Base Camp Keynote Speaker Sinead Bovell in her own words

Published on January 28, 2023

Beeler.Tech is super excited to have as our opening keynote speaker at Base Camp Newport Beach, Sinead Bovell.

Sinead Bovell is a futurist UN speaker, WIRED contributor, model, and the founder of WAYE, an organization that helps prepare the next generation of business leaders for a world radically transformed by technology, focusing on non-traditional and minority markets.

I am assuming – perhaps incorrectly – that most of you haven't heard of Sinead. I'm not going to lie, that I became of aware of Sinead on TikTok with posts like this about the human cost of AI:

or the risks and limits of ChatGPT:

I could start to list the reasons I reached out to her about being a speaker, but I think her own words should convince you why she's perfect for what we are trying to accomplish at Base Camp:

“You can’t know code and not human rights; they have to be together at this point in time.” - Source

"The changes we're seeing today weren't on the forecast charts until year 2027, 2030." - Source

“Automation is absolutely going to disrupt the workforce, and it’s going to force people to reskill, but I think that’s a very good thing,” Bovell said. “We’re going to have to focus on the skills that are uniquely human. It will probably create more jobs than it will displace, it’s just hard to picture what those are.” - Source

When asked about giving a voice to younger people, she said:

It is just morally incorrect to make massive life-changing decisions that will impact a generation without any representation from that generation. You cannot make decisions about the future without the decisions of those who will live in that future. So, that’s why I’m very vocal about advocacy for youth in these key decision rooms. If we had that approach in decisions like the climate, things may have been different. - Source

Her WAYE Young Leader Board created a AI Code of Ethics:

"young people will have to live with these systems that we are designing today."

https://s3.amazonaws.com/com.wayetalks.assets/06eb2351c7f34cc68d69075c38966562.pdf

At Base Camp I want to talk with Sinead about the impact of automation on media and how someone outside our ad tech bubble thinks about our industry and what the future holds.

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