Kat Kemner

Women + AI Is a Competitive Advantage

Look Beneath the Surface

Women are 47% of the U.S. workforce but 83% of the workers in the jobs most exposed to AI. The easy read is that women have the most to lose. This talk argues the opposite. The roles most at risk run on exactly the skills AI needs most: empathy, context, reading people, knowing how work actually gets done. Drawing on close to a year of building AI agents inside one of the largest tech companies in the world, this keynote shows why empathy is not a soft skill in the AI era but a technical one, and why the people closest to the work are the ones companies should be building with, not laying off.

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What If AI Makes Us More Human, Not Less?

The fear about AI is that it costs us our humanity. Less empathy. Less connection. Less of the messy real stuff between people. This talk makes the opposite case. AI doesn't erase the human touch. It removes the limits that have always held our empathy back: fatigue, bias, the way we care deeply about one person and go numb to a million. Drawing on research and my own work building AI, this keynote shows where AI can carry the weight our emotional hardware was never built to hold, and just as important, which parts of being human should stay untouched. The goal is not better AI. It is better humans.

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The ABC Method: AI Implementation Made Simple

Everyone wants to start with the build. That is the mistake. You start with the audit. Work backward from the outcome the business wants. Weigh the value, the risk, the readiness. Pick the highest-return bets and break them into wins small enough to reach. Then you build. And to build, you have to break. Take the workflow apart. What step disappears. What stays human. What an agent can own. You do not bolt AI onto a broken process. You redesign it. Then you champion. The work does not end when the agent ships. It ends when your people reach for it without being told. Audit. Build. Champion. The only method that survives a real team.

AI for Non-Tech Professionals

Upskilling, Career Transitions & Job Search

My career didn't follow a straight line: brand management, then HR technology, then building AI agents. Every skill I use now, I built somewhere that didn't look like tech. If you're a woman in a career change, or wondering where you fit in the AI age, this is for you. The roles no one called technical taught you the skills this era needs most. You don't have to start over, and you don't have to become someone else to belong here. You pair what you already have with what these tools can do. You need a place to start, not a finished plan.

AI-Powered Job Search & Career Readiness Workshop

Interactive Workshop

A hands-on workshop that takes a holistic approach to job search and career transition, focused on using AI tools for career readiness needs. A live, hands-on workshop for anyone who has been laid off, is unemployed, is looking for a job, or is considering a career change. You'll learn how to use AI to make your job search easier and more effective, while also getting clearer on your strengths, skills, identity, and next career move. We start by connecting with others in a similar position and reflecting on who you are outside of your job. The workshop includes an identity exercise centered on the idea that your work is not your worth, and participants help shape it by voting on the topics they most want to cover. Topics range from using AI to find jobs you might not know about, exploring an Ikigai exercise around what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for, tailoring your résumé for specific roles and ATS systems, identifying and communicating transferable skills, preparing for interviews with AI role-play, building experience in a new field, and assembling a portfolio of past work and projects that demonstrates your skills. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of how to use AI throughout the job search process, from exploring career options and finding opportunities to applying, interviewing, building experience, and staying competitive in your field, plus useful AI prompts, interview-prep tools, career reflection exercises, and a personalized action plan you can start using right away.