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Dame Wendy Hall

Pioneering Computer Scientist & Authority on AI Governance | UN AI Advisory Body & Co-Chair of the UK Government's AI Review | DBE, FRS & Regius Professor at Southampton

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Dame Wendy Hall is one of the world's most influential voices on AI and its governance. A pioneering computer scientist who helped shape the web, she co-chaired the UK Government's landmark AI Review and sits on the UN's high-level advisory body on AI. Regius Professor of Computer Science at Southampton and a Fellow of the Royal Society, she gives audiences a rare, authoritative view of where AI and digital power are heading.

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    Dame Wendy Hall biography

    AI speaker Dame Wendy Hall is one of the most influential and authoritative voices in the world on artificial intelligence, its governance, and the future of the internet. A pioneering computer scientist who was among the very first to research multimedia and hypermedia, she helped lay the groundwork for the web, and co-founded the field of Web Science. Today she sits at the center of the global conversation about how societies should harness and govern AI, advising governments and international institutions at the highest level.

    Hall’s influence on AI policy is unrivaled. She co-chaired the UK Government’s landmark AI Review, served as the UK’s first AI Skills Champion, and was appointed to the United Nations’ high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence, helping to shape international efforts to coordinate AI standards and governance. A former Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute, she is also a past President of both the Association for Computing Machinery, the first person from outside North America to hold the role, and the British Computer Society.

    Four Internets and the Geopolitics of Technology

    A Dame Commander of the British Empire and a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, Hall is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, one of only a handful of Regius chairs in the field. She is the co-author of Four Internets, an influential analysis of how competing political systems are fragmenting the online world and redefining digital sovereignty. Named one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK, she has also been appointed President of the British Science Association.

    As a speaker, Dame Wendy Hall is authoritative, clear, and refreshingly candid, cutting through the hype to explain what AI really means for business, government, and society. She speaks on the realities of AI adoption, the geopolitics of technology and the race for AI, the evolution of global AI regulation, the future of the internet, and the long-term implications for democracy, competitiveness, and human agency. Audiences gain a rare, big-picture perspective from someone who has helped shape the technology, and the policy, at the very highest level.

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    Amid relentless noise about artificial intelligence, Dame Wendy Hall offers something rare: a clear-eyed, authoritative view from someone who has shaped both the technology and the policy around it. In this keynote she separates genuine opportunity from hype, explaining where AI is really delivering value, where it is falling short, and what organizations need to understand to adopt it wisely and responsibly. Grounded and jargon-free, it is an essential briefing for any leader navigating the AI era.

    Drawing on her book Four Internets, Dame Wendy Hall explores one of the defining issues of our time: how competing political systems and great-power rivalry are fragmenting the internet and shaping the race for AI. She unpacks what digital sovereignty means, how the US, China, and Europe are pursuing different models, and what it all means for businesses, governments, and citizens. A sweeping, big-picture keynote on technology, power, and the future of the connected world.

    Few people have done more to shape how the world thinks about governing AI than Dame Wendy Hall, who co-chaired the UK's AI Review and sits on the UN's advisory body on AI. In this keynote she examines the hardest questions in AI governance: how to regulate a fast-moving technology, how to balance innovation with safety and ethics, and how to ensure AI serves the public good. An authoritative, forward-looking session on the rules that will shape our AI future.

    As a co-founder of Web Science and a pioneer of the technologies behind the web, Dame Wendy Hall brings a singular perspective on where our digital world is heading. In this keynote she explores how the internet is evolving, the interplay of technology, society, politics, and human behavior that shapes it, and the challenges and opportunities ahead, from AI and data to trust and democracy. A fascinating, authoritative look at the past, present, and future of the connected world.

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    FAQs on Booking Dame Wendy Hall

    Booking Dame Wendy Hall brings audiences one of the world's foremost authorities on artificial intelligence and its governance, a genuine pioneer who helped build the web and now helps shape global AI policy. She co-chaired the UK Government's AI Review, sits on the United Nations' advisory body on AI, and is Regius Professor of Computer Science at Southampton, a DBE, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Authoritative, clear, and refreshingly free of hype, she gives audiences a rare, big-picture understanding of where AI, technology, and digital power are heading. A consistently top-rated speaker, she is ideal for events on AI, technology, innovation, the future, and digital policy. To bring Dame Wendy Hall to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.

    Dame Wendy Hall is a pioneering British computer scientist and one of the world's leading authorities on artificial intelligence, AI policy, and the future of the internet. Regius Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton, she was among the first to research multimedia and hypermedia and co-founded the field of Web Science. She co-chaired the UK Government's AI Review, served as the UK's first AI Skills Champion, and was appointed to the United Nations' high-level advisory body on AI. A former Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute and past President of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the British Computer Society, she is the co-author of Four Internets. A DBE and a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, she has also been named President of the British Science Association.

    Four Internets, co-authored by Dame Wendy Hall with Kieron O'Hara, is an influential analysis of how the single, open internet many once imagined is fragmenting into competing versions, shaped by the different political and economic values of the United States, China, Europe, and others. The book explores digital sovereignty, data, and geopolitics, and how the online world is being redrawn by power and politics as much as by technology. That same lens shapes Hall's view on AI governance: she argues that AI is too consequential to be left to markets or technologists alone, and that getting the rules right, nationally and internationally, is one of the defining challenges of our age. Through her work co-chairing the UK's AI Review and serving on the UN's AI advisory body, she has pushed for governance that balances innovation with safety, ethics, and the public good, and that coordinates across borders rather than fragmenting further.

    Dame Wendy Hall speaks on the realities of AI adoption beyond the hype, the geopolitics of technology and the global AI race, AI regulation, ethics, and governance, and the future of the internet and Web Science. Her keynotes suit events on artificial intelligence, technology, innovation, the future, and digital policy, for corporate, government, and academic audiences. To book Dame Wendy Hall as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.

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