technical talent can thrive and progress
- A more defined view of the human skills — communication, judgement, and ethical reasoning — that strengthen effectiveness, not just efficiency
Why AI & Technology Needs Diversity
The industry building the future has a responsibility to build it for everyone.
Anne-Marie makes the case that diversity in technology isn’t a pipeline problem to be solved later — it’s a design, safety, and commercial issue that affects every product shipped and every system deployed today.
Key Takeaways:
- A clearer understanding of how homogenous teams introduce bias into AI models, data sets, and product decisions
- Greater clarity on how to build inclusive hiring, retention, and progression practices in highly competitive technical talent markets
- A more defined view of how to address the representation gap in engineering, AI research, and technology leadership
- A clearer understanding of how product and platform design can better serve the full breadth of users, not just the majority
- Greater awareness of the link between team diversity and the quality, safety, and market reach of technology products
- A more structured view of how to support and develop the next generation of technology leaders from underrepresented backgrounds
Deep Technology Expertise
Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon is one of the few keynote speakers who can engage technology organisations from the inside — combining lived experience with deep technical expertise.
A recognised prodigy who passed A-level computing at age 11 and earned a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oxford at 20, she brings genuine technical depth to conversations about AI, systems design, and the future of the profession.
As Founder of Stemettes and current Chair of the Institute for the Future of Work, Anne-Marie works at the frontier of the questions technology organisations need to answer: how do you build equitable systems at scale? How do you future-proof a workforce in an industry that reinvents itself every few years? And how do you lead organisations through transformation when the technology itself is moving faster than strategy can keep up with?
Voted the most influential woman in tech in the UK in 2020 and awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to STEM, she is a trusted and credible voice — in the room and on the stage — for technology leaders navigating the 4IR.
Deep Technology Impact
70,000+
Young people inspired through Stemettes
200+
Global keynote presentations
MBE
Awarded 2017 for services to STEM
Envoy
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Trusted by Leading Organisations
From global technology companies and AI pioneers to digital-first businesses and public sector technology teams, Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE has helped leaders build more capable, inclusive, and future-ready organisations.
Goldman Sachs · Deutsche Bank · Google · Facebook · ASOS · Mercedes-Benz · Mastercard · Fujitsu
What Leaders Are Saying
Audiences consistently praise Anne-Marie’s ability to make complex technology accessible whilst challenging organisations to think differently about talent, innovation, and the future of professional work.
“Anne-Marie’s speaking style is engaging, authoritative, and highly accessible. She combines deep subject knowledge with clear, confident delivery, making complex ideas easy to understand whilst encouraging audiences to think differently about potential, opportunity, and innovation.”
— Speaking Office
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