Built at the atomic scale.
Michelle is a PhD engineer with deep experience in advanced materials and emerging technology. Her technical credibility holds up in front of sophisticated technical audiences.
The research behind itWhy Michelle
Not another futurist.An engineer building what comes next.
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 MNZM is a PhD engineer, robotics and AI advisor and global keynote speaker on artificial intelligence, physical AI, robotics and the future of work. She has delivered more than 450 keynotes worldwide for organisations including Gartner, Microsoft, SAP, Deloitte and Mastercard.
Built on the factory floor.
Michelle works where AI leaves the screen and enters the physical world. She has worked inside a Silicon Valley robotics company deploying AI-powered robotics into real manufacturing, seeing first hand what machines can do, where they still fail, and what changes for the people working alongside them.
The keynote on physical AI
Built around your audience.
More than 450 keynotes, alongside television, books and teaching, have made Michelle unusually good at reading a room and tailoring the talk to it, whether she's in front of executives, technical specialists or a general session of thousands.
Watch her work a roomThe technology is never the point.
What humans choose to do with it is.
The risk, from your side of the table
A keynote can fail in ways that have nothing to do with the content. These are the ones organisers tell us they worry about.
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Your event shapes the keynote
Industry, audience, organisational context and objectives influence the examples, stories and emphasis of the presentation.
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A safe pair of hands on the day
Briefs answered promptly, run sheets respected, and AV crews treated as colleagues rather than handed a list of demands. When something fails, Michelle can hold a room without slides, which is the moment most events find out who they booked.
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Technical credibility is built in
Michelle understands the technology beneath the headlines because she has spent her career working with it.
The proof
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
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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.
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Attendees called it the best keynote they've seen, praising her storytelling, practical examples and the energy she brings to the stage.
Let's talk about your room.