Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE
Future of Work & Digital Transformation Speaker for Energy & Utilities
Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon works with energy and utilities organisations navigating the 4th Industrial Revolution: how to modernise systems, capabilities, and workforce models in response to rapid technological change and the energy transition.
Her sessions focus on helping leaders understand not just what emerging technologies — including AI — can do, but how they can be applied in complex, highly regulated, and operationally critical environments where reliability, safety, and long-term decision-making all matter.
Where Anne-Marie Is Most Relevant
Anne-Marie’s sessions are particularly valuable for energy and utilities organisations managing complex transformation across infrastructure, operations, and workforce.
She is most relevant for:
- Energy generators, network operators, and water companies modernising infrastructure and integrating renewables
- Leaders balancing reliability, safety, and performance with digital transformation and net zero commitments
- Organisations digitising control rooms, field operations, and customer systems without introducing risk
- Teams focused on improving asset performance, reducing outages, and making better infrastructure decisions
- Organisations looking to unlock value from data across smart grids, metering, and connected assets
- Leaders addressing skills gaps across engineering, digital, and data
Trends & Challenges In Energy & Utilities
Energy and utilities organisations are managing a transformation on two fronts simultaneously: decarbonising ageing infrastructure whilst digitising the systems that keep the lights on and the water flowing.
This transformation is happening across live networks — generation, transmission, distribution, and customer systems — where failure has immediate operational, regulatory, and societal consequences.
Regulatory pressure, net zero commitments, and a workforce facing rapid technological change make this one of the most complex operating environments of the 4IR era.
Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon understands these pressures and provides practical frameworks that work in safety-critical, asset-heavy, and highly regulated environments.
⚠️ Anticipating Accidents & Repairs
Organisations are still largely reactive when it comes to asset failure — leading to downtime, safety risks, and avoidable cost.
Anne-Marie shares how AI-powered predictive maintenance and anomaly detection enable a shift from reactive repair to proactive asset management — helping teams identify faults earlier, reduce disruption, and improve operational performance.
🤝 Customer Service Transformation
Energy customers expect seamless, digital-first experiences — without compromising trust in an essential service.
. Anne-Marie explores how AI enables more personalised communication, faster resolution, and smarter demand management — while maintaining the human judgement and reliability customers expect.
📊 Data Exploration & Visualisation
Energy organisations sit on vast volumes of underutilised operational, environmental, and customer data
Anne-Marie shares how to turn that data into actionable intelligence: from grid performance and consumption patterns to workforce planning and regulatory reporting, making complex data comprehensible and commercially useful at every level of the organisation.
🗺️ Planning for a Net Zero Future
The transition to clean energy is as much a planning and decision-making challenge as it is a technical one.
Anne-Marie examines how AI and advanced modelling support scenario-planning for infrastructure investment, renewable integration, and regulatory compliance, enabling faster, more confident strategic decisions in an environment of genuine uncertainty.
⚖️ Inclusive Innovation
The sector is rebuilding its workforce and systems for a net zero future — but risks remain where perspectives are limited
Anne-Marie connects diversity directly to infrastructure quality, system resilience, and workforce sustainability — showing why representation is critical to better long-term decisions.
Recent Energy & Utilities Keynotes
Specifically designed for energy generators, network operators, water companies, and utilities providers, these presentations address the operational, regulatory, and workforce challenges unique to energy systems.
The Tech Landscape and Why It Needs Diversity
Tech is a booming industry with growing importance in every economy — but energy and utilities face a specific challenge: competing for digital talent while transforming legacy infrastructure.
Anne-Marie dissects the evolution of the tech industry and its implications for energy systems, and why workforce composition directly impacts system performance, safety, and long-term resilience.
Key Outcomes:
- A clearer link between diverse engineering and data science teams and improved safety, infrastructure decisions, and service delivery
- More effective approaches to attracting and retaining digitally literate, diverse talent in a highly competitive skills market
- Stronger understanding of how to build fairness into predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, and customer-facing AI systems
Best for:
Leaders focused on talent, capability, and long-term system performance
AI & The Future of Work
AI is already reshaping how energy systems are operated, maintained, and optimised.
Anne-Marie explores how this applies across control rooms, field operations, and customer-facing services.
