Anne Boysen is a QA manager, futurist and TEDx speaker with a passion for making sure technology helps society, not the other way around. Over a decade ago, she launched the first consulting service dedicated to understanding the emerging GenZ generation and how growing up in a 21st century environment differs, technologically and environmentally from the preceding era. Her blog afterthemillennials.com attracted consistent attention from top brands and government agencies.
Working closely with the tech industry for the past 6 years, Anne has contributed to and managed transformative initiatives across Google Search, Google Assistant, YouTube, and Google Lens, where she has gained insight into user behaviors and emerging tech trends.
Staying true to the mission behind data analysis, Anne prefers a fact based, no-nonsense approach to data privacy issues, making sure we neither stifle our opportunity for technological progress nor sell ourselves to the highest bidders in the data market. She’s particularly interested in how AI can be leveraged to reduce rather than increase bias and misinformation (yes, it can!) and help advocate the interests of non-human and non-sentient organic beings (animals and the environment). Her first presentation on the future of AI at the WFSF conference in Kure, Japan in 2002, titled “The Future of Non-Human Rights” highlighted how sentient AI might enhance animal rights as it helps break down societal hegemonic structures that position humans as the cognitive and moral apex species.
