Emily Kate Genatowski

Emily Kate Genatowski is a leading researcher and keynote speaker on artificial intelligence, digital culture, and the human relationship with machines. A PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, Emily explores the intersection of AI, ethics, and historiography, with a particular focus on domestic robotics and the ways technology transforms everyday life. Known for combining rigorous academic insight with lived experimentation, she has gone as far as cohabiting with a humanoid robot to better understand trust, privacy, and identity in an AI-driven world.

After earning her Bachelor’s in History at Columbia University and her Master’s in Museology at Harvard University, Emily began her career with digital innovation roles at the Smithsonian Institution, The Frick Collection, and The Jewish Museum. She then became North American Coordinator for Google Arts & Culture, where she led AI-driven partnerships with organisations such as the Smithsonian, NASA, and the US National Archives. Alongside this, she founded Global Art Access Corporation, promoting engagement with art and history through new technologies, and later experimented with activist technology through her start-up Signtelligent, which helped generate over 100,000 targeted policy requests in under two weeks during the BLM movement.

Since 2022, Emily has pursued doctoral research in Vienna, where she also created the first master’s course on Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in Humanities Research, later published on DARIAH Campus for a European network of scholars. She leads a CLARIAH-funded project on standardising AI citation in academic writing, and has built collaborations with the University’s EEG lab, introducig students to brain-computer interface testing. Her work is driven by a commitment to the democratisation of technology and the accurate recording of contemporary history in the digital age, with case studies spanning the war in Ukraine to global open-source intelligence practices.

Emily is now a recognised international speaker, having given keynote addresses at Roma Tor Vergata, the Eden Conference, and at UN Headquarters. She has been invited to present at Oxford University, the Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference, and TEDAI Vienna, where she will also deliver a mainstage TED Talk in 2025. Whether addressing policymakers, academics, or corporate audiences, Emily translates complex AI themes into compelling, human-centred narratives. Organisations that book her gain access to a speaker who is both a thought leader and an experimenter at the frontier of AI and society.