Key outcomes:
- A clearer understanding of how AI is transforming control room operations, field workforce management, and customer service delivery
- More effective use of predictive analytics to anticipate equipment failure, schedule maintenance, and reduce unplanned outages
- Greater efficiency in data collection and regulatory reporting, with more time for engineers and analysts to focus on higher-value decision-making
- Better preparation of the workforce — from field operatives to board level — for AI-augmented roles
- A clearer view of new service models and revenue opportunities from data generated by smart grids, meters, and connected assets
Best for:
Leaders focused on practical AI use cases and operational performance
Transforming Fear into Fuel: the Continual Evolution of Tech
A transformative session focused on turning technological change into practical capability.
A focused session on how organisations move from awareness and pilots to real adoption at scale, turning digital investment into operational reality.
Anne-Marie shows how existing engineering and operational expertise can be extended — not replaced — by digital tools and AI.
Key Outcomes:
- Stronger recognition of why deep operational and engineering expertise becomes more valuable — not less — when combined with digital literacy
- Increased confidence in using AI tools for data exploration, asset planning, and customer insight
- More effective engagement with the technologies reshaping the energy sector across teams — from field engineers to executive leadership
- A more practical sense of how to turn digital disruption into competitive advantage in the transition to net zero
Best for:
Leaders focused on adoption, workforce transition, and making transformation stick
Taking CTRL / She’s in CTRL
Anne-Marie draws on learnings from her own career, those of the people she looks up to, and shares her vision for a world where more people have technical and digital literacy. In line with her book of the same name, she shares ways to communicate, investigate, broker deals, problem-solve and protect yourself in a digital world — finishing with actionable next steps on how to make tech work for you and your career.
Key Outcomes:
- Greater confidence in applying digital tools to real energy and utilities workflows — from asset investigation and fault analysis to stakeholder communication
- More effective use of AI within safety-critical, compliance-driven environments where decisions impact infrastructure performance and community outcomes
- Stronger decision-making in operational contexts where data, systems, and human judgement must work together
- More practical ways to support inclusive environments — including through Employee Resource Groups — that attract and retain the talent required for the energy transition
- Clear next steps for applying digital capability in roles where reliability, resilience, and public trust are non-negotiable
Best for:
Organisations focused on building digital capability and strengthening decision-making across safety-critical energy and utilities operations
Why Energy & Utilities Needs Diversity
The energy transition will only succeed if the organisations leading it reflect the full range of communities they serve. Anne-Marie makes the business case for diversity in an industry rebuilding itself for a net zero future — and shows why homogenous teams are a liability when the stakes are this high.
Key Outcomes:
- A stronger awareness of the relationship between team diversity and safety, infrastructure planning, and operational performance
- Deeper insight into how bias influences AI-driven infrastructure planning, demand modelling, and customer systems
- Practical ways to build inclusive cultures that attract and retain diverse engineering, data science, and operational talent
- More focused approaches to closing representation gaps across senior leadership, grid technology, and clean energy development
- Better alignment of services and systems to meet the needs of all customer communities, including vulnerable households
- A clearer link between team composition and the quality of innovation, planning, and long-term system outcomes
- Effective ways to support and develop the next generation of energy leaders from underrepresented backgrounds
Best for:
Organisations focused on infrastructure, innovation, and workforce strategy in the transition to net zero
Deep Technology & Sector Expertise
Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon brings a distinctive perspective to energy and utilities — combining genuine technical mastery with a front-line understanding of how AI and automation are reshaping work in complex, asset-intensive, and safety-critical organisations.
As Founder of Stemettes and current Chair of the Institute for the Future of Work, Anne-Marie operates at the intersection of technology, workforce transformation, and inclusive innovation — three forces that will define which energy organisations successfully navigate the 4IR.
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 the technical credibility to engage seriously with data, systems, and AI — and the communication skills to make those ideas land with non-technical audiences at every level of the organisation.
Voted the most influential woman in tech in the UK in 2020 and awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to STEM, Anne-Marie is a trusted voice on technology, diversity, and the future of work across regulated, high-stakes industries.
Energy & Utilities Impact
70,000+
Young people inspired through Stemettes
200+
Global keynote presentations
MBE
Awarded 2017 for services to STEM
Chair
Institute for the Future of Work
Trusted by Leading Organisations
From global infrastructure operators and technology companies to government bodies and public sector organisations, Prof Anne-Marie Imafidon has helped leaders navigate digital transformation and build more inclusive, 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.
“She is inspirational and infectious!”
— Amazon
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