Georgie Barrat
Most leaders now agree that AI will reshape their workforce. Fewer can say what that looks like on a Monday morning for a marketing coordinator, a finance analyst or a field engineer. The distance between boardroom AI strategy and the person being asked to use the tools is where adoption stalls, budgets leak and cultural resistance hardens.
Georgie Barrat is a technology broadcaster and keynote speaker who helps organisations turn AI hype into practical adoption, drawing on seven years fronting Channel 5’s The Gadget Show and a decade translating emerging tech for non-technical audiences.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Georgie Barrat
- Seven years fronting The Gadget Show built a specific skill, making complex technology feel usable to a general audience, and she brings that directly into boardroom and all-hands settings where AI adoption is stalling.
- She runs The AI Method, her own programme for helping non-technical users integrate AI into their work, so the keynote is informed by what actually lands with finance, HR and operations staff rather than with engineers.
- She has hosted on-stage for Google, IBM, Sony, Huawei, Mastercard and BAFTA, which means the moderating craft is tested at the level of audience and panellist that senior events require.
- Her keynote circuit includes Web Summit, Mobile World Congress and Smart City Expo, the venues where the AI and future-of-work conversation is actually being shaped.
- She is a credible voice on women in technology and STEM inclusion through sustained work with Stemettes, the IET, Girls in ICT and Childnet, which makes her a natural fit for diversity-led tech events rather than a bolt-on.
Biography highlights
- Presenter of Channel 5’s The Gadget Show for seven years from 2017.
- Regular contributor to BBC Morning Live and stand-in host for Jeremy Vine on 5.
- Founder of The AI Method, an AI adoption programme for non-technical users and solopreneurs.
- Keynote speaker at Web Summit, Mobile World Congress and Smart City Expo.
- Host and moderator for Google, IBM, Sony, Huawei, Mastercard and BAFTA.
- First-class degree in English Literature from King’s College London.
Biography
Most organisations have an AI strategy. Far fewer have a workforce that knows what to do with it. That translation problem, between a tool a leadership team has bought and the person on the payroll expected to use it, is the ground Georgie Barrat has worked for more than a decade.
Her training is broadcast. Seven years as a presenter of Channel 5’s The Gadget Show taught her to make complex consumer and enterprise technology legible to a general audience without losing the point. That discipline now runs through her keynotes on AI, digital transformation and the future of work, delivered at Web Summit, Mobile World Congress and Smart City Expo, and at corporate audiences for Google, IBM, Sony, Huawei, Mastercard and BAFTA.
Barrat founded The AI Method, a programme designed for women and solopreneurs using AI without a technical background. It gives her keynote material an unusual grounding. She is not theorising about adoption; she is testing what actually moves a non-engineer from curiosity to use. That edge matters for any leader whose AI rollout depends on marketing, finance, HR and operations staff, not data scientists.
She is also a sustained advocate for women in tech and STEM inclusion, working with Stemettes, the IET, Girls in ICT and Childnet. On stage she hosts, moderates and keynotes. Off stage she still reports, with regular slots on BBC Morning Live and Jeremy Vine on 5, which keeps the material current rather than curated.
Key speaking topics
- Artificial intelligence and workforce adoption
- Future of work in an AI-powered organisation
- Digital transformation and culture change
- Consumer and enterprise technology trends
- Women in technology and STEM inclusion
- Event hosting, moderation and on-stage interviewing
Ideal for
- Leadership teams and all-hands audiences grappling with AI rollout across non-technical functions.
- CHROs, L&D leads and transformation directors planning workforce upskilling around AI.
- Tech, telecoms and consumer brands needing a broadcast-grade host or moderator for flagship events.
- Employee networks and diversity councils building credible women-in-tech programmes.
Audience outcomes
- A clearer picture of where AI creates real productivity gains inside the business versus where the hype is running ahead of the use case.
- Practical language for leaders to use with non-technical staff so adoption feels less threatening and more achievable.
- A sharper view of which emerging technologies, from generative AI to spatial computing, warrant attention on a three-year horizon.
- Evidence-backed framing for women-in-tech and STEM inclusion work that goes beyond celebration days.
Talks
A keynote on how AI reshapes roles, skills and learning across the organisation, and what leaders need to do now to stay ahead of it.
Key takeaways:
- Where AI is already acting as a workplace partner rather than a novelty.
- The skills that rise in value as routine tasks automate.
- A leadership posture for the AI transition that reduces fear and accelerates adoption.
A guided tour of the technologies that will define the next decade, from generative AI to brain-computer interfaces, with a focus on business implication.
Key takeaways:
- Which near-future technologies are closest to commercial impact.
- How to spot the difference between a demo and a deployable capability.
- Where leadership attention is best placed over the next three years.
A keynote on building an organisation that can absorb continuous digital change rather than reacting to each wave of it.
Key takeaways:
- The cultural traits that separate organisations that adopt from those that stall.
- How to bridge the digital divide inside a workforce, not just across customers.
- Practical moves for leaders trying to make transformation stick past the launch event.