Samrah Kazmi | Speaker Profile
Named one of the ‘Top 100 Regtech Influencers,’ Samrah Kazmi is a Wall Street veteran, leading futurist, speaker, and advisor to startups, boards and government agencies. She specializes in navigating the risks and identifying the opportunities in emerging technologies and disruptive trends, such as the metaverse, AI, and Web 3.0 in the context of sustainability, trust, ethics, regulation and security.
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Samrah Kazmi is the Chief Innovation Officer at RESRG, a Responsible Innovation advisory that helps businesses transform for the future. She is also a Visiting Professor at The Pratt Institute where she teaches “Strategic Technology” and an Adjunct Professor at New York University where she teaches “Strategic Management of Technological Innovations.”
As a keynote speaker and panelist, Samrah has spoken at high profile events at the United Nations, New York Stock Exchange, Deloitte, Barclays Bank, IBM, Forbes and Bloomberg, among many others. She is also a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.
The Future of
- Artificial Intelligence
- Higher Education
- Smart Cities
- Healthcare
- Insurance & Insurtech
- Regtech
- Banking & Fintech
- Government
- Work
Artificial Intelligence
- Digital Ethics,
- Privacy
- Responsible AI
- Ethical AI
- AI Regulation
- Trust
- Security
- Regtech
EmergingTech
- Web3
- The metaverse
- Artificial Intelligence
Sustainability
- Climate Risk
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Triple Bottom Line
- ClimateTech
- Agtech
Industry 4.0
- Digital Transformation
- Corporate Innovation
- Human-Centered Innovation
Speaker background
Samrah Kazmi is the Chief Innovation Officer at RESRG, a Responsible Innovation advisory that helps businesses transform for the future. She is also a Visiting Professor at The Pratt Institute where she teaches “Strategic Technology” and an Adjunct Professor at New York University where she teaches “Strategic Management of Technological Innovations.”
Passionate about equity and the environment, Samrah is also the CEO of “Women In Sustainable Innovation,” a global community she founded in January 2020, at the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal # 9 (Industry, Infrastructure & Innovation), the community’s mission is to enable female-led ventures in sustainability.
After spending two and a half decades in leadership roles in traditional financial services and co-founding a FinTech startup, Samrah now serves as a trusted advisor to complex financial institutions & Insurance firms, Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial start-ups, boards and the C-suite. She provides strategic advice and executive consultation on the Future of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Ethics, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Sustainability, Web3 and the metaverse. She has worked with governments, educators, and accelerators to build innovation ecosystems.
Samrah has been recognized globally for her achievements and expertise. She was part of an elite Risk team executing the merger of the New York Stock Exchange with ICE. She received the “Above & Beyond” awards for Leadership and Risk Management by General Electric, for her contributions during “Project Hubble,” the company’s $200 billion Risk Transformation. She has also been ranked as a Top 100 Global Regtech influencer by Onalytica, and was awarded the Inspiring Fintech Female award by NYC Fintech Women.
In addition to degrees in Economics, Journalism and Business, Samrah also holds certifications in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard, Digital Transformation from UC Berkeley and Corporate Innovation & Fintech from MIT.
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Organizations and event organizers can confidently hire this speaker to conduct keynotes and workshops about future trends across a diverse range of topics and in the following formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Advisory calls | Discussion with your executives to answer specific questions on a topic, project or subject of choice. |
| Executive coaching | One-to-one coaching and mentoring session between an executive and the selected speaker. Topics are mutually agreed upon. |
| Topic presentation (Internal) | A presentation for your internal team based on a mutually agreed topic with content supplied by the speaker. This format is designed specifically for internal team meetings. Maximum 25 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (Internal) | Webinar presentation for your team members on a mutually agreed topic, including question time. Internal replay rights included. Maximum 100 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (External) | Webinar presentation for your team and external attendees on a mutually agreed topic. Question time and external replay rights included. Maximum 500 participants. |
| Event keynote presentation | Keynote or speaking engagement for your corporate event. Topic and content can be customized to event themes. Includes one-on-one question time and participation in other event sessions if required. |
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