Léa Steinacker
Dr. Léa Steinacker is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, and social scientist with a PhD in the social dimensions of artificially intelligent systems (AI). Her work focuses on how technology interacts with people, organizations, and the planet.
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Léa Steinacker's 2024 biography
About Dr. Léa Steinacker
Léa Steinacker, PhD, is a social scientist, bestselling author, board member, and award-winning entrepreneur focused on how technology interacts with people, practices, and the planet.
Her 2024 book on artificial intelligence, co-written with Prof. Dr. Miriam Meckel became an instant national bestseller.
For about a decade, she has researched the widespread impact of emerging technologies like AI, with publications on a range of topics like automated facial recognition, synthetic voice generation, quantum computing, as well as my original framework of Code Capital. With her expertise in emerging technologies and their wide-ranging effects, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Weleda AG, and a member of the AI Advisory Board of Ringier AG, one of Switzerland’s leading media companies, and a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, teaching courses like “Social and Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence.
In 2018, she co-founded and is now the Executive Chairwoman of ada Learning to accelerate organizational change by identifying, transforming, and uniting leaders who amplify innovation from within. Since its inception, ada has connected and worked with thousands of employees from DAX companies, SMEs, governments, and civil society organizations.
Previously, she served as the Chief Innovation Officer of WirtschaftsWoche, Germany’s leading business magazine, where she also covered the future of work and socio-technological change. Prior to joining Handelsblatt Media Group, she worked with social justice NGOs in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 leader, one of Medium Magazine’s Top 30 Under 30 journalists, a BCG Thought Leader, and an Atlantik Brücke Young Leader. In 2011, she was awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse Prize for independent research.
Léa holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPP), and the University of St. Gallen (PhD).
Léa Steinacker's 2024 talks & topics
Everything Everywhere All at Once: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Our World and What We Can Gain from It
Artificial Intelligence: A Century Technology and Its Opportunities
AI: Use Cases in (INDUSTRY X)
AI in Everyday Life: Practical Solutions for More Efficient Business Processes / for Traditional Companies / for Productive Teams
Human with Machine: AI Skills as a Productivity Accelerator
Ethical AI Applications: Business Success in the Context of European Regulation
AI Skills for Everyone: How to Prepare Your Workforce for the Future
Learning Organizations: Strengthening Employee Skills through AI
Beyond the code: AI for your Company
Code capital: The transformative power of AI for business and society
Generative AI: How to unlock its potential for your teams
The Thinking Machine: How AI Will Change Your Industry
Social and Economic Implications of AI
The Future of Human-Machine Collaboration: Generative AI
Ethics of AI
The Role of Europe in the AI Race
How Quantum Computing Might Change the Way You Think
The Next Internet: Immersion in the Metaverse
Léa Steinacker's 2024 speaking fees
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