Why Michelle
Your main stage is the most expensive thing you control. This page is the case for spending it on an engineer who has built the technology she describes.
Dr Michelle Dickinson is a PhD engineer, technology executive and global keynote speaker on artificial intelligence, robotics and the future of work. Drawing on deep technical experience in AI and robotics, she helps audiences understand how technology is changing work, and the human capabilities that will matter next. She has delivered more than 450 keynotes worldwide for organisations including Gartner, Microsoft, SAP, Deloitte and Mastercard.
Michelle is a PhD engineer whose career runs from the atomic scale to AI and robotics. She brings the technical depth to go beyond the headlines and explain how transformative technologies actually work, and what they mean next.
Published research
Michelle's work is where AI leaves the screen and enters the physical world. As a technology executive in Silicon Valley robotics, she has helped deploy AI-powered robots into real factories, learning first-hand what machines can do, where they still fail, and what changes for the people working alongside them.
The keynote on physical AI
More than 450 keynotes, alongside television, books and teaching, have made Michelle expert at reading a room and tailoring the talk to it, making complex ideas clear, compelling and relevant, whether she's speaking to executives, technical specialists or thousands on a global stage.
Watch Michelle speakThe technology is never the point.
What humans choose to do with it is.
A keynote can fail in ways that have nothing to do with the content. These are the ones organisers tell us they worry about.
Every keynote is shaped around the audience, industry and objectives of the event, with stories, examples and emphasis chosen to make the ideas land in the room.
Michelle understands what it takes to deliver on a main stage. Briefs are answered, run sheets respected and AV crews treated as colleagues, not handed a list of demands. And when something fails, she can hold the room without the slides.
Michelle understands the technology beneath the headlines because she has spent her career working with it, from advanced materials and nanotechnology to AI-powered robotics. Decades of teaching and broadcasting mean she can make complex ideas clear without making them simplistic.
Numbers with their source, and the words of people who have booked her.
450+ Keynotes across global stages
4.81/5 Gartner speaker score Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, delegate scoring
Michelle's keynote was not only the highest rated event at this year's Summit, it was the highest rated event at any Summit TCS have run.
Attendees called it the best keynote they've seen, praising her storytelling, practical examples and the energy she brings to the stage.
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