Arthur C. Brooks
Harvard Professor & Leading Happiness Expert | #1 New York Times Bestselling Author | The Atlantic Columnist | Former President, American Enterprise Institute
Amanda Johnstone
Founding CEO of Transhuman (EmotionAI) | TIME Next Generation Leader | LinkedIn Top Voice in AI | Inventor of the 'Be A Looper' Mental Health App
Amanda Johnstone is a pioneering technologist and futurist working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human wellbeing. The founding CEO of Transhuman, an EmotionAI company, and the inventor of the mental health app Be A Looper, used in more than 80 countries, she is a TIME Next Generation Leader and a LinkedIn Top Voice in AI. She shows audiences how AI can be built ethically, to enhance human emotion, connection, and potential.
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Amanda Johnstone biography
AI speaker Amanda Johnstone is a pioneering technologist, inventor, and futurist working at the frontier where artificial intelligence meets human emotion and wellbeing. The founding CEO of Transhuman, an EmotionAI company, she has spent more than a decade building technology that connects the mind, the body, and the human spirit, and asking one essential question: how do we ensure that as machines become more capable, they also help us become more human?
Named a TIME Next Generation Leader, honored by The CEO Magazine as Startup Executive of the Year, and recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Voice in AI and by Salesforce as one of the world’s top AI influencers, Johnstone is one of Australia’s most globally recognized voices in emerging technology. Her company, Transhuman, pioneered work in neuroscience, AI ethics, and human behavior long before those conversations became mainstream, developing EmotionAI, technology that reads the body’s psycho-physiological signals and translates them into emotion, hailed by Forbes as the future of digital health.
Technology That Saves Lives
Johnstone’s most personal work grew out of loss. After losing friends to suicide, she invented Be A Looper, the world’s first daily mental health check-in app, which lets people share how they are feeling with a small circle of friends and quietly signals when someone may need support. It has reached more than 80 countries and helped tens of thousands of people. Johnstone began this mission young, becoming Australia’s first youth development officer at eighteen and spending years working in suicide prevention, and it continues to shape her belief that technology’s highest purpose is to help people connect, heal, and thrive.
As a speaker, Amanda Johnstone is energetic, visionary, and deeply human, making the fast-moving world of AI feel both exciting and hopeful. She speaks on the future of AI and the human-machine relationship, EmotionAI and the Internet of Bodies, ethics in the age of data, the AI-transformed workforce, technology for mental health and wellbeing, and women in leadership. Audiences leave with a clear-eyed yet optimistic view of where technology is heading, and a powerful reminder that the future of AI should be, above all, human.
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Amanda Johnstone takes audiences beyond the hype and the fear to a clear, hopeful vision of where artificial intelligence is really heading, and what it means for how we live, work, and connect. Drawing on more than a decade at the frontier of emerging technology, she explores the biggest shifts on the horizon, from the AI-transformed workforce to the agent economy, and makes the case that the most important question isn't what AI can do, but how we ensure it makes us more human, not less.
What happens when technology can understand not just what we say, but how we feel? As a pioneer of EmotionAI, Johnstone reveals how AI is learning to read the body's signals and respond to human emotion, and how this is transforming everything from healthcare and wellbeing to the devices, cars, and spaces around us. A fascinating, forward-looking look at one of the most profound frontiers in technology, and what it means for business and society.
As AI grows more powerful, the hardest questions aren't technical, they're human. Johnstone, an ethical technologist who has worked on AI ethics since before it was mainstream, helps leaders navigate the responsibilities that come with data, automation, and intelligent machines. She explores how organizations can innovate boldly while protecting privacy, trust, and human dignity, and why getting ethics right is not a constraint on progress, but the key to it.
Johnstone built a life-saving mental health app used in more than 80 countries, and she believes technology's greatest potential is to strengthen human connection and wellbeing. In this moving, purpose-driven keynote, she shares how thoughtful technology can support mental health, foster genuine connection, and be a force for good, and challenges leaders and innovators to build products and cultures that put human flourishing at the center. An inspiring talk on tech, purpose, and impact.
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Why Amanda Johnstone?
Booking Amanda Johnstone brings audiences a rare kind of AI expert: one who is not only at the cutting edge of the technology, but deeply focused on its human impact. As the founding CEO of an EmotionAI company, a TIME Next Generation Leader, and the inventor of a mental health app used in more than 80 countries, she speaks about artificial intelligence with both authority and heart. Energetic, visionary, and genuinely inspiring, she helps audiences feel hopeful rather than fearful about the future, while giving them a clear understanding of the trends reshaping their world. She is ideal for events on AI, technology, innovation, the future of work, wellbeing, and women in leadership. To bring Amanda Johnstone to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Amanda Johnstone?
Amanda Johnstone is an Australian technology entrepreneur, inventor, investor, and keynote speaker recognized globally for her work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human wellbeing. She is the founding CEO of Transhuman, a mental health and EmotionAI technology company she founded in 2014, and the inventor of Be A Looper, the world's first daily mental health check-in app. She has been named a TIME Next Generation Leader, The CEO Magazine's Startup Executive of the Year, a LinkedIn Top Voice in AI, and one of Salesforce's top AI influencers. Originally from Tasmania, she began her career in youth development and suicide prevention before becoming one of Australia's most globally recognized voices in emerging technology.
What is EmotionAI, and what is the Be A Looper app?
EmotionAI is a field of artificial intelligence, pioneered by Amanda Johnstone's company Transhuman, that reads the body's psycho-physiological signals and translates them into emotion, allowing technology to understand and respond to how people feel. Forbes has described it as the future of digital health, with applications ranging from wellbeing to the everyday devices and spaces around us. Be A Looper is the mental health app Johnstone invented after losing friends to suicide. Recognized as the world's first daily mental health check-in app, it lets users rate how they are feeling each day and share that with a small circle of trusted friends, with a built-in alert that signals when someone may need extra support. The app has reached more than 80 countries and helped tens of thousands of people stay connected and supported.
What topics does AI speaker Amanda Johnstone cover?
Amanda Johnstone speaks on the future of AI and the human-machine relationship, EmotionAI and the Internet of Bodies, ethics in the age of AI and data, the AI-transformed workforce, technology for mental health and wellbeing, and women in leadership. Her keynotes suit events on AI, technology, innovation, the future of work, healthcare, and wellbeing. To book Amanda Johnstone as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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