Reginé Gilbert Keynote Speaker
- Founder of Access Blueprint®
- NYU professor and author of four books on design and AI
- Specialist in human judgment in AI systems
Reginé Gilbert's Biography
Reginé Gilbert is a Systems and Change Strategist, NYU professor, and author of four books whose work sits at the intersection of human judgment, AI, and organizational change.
As founder of Access Blueprint®, Reginé helps leaders and organizations ask the questions they don’t know they have, mapping workflows, clarifying decision ownership, and designing training so teams can adapt when technology or regulation changes how work gets done.
With over 400 workshops and strategic engagements delivered across four continents, Reginé has advised organizations across finance, media, technology, and fashion. Her published works include Inclusive Design for a Digital World, now in its second edition with a Japanese translation, Human Spatial Computing with Oxford University Press, and the forthcoming Digital Accessibility Ethics with Taylor and Francis.
Reginé serves on the UX Advisory Committee for the Ad Council, the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, and the Board of Directors of Teach Access and XR Guild. She is a Faculty Fellow in NYU’s Empire AI Initiative.
A sought after keynote speaker and strategic advisor, Reginé brings rare clarity to the most urgent organizational challenge of our time, not whether to adopt AI, but how to do it without losing the human judgment that makes decisions trustworthy, systems resilient, and organizations worth working for.
Reginé Gilbert's Speaking Topics
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Where Human Judgment Must Remain
As AI takes on more decisions, the quality of human judgment becomes more valuable not less. This keynote helps leaders understand where automation creates risk, where human oversight is non-negotiable, and how to build organizations where judgment stays central even as systems scale.
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The Perspective Pivot - Making Better Decisions in an AI World
Built on the Dance Floor Framework, this session gives teams a shared language for understanding why decisions break down. Participants learn to move between three vantage points, the floor, the balcony, and the doorway, to surface what everyone else is missing before it becomes a costly mistake.
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From Compliance to Strategy - Accessibility as Organizational Intelligence
The European Accessibility Act is in effect. But organizations that treat accessibility as compliance are missing the bigger opportunity. This talk reframes accessibility as a systems and strategy conversation, showing how designing for human complexity at the edges builds better products, retains more talent, and produces smarter decisions for everyone.
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Designing for the Future Self - A New Framework for Change Management
Most change initiatives fail because they assume people will remain capable in the same ways over time. This session introduces a systems based approach that treats human variability as a baseline condition, helping organizations build change that actually sticks.
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AI Literacy and the Human Edge
Most teams are being asked to use AI without understanding it. This session cuts through the hype to give leaders and teams a practical framework for AI literacy, what to automate, what to augment, and where human experience, ethics, and judgment remain the irreplaceable competitive advantage.
Why Book Reginé Gilbert as a speaker?
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She brings rare operational depth – combining business analysis, systems thinking, and human centered design to help organizations navigate AI adoption without losing the human judgment that makes decisions hold under real world pressure.
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She translates complexity into clarity – having delivered 400+ workshops and strategic engagements across four continents for organizations including Netflix, Condé Nast, JP Morgan, and Mastercard.
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She is a published authority – author of five books including Human Spatial Computing with Oxford University Press and Inclusive Design for a Digital World now in its second edition with a Japanese translation, making her one of the most credible voices at the intersection of accessibility, AI, and organizational change.
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She makes the urgent actionable – helping leaders move from AI hype and regulatory pressure to clear workflows, defined decision ownership, and teams that actually know how to operate new systems responsibly.
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