Speaking
I speak about what happens when real organisations try to use AI. Not the potential. The practice. What stalls, what works, what nobody talks about on stage but everyone recognises in the room.
Talk topics
The Human:AI Ratio: Making AI Work in Real Teams
Most AI adoption stalls in the middle of organisations. The people with eight to twelve years of experience, the ones who actually run things, are the hardest to move. This talk explains why, using real examples from training sessions across higher education, public sector and cultural organisations, and offers a practical framework for getting adoption past awareness and into workflow.
How LLMs Describe Universities (and What That Means for Your Brand)
AI is already shaping how prospective students discover and evaluate universities. This talk presents original research into how large language models describe institutions, what they get right, what they get wrong, and what marketing teams need to do about it before someone else defines their brand for them.
AI Visual Metaphors: Why How We Picture AI Shapes How We Use It
The images we use to represent AI, robots, brains, glowing circuits, shape how organisations think about it. This talk unpacks the visual language of AI and argues that better metaphors lead to better adoption. Practical, visual and slightly uncomfortable for anyone who has ever used a stock photo of a robot handshake.
Previous speaking
- SXSW EDU 2026, Austin
- DCMS Innovation Summit
- HEMC (Higher Education Marketing Conference)
- LovePG Conference
- IPA Talent and Diversity Conference
- Robots Are Coming
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If you're organising an event and this sounds like a fit, get in touch. I tailor every talk to the audience and I'm happy to discuss format, length and topic